Lucky Boy Sunday

The whimsical quirk of the softies from the Copenhagen brand Lucky Boy Sunday is so refreshing, I love their variety of fun items.

(Reminded about them from Raneytown)

Music Monday: The Paper Kites

I hope that many of you had a nice extended holiday weekend. The Paper Kites out of Melbourne play mellow pretty music and also have music videos that are magical storytelling adventures. Here are two that are worth a watch, enjoy and happy Music Monday! I love the colorful feather fight in the first clip for the song, 'Featherstone' and the tin can telephone in 'Bloom' makes me smile. I am going to go buy their Woodland EP on iTunes.

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Pretty Books Redesigned : Virginia Woolf

Have you been seeing the mega trend in redesigning covers for the classics? I enjoy every now and again reading on a digital reader, but beautiful books are not dead, that is for sure. I really love the way these Virginia Woolf books were designed by Angus Hyland for Penguin. Gorgeous. 

Other redesigns I am digging are these, these beauties designed by Jillian Tamaki , we bought these for Christmas last year, these Fitzgerald redesigns, and these children's ones are on our wish list this year, can you tell I'm a fan of the classics?! (via > Kate > Jessica)

photos : from Pentagram

Thanksgiving Music Mix

Before I unplugged over the weekend, I wanted to share with you some songs that I felt fit the Thanksgiving holiday season. Many of the songs I chose are about the warm feeling of home and family, but a few others are also sprinkled in that remind me of this time of year. Hope you enjoy! This would be a great mix to play while hanging out in the kitchen and cooking it up. Do you have favorite songs centered around Thanksgiving? Hit up the comments with your favorites. Happy Thanksgiving and I hope you have a wonderful holiday and weekend!

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Thanksgiving..

This is our first Thanksgiving all on our own and we are kind of excited about it! I am going to be pulling lots of things together last-minute and am inspired by these ideas. If you need some Thanksgiving ideas or even tips on how to carve a turkey, here you go!

1 : This year the plan is to artfully show our gratitude, I love Sally's decor & tree idea.
2 : This Turkey Veggie Platter is both hilarious and would be simple to execute.
3 : I love the idea of bringing nature indoors with these DIY pretty leaf votives.
4: How cute are these teepee treats!
5: Kelsey shares a link on how to carve a turkey right.

I also looked back on posts I've done over the years and remembered how much I loved this quote about gratitude:

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity... It turns problems into gifs, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melodie Beattie.

This was also a fun Thanksgiving time post! Wow, over four years ago.

*I have one more post I am putting together before I sign off, (hint: I hope to make up for missing Music Monday this week) but in the meantime Happy Thanksgiving and I wish you a lovely holiday.

A Clip for the Artists

A few days ago I got some new Faber Castell Pens to draw with, then I came across this video clip ad for them that is really clever and thought you might like it.

Lemlem Resort

Remember those really cool Lemlem scarves I posted about about a month ago?! Well, Lemlem just launched their resort collection photographed in Montauk, New York this week and it is full of fresh vibrant colors and absolutely lovely. Keeping an eye on fun resort wear as the weather starts to gets a little more gray and chilly makes me dream about a warm sunny tropical vacation. I also really love these quirky handmade cool Jute animals that would be a nice and creative talking piece addition to a space.

Quiet Morning in Polarn O. Pyret

The girls are playing nice and quietly this morning as they are rockin' their matching stripes from Polarn O. Pyret*. I am a huge fan of this Swedish brand, the quality is really top notch and I love their simple graphic styles. It is impressive to me that they have been around for 35 years (celebrating with a birthday sale) and are now expanding their wings in the U.S. with two new shops in New York City opening this week.

(*Polarn O Pyret sent these as a gift, but I only share things that I am passionate about, would normally purchase myself, and what I think you readers would like.)

Have a wonderful weekend!

It was a gray day today so I felt like signing off for the weekend all kinds of bright! I hope you will have a nice time relaxing over the next few days.

Love You Print // DIY Cool Party Hats // Neon Rope & Clothes Rack // Zebra // Bracelet

Cool Clay Gift Tags

It is a little early for me to start talking about gift tags but I came across these beauties by M Stetson on their blog and ordered a batch right up this morning. I think they are very simple and lovely. Find all types of their cool tags here.

