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Phano China Marker
amazon.com These classic grease-based peel-back China crayons are perfect for marking your guests’ wine glasses, as our friend Anthony Giglio originally noted. They’re also a great all-purpose...
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Peel and Stick Chalkboard Sheets
amazon.com As we’re always gaga for low-impact re-stickable items for your wall (remember our gargantuan DIY post-it notes?), these ready-to-use chalkboard sheets in “slate grey” were absolutely...
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Paintable Aalto-esque Bentwood Stools
Our favorite copy-of-a-copy, based on the iconically simple Alvar Aalto…. Before we knew who Aalto was, we were buying Ikea’s knock-off, the Frosta — which has four legs, not three like the original —...
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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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Lashing Straps
amazon.com We do so love the simplistic bench/sideboard created of strapped-together recycled wood that we spotted in a Dutch interior design magazine! We see big possibilities in this idea by using...
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Kraft Wrapping Paper
We love this huge roll of kraft wrapping paper as a table covering for big, messy meals; personalized wrapping paper + placemats; a cheap canvas for gigantic sketches and doodles and more! More...
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How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum
amazon.com We’re loving illustrator Keri Smith’s 59 ideas for how to creatively “shift” and wake your mind by engaging with your surroundings in new and interesting ways. As Brain Pickings noted...
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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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Fabric Pens in 5 Colors
We love to turn our fabrics into impromptu drawing spaces. It’s easy with this five-color kit of fabric markers. We’re thinking not only pillows, but shower curtains, placemats, window shades,...
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Contour Sanding Sponge
amazon.com These sanding sponges by 3M (an industry leader in abrasives and adhesives) are an absolute lifesaver when it comes to quickly refurbishing flea market finds. Remove tarnish from old metals...
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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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Black Bungee Cord
We’ve found the chic, little black dress of bungee cords! These “Perfect Bungee Cords” come in an array of colors from military drab to lemon yellow, but we especially love the slick black...
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Big Mixed Media Drawing Pad for Idea Spills
We rely on big 18″ x 24″ pads of good quality drawing paper for letting ideas spill out of our heads. Seeing them all in one place helps us make unexpected connections. We also use them for the...
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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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