Magnetic Poetry Word Magnets
amazon.com Ever since we saw artist Rotten Apple’s place Magnetic Poetry around urban landscapes — including the subway for people to make poetry while they wait —we’ve seen Magnetic Poetry Kits as...
View ArticleGorilla Tape (in White or Black)
amazon.com While we originally used this fabulous product for unobtrusive, minimalist door-pulls, Gorilla Tape is great to have on hand for all sorts of uses. Made with double thick adhesive, strong...
View ArticleFreeform LEGO Architecture Studio + Book
LEGO We’ve always been enamored of building blocks for their cool modularity and open invitation to improvise, and we find that this jumbo building kit from LEGO is the perfect thing for adults to...
View ArticleBlack Masking Tape
amazon.com This all-purpose crepe paper masking tape comes in a variety of widths and is a lot easier on the eyes than its bright blue cousin painter’s tape. The gentle adhesive encourages easy...
View ArticleBondic Liquid Plastic Welder
This liquid plastic welder is our preferred way of making little fixes to broken items rather than using Superglue or worse, bulky tape. It can be used to repair plastic, wood, metal, and even fabric....
View Articleifixit tool kit!
If you have a electronic gadget that you’re thinking of fixing, this kit has every tool that you might need. We owe all the success of our own computer update experiments to this.
View ArticleEverBlock Modular Building Blocks
Sally Schneider For years we dreamed of life-size Lego blocks that we could use to build furniture. Then we found EverBlocks which are just that: strong, plastic, modular, interlocking blocks that you...
View ArticlePredator Raven Welding Gloves/Oven Mitt
amazon.com Who knew that suede welding gloves would make the perfect oven mitt, able to endure high heat AND oddly cool looking? From the manufacturer, these gloves are “made of durable, 14″ side...
View ArticleRestickable Glue Sticks
We adore these restickable glue sticks for creating DIY gigantic Post-It notes, or for temporarily mounting magazine cutouts, notes-to-self, or doodles up on our walls. The adhesive comes off without...
View ArticlePigma Micron Fine Point Pens
Amazon.com We love these ultra-precise next-generation replacements for the traditional drafting pen—it has the crisp fineness of line we cherished in the Rapidograph, packaged in a disposable,...
View ArticleSugru Air-Curing Rubber
Amazon This miraculous all-purpose malleable rubber product has been used to rig up and patch all sorts of tools, gadgets, and other beloved objects. It loves to bond with everything from metals,...
View ArticleRed Moleskin Notebook
We love the infinite uses and styles for Moleskines but find this red 5″-x-8″ run particularly inspiring. Being hardcover, it’s durable enough to travel with you in day to day, and on big adventures....
View ArticleQuill Pen Calligraphy Letterwriting Set
Embracing your handwriting is tough, but nothing makes even the roughest chicken scratch more romantic than writing with a quill pen and ink. Quill pens add an authenticity to letter writing that...
View ArticleOriginal Colorforms Anniversary Set
When we were kids, we played for hours with our Colorforms set: colorful geometric and abstract shapes that would stick to the accompanying glossy black boards and other smooth surfaces (like...
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