splatter-painted easter eggs and other last minute ideas

Suddenly realizing that Easter is just a couple of days away, we started thinking Easter eggs, the symbol of the day both Christian and pagan. Immediately, photographer Tessa Traeger’s egg series came to mind. All eggs collected from various birds, they provide inspiration for egg decorating from Nature. Witness Livet Hamma’s diy spatter-painted eggs below.…

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diy or buy: ladder shelves

Spotted in Design Milk’s recent story about Rua Confettora, unconventional, international design shop in Brescia, Italy: a white-painted ladder used as the support for glass shelves: instant, rustic/modern chic, made from ordinary materials. When we hunted around, we discovered that Lab::Istanbul’s had created a line of shelving based on the idea:

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fab cardboard prom dress

We SO love the crazy-imaginative prom dresses industrious students make to antidote and poke fun at over-the-top prom-ism. We’re adding this curiously-girlie-though-made-of-cardboard one to our collection that includes the divine… duct tape and phone book dress m&m wrapper dress (garbage is opportunity) fishs eddy’s spoon dress metal washer and attic insulation dress vision break: a…

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giant leaf umbrella, diy umbrella dome + our fave

This wonderful image got us thinking about umbrellas: the brilliance of the IDEA and the brilliance of the actual creation. Somehow, that led us to this beautiful glowing dome made out red umbrellas that seemed to appear suddenly out of nowhere around a lamp post in the centre of Rotterdam.

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mister rogers’ 10-second meditation

(Video link here will take you to exactly the right point.)  We love Fred Rogers’ —the famed Mister Rogers’ — perfect, illuminating acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. Rogers presents a simple 10-second practice that will shift your view, and provide you with a tool you can carry around throughout…

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