Enamel love

Alright, slap me...I've been away too long! Terribly sorry.
I am going to do my best to post a whole bunch of groovy stuff like these lovely enamel jewelry boxes in order to make it up to you. Stay tuned!

Mice vice

I totally need a diversion while working (as if blogging wasn't enough...), and a fun mousepad like this would work wonders. Ooh, and their selection of coaster sets are good stuff too.
From mirrorgirl on Etsy

Clean living

Isn't this cute? It's a birdhouse...it's a washing machine...it's a washing machine birdhouse. Via Swissmiss.

And away I go

This passport case from Tiny Meat is just too cute. Alright, gotta run! Please browse around in the links I've got along the right hand side in my absence.

More roundup

Next up: Parrot pouches, and Love Bee Mirrors from Little Odd Forest. File under great little gifts.

Cool bookplates

There is nothing worse than borrowing a book and keeping it so long that you completely forget who it belongs to (yes, I am a bad borrower...so sue me). With these gocco printed bookplates I will be armed with the tools to be sure I will never be a bad friend again.

Weddings on the web

Aaron just sent over this fun wedding website called Something Old Something New which looks to be a great resource for brides that want something original on their special day. Although my own wedding is now just a memory, it's still too much fun to look at ideas for flowers, cakes, and dresses. Fun stuff!

Corn Mo is a star

It's not everyday that one of my friends gets interviewed by a super important news source, but today one of them was! Please check out our friend Corn Mo's interview on Gothamist. Also if you have a few web surfing moments free check out the Corn Mo website, and be sure not to miss the KungFu Teenage Bigfoot trailer...it's a wonder the academy passed up this one!

Tiny garden

Everybody needs a plot of land to call their own, and this tiny garden from Pretty Good Goods is about as much land as I'm bound to own anytime soon. This kit comes with all the miniature goodies you might need to furnish your own little desktop oasis...well except dirt and plants. Happy planting!

Oprah hearts bloggers

We got some exciting news from our friends at Apartment Therapy today. On Tuesday the 20th of February Maxwell, the founder of this notorious design blog will be on the Oprah show! It is unclear what exactly he will be doing on the show since that is still a closely guarded secret, but I will be totally tivo-ing this one. Check your local listings!

Rhythm-less

Well, it's been a week or so since my now infamous run-in with the world of tap dancing. Here's a brief overview for those interested:
The class was in the building of my last job...you know the one that I'm not exactly allowed to go into the building of? So naturally I felt a little naughty going in there...I go up to the floor that the class is being held on and WHA??? It's a Broadway studio...as in people are trying out for Broadway shows in there. Ok, now I am feeling a little more than overwhelmed. I hear from behind closed doors someone who took a few notes from the TV show Fame and is screaming FASTER FASTER FASTER to her poor students. I hurry along the corridor and am nearly bowled over by a huge group of nervous looking tall dudes all of whom look almost exactly alike. Apparently they are trying out for Avenue Q. I come up to the door of my dance studio and it is locked so I sit nervously with the nervous people in the hallway and listen to some lady belting out a song I've never heard before. I'm thinking oh my god get me out of here!!!!!! So I start feverishly texting people...basically everyone I know saying help me! Get me out of here! Finally I get inside the room and find that I am one of two people in my class that actually have tap shoes. The rest are trying to tap dance in running shoes...ugh. Needless to say every mistake I made resonated quite loudly throughout the room. I think my worst moment in the class was when I couldn't stamp correctly. Stamping is exactly as it sounds where you stamp your feet, and I could NOT do it. The teacher had me stamp stamp stamp across the floor three times in front of everyone and I still couldn't do it. I was so humiliated I can't even tell you. I am so not a stamper.
So anyhow, at the end of the class I was so elated that I now knew a few tap steps that I rushed up to the teacher and recounted how when I was little I felt tap dancing in my heart and how I used to tap dance in the grass at outdoor concerts in my hometown. All of this got me the craziest look...I don't know if I will be going back. So that's the story. Well at least it's the bad parts of the day, it really did turn out to be fun after all, and I got a DVD so I can practice my stamping at home. Sorry downstairs neighbor!
If you want to take your own tap class here's my teacher's website, he does workshops in SF and NYC and he's cute to boot!

Are snowpants business casual?

Today's posts have been cut short due to a deeeeeep freeeeeze here in NYC, I have returned home to avoid being frozen completely solid in the office.
A couple of exciting things arrived in the mail today...for one I finally got my llbean duckboots which came just in time for the frozen weather. Also I received my second copy of Enjoy Your Recorder by the Trapp Family Singers. This is the book I originally used to learn to play the recorder at age 8. Looking back through the pages I see so many familiar tunes, and there are plenty of lessons inside to help remind how to finger all the notes. This should be a good project for today, and hopefully my neighbor will be understanding...poor thing!

Exciting tap related news!

I just got an email that I will be taking a "tap dancing workshop" this coming Saturday. I should warn you that I haven't taken tap dancing class since I was 5 and I hit my nose on the floor (don't ask please). Should be an interesting time to be sure. I promise to blog all about it on Monday and hopefully have some hilarious photos to share also.

I'm so proud

This is a shameless plug for my husband's new project for VH-1. He's working on the V-Spot online videos, and has been having a wee of a time. Check out his red carpet Q&A and feel free to comment...it's the one with Flavor Flav's photo next to it.

Free stuff!

Thanks to Aaron for pointing out these interesting print it out stick it together free things via core 77. Not sure what they are used for, but are surely a better use of company paper and color ink than any pie chart or bar graph.

Skymall madness

Alright, I have a confession to make. I LOVE SKYMALL. I want that crazy hot dog toaster, or this sleeping lounge thing (pictured above and available at skymall.com for $29.95), or maybe an automatic watch winder or upside down tomato garden. I get really excited everytime I fly to see what the good people at hammerkershlemmer have come up with for me. What's that? I need a wine robot now? AWESOME!!!