My Brooklyn neighborhood is starting to collect food scraps to compost. YAY! Every household was given a bin to use for the collecting of the food scraps. I looked at it and simply sad NOPE. It might be functional, but boy, it’s ugly. So, I found this beauty of a compost bin. According to the product description and the reviews it keeps the waste smelling fresh with a thick carbon filter. Let’s see. Let the composting begin.
This Geometric Notecard Set is a beauty!
I don’t need a bottle opener. But I need a bottle opener hippo. Made me smile.
A few years back my friend Maria of Brain Pickings pointed me to Tara Brach’s guided meditations. They have carried me through some difficult times and I can’t thank Tara enough for so generously offering these podcasts for free. This morning, I listened to the above talk on relaxing the over-controller and it really hit home. Watch the talk and then enjoy the guided meditation at the end. It’s just what I needed. Maybe some of you do too…
Found this seagrass basket at the new Century 21 here in Downtown Brooklyn last week. It now holds all of the kids’ stoop toys. Pretty and affordable.
(via Emerline)
– Digital Revolution: More and More People Are Paying For Content
– My favorite scarf brand, Slowfactory, is running a sale! SPRING40 will take 40% off. Love this one, NYC by night.
– Your summer 2017 reading list, provided by Bill Gates
– I always use paper bags for my recycling, but they tend to fall over. This bin will make it more sturdy, and it looks good. Totally getting one.
– Activist mug.
– Periodic table of NYC trash. (via)
– This beach tent looks good for someone fair skinned like me.
– MoMA’s ‘unpacking the archive‘ exhibition celebrates 150 years of frank lloyd wright
– Yep, big believer in “suck it up Sundays“. I find them weirdly satisfying.
– Airbnb started a magazine to share human stories.
– How to customize your Facebook feed, how to improve what the algorithm shows you, how to set up lists that filter your feed, and how to control what you see as shortcuts in your sidebar.
– This Vietnamese playground with multicolored flags is lovely.
– Knife Skills: How to Clean, Trim, and Prepare Artichokes
– Trump Snooze.
– 1Password introduces “Travel Mode” to protect your data when crossing borders
– Never.
– Amazon’s data-driven bookstores
– FieldNotes now offers a leather cover & memo books combo. Nice!
– Did you know Tattly makes scented Tattly? It’s like a visual perfume!
Tomorrow marks 12 years of me feeding this blog. So many feelings! How fitting that this was my very first post.
My blog is my longest running labor of love. Dig into my archives and you’ll see how the blog has evolved over time in terms of what catches my attention. Feels good to stick with something for this long.
Thank you for reading and happy my blog birthday to you!
These animations by Sasha Katz caught my eye.
This pushable unicycle made me giggle!
The Shinola Runwell Turntable was created as a limited run of 500 units. It made me gasp! What a beauty!
This made me chuckle.
13) Learn to overcome the uncomfortable feeling of striking up a conversation with those around you! Try not to use your phone as a means of avoiding others.
Love #13 in Cameron Moll’s phone contract for his teenage sons. Grown ups should have to sign something similar.
Embroidery artist Sheena Liam hand sews images of women whose hair seems to gracefully dangle from the 2D surfaces. Lovely.
‘Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.’
– Confucius
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The length of the Roll-Out Table can be adjusted by sliding the end out and letting the tabletop follow, while the steel crank on the side is used to retract the length. Totally wish listing this one!
Anna Lappé speaks on the “empathy of food”.
(via Michael Pollan)
Floral designer Lewis Miller has been turning NYC empty garbage cans into voluminous bouquets! Love this!
My 7 year old is completely smitten with Hix, a versatile new toy consisting of four soft, convertible cones made of elastic silicone rubber. Each cone transforms into four basic shapes which can be stacked and nested in a myriad of different configurations.
“Learn to know yourself. To search realistically and regularly, the processes of your own mind and feelings.”
– Nelson Mandela
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