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Entries for October, 2010

Top 7 best Halloween Cookies

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Welcome to the Halloween party, and we’d like to solemnly introduce Mr. Dracula, Mr. Frankenstein, Mr. Devil and the Mummy. Oh, that’s not all and you’ll also see Shortbread Finger Cookies, Paper Orchid Spider Web Cupcake, Eyeball Truffles and many other weird cookies made for this Halloween! So do you love them? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Quilt-wrapped Cocon Armchair

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Honestly nothing could pull me out of my warm blankets whenever the winter comes. But in the approaching winter, I would have one more choice and it is the Quilt-wrapped Cocon Armchair created by Celine Merhand and Anaïs Morel. Wrapped with an ultra soft quilt, the Cocon looks quite attractive on the pictures and we bet it will also function well in your rooms. So simply open the Cocon, zip the quilt together and then you can enjoy a warm reading, lounging or even daydreaming. Doesn’t that sound nice? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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I TIE YOU

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Hey you naughty kids in front of the screen, it’s another time for bed! And hopefully you would always enjoy a sweet dream as those you ever had when you were merely a small baby. Just sleep like a baby, who usually put their hands beside the heads~ [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Smiling Switch Makes The Earth Smile.

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“Do not forget to turn off the light. Let “me” keep smile. Let the earth keep smile.”

The simple concept behind the Smiling Switches collaborated by Zhou Yide, Euphe Mo, Hang Zhou & Christine Liu has really impressed me a lot. For quite a long time, I’ve been wondering what I should or could do to make the earth a happy planet, and until these days I noticed that simply little tasks will result into great changes of the world we’re living in. So from now on, we’ll always see the earth smile whenever we turn off the lights. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Air Plant Terrariums

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Nothing would be better than seeing some green plants in the desert, which may bring back vitality and power to us. And we hope you’ll still feel good to see a desert inside your home, which is however built in an apple or pear shaped terrariums. Combining two things that are irrelevant to each other, the designer of the Air Plant Terrariums has led us to another way to view the desert and to decorate our homes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Post-a-Plate

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Possibly next time you mail a postcard, you’d better have some tasty food along with it, coz these postcards here are actually ceramic plates designed for your cakes and fruits. Well, they look just the same as real postcards, right? But that’s just all right to surprise and amuse your guests! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Fantastic 3D Paper Art

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Though paper art is quite familiar to everybody, who would ever imagine that the soft material can create something that seems and feels animated? Accomplished by Jeff Nishinaka, each 3D sculpture here is transformed from regular paper but features a fantastic look, and you will see a dragon, a bridge, the Great Wall and so on. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Japanese Merrells Have A Beautiful Sole

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When most shoe designers still go after delicate surface decorations and creative shoes patterns, somebody pays more attention to making shoes that have beautiful soles. Inspired by Japanese woodblock print, these shoes each features a unique sole and will leave behind ‘Great Wave’, ‘Swami’ or ‘Surfing Penguin’ as you step forward. Isn’t that amazing? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Pencil Salt and Pepper Set

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Well, a pencil shaped salt and pepper set. Maybe you guys would care more about the reasons why Frank Kerdil come up with such a weird idea, but honestly this interesting salt and pepper set looks just all right on the shelves, because it can successfully attract the attention of my guests. Cool! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Roof Gardens That Move Around The City

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Will human’s living environment get improved in the future if we build more and more gardens on the buses?! Designed by Marco Castro Cosio, these roof gardens are expected to absorb exhaust gas as the buses move around the city. Whatever the results may follow, we still think that’s  a good try and welcome more and more cities adopting such Green Roofed Buses. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Hang Book Lamp

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Time again daily life proves to be an important resource of inspirations and Daniel Baek come up with the idea of creating a unique lamp that can support the weight of a book when the German student read books in bed. Named as Hang Book, the new lamp not only offers enough light to ensure you a comfortable reading, but would hold your book in the air when you fall asleep. So whenever you’d like to read in bed, you can always easily find the book. Nice work! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Weird High Heels, Not For Your Feet

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You know, these high heels are on earth not designed for use. They may just look all right in the pictures or on the shoe racks, but never on my feet… Anyhow,  thank Kobilevi for sharing these weird and impressive high heels with us. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Circular Tennis Table By JAM

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We seem to have seen that Ping Pang is not merely a game for two or four people, but also an activity for three people after UK-based branding company JAM developed the circular tennis table. Dubbed “T2 Table”, the new design allows three players to play tactically against or with each other, helping them find more fun in the traditional game. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Security Company Uses Boxes to Advertise Inside Your Home

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So you’ve noticed that your home is really easy to be broken when the advertising boxes appeared inside your home? Then check out these cubes and have a contact with the security company ADT which will soon ensure you a much safer home. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Cardboard Helmets

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When Anirudha Rao found that expanded polystyrene helmets only protect the users’ heads 16 percent of the time during a crash as polystyrene does little to absorb impact energy, the designer offered us a much effective alternative of cycling protections: ‘Kranium’. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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