Modern Living Space

James Tatton is a home stager utilizing mid century modern artifacts combined with reused/recycled contemporary pieces. His business Modern Living Space is based in San Francisco, California, and he has been staging homes for about 6 years now. The company is a small operation and working towards being 100% green by utilizing vintage mid century modern furnishings and reused/recycled contemporary furnishings.

James is an avid collector of Mid Century Modern artifacts, so he lives with a lot of the pieces for a while and then uses them in the stagings. All the items become available for purchase once the property has been sold.

Lila Ruby King

Today I'm featuring jewelry made by Lila Ruby King. Lila is an Australian, currently based in Athens, Greece, who was educated in printmaking and jewelry design. Her designs are so beautiful! Be sure to check out more in her Etsy shop

New at Ikea

I LOVE that new white Brasa table lamp. I don't need it, but I'm sure if I ever go to Ikea it will magically appear in my cart... Also I really like Stockholm side table, check out how good it looks in this room. And lastly the mini Alex is so cute, who doesn't love theirs.

IKEA STOCKHOLM side table $199
VIKA ALEX (smaller version of the ALEX) 79.99
IKEA 365+ BRASA table lamp $79.99

Botany

Plywood screen inspired by plant forms and the molecular structures of DNA. Designed by Surya Graf for Snack On.

New at Urban Outfitters

Urban Outfitters has two new great mod accesories! I'm in love with their Scandiphone which is based on the Ericofon of the 1950s. The new one is smaller and much lighter than the older models.

Scandiphone $60 (comes in red, black and white)
Mod Mushroom $138

Spring flowers

New print for sale in my Etsy shop.

Dee Beale

Designer and printmaker Dee Beale has some beautiful Gocco prints for sale in her Etsy shop. And also be sure to check our her blog!

Patio Inspiration

I love this deck. My husband and I are thinking of building a cedar deck off the house in the summer when it's dry. We have a vernal pond which shows up in the spring. The previous owners mentioned that two ducks show up each year. Our home is surrounded by trees and it would be nice to have a place to walk around.

The travertine on our floors also continues outside. I'd like to build a deck that lays flat with the stone. One problem we face is that the roof has no gutters and that water would be dripping on the deck. So I did some research and found a site called Iron Age Grates. I'm not sure now much they cost but they have some really cool drain designs. I'm so ready for all this snow to melt!

Freebie Friday!

Hair, skin, etc
Sample of Selsun Blue Shampoo (US)
Free Sample of Crest Whitestrips Advanced Seal (US)
Dove Hair Therapy samples (US)
Playtex Gentle Glide (US)
Enter to Win FREE Joico Samples (US)

Food
Starbucks VIA™ Ready Brew (US)
Bear Naked Fruit & Nut Granola Sample (US)
Free Sample of Warm Delights Minis (US)
Pero Coffee Samples (US)

Cleaning
Sample of Tide (US)

Kids & Baby
HUGGIES® Soft Skin Baby Wipes (US)
Goody: Free Girl's Barettes for the first 1,000 (US & Canada)
Pampers coupon for $1.50 (US)

Hey Yo Yo

Hey Yo Yo is Amanda Graff, cupcake baker and glitter duster. She got her diploma from The Culinary Institute of America in pastry, but developed her love of all things crafty while working for Martha Stewart Television as a recipe developer. Check out her Etsy shop for more vintage inspired cake decorations and cup cake liners.

Tillandsia Air Plants

All the grocery stores near me have Tillandsia air plants. They are so tiny and cute I just had to snag some. Those pots they come in are only 1.25 inches tall!

*Tillandsias are NOT toxic to animals

BIG BIG BIG NEWS! (new photos)

So I get these big boxes in the mail today... They were filled with my new scrapbooking line that will be popping up at the end of March at your local Michaels craft stores. This feels so unreal!

I'm still looking through all the products, they look amazing!!!

Flight Of The Conchords: Girlfriends From The Past

Last nights episode was sooo good!

