6 & 7

Here are our weekend photos. Visit flickr to see the entire 6 & 7 collection.

Cardboard: left, Porcelain: right

Original inspiration by Stephanie & Mav at 3191

Weekend Flings

• Best Covers (seen above)
• Drunken MacGyver
• A Long, Awkward Road to the Stars

If you're new around here and have no idea what this list means, click HERE for a brief and witty explanation.

Bonus Bone: Sleep & Eye Pillows

Sleep Pillows, $24

The past few days might have found you traveling, cleaning, cooking, eatingeatingeating, shopping, and maybe - if you too were lucky enough to spend today in a 69-degree Denver - completing some yard work. My point is: we all deserve a rest.

I just found these cute Sleep Pillows from Jane, Inc. Filled with lavender and flax seed, they promise to open sinuses and usher in a calm sleep. If you want something you can take on the plane with you, Jane also sells Eye Pillows.

Eye Pillows, $20

For these reasons, I, Cardboard, declare this a Design Boner.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We took a break this week. We hope you did too! Just know that we're always thankful for you, your readin' eyeballs, mouse-clickin' hands, and genuinely smart-ass comments.

6 & 7

Here are our weekend photos. Visit flickr to see the entire 6 & 7 collection.

Cardboard: left, Porcelain: right

Original inspiration by Stephanie & Mav at 3191

Weekend Flings

• Thanksgiving is for Memories (seen above)
• Wonder if Zack is Happy About This
• We KNOW Facebook Likes This
• Animated Stretchy
• A Christmas Apple

If you're new around here and have no idea what this list means, click HERE for a brief and witty explanation.

Bonus Bone: Albion gravy boat

Albion Sauce/Gravy Pitcher, at The Conran Shop

Thanksgiving is less than a week away. Do you have your gravy boat ready? Excuse me, I mean sauce pitcher. Ooo la la! So fancy, those Brits! What they call a sauce pitcher, we call a BOAT.

Anyhoo, I love the simple, elegant lines of this boat designed by Terence Conran. The shape is a simplified, subtle bird. The spout is its beak while the handle and plumage act as tail feathers. This is a bird theme I can get behind.

Pass the gravy, darlin'!

For these reasons, I, Porcelain, declare this a Design Boner.

It's Big, It's Heavy, It's...Pink?

Duraflame Colorlog

I don't have a fireplace in my home (sad face) so this log is not for me but Duraflame still earns an honorable mention for not only helping out the boobies (happy face) but also calling this product Colorlog!

When/if you hearth-having people buy a Colorlog, 2% of the sale will go straight to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. And, according to the Oakland Tribune, the log really does burn pink (and purple and orange).

So get out there now and log load for the wintertime. Yet if you're meager and fireless like Porcelain and myself, you may just have to settle for the Duraflame screensaver (sad, sad, crying face).

1 of 3 HOT Screensavers

6 & 7

Here are our weekend photos. Visit flickr to see the entire 6 & 7 collection.

Cardboard: left, Porcelain: right

Original inspiration by Stephanie & Mav at 3191

Weekend Flings

• This & 143 Other Bad Tattoos (seen above)
• Nessie...or Boat...or Pineapple?
• Inspiration to Keep on Running, or, Way to Go, Jess!
• DJ Toolbox Gets All the Ladies
• Right On, Apostrophe, Right On

If you're new around here and have no idea what this list means, click HERE for a brief and witty explanation.

ALERT: One Hour Sale!

Stocking Stuffer ALERT!

Delight is offering a five-pack of Envirosax reusable grocery bags at a 55% discount! The Ultra-Mod Black & White pattern is the only set left but they're the best anyway.

Just enter ENVIROSALE into the coupon box upon check-out but do it before midnight tonight!

Bonus Bone: Anti-Theft Lunch Bags

Anti-Theft Lunch Bags, at the.

They complete my design trifecta: smart, a little gross, and funnyhaha.

25 Bags for $10

For these reasons, I, Cardboard, declare this a Design Boner.

Swinging from the chandelier

Hastens ad campaign

Literally!

A Friend for Carlos

Do you guys remember Carlos?

Carlos Night Light, at ICA

Well, I've still got him around and, yes, he still has that blasted ear infection. Dear Porcelain had his sickly little heart in mind, however, when she sent me a link to his maybe/could-be best friend ever.

Dachshund Lamp, at Urban Outfitters

Urban Outfitters is adopting out the Dachshund Lamp! What a perfect little buddy, no? He's white (or green), he's glowy, he's small, idealized, and dog-shaped...

Yet Carlos is made of precious porcelain and I believe that, despite the omnipresent linen infliction, he might find the Dachshund rather...stunted.

Thrifty Christy

7.5 Ft Upside Down Christmas Tree, at Sam's Club

My local Salvation Army actually has one of these upside-down Christmas trees for sale!

It's unadorned (you must provide photo ornaments of your own grandkids) and I don't know how much it costs. Yet this is the first time I've seen one of these in-person and, letmetellyou, it is green and it is crazy.

But you must hurry on over if you want to check it out. For in the world of discount stores, the good stuff (talkin' to you, DJ Play Station) is gone in a blink but coordination of color is forever.

Reds and Greys, by Brian C.

Lamp lust

Cosy table lamp, at DWR

Bubble chandelier by Jean Pelle, at etsy

Porcelain mushroom lamp, at SITE

James glass kerosene lamps, at Pottery Barn

I think if I could design anything, I'd like to design lighting. Here are some of my recent lighting cravings.

6 & 7

Here are our weekend photos. Visit flickr to see the entire 6 & 7 collection.

Cardboard: left, Porcelain: right

Original inspiration by Stephanie & Mav at 3191

Weekend Flings

• Awful Reference (seen above)
• Welcome to Autumn, $%@&!$!
• Eat Your Instruments
• BENefit

If you're new around here and have no idea what this list means, click HERE for a brief and witty explanation.

Bonus Bone: 100 Abandoned Houses

100 Abandoned Houses by Kevin Bauman

Kevin Bauman has been documenting abandoned and decaying houses around Detroit since the mid '90s. He captures the bleakness and sadness of the once great city crumbling so perfectly.

I have a love/hate relationship with Detroit. I am very proud of coming from a tough, gritty area. But when I return to visit friends and family, I am so sad at what the city has turned into and I'm always happy to flee back to Chicago. I'm still rooting for Detroit. I hope it rises from the ashes like a great phoenix!

Kevin's photos are available for purchase and he plans to give a portion of the proceeds to a charity doing positive work around Detroit.

For these reasons, I, Porcelain, declare this a Design Boner.

White Velvet & Unwhite Fur

Velvet Grommet Window Panels, at West Elm

Ooooooh, Velvet Grommet curtains in white (Ivory, really). They're so luxurious and decadent and ON SALE.

But then I remember that I've got a few of these guys at home...

Cardboard's Bird & Mille

...so my wintry white windowscape would end up looking something like this:

Olunda poster

OLUNDA picture, at IKEA

I haven't wanted a mass-produced poster this bad since the days of my door size Luke Perry 90210 one. Aw yeah!

6 & 7

Here are our weekend photos. Visit flickr to see the entire 6 & 7 collection.

Cardboard: left, Porcelain: right

Original inspiration by Stephanie & Mav at 3191