Cozy Little House!

Don't you just want to curl up with a good book and sip hot chocolate out of this cozy little mug with its cozy little house? Me too. I want the one with the snowflake sprinkles, please. I have SO MUCH work to get done this week before the break and SO LITTLE motivation to do any of it. Ugh.

If you are feeling crafty (and have more free time than the rest of us), more pictures and a tutorial on how to make a little house of your very own can be found here.

Career Change

After checking out this amazing site a bit, I've determined that I should have definitely gone into the field of infographics rather than student affairs. Mind you, my graphic design skills leave a LOT to be desired and although I'm good with numbers, I'm not so sure I've got the right mind for these types of statistics. But gosh, other than those minor details I am destined to be an infographic designer (or is it infographicator? or infographer? hmmm... maybe I should figure that out before the career change).

Either way, aren't the images so, well, pretty, and darn-right informative all at the same time? I love it! And the website has a whole section on infographics! Do you think Lawrence would mind if I decorated our house with prints like these?

http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0911/education/flash.html

http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0912/dirty-water/transparency.jpg

Brilliant Bunks

Reading through a few blogs this morning during my first cup of coffee and I came across this piece of brilliance:

It's from Resource Furniture, but I found it through Apartment Therapy.

Um, yes, please! Almost makes me want to move to a 100sq foot loft just so I have a reason to have to fit one of these babies underneath my Christmas tree. (Although if I were in such a loft, I would probably have to have a smaller tree, too, but you know what I mean!) I'd like it in yellow, please. Honestly, it's like the Jetsons meet Traditional Home. Isaac Mizrahi meets the Space Shuttle. The sheer fabulousness of it is almost too much to boggle my not-quite-caffinated-enough mind this morning. But just in case you're already on to cup two and can handle such a thing of beauty, I thought I would share.

PS- I have quite the travel story to share but that WILL have to wait until I have a few more glasses of wine cups of coffee in me before I can share. Stay tuned!