I heart robots

So I went into CB2 to get this.



It's a shower curtain with pastoral scenes of robots. Totally up my alley.

Anyway, CB2: it's such a dumb name (sorry Crate&Barrel - but your regular name is dumb too) and that stopped me from being interested in it before. But there were some things that appealed.



But my favorite was in the theme of "things that look like things that are those things but not really":



I am just the right age for this. I remember how fun it was pulling tape out of cassettes, and how delightfully wrong it felt. Now it's right!


POSTSCRIPT:

I think CB2 spelled Verity Freebern's name wrong...

One hand in my Poketo

I had a bag from Poketo that I loved. (Still love. Unfortunately a toddler dragging it down the sidewalk didn't really make it any better.)

But I digress from my main point, which is that Poketo has fun stuff.

What's on telly dear?

Saw this decal in one of those flash sales - by RoomMates. I like the idea of putting it right over a table.

Haaap Haap

Boon ducks.

Not the Dewey decimal system

Now, there's no way in the world I'll be able to afford this, but it's not just about possible, right? We've got to celebrate the covetable.




This is by Finnish-Ugandan designer Lincoln Kayiwa. I adore the way it makes a mish-mash seem purposeful. I mean, this is sort of what my bookshelf looks like anyway, only boringly flat.

Also...baby.

So there's a lot of nice stuff out there. But sometimes I see something that just makes me go ding! And it's often not the cutest thing or the design-y-est thing or the most on-trend-y-est thing out there.

It's just something that I, Maya, love.

Like this.



Even though it's from Urban Outfitters and I have nowhere to put it, I am vastly tempted.

Etats unis

Oh, damn! Missed this sale.

Hot on the heels of Anna's ILOVECALI necklace find is this.



But California is sold out, oh no!

I actually love all Kris Nation's stuff. I mean, this!



And this!



(You know, with a name like that she should also be doing countries.)

Everything is a plate

From Everything is OK, a new piece of irony in the form of a collectible plate. Which, actually, would be really fun to serve cake on. Collect all one!

Chomp

OK, this is perfect and clever and I adore it. My baby is cutting a tooth now and there are a lot of lovely teethers out there, but none so apt.



Little Sapling Toys

5-7-5

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i like these shakers



fred

Instruit en amusant

My friend Anna pointed me to this great image blog, agence eureka.

Don't you want to play alphabo? Educational and fun!

Moo-moo

Not sure I'd send for these all the way from Australia but they beat the look of Born Free for sure!



Via Odeedoh (how are you supposed to say that?), which once nicked a photo of mine.

Hose off

Another cool thang by Ray Fenwick, available at Faucet Face.

And back up, too

Holy moly, more awesome posters by awesome Amy Martin! At 826 in LA, of course. (I always feel funny writing that, because it's not the address of the LA place, only the SF place...whatever, I'm just trying to edit reality.)

Anyway!

This one is my favorite but they're all awesome. We own three from series one and might need this one, too.



Check out Amy's site - the Tiny Vaudeville posters are great.

Drink me

Okay, I'm mellowing on you, catalogue. (See below.)

Look, it's another 'not-a'! These are not those horrible little plastic cups that are thin and weird and easy to squish.



They're ceramic, natch. Still too small, though.

Boom car

The MoMA store rocks; the MoMA catalogue, on the other hand, does not. But it's not the products inside, it's the way they select them. Too many scarfs and notecards - this ain't the Met.

Anyway.

Love this. It's more a wristlet size and I'm sure the sound quality is awful, I just like the way it looks.

Area where?

New shop to get all covetable about - Areaware. Check out some of my favorites.

Obviously cool:




There are *so* many decals now, but this is truly different. Plus, you know, type as decoration, love it.

Keys

Love this threadless t-shirt design. It reminds me of a shirt I got someone at Brooklyn Industries - it was a line-drawn image of a computer/accordion/boat.

Stumped

So this is - well, I don't know what it is. Yes I do: it's a cardboard stump from Target. That's all I can say. But I like it.

Ticket to ride

You have to live around here to get the awesomeness of this shirt. I just wish it came in grown-up sizes.



It's made by a local company, of course.