When commuting is a large portion of your life, keeping a clean car can be difficult, but it is also important.  Documents, mail, make up, change of clothes, anything and everything seem to end up cluttering my floorboards.  I like to be well equipped for any travelling situation, but I also would like a tidy looking car.  Cars are our home on the road, a little reflection of ourselves we show to everyone we meet up with.  Here are some tools to help your vehicle be a calming haven in a traffic jammed world. Pictures are at bottom of page. Continue reading →

Subliminal scents can influence you even while you sleep.  A recent study shows that smelling rose (used as the pleasant odor sample) during sleep causes more positive dream emotions, and a standard unpleasant odor (rotten eggs) promotes negative dream emotions. Continue reading →

On our way through these adventurous lives of ours, we’re bound to get some scrapes every now and again, and it’s high time we deal with them with sense of fashion!  Some new products offer a dashing way to dress those wounds.   There are a surprisingly large number of fashion-friendly bandages on the market, but these are my favorites. If you needed any excuse to get outside and go hard, finding a reason to sport these spunky new accessories might be just the ticket. Continue reading →

Good headbands are hard to find, but easy to wear.  A good band will polish an ensemble or add purpose to a hairstyle.   Continue reading →

Add an endearingly ironic touch to your living room. Have a favorite catch phrase, movie quote, or brilliant sentiment you’d like to share with the world? Cross stitch it on a pillow! Or you could take the easier way out and look and see if one of these places has beat you to the punch.  Next time someone tells you that ‘you should needlepoint that on a pillow,’ you can tell them you already did.

From top left to bottom right: http://www.etsy.com/shop/PurpleHippoStitches?ref=seller_info, http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/patterns.htm, http://www.etsy.com/shop/FunWithNeedles?ref=seller_info, http://www.etsy.com/shop/cspinney?ref=seller_info, http://www.jonathanadler.com/Needlepoint-pillows/, http://www.etsy.com/shop/PickledTinkEmporium?ref=seller_info

Proudly display your love of literacy with the books you adore personalized to match your style.  Several websites and vendors offer personalization of either classic novel text or covers. Here are some of the best. Continue reading →

Key hooks to make sure  keys are always in the same easy-to-spot place

This literal key dish would be an adorable addition to that table right by your door. Your phone might be able to slip in here to.

Keeping yourself together entails keeping track of the small everyday stuff so that it doesn’t distract from your life. I can be so bad at misplacing my keys and phone, and can as a result unnecessarily late or unreachable. As annoying as this bad habit is for me, I know it must be even more frustrating for those around me who get roped into my unintentional little impromptu scavenger hunt or who have to accommodate the repercussions of my absent-mindedness. Continue reading →