Sweet (and easily shippable!) suggestions for your long distance loves who you’ll be thinking of this season: 1. Artichoke 20-inch floral wreath ($44) at Overstock.com 2. Mayan hot cocoa & hand-carved frother ($50) at GiftTree 3. Hot peach chutney ($7) at The Virginia Chutney Co. 4. Mini gold geode wooden ornament ($23) at Michelle Hartney
If Dori Tomcsanyi is a color mecca (she is), this tote is her Ultimate Mascot. ($124) LINK: THE GARDEN STUDIO
Inflated/Deflated hosts an awesome social project about balloons, messages and deflated self-esteems. Rad work, trio. (Thanks, Lauren!) LINK: INFLATED / DEFLATED
Fideli makes the craziest things out of paper. Am totally adding her to my “Reasons Why Sweden is Amazing” notebook asap. LINK: FIDELI SUNDQVIST
Gift ideas for the man in your life that alphabetically organizes his USB drives, accidentally types his emails in HTML and knows exactly how much REM he has on any given day: 1. Recycled motherboard pen ($5) at Perpetual Kid 2. Cardboard FM radio ($35) at Fred Flare 3. Icon watch ($75) at POKETO 4.
There are far too many goodies in Pinling’s portfolio to choose one. Or three. LINK: PINLING HUANG on FLICKR
Sculptural concrete (like this, this, this, this, this and this) is quickly becoming a favorite find of mine, and this beauty? Well, there’s a mirror involved, so that’s already got the makings of a top-notch winner of a thing. ($403) LINK: MARYAM NASSIR ZADEH
Very, very wish-listed. ($62) LINK: WOLFUM