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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...

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Gorilla 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...

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Freeform 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...

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Black 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...

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Bondic 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....

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ifixit 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.

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EverBlock 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...

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Predator 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...

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Restickable 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...

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Pigma 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,...

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Sugru 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,...

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Red 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....

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Quill 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...

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Original 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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