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Thermostat Camo.

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Vintage Carnival Birthday Party – This motif is very familiar to me.  In fact, those clown toothpicks hung around in the kitchen junk drawer for ages.

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Drug of choice.

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This just might be a good enough reason to start a collection this summer.

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I’ve always preferred style that inherently changes.  I get bored easily.  Meow.

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Tea niche.  Nice.

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40 some years ago John W’s baby changing table lived across the street.  Since, it has lived in our entry way and two different dressing rooms. The top two drawers open with difficulty, the other two don’t open at all and the top is covered with crayon. After some structural fixes, this finish might work to cover up, whilst respecting, the history of another family in another time.

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Aunty Fran’s Veg Dip

Aunty Fran was always into food and this was an 80′s staple round hers. Serve with Ripple Chips.

Good for breakfast, lunch or dinner. C1985 via Marg Smith 2009

SERVES 10 , 3 1/2 cups
INGREDIENTS
3 cups hellmann’s mayonnaise
1 1/2 cups sour cream
1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
3/4 teaspoon garlic powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon paprika
3/4 cup parsley flakes (or fresh?)
3 tablespoons chopped onions
3 tablespoons chopped chives
1/8 teaspoon curry powder
1 1/2 tablespoons worcestershire sauce
DIRECTIONS
1.  Stir to combine.
2.  Seal with plastic wrap.
3.  Chill for 1 hour (minimum).
4.  Serve with Ripple Chips.

Thanks to maryjaneinspain for the inspiration.

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Art that changes with the sun.  Like the Mathmos Space Projector we had in the ’90s, but greener.  Hey, Mathmos is greener now – check out their (new to me) tea light powered lava lamp, the Fireflow.

Master of Design candidate, Jiyeon Song, has created this amazing interactive pavilion out of little more than perforated panels. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice, a reflection on the passing of time at the period of the winter solstice…

The perforated boards project light without electricity, and is instead ‘solar powered.’ Within the pavilion, the poem can be seen between 8 AM and 4PM. The poem consists of 5 lines with each line lasting about an hour.

We think this technique has amazing potential not only as demonstrated, but also on a smaller scale for the home. Imagine having something like this in your garden or windowsill. The effect would be calming and delightful.

Read more about this project and the artist, Jiyeon Song, and don’t miss the timelapse video of the One Day Poem Pavillion.

Thanks to Rachel Wray for the inspiration!

Photos by Jiyeon Song

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Functional art.  Nice. Sadly, Lamby-Pie doesn’t love it.

Thanks to Aleksey Belyalov for the inspiration.