Weekly "I Want That!"

Duncan Rug- $99

Today's "wantables" are from One Kings Lane, a deal site filled with beautiful home goods and decor! Use this link to join the site for free and start shopping! :)

11x9 Mirrored Wood Tray- $19

Loving Linoleum

Linoleum. The misunderstood flooring that is not used very widely anymore and reminds everyone of this:

Fake. Gross. Old-Fashioned. Probably full of nasty chemicals that we used to be oblivious to. Right?

Wrong!

Seems that for once, something that was widely used in American homes in the 1940's won't give you cancer. Hooray!

Linoleum is a all natural, very green, biodegradable flooring made of ground cork, wood flour, linseed oil, gum, mineral filler and resin. It's mixed and poured onto jute or burlap, and viola, a flexible, natural, noise absorbing flooring!

Nowadays, the United States doesn't even manufacture this stuff anymore. We're apparently too busy giving people plastic poisoning producing vynl. We can import it though, from Scotland or Holland. They seem like cool countries. 

Look how beautiful we can make linoleum look these days: 

Forbo Flooring

Eco-Lovely!

 

I am floored (hehheh) when I think of how this awesome flooring has been pushed aside. I think we should start a linoleum resurgence revival. Of course, there are a couple disadvantages: it will bubble under standing water, it's not a fan of humidity, it doesn't like to be put on top on concrete because concrete is acidic...but these are small prices to pay for your overall health, especially considering that these problems can be easily avoided with an extra layer of underlying burlap and a water based or wax sealer. Brilliant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I Want That!"

When I was little, everything I saw garnered a little shriek of "I want that!". To this day, my family won't let me live it down, so I've decided to embrace it and publish a weekly "I want that" blog. Some items, like this week's entry for instance, are a total splurge. Some will be budget friendly. Either way, you'll probably want it too. ;)

Wool Paint By Number Rug- Anthropologie.com- $398

Mary Blair & Disney

I remember having a giant book called "A Children's Garden of Verses" at my grandmother's house. It had belonged to my mom, and I remember adoring the pictures inside of it. As I grew into both a savvy art lover and Disneyland fanatic, I noticed the original park poster artwork and a lot of the design for the ride, "It's A Small World" seemed awfully familiar. Mary Blair. Fun, child-like and brilliant. I was doing some image searches for some Disney concept art, and I found her! She worked closely with Disney, creating original concept art for films like Peter Pan and Cinderella, color styling for The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, and, in 1964, created the iconic children and buildings for "It's A Small World". Thank you Mary Blair!

The Brilliant & Beautiful Blair (1911-1978)

xo

Oldies are Goodies!

It's the first of February! <3

I found some old style valentines like these at Archie McPhee one year and never wanted to use them because I didn't want to not be able to find them anymore. But what fun is that? Now we can print them out ourselves and be even more authentic by snipping them out by hand! Excellent. xo