olive.

I looooove olives. Black olives, green olives, olives on pizza, olives in hummus, pesto, bruschetta— I love it all. I love the color olive, saying ‘olive you,’ and naming your new little baby girl ‘Olive.’ And I also happen to love Olive pillows. In a big way. HUGE. Probably more than I love olives on

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kirby.

I stumbled upon Etsy seller Kirby this morning while researching another 2Modern post and I had to do a double take. A freelance costume designer and artist, Kirby has lived all over the world and has the eye for design to prove it. I love, love, LOVE this alternative to displaying historical paintings in your

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chair couture.

Crap. I totally can’t for the life of me remember where I heard about Margaret and Chair Couture, but I know I didn’t just pull it out of mid-air, so whoever pointed me in CC’s direction— THANK YOU. And show yourself; I’ll send you cookies or something. Regardless, Margaret was kind enough to email me

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blogger yearbook party!

OMG! THE GANG AT 17 Yes, that’s Jo Walker, from Desire to Inspire. Isn’t she lovely? As most of you know, this March, we’ll be bidding farewell to my Blogspot site and saying adieu to DesignforMankind.com! I’m oh so excited but have a LOTTA LOTTA work to do, so to mix a little business with

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the ‘creative conveniences’ project.

Holy crap. Ok, I’m going to do my best to relay this information, but wowzah… I’m not sure I fit the bill. Here are the nuggets of information that I’m trying to piece together as I type this: 1. Three artists from Colchester, Dedham, and Mersea (in the U.K.) were chosen to create art for

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the ‘creative conveniences’ project.

Holy crap. Ok, I’m going to do my best to relay this information, but wowzah… I’m not sure I fit the bill. Here are the nuggets of information that I’m trying to piece together as I type this: 1. Three artists from Colchester, Dedham, and Mersea (in the U.K.) were chosen to create art for

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