Orla Kiely now for sale at Target stores

So I've been visiting my local Target store over the past two weeks searching for Orla's products. First I saw the cloth organizing boxes and now they finally have her line of kitchen ware on display. I was hoping that my store would have more of each product but they only had 4 of each plate, 6 of each plastic cup and only two trays. I stood there in front of all the products for 15 minutes trying to decide what to get. I ended up getting a tray and matching serving bowl... and a storage box.

Mid-Century Monday: Cathrineholm: Lotus pattern

Photo Credits: Cathrineholm collage image found on Flickr, S&P shakers found on Flickr.


I managed to find some detailed info about the lotus design from the Nordic Design Blog.

"Lovely items with the ‘Lotus’ pattern created by Grete Prytz, a second wife of infamous Norvegian Designer Arne Korsmo. Grete Prytz Kittelsen was born 1917 in Oslo, Norway. Her designs have won many prestigious awards. She was one of most influential designers in Scandinavia in Mid-Century. In 2003, when she was already 86, Grete visited China, where she saw traditional Chinese enamel factory still in operation and which inspired her to start designing again. Chang & Biörck got exclusive rights to reproduce some of her design, among which a bowl and a plate, that she designed using similar colors as her original 1950s works. Cathrineholm of Norway started enamel production in 1907." (Info found on Nordic Design Blog)


I've also just joined the rest of the Cathrineholm fanatics! I scored myself a green ice bucket and an avacado pot on Craigslist. I can't wait to find more!

Floyd being Floyd

I was putting some socks away and my cat thought it would be cute to jump in. I think he is still in there sleeping, I hope he doesn't think that is his new cat bed.

Winners!

I'd like to say thanks for everyone who entered the contest and I hope to do more in the future so stay tuned!

Congrats too:
Scott C
Biba
Bernadette U

Chroma Lab

Chroma Lab is a wonderful new store created by Boston locals Alicia Cornwell and Tony Bevilacqua. They create colorful, modern furniture and housewares such as hand made clocks, lamps and floor cloths.

Check out more items in their Etsy shop.

Lucky Ducky

New print for sale on Etsy.

By The Book - night stand

Thinking of how to better organize our lives? Well check out these cute bedside tables by design studio Chunt Designs. Their colorful funky tables that have a side slot for your books, and other goodies!, no more messy tables. I love these, great idea.

New at West Elm

I love going to West Elm's website and checking out their beautifully decorated rooms. I Also I really like how they're using yellows accents this spring, it's so bright and cheery and one of my favorite colors now. But I'm not liking the Moroccan style on some of the furniture and accents this year, it gives off this Pier One vibe.

Freebie Friday!

Pets
Purina One cat food sample (UK)
Free $3 Coupon for ProActive Health Cat Food (US)

Beauty
Free CompleteLift Eye Pen for the first 500 at Noon EST (US)
Seventeen Magazine: Free Lip Shine for the first 10,000 (Code: speed) (US)
free Napoleon Perdis lip gloss (US)
Free Sample of Crest Whitening Strips (US)
Head & Shoulders Sample (US)

Food
Quaker Oats Rice Snack Sample (US)
Free Diet Dr Pepper (US)
Bear Naked Fruit & Nut Granola Sample (US)

Misc
Free Scissors (US)
Free 14-Day Supply of Vitamin C Liquid Softgels (US)
Free Kirkland Diaper Sample (Canada)

Curve wall mounted pet bed

How cute is this! At first I didn't even see a real cat, I thought it was a piece of art. Check out more designs and furniture at www.akemitanaka.com or purchase a cat bed at the Supermarket.


I found this on more ways to waste time

I painted it's a miracle!

I've been on a mission in the last few days to fill up the empty spaces is my home. I had some large leftover hardboard canvases that I just thought I should use up. For now my house will have little bits of cut paper every where, yay...

I'll add more images to my flickr page once they are finished and up on the walls.

Spring in February

Brini Maxwell demonstrates ideas for courting spring, including forcing bulbs and attracting birds to your window.

Melissa Borrell Jewelry

Love love love it! Melissa has some amazing things on her website from jewelry to window shades. You can buy her designs at the Supermarket.