Photos from M Stetson

Sponsored Post : Truvia Recipe #2

This month I'm sharing 3 recipes we made for Truvia. You can read more about why we wanted to try Truvia here. This is recipe number two, a Chicken Curry Wrap that is pretty healthy and turned out super yummy. Tell me about Truvia, have you ever tried it? What are your thoughts? Find the recipe below.

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Sponsored Post : Truvia Recipe

My husband has a hard time digesting sugar, rotten card he has been dealt, but c'est la vie. He will often go on extended sugar-free kicks and we also look for ways to side-step sugar with alternatives, and boy have we tried quite a few. One that we've been curious about is the Stevia based Truvia. Have you heard of it, and tried cooking with it?

Since we were interested in trying it out Martha Stewart and Truvia sponsored me to come up with three tasty recipes to share with you this month. First up is a delicious Citrus Berry Salad, which turned out delicious! I'd love to hear your stories if you have also tried Truvia. See the recipe below!

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Emily Henderson Style

Emily Henderson is all kinds of amazing, I dig her style and wit. Above are some shots from her portfolio that I am inspired by and boy am I looking for some serious ideas as I work on our new space. I still find it crazy random how I caught her season of Design Star a while back because I don't watch tv too often. I was rooting for her the whole time and am happy to see her continuing success. I hope to catch up on episodes of her show 'Secrets From a Stylist' online here.

(All photos from Emily Henderson's portfolio)

Spoon Fork Bacon

The site Spoon Fork Bacon is absolutely marvelous! Have you seen it? Jenny and Teri do amazing work with food styling, photography and have great recipes I want to try.

(All photos from Spoon Fork Bacon by Jenny + Teri > via Sally)

Francisco Cali

A nice living space designed by Francisco Cali. (via Casa Vogue)

Sponsor Highlight : Moop

Moop's variety of beloved bags are not only impressive at first glace when it comes to their cool minimal design, but when I learned that they are handmade with care in their Pittsburgh studio by a small group of mindful people including the owner Wendy, I was amazed and delighted. I am putting some of these lovelies on my wish list for sure. The problem I am having is picking just one, they are all so gorgeous. I also really like that they have great options for men, my husband really does need a great new 'man purse' and I've got to show him these.

Which bags do you fancy?

Here are my top three favorites, but they all are awesome:

The Letter Bag $191
The Porter $91
The Messenger $187

(photos from Moop)

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams

I'm still pinching myself for not picking up the Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams At Home Book that I flipped through over the weekend because hands down ice cream (or gelato, frozen yogurt ...) is my major weakness when it comes to sweets. Add in delicious artisanal flavors, ice cream macarons and beautiful design, I am all over it. Say hello to Ohio based Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams if you haven't already met the much loved and talked about shop yet. I love that you can order their goodies online, perfect for an ice cream tasting party don't you think?!

Dri Dri Gelato Pop-Up

This Dri Dri Gelato stand in London at St Martins Lane Hotel is bright, striped and fantastic! I love it. It is a temporary pop-up shop designed by Elips Design serving up the good stuff. Oh my do I like gelato, sigh.

(photos by Carlo Carossio via Dezeen)

*I'm having technical difficulties today, hope to be back soon...

Babylonstoren

For the past several weeks when my mind escapes to wanderlust mode, it envisions traveling to this jaw-dropping beautiful historic Dutch farm/hotel called Babylonstoren near Cape Town. I love the idea of going to stay on a beautiful farm with a restaurant serving up the bounteous harvest. Definitely added to my travel wish list. Dreamy isn't it?!

All photos: Babylonstoren (spotted on Full House)

Sponsor Highlight : Public Bikes

Public Bikes are incredibly cool. Not only are they beautifully designed but these European-inspired bikes also come 99% assembled to your door ready to ride! What I also think is really great is that they have some awesome accessories to snazzy up your wheels in style. I give Public Bikes major props for really thinking things through with a design-based vision. It makes me smile... real big. Way to go Public and welcome as a sponsor.

 *If you are interested in advertising on Black Eiffel - email blackeiffel@gmail.com for rates.