So simple and yet so sweet! A fish hotel/condo/flat/maisonette/holiday home….the possibilities are endless. I’m really trying to ignore the reality of icky unvacuumed water and concentrate on the imaginary curtains hanging on all the windows!
Fish Hotel by Teddy Loung $25 USD
The fish hotel is a glass fishbowl with a white ABS shell. fishbowls can be stacked for a tall hotel-like appearance. glass bowls may be removed for easy cleaning.
It’s been years since the Martha Stewart ‘how to’ was stashed in my inspiration folders. Long years of yearning for a clipboard, which I’m on the verge of fulfilling. The only problem is….How sad am I going to be at having to cover up all these beauties. I mean I’ve been tempted to make the Martha, patterned board wall numberous times, but either it’d be as a work of art, never to be touched again (or fear losing your fingers) or you use it and it looks awful. And to think this is supposed to function as organizing, not creating a new issue!
1. present and correct chalkboard clipboard // 2. Martha Stewart DIY clipboard tutorial // 3. Bigger Poultry Profits clipboard 4. Left: Stenciled Clipboard from Letterbox, RIGHT: A sadly sold Antique shannon arch clipboard
I’m slightly concerned. About myself. First off, I literally mighavepossibly actually squealed when I saw House Industries new prints. Which is worrying for varying reasons, but I’ll move on. Two, I fear I might have some self manifested issue that when wall space, framing possibilities are taken away from me, I naturally (mentally) hoard an endless list of potential canidates for the prime spots. I haven’t gone down to auditions yet, but don’t put it past me. AND 3. I’m really about to copy and paste boring product details blurb into a post. Not because I’m lazy or that dull, but I find it hysterical, and if you weren’t sold on the prints before this, I’m pretty sure this will be the tipping point…and I quote:
Even a crappy frame and some custom glass is probably gonna run you over a hundred bucks, and that doesn’t even count the artwork. So before you go off the deep end with the Insane Clown Posse fans that work in AC Moore’s framing department, ask your personal accountant to do a cost benefit analysis on purchasing a few of our pre-drilled, ready-to-hang plywood prints. The number crunchers most likely won’t be swayed by the romance of our hand-pulled, air-dried inks, but they can’t argue with the fiscal prudence of bypassing the costly framing process.
P.S. “mr. gif’ i’m really sorry for all the hate on you in the past. I fully appreciate you can be cool now too. Not that the cats weren’t or anything, but flicky posters, inexplicably makes me happy.
Get in on the house industries action from $45 USD here.
I was tickled when I heard from illustrator, Max Dalton today…it’s not everyday you get an email from a ‘monocle‘ illustrator or an artist producing fabulous ( + fabuloulsy affordable) prints. He’s recently created a couple of cut out sets to allow you to build a little mid-century modern scenes–namely the Sunday barbecue and the cocktail party scenario. And if you have a phobia of destroying artwork *ahem-me* or just don’t fancy having a miniature time warp on your desk, the design is created to be framed, flat (and unharmed!).
I can’t quite put my finger on why, but this somehow reminds me of a dollhouse that I had at my grandma’s house growing up–probably solely for the fact that it was all ‘faux’ rooms with just illustrations printed on it, and the one side flapped down so that you could access the inside of the house…but viola on doing so you created a patio, complete with beautiful aqua pool. Sigh, I LOVED pools in any capcity growing up, but especially in illustrations, drawings, book covers etc. I’m thinking the phone on my desk at work is really unecessary, whereas a fake flat pool and pom pom palm trees on the other hand. Perfectly practical.
To see more of Max’s work visit his blog, or shop.
Cocktail Party Cutouts and Sunday Barbecue Cutout Set start at $28
*( there is a variety of sizes on different papers at different price points)
I also am eyeing up the other work in his portfolio including the Clouds poster which you can buy here and the sad mr. unicorn. Obviously his exclusion from the trip was in the interests of safety for everyone else, but I’m sad for him nonetheless…
Still want more? Perhaps you would be interested in this World Map Poster or more about the Monocle brand.
When I was compiling shots for the ‘camping inspired’ post last week, I came across this image from the The Golden Book of Camping published in 1959, which I’ve inexplicably fallen in love with… How fantastic is the illustration, and dare I say not suitable for print by todays standards. Somehow telling children to strip down to their underwear and to ‘grab the other fellow’s bag’ in the water probably isn’t the first motto for the scouts anymore… what a shame.
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