I love Sweet Petula’s soap packages. I haven’t tried the soap itself yet, but I’m sure they are just as great! Look at these packages!

I actually wanna decorate them in my bathroom… :)

and they are all $5!

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I have bought things just by its cover/jacket because it looks good, but never a wine… until we saw this “Le Telquel” wine. Yup, a dachshund wine! Love the hand-drawn, hand-lettering look, too, very cool.

Love that he/she is wagging his/her tail!

The top area has some kind of citrus drawings, too, that also adds a nice touch.

I hope we like the wine… Haven’t tried it yet. Maybe this weekend… :)

Happy Friday, everyone! Cheers!

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I found an awesome online shop called Upon a Fold via UPPERCASE blog and I am so excited that I can’t type fast enough!

“Here, you will find a unique collection of paper artistry from around the world – some items you’ll not have seen anywhere else. From beautiful jewelry and pretty stationery to fun paper planes and perfectly engineered pop-ups, this is a magical journey into the world of paper.”

You will find not only a lot of great and unique paper products, but also a lot of inspirations!!! Everything I see is just so awesome, smart, beautiful, unbelievable, fun, cool…. you feel it :)

Play More More More Notebook (aww so clever and fun!!!):

Rainbow Hoop Earrings (can you believe this is made out of papers?):

Wax Paper Pocket (very simple and useful!):

Jewelgraphy Card (this is just so perfect in any occasion and how creative!):

There are many, many more, please go over to Upon a Fold website and look around!

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Funny coincidence, Jenn from Jack + Jenn, Jody from Brin & Nohl and I have been talking almost everyday over at Twitter ever since we found this Origami Jewelry… we all liked it and we are all inspired by folded object, papers, and origami etc… and it seems like it is going somewhere… so stay tuned, we’re going to do something soon… :) So fun!

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About a month ago, we went to Porter House Restaurant for NY Restaurant week and had a great meal :) I saw their logo and the card and of course I took it home because I thought it was great and caught my eye immediately. It looks like it’s printed on wood, but it is a paper, but look at the beautiful wood stains and burned-like wood texture — that would have been so cool if it was a real wood and the symbol is actually burned in, but hey, everyone has a budget, right? The card is on really nice and thick stock so the quality is so there.

and then, I was looking around the lovely Louise Fili Ltd website (I admire her work soo much!) and here it is! The Porter House design! It was done by Louise Fili. No wonder it looks awesome.

I’d love to get my hands on restaurant designs — anyone opening a new restaurant?! :)

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I tend to grab whatever catches my eye and bring home… so my desk, bags, pockets are always filled with business cards, post cards, fliers… lots of papers and designs. and yes, I need to find better way of organizing them all because they are getting out of control and they make my husband’s head hurts…

Anyway. I just found this Tommy Guns Salon flyer from my bag, I forgot all about it, but I thought it was a cool flyer for a salon. I like the scroll borders and the typography, layout and color scheme… very nice.

The other side is a 20% discount offer — nice marketing piece right here.

and this offer was ended last August… that’s how long it’s been in my bag. haha

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As I posted here and here before, I keep getting drawn to the beautiful patterns of the Japanese Tenugui… and last trip was no exception. I found lots of great patterns (and bought a few!), I couldn’t take pictures of all of them, but one store I went in in Yokohama, they had tons so I snapped pictures to take home since I couldn’t buy them all… (I will if I could! :))

Enjoy!

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One… well, two of the many Japanese snacks I brought home from my trip are these Caramel Corn from Tohato. I want to eat them, but the packaging is so cute that I haven’t been able to open them… so I took pictures :) Aren’t they so adorable?! Caramel Corn has been around for as long as I can remember, but their whole new packaging is making the product even more irresistible!

This guy got a little squashed in the airplane…

and yes, the picture inside of the cute characters’ mouth is the actual product. I haven’t had that for ages!

When you go to their website, you can see more cute packages!! I want to collect them all… :)

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I saw this room image over at simplygrove’s flickr photostream and I had to ask where this print/poster is from… she says “Ikea“!

and sure enough, I found it at Ikea website:

I think I will get one! Thank you, Kirsten!

*another great Ikea poster I saw over at To Be Inspired here… time to make a trip, I guess!

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Apparently, I have taken more than 500 pictures while I was in Japan, you will be seeing lots of them for the next few weeks… :)

I saw this window display at Hanae Mori building in Omotesando, Tokyo and I had to stop and admire the beauty of Japanese samurai armor… how awesome!! I was drawn to them so much, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a samurai armor in a fashion window display before and it absolutely had a strong yet awesome presence… I enjoyed it very much. Here are some snapshots I took… I hope you enjoy, too!

The detail is great!

Omotesando Street:

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Good morning! I hope you had a nice weekend… We had a little dachshund friend Audrey for the weekend to dog-sit, it’s been fun for us and Maia :)

Over the weekend, I came across these beautiful glass bulbs from Land-Rich (via sub-studio design blog – they have my favorite gift guide every year by colors!) and I especially like this Tallow Berry Bulb — isn’t it a precious little thing? I would love to get one for our Christmas tree… this will be my ornament of the year… (speaking of which, I finally decorated my Christmas trees this weekend, I will share some photos later! Yes, I have 2 trees this year!)

They have 3 other ones, they are all so special.

About Land-Rich: Inspired by raw nature and those who embrace it, we collect and design classic goods for the discerning customer. Our mission is to provide beautiful objects that symbolize the quality, functionality, and sustainability of simpler times.

Let’s have a beautiful week, shall we? :)

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