Reclaimed wood installations by Henrique Oliveira.

[via Design*Sponge.]

Maybe the best holiday decorations. All thrifted and vintage. Considering the giant stash of vintage crocheted potholders, lacy doilies, and random swaths of lace I've accumulated I'm pretty sure I could try something like this. Lots more great photos here.

[via SeeSaw Designs.]

I ordered a couple of new prints recently. Pretty soon I'm going to have to start hanging everything salon style, floor to ceiling, in my apartment!


First is a special holiday print from Hello Handmade Paperie. I love Betsy Dunlap's calligraphy and the specimen chart style is great. Plus it's sort of holidayish without being super Christmassy. I like all-winter holiday decorations.


I also bought this Botanical Screenprint from Carson Ellis. I love her work so so much, but normally it would be way out of my price range. She has these posters in her shop now for only $20 though, so I couldn't resist getting one. It's pretty big (11" x 14", plus I framed it in a wide black frame) so I'm not sure where I'll squeeze it in yet.

I've got my eye on some Lizzy Stewart prints too. She always has such great little things. I love her illustrations of people because they always have pink circles watercolored over their cheeks and noses.

Looks like the Nissen-Bell print collection will continue to grow!

I saw these invitations on Snippet & Ink and knew I'd seen those little illustrations somewhere before. They're from the endpapers of the beloved (by me anyway, and apparently at least a few other people) Junior Deluxe Editions children's books! John and I have actually talked about how these would make such great tattoos (John likes the caveman one especially).

Those great illustrations plus the lovely-as-always Betsy Dunlap calligraphy is just perfect. They used more of the illustrations as table numbers too!

This is actually a photograph of an antique store in Sweden called Bebop, but I think all those wall-mounted lamps clustered together like that would be so great in someone's real-deal house. Of course, you'd have a giant tangle of cords to deal with and probably issues with blown fuses (and horrendous energy inefficiency), but minor electrocution is a small price to pay for good design, right?

[photo by Elisabeth Dunker for the Design*Sponge guest blog.]