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Hurricane Sandy Help
To all our friends, their friends and families,
Hurricane Sandy is bringing some serious hardship throughout our state. As this weather leaves destruction in its path, we can help you and yours! Our company has a 20+ year track record of successfully completed construction and remodeling projects.
Let us know how we can help! Send us a message with your contact information and we will promptly respond.
Until Sandy has passed, stay safe in your home or shelter!
Zing takes your love of flavored water, and brings it to your kitchen! With Zing, you can create your own bottled water infused with herbs, fruits and vegetables, and even share recipes! Additionally, they have been expanding to bring you the Salad Zinger, the Vodka Zinger and the Citrus Zinger!
Social media sites have reported an increase in the trend of sharing photographs of food - whether taken while fine dining or prepared and snapped at home, it's one of the latest trends on the internet.
But what if on top of seeing these delicious marvels, we could also share the mouth-watering smells?
Zhu Jingxuan, an industrial design student at the Fashion & Art Design Institute of Donghua University, created this fantastic concept invention at Sony's Student Design Workshop. A camera mounted on the front snaps a shot of the food while a 'smell extractor' simultaneously collects scents. The device would then let you print both smell and photograph using special aroma inks as a postcards!
If you haven't heard about The Plant in Chicago, check it out now! This innovative project seeks to promote sustainable food production, entrepreneurship, and building reuse through research, education and development!
Some botanists claim that it is plants that really light up their lives. They would be pleased to find Aura, by German based designer Viktor Kölbig, can turn their sentiments into reality.
These creations by Kathy Klein are stunning, so vivid and bursting with colour, pattern & texture. Very interesting to read about her process of creating the Danmalas.
http://www.danmala.com/about/
Take a sneak peek at Teracottage Headquarters located in Pennington, New Jersey!
The Painting on red wall is "Out of Time" by Ritch Gaiti and painting on green wall is "Tulips" by Adriana Groza.
"The original sled was purchased by my friend, Dr. Jennifer Erskine when we were Yard Sale Shopping in 2011. She spotted this vintage antique children’s sled, which I believe to be from around the late 1940s to early 1960s. These types of sleds were mass-produced for places like Sears, Woolworths, Macy’s and other similar stores. The wood in the original sled was mid-grade Red Oak with pine boards for the sled body. Maple was used for the skis and curved back band board. When Jen had purchased the sled, it was obvious that some repairs were needed, and Jen asked me if I would take it home and do the honors.
Sometime later, I received an invitation: Jennifer’s son was having his first birthday party! Not having children of my own, I always enjoyed my time with Jen’s son, Thomas. Holding a baby brought wonderful new emotions to my surface and revealed a new side of me that I’d never known existed. I needed gift for him, and a fully restored sled; a legacy piece crafted with heart and hand, seemed like the perfect gift.
The restoration began by disassembling the entire sled and creating full size templates of each piece. The lower grade wood used in the original mass production was replaced with premium woods. The maple sled skis and curved back band were in excellent condition so I kept them, stripped them of their original varnish, and painted them a charcoal black. The sled body pieces were re-made in Maple. Red Oak was used for the side rails and back-band posts. Finally, I added Thomas’ name and date of birth in faux gold leaf lettering styled to match the vintage feel of the sled.
When you find the perfect gift for someone, the giver received as much or quite possibly even more joy from the token than the receiver. That was how I felt as I worked on this extremely rewarding piece. I am not sure what fueled my work more: the crafting and restoration of an heirloom piece or knowing that what I delivered to Thomas may someday be given to his own child on their first birthday."
-Keith Pyontek, owner of Teracottage
Shiner International in Atlanta, Georgia, tells no lies when it declares to make "formidable upcycled furniture."
From their website: "It is our goal to transform tons of landfill-destined materials into killer design. By building heirloom pieces out of disposable elements, we refine the future by upcycling the past.
Everything from our steel, hardwoods, and cardboard to our lexan and linen is diverted from the incinerator. Our vision has become contagious and led to strategic partnerships with refuse and recycling leaders.
Our fully-automated CNC technology makes it possible to get maximum yield out of every inch of material, adding up to a low energy equation overall and better prices.
We strive to make every piece knock-down for ease of shipping with less environmental impact."
Honestly, your computer monitor can only fail to do Janet Purcell's work justice, so I invite you to come visit our office in Pennington, NJ and see some of this talented artist's work, in person!
Love gardens, but don't know the first thing about planting? Check out Plot by Daniel Robson. It presents you with a seed wheel specifically customized to your location and the season in which you order it as well as simple step-by-step directions to get you going! How perfectly convenient!
The Botany Project in Cape Town, South Africa produces ceramic flowers with wicks which you can add to the top of any glass bottle with a bit of olive oil. That next unique wine bottle or vase you receive can have more than a single use!
Fabrica Design has some really gorgeous hand-blown glass work for your home! Reading the descriptions of each piece, it's interesting to hear about the thoughts that went into each creation!
Have you ever wondered what your quick sketches would look like if they were brought to life? Thick Black Lines by Nendo uses lines to describe the geometric forms of furniture and creates stunning optical illusions in the process!
"Light is the inspiration and it is always a discovery. You never know where it will appear. When it penetrates thousands of holes of a spherical layer, it searches for the shortest way to the screen, on which it leaves its trace. This screen is the world around us – walls, furniture, curtains. If I am the architect of the lamp’s shape and pattern, the artisan who puts life in it, then the light is a surprise and amusement, an euphoria of luminescence, an illusion made real; it never brings boredom for it changes with every move of its source." - Przemek Krawczyński, of Calabarte in Łódź, Poland
He truly does accomplish the task of making original, high-quality and detail-oriented pieces of art that look gorgeous both during the day and at night!
I love Bugattis, but I also love the environment. The Agera R seems like it might be a good compromise: all the splendor in design of the Bugatti, but it runs on biofuel. And unlike other sports cars that are integrating alternative fuel sources, the Agera has an incredible top speed of 275 mph.
If you like truly unique handcrafted jewelry and appreciate pieces that are diverse enough to be worn with T-shirt or black tie, then this Gradient Merus bracelet is for you! Stunningly, just $85/each, but only 35 of a kind, so if you want one, hurry!
