blogwatch: where we were clicking this week
Again with the aprons — but rest assured we admire them far more than we wear them. Casa Sugar has some valuable advice on how to display vintage aprons.
And while we’re in vintage mode, Making It Lovely has a nice roundup of ways to incorporate a Real Good Chair into a “vintagey bathroom.”
By the way, what do you think of the Real Good Chair? Are you a fan?
Here’s a small kitchen with a lot to love at Poppytalk.
How green is that product or company, really? Tiny Choices can help with a guide to greenwashing.
Apartment Therapy has some info on pruning a popular but can-be-tricky tree, the Japanese Maple.
Swissmiss shares the Book Cover Archive. So cool!
Elements of Style has some before-and-after home shots that will have you happily wasting time for hours.
At Modish, you can enjoy the art of Valero Doval.
And at WebEcoist, see the Creative and Strange Artistic Recycling Projects.
I’ve never been a fan of the real good chair…it’s had so much hype since it came out, but I think that’s just mainly due to the affordable price. The fact that it ships flat-packed is cool. It doesn’t look terribly substantial (those spindly legs), and all those sharp angles…ow. I’ve always liked bludot for what they try to do, but am I the only one annoyed by their recent print ads? Let me preface this by saying I AM A TOTAL PRUDE, but their ad for a table implying you are going to have sex on it, and their ad for a desk saying you only use your computer to surf for porn…blech.
I have a World’s Fair apron that I’d like to display. The shadowbox thing didn’t really work well–if it was large enough show off the entire apron, it looked odd. What can I do with it?