Hello to all this

I like color and books. And colorful books.

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Jorge Luis Borges (via likeafieldmouse)

[nevver]

Calm the Fuck Down Magic Tea

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[theparisreview]

“I have never written a single word dressed in anything but my birthday suit.”

—Witold Gombrowicz, who was born on this day in 1904.

[99percentinvisible]

The peace clock. One of the winners of the New York Public Design Commission.

[allamericanclassic]

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allamericanclassic:

1960 Jeep 4WD Pick-up Truck

[becca-cloyd]

Weeknight date

A few weeks ago, when Sam and I biked up to the Cloisters, I decided it was finally time to invest in a bike. The one I had been riding was a hand-me-down from Sam's neighbor to Sam to me, and it finally gave up and pretty much died on 125th street as we did the most dangerous part of our ride, weaving around double parked cars and taxis on our way to the Hudson River Greenway. The chain was…

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[nevver]

Fig.1 Monsters and Villagers

[becca-cloyd]

Ocean Vases

WOW I love these Waterscape Vases from West Elm so, so much.

I’m obsessed with sea glass. It’s so dreamy and beautiful, even though I know it comes from less-than-stellar glass-litter origins.

I just can’t stop thinking about summer right now – beachy days, humid nights, grilling in the park, and sea glass.

I would love to see them on my dresser each day or in a windowsill, filtering the…

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[becca-cloyd]

The...headboard? Or something.

The…headboard? Or something.

When I asked Sam what he wanted in a headboard for our bedroom, his only request was, “wood.” Now, I love a big, beautiful, wood headboard as much as the next person, but they tend to run on the side of ungodly expensive, so I had to figure out an alternative.

I loved the ideaof a huge (cheap!) plywood headboard, but there was the issue of getting it to our apartment from…wherever. Once I…

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[becca-cloyd]

Cleaning NYC grout

In keeping with yesterday's experience theme, I thought I'd talk about grout.

For those of you who are lucky enough to have never encountered a typical NYC bathroom, I'd like you to picture the most horrifying rest-stop or public park bathroom you've ever been to in your life. The moldy corners, the leaky pipes, the suspect smells, and the layers and layers of gunk built up in between the tile.…

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[becca-cloyd]

On blogging, materialism, and Water Lilies

On blogging, materialism, and Water Lilies

I've been thinking a lot about materialism. Specifically, is it possible to write about material items on a weekly basis – coveting them, making them, upgrading them for purely asthetic purposes – without becoming, in the end, simply about things?

Sometimes I feel shallow for caring about what our couch legs look like. Shouldn't having a couch be enough? Shouldn't the fact that we have an…

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[condenasttraveler]

Morro Bay seals lolling by Morro Rock in California

[dannyschutt]

Limited Edition print of ‘Cosmonaut’. 4.5” x 6” on 8.5” x 11” BFK RIVES paper.

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[designersof]

"Discounting Calories" by David Olenick

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[becca-cloyd]

The Couch (or, how I was defeated by IKEA's terrifying returns process)

The Couch (or, how I was defeated by IKEA’s terrifying returns process)

Our sofa saga is equal parts really great luck and truly terrible luck. The first half involved finding the exact couch we wanted to buy from IKEA on craigslist for $100, available to pick up literally 2 minutes from the IKEA we were already planning on going to in New Jersey on the day we moved. It had been sitting in storage, wrapped in brown paper and plastic, as if waiting just for us. We…

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