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PSSST - Holiday gift guides are listed to the right (and down a little)! The list continues to grow with additions from some of your favourite blogs like Design*Sponge. Happy hunting!
Do you need a gift idea for an artist, crafter, designer - or me? *wink* Well, why not give the gift of colored pencils? 500 pencils in 20 months - "like a time release of inspiration and color."
This may be old hat to you, but I recently became totally smitten with the linkable notebooks created by StartHere. Not only do they produce handy notebooks - my favourite being the 3 level notebook with blank, graph and lined paper - but the notebooks are linkable!
Each notebook has an exterior front pocket that houses the rear flap of another notebook. Accessorize with spine binders, sticky tabs and interior pockets and you have yourself an incredible little library of thoughts, doodles and notes.
"The books are image-based, full of artwork, sketchbook pages, beautiful photographs and artifacts from where the artists live and work. The book becomes a precious souvenir of a creative journey shared between the reader and the artist."
Tap Water Bottle - A "water bottle" designed without the typical "sports" aesthetic of many existing bottles - meant for dinner parties, on your office desk, etc. Making a bold lifestyle statement with minimal design. I love the retro top!
Um, yes pretty please? I would die if I woke up Christmas morning with one of these blankets under the tree! Nos Da blankets, designed by Donna Wilson for SCP.
What a fun collaboration! Muji and Lego have teamed up to create some fun holiday-themed paper and building block sets. More here if you can read Japanese!
Be they real or faux, pinecones are great for holiday decorating on packages, as gifts and around the house as decoration. Shown above: Wool and cashmere pinecones by Stephanie Congdon Barnes, clay conifer DIY by Design*Sponge, and pinecone packaging by Decor8.