This entire furniture collection by Bleu Nature combines the serenity of nature with driftwood branches and various shades of blue.

Via Design Milk

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We’re having a big sale for all of the Series 1 Fashion Illustrations! $20 for all prints and $5 for ACEO cards (and you get even better deals if you buy the sets)!

Also, I post up a new listing, which is a one-of-a-kind custom furniture illustrations.

I like being active again.

Tags: custom, Etsy, Fashion, furniture, illustration, News, painting, sale, Shopping
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Oooo, so cute and little, I wants… in green.. or blue! (Damn you, over-priced things!)

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Tags: boxes, cute, furniture, miniature, ottoman, Shopping
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So here’s a little update on that fabulous school locker we found. Jack’s pretty much finished painting the outside (we’re thinking white or off-white for the inside). I so adore this green color!

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A few weeks ago Jack bought a few power tools, etc. and we have been putting them to excellent use in our apartment! We are declaring the theme of our place “Re-appropriated IKEA.” We started with drawers and slats of my old bed and made cute mini bookcases. But, last week, in an effort to open up or space a bit more, the impulse struck to take apart my big bookcase, use the remainders of the slats to make wall-mounted shelves. We are having so much fun taking things apart and making them our own and I could not be happier with the results!

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Oh, the things I want from IKEA! These are the things we spotted on our last trip and didn’t pick up that I still really want. We shall see, though, since I imposed the savings spree again. *Le sigh*

IVAR, REXBO, FÖRHÖJA, TRONES

HEDDA LÖV, GÖREL

FRANKLIN

JORUN VÄXT

Tags: Apartment, bedding, chairs, curtains, furniture, ikea, savings spree
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I am very much looking forward to taking a trip out to the new Brooklyn store! Here’s just a few things I would like to get. (Though, a $300 rug is out of the question… I can still day-dream!)
1. IKEA PS
2. JORUN VÄXT
3. MALM
4. UNG DRILL
5. VIKA FINTORP & VIKA AMON

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Did a little music survey about a year ago and I thought it would be fun to do it again, now, and compare. iTune did change how they organize things so last year’s results may seem a little odd in comparison. (Yea, there’s an audiobook listed amongst the music, oh well.)

We haven’t even come close to really getting into my little-more-than-minor obsession with music; hopefully, we shall delve into that more later.

Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrasing it is.

How many songs: 7096 (previous answer: 3553)

Sort by artist…
First artist: A-ha (previous answer: ‘N sync)
Last artist: !!! (previous answer: Zzzz)

Sort by song title…
First Song: A-Punk – Vampire Weekend (previous answer: ‘En Gallop’ – Joanna Newsom)
Last Song: 2080 – Yeasayer (previous answer: Ziplock Bag – Beck)

Sort by time…
Shortest Song: Brak laughing – Cartoon Planet, 0:01 (previous answer: Brak laughing – Cartoon Planet, 0:01)
Longest Song: Disc 15 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 1:17:56 (previous answer: Disturbulence Mix – Fairy Bit, 40:46)

Sort by album…
First Album: Aaliyah – Aaliyah (previous answer: ! – The Dismemberment Plan)
Last Album: † – Justice (previous answer: Zerospace – Kidney Theives)

First song that comes up on Shuffle: This Book is a Movie – Spoon (previous answer: Your Eyes – Peter Gabriel)

How many songs come up when you search for “sex”? 49 (previous answer: 35)

How many songs come up when you search for “love”? 375 (previous answer: 186)

How many songs come up when you search for “you”? 747 (previous answer: 339)

How many songs come up when you search for “why”? 21 (previous answer: 10)

What artist do you have the most songs by, and how many? The Beatles, 453 (previous answer: of Montreal, 171)

Also, I wanted to give a small pictorial update on our cardboard furnishings.

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Just got back from a wonderfully long weekend (more on that later). I scrapped that other table I was working on. It was getting clunky, ugly and I just couldn’t gather up the motivation to fix how it was leaning oddly to the side. I very happy with this new idea. It’s so easy to put together, it looks pretty cool, and it uses all these empty boxes we’ve have just sitting around.

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1. Side Table made from USPS boxes | 2. Audry Hepburn silhouette made from postal stickers
3. “All is full of love” poster, paper from flower shop | 4. “Follow your Bliss” poster, cloth, hand stitched

The W.I.P.s
1. Jack’s chair and shelves | 2. My entry-way table
As mentioned in a previous post, we are decorating our apartment out of cardboard and other found materials.

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