Etsy Finds: Valentine’s Day Ceramics

pair of lovebird bowls

full of love heart bowl

Etsy shop PrinceDesignUK is full of won­der­ful Valentine’s Day gifts, all hand­made and glazed by UK-based artist Eliz­a­beth Prince. Up top is a pair of love­bird bowls ($39) and under­neath is the “Full of Love Heart Bowl” ($23).

Favorite Shops: Bianca and Family

two seat school desk

bianca and family vintage for kids

Bianca and Fam­ily always has a delight­ful assort­ment of child­hood trea­sures, both new and old.

Etsy Finds: Crocheted Villages

etsy crotched villages

Won­der­ful cro­cheted jew­elry from Israeli Etsy seller Sashetta. Love the details!

New Concepts in Children’s Furniture

student design children's furniture

student design children's furniture

student design children's furniture

This con­cept was cre­ated by a stu­dent of designer Masahiro Minami (who obvi­ously has great tal­ent in teach­ing as well) at the Uni­veristy of Shiga Prefecture.

The desk and chair match per­fectly perched on top of the dresser, which has a refrigerator/stove/microwave motif. A sink is located under­neath the pic­tured cook­ing surface.

Hope­fully this won­der­ful piece will make its way into production!

via spoon & tomago

Turn Something Old into New with Reknit

reknit website screenshot

Reknit is a project by designer Haik Avan­ian that turns old sweaters into new objects, with a lit­tle help from Avanian’s mom. For the month of Feb­ru­ary, send an old sweater to Avanian’s mom and she will unravel it and turn it into a pair of cut-off gloves.

From Avanian’s web­site:

“Reknit was launched on Jan­u­ary 4th, 2010 as a small project to share a resource­ful fam­ily tra­di­tion with the world, and to encour­age my mom to par­take in her hobby more often. The project is based around the idea of reclaim­ing yarn from old clothes, and reknit­ting that yarn into some­thing new and use­ful. It’s a really sim­ple form of re-using / re-purposing that can be very fun. The site will fea­ture a dif­fer­ent item each month, which will be decided by user sub­mit­ted votes.”

Giant Headspin

giant headspin top

A lim­ited col­lec­tion of giant spin­ning tops turned from scrap wood, from the tal­ented Mark Giglio.

Love Notecards from Ink+Wit

i love you my dear notecards

Send your love with these won­der­ful let­ter­press note­cards designed by ink+wit. Avail­able both indi­vid­u­ally and as a 5 card set. Sweet per­fec­tion, as always.