Friday, August 27, 2010

The World of Mr. Toast! Plush candy cord, egg, and, of course, toast!
 
 

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Fruit stand back in May...

If you've been to our shop, you know how often we rearrange and change our space
around (and we do this at home, too!)  We do this mainly because it's our goal to have
a rolling inventory where we always order different products. Therefore, our display and
storage needs change weekly. But, we're especially proud of our new Toy Gallery Wall!
We broke down the fruit stand and used the individual pieces to create a wall suspension
system to display out collectible toys. Kinda proud of us right now!

Today, we have a new Toy Gallery Wall

Thursday, August 26, 2010

(Image via JoeStephenson)

This is a super campaign from Italian specialty paper company Fedrigoni. British designer,
Joe Stephenson, has created this beautiful work to encourage more visitors to the Fedrigoni
London showroom by luring them with gelato. Genius! "Drawing on Fedrigoni's Italian heritage,
the Gelateria (meaning 'ice cream parlour') aims to provide a relaxed summer evening event
where guests can cool off with a scoop of gelato, whilst enjoying authentic Italian street music,
collecting paper samples and acquainting themselves with the showroom..."
Love the simplicty.
(via TwigandThistle)

(Image via JoeStephenson)

(Image via JoeStephenson)

(Image via JoeStephenson)

Thursday, August 26, 2010

From L.A. designer, motion animator, sculptor,illustrator, all around awesome toy designer
Amanda Visell. This great print is screenprinted with a metallic gold ink.
 
 

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

There's 50 of these ceramic White Canotiers. Each with a different face, tattoo, identification. So cute! (via Brosmind)

Would LOVE to work with these guys! The Mingarro brothers of Spain has one of
the coolest and most fun design studios, Brosmind Studio, we've seen in a long time.
They do some wicked illustration works for some pretty major companies and they also
makes hilarious installations, like the bacon light shown below.
(via ColorByNumbers)

(via Brosmind)

(via Brosmind)

(via Brosmind) They built and illustrated this pedaling street car themselves!

(via Brosmind) Close up of the crispy bacon light

(via Brosmind) Bacon light installation.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Honeycomb Lace Necklace

Exiciting! A new handmade jewelry line that we brought back from our trip to the San
Francisco Renegade Craft Fair. These pieces are all handmade with renewable bamboo.
Each piece is intricately cut and assembled and the complex geometric shapes makes
everyone of the necklaces and earrings so sophisticated. This pieces are so beautiful
and flattering on.

From left to right - Single Box Stud, Honeycomb String Bean, and Honeycomb Lace Necklace

Art Deco Triangle Neclace

Art Deco Triangle Necklace

Six Box Drop Necklace with a delicate 14k gold chaim

Ladder Necklace - this one looks amazing on!!! And Stacked Cube pendant Necklace.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

From the Lula B's booth, buttons in a gum ball machine! Can you imagine anything sweeter?

The three of us are Dallas babies and always rooting for a Deep Ellum comeback
A few months ago we met Brandon, the passionate organizer of the new monthly
Deep Ellum Outdoor Market. The goals is to "provide Deep Ellum with a venue for
local artists and musicians to expose their talent, for local businesses to promote
their services, and for bars and restaurants in the area to entertain more people."

Anyway, we stopped by yesterday to check out their second event and had a great
time. The event is held in a covered parking lot which provided a lot of relief from
the heat. It's a small event, since it's so new, but it had a nice mix of vendors from
established favourites like Lula B's and new Etsy Designers like June Rose.
The next event is September 18th and we're definitely gonna go again!

Deep Ellum Outdoor Market

This looks like either and old headboard or mirror repurposed as a jewelry display. Really stunning.

Cute little booth from June Rose. Great handmade pouches and jewelry. And, she was really nice too!

Stylish and casual set up for these great little second-hand clothes stall.

So close to buying those bronze 50's cat frames on the top left.

Cute 80's baby blue suitcase and journals

Joe played a killer version of "You Spin Me Round" ... with a harmonica!

Friday, August 20, 2010

(image via DaleEdwinMurray) Yeah, you're awesome!

Everything about UK designer Dale Murray's Prints is just badass! He's also got some
pretty sweet designs on Threadless.
(via PillarBoxPost and Grafikattik)

(image via DaleEdwinMurray) Love the paper newspaper boat

(image via NPR Music) so simple and so perfect

(image via NPR Music) this one is called Gangster!

(image via NPR Music) High Five!

(image via NPR Music) cool!

(image via DaleEdwinMurray) so sad and sweet!