creators for japan.

April 27th, 2011 by Spencer Beor

If you are in San Francisco Bay Area, please stop by the Creators For Japan fund-raising event this weekend, Saturday April 30th & Sunday May 1st at New People. There will be lots of beautiful and heartfelt handmade arts and crafts, as well as baked goods, with 100% of proceeds will be donated to Artists Help Japan Fund with Mercy Corps. Japan still needs our support, and Creators For Japans goal is to raise money through art and crafts sale for relief efforts to assist the victims of Japan’s catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear emissions. Yo

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Pussy Willow: Wildflower Wednesday

April 27th, 2011 by Spencer Beor

For Wildflower Wednesday, I try to feature a native plant growing wild on our property. I took a walk on Monday to see what was blooming, and found only one plant blooming, a shrub which looked to me like a pussy willow. I looked through my books and discovered that’s exactly what it was: Salix discolor, the pussy willow. This surprised me a little bit, because I thought those decorative pussy willows sold everywhere in late winter were of European origin. A

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Dishwasher Easy Clean

April 25th, 2011 by Jasmine Mashman

You can spend money on fancy products to clean your dishwasher, or better yet, you might just have these two products somewhere in your kitchen cabinet:

Fill the detergent cups with one of these two products: ½ cup white vinegar or a couple packs of lemon Kool-Aid (other colored packs will stain the dishwasher).

Next, run the empty machine through a complete wash cycle. And you’re done. Enjoy your clean dishwasher!

 

Annorlunda by Ikea

April 24th, 2011 by Jasmine Mashman

Design doesn’t have to be expensive. If there is one company that lives up to that, it’s Ikea. Ikea’s design department recently selected 5 designers to go to India & Vietnam to absorb the colors and brainstorm about surprising limited editions. The result is indeed colorful just as I like it.

The result of this exotic mission is a limited pop-up edition with ethnic influences, cheerful colors and invigorating braiding. You know that colors are important to me. The furniture takes a cue from the fashion industry by using color blocking, the absolute trend in fashion this Summer.

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Pieter Brenner’s Sugar Chair Is So Sweet You Can Eat It

April 24th, 2011 by Liam Sowden

If you think this rainbow colored chair by designer Pieter Brenner looks good enough to eat, you better believe it is. The Dutch-German designer recently created this sweet and sticky seating option from an undisclosed amount of sugar as a commentary on the value of sugar in our society. But dont think that this piece is all about an esoteric message meant for hours of  mind-bending interpretation. As Brenner also said about his design, I wanted to show that we still are able to play.

“it list” lisa congdon.

April 22nd, 2011 by Spencer Beor

todays it list is venturing into the colorful world of artist lisa congdon. just about everything in lisas world is bold and bright from her beautiful artwork, to the way she lives her life whether shes putting out a new book, making art for a show, riding her bike around town, to cooking up a vegan feast with her girl clay, im constantly in awe as to how lisa fits so much joie de vivre into one day. this is one very happy it list.

I am all about clean colorful styles these days. And the brighter and bolder the color, the better! I

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