Hip in Minnesota

Gotta salute SplatGirl on the Modern loft in the cold, cold north. She's got some great IKEA hacks and a nice eye for mixing minimal modern with personalized color.
Makes me wonder how many geographical modern sites there are now....gotta search one day, or post one you know of in my comments!

A few tasty design visions

Dallas Design(*Sponge) Guide

Featured yesterday on Design*Sponge, the design guide is a pretty comprehensive categorized directory of hot spots for fashionable living in the Big D. A few of my favorite haunts made the list, a few not. Look here for some of the places I've featured over the past year.

Photo display designs

Looking for more than just magnets on the fridge or paper slips around the computer monitor? What about another way to display Christmas cards?


Magnetic Photo Rope ($12) holds eight photos or notes.


Umbra FotoFalls ($20)



Trapeze 6 photo array ($58)


Posey desktop frame ($10.50)