Chalk it to me Piggy Bank

This piggy bank by L&G with a leather tail and "silky-smooth" pigmented ceramic lets you label him again and again, or "let your friends play graffiti artist, or simply leave him clean and minimal."

You could also write down a quote or draw a creative pattern on it. 

There is also a terracotta piggy bank.

Color Inspiration: Teal

Blues and greens are such calming colors. They remind me of the ocean, with its vast surfaces and infinite horizons. Blue and green also represent our open sky and our earthy planet. These two colors are peaceful and homey.

This post is about the color Teal, which of course, is a combination of blue and green! Teal can be sophisticated, fun, and light hearted.

Fun Fact: Teal gets its name from the fact that it is the color that surrounds the eyes of the common teal, a member of the duck family.

New England Home Mar/Apr2011 edition

Beach wedding arch

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Creative Truths

Quotes by famous artists in modern colorful posters, by Shirley-Ann

DIY Floral Ice Cubes

Here is a great idea for dressing up drinks: floral ice cubes. I think this is brilliant; next time I have guests over I would love to have these edible flower ice cubes ready. The downside is that these pretty cubes will work better in light colored or transparent drinks. 

I am thinking they would go well with: 

San Pellegrino mineral water with a wedge of lime

Pink Lemonade

Gin and Tonic

Classic Martini

Iced Green Tea

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Kitchens with Rugs

I love this rustic look in the kitchen above and I love the idea of a rug in the kitchen. Below are some ideas of different ways to decorate kitchens with rugs that add different personalities to the room. 

Complexity Graphics

These photographs seem like they would be a creation of a hybrid of mathemathician and photographer. Science and art in one. 

"Tatiana Plakhova’s work visualizes vast fields of vectors projected onto landscapes, urban formations, and the sea. Plakhova’s “The End of Geography” is the latest entry in her series of “Complexity Graphics,” in which she constructs entire hybrid worlds, fictional sea creatures, and everything in between, solely through a deft application of highly articulated, seemingly algorithmically-determined clusters of lines."