When we were kids, we loved advent calendars, those big cards with little pop-out windows offering a surprise for each day before Christmas. We were wishing we had one of those, and then we stumbled on something better: The Big Picture’s Hubble Space Telescope Digital Advent Calendar. Each day reveals a new awe-inspiring photo from Hubble, from…
Read Morea cool way to free up the creative process
A friend sent us these photos of the drawings her young artist/fashion-design-o-phile daughter made on her desktop, with this note: ” My daughter artist drawing on her brand new desk… When we moved into our new home w her NEW desk, she needed to make it her own. I was blown away when I saw…
Read Mored-i-y reverse painted glass as wall covering and…
Although it’s not really our style, we’ve culled quite a few ideas from 1st Dib’s excerpt of All-American: The Exuberant Style of William Diamond and Anthony Baratta. We never knew about reverse painting glass: painting glass or plexiglass (which comes in 4-x-8-foot sheets) on the “back” side so that the color shows through on the front, making…
Read Morekid’s toy craft as home design inspiration
One of our favorite blogs these days is Made by Joel, the toy and craft projects that artist Joel Henriques makes for his kids. He manages to make A LOT out of ‘nothing’: dollhouses out of Cheerios boxes, puppets from paper clips and cardboard, cities from paper. The thing that we love is how Joel’s…
Read Morenyc bloggers do the holidays!!!! (idea trove)
‘the improvised life’ is proud to be part of the second annual NYC Bloggers Do the Holidays, a collaborative holiday guide by “the city’s coolest bloggers”*. It is the brilliant idea of Charlie at Manhattan User’s Guide: bring together an amazing community of bloggers who are wildly passionate, dedicated and SMART, to give their take…
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