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What a beautiful reminder:
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
~Mother Teresa~ (via Barbara Curtis)

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Postcards as Art has hundreds of vintage postcard images from landmarks and small towns all over the world. Think of giving someone a framed print of a pack of notecards with an image of his or her home town. Also available are magnets and tiles.

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Mint Julep Pencil Cup

Updated Jan 29, 2007

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Silver is beautiful.

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Silver Sticky Note Holder

Updated Jan 29, 2007

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Silver is beautiful.

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PepperPot Mouse Pads

Updated Jan 29, 2007

1st to recommend

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No more grimy black rubber mousepads. $8.50.

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Miracle Polishing Cloth for silver, brass, gold, and pewter

Updated Jan 29, 2007

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These are handy. Keep one in your silver drawer, and another in your jewelry box, and you can wipe tarnish off things like you're wiping off dust. No water, no goop, no procrastination.

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The Lives of Shadows: An Illustrated Novel by Barbara Hodgson

Updated Jan 25, 2007

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I slavishly love illustrated novels, the scrap-bookish type with letters to pull out of envelopes, photographs, and in this case, pressed flowers. I also slavishly love magical realism. This book appears to be both.

Booklist calls it "a mysterious, mesmerizing tale about a young British man who, in 1914, ventures on a latter-day version of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Grand Tour and finds the Middle East so fascinating that he is compelled, almost at the expense of free will, to buy a certain house in Damascus, Syria. The novel's conceit is that in the "present" day--which is 1945--this man, of course now much older, is forced to prove his ownership rights of the house that has come to be not only his shelter and sanctuary but also his lifeblood. His way of documenting ownership is to set down, in notebooks, details of his long association with the house he loves above all things. The sheer physical beauty of Hodgson's novel--so delicious is it to simply study the abundant and authentic illustrations--is buoyed by the beautifully sculpted prose. Grounded in real place and time and even architectural detail, the novel nevertheless soars as a dreamy, even ghostly, evocation of lost worlds and people--as an exquisite excursion back into history, borne on the author's keen imagination and creativity."

Oh my. I must read this book.

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Personalized, Weighted Bookmark

Updated Jan 23, 2007

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How can you read at the breakfast table without something to hold the book open. A nice holder like this makes it look like a legitimate thing to do.

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Pearl River Baby Shoes

Updated Jan 23, 2007

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Oh me oh my so cute. About $7 a pair.

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14" Round Patterned Paper Lanterns

Updated Jan 23, 2007

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Paper lanterns are one of the world's great bargains. So much light and beauty and joy for so little. If you don't have a spot in your home, throw a garden party at night and hang them from the trees. Magic!

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Parisian Bud Vases Set of 3 at World Market

Updated Jan 22, 2007

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Very, very pretty 6" vases. $12.99 for a set of three.

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VistaPrint Personalized Sticky Notes

Updated Jan 22, 2007

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VistaPrint's prices are the best. The price per pad goes down the more you order. You can get five personalized pads for $10.

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Booksling

Updated Jan 22, 2007

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Clever. (via geektastik)

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5 people recommended this item

Picopad

Updated Jan 22, 2007

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Neat idea. (via geektastik)

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VOTE-G SNEAKER

Updated Jan 22, 2007

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My new favorite sneakers. Very comfortable, very cute.

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Madame Bijoux

Updated Jan 22, 2007

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Unique jewelry, very reasonable prices, great sales.

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NIKKO MADEMOISELLE at Replacements, Ltd

Updated Jan 25, 2007

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Black and white... they look like bookplates

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Bluebird teacup

Updated Jan 18, 2007

1st to recommend

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Yellow with gold dots, and two bluebirds. :)

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My Twinn

Updated Jan 18, 2007

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These are amazing. Custom dolls that look just like your little girl.

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Doors of Aceh Satchel

Updated Jan 18, 2007

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Neat shape, cool black & white graphics. And it's $14. And it's fair trade.

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WorldCrafts

Updated Jan 18, 2007

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WorldCrafts is nonprofit and imports handcrafts from 37 countries around the world and markets them in the USA. When you purchase WorldCrafts you:

* Assist over 60 artisan groups (women and men) that live in poverty in providing for their families.
* Support artisan groups while buying meaningful gifts for your family and friends.

WorldCrafts is a fair trade organization that seeks to ensure that artisans are paid and treated fairly.

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7 people recommended this item

Smittens

Updated Jan 2, 2008

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Three mittens: One for her left, your right, and one to hold hands in. Okay, it's silly, but think of the message it sends! She'll love you for this.

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The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy Boxed Set

Updated Jan 18, 2007

1st to recommend

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A mysterious, romantic story, laid out in postcards, and letters you pull from the envelopes. There's no one like Nick Bantock.

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Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion

Updated Jan 18, 2007

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It's like a scrap book. There's an envelope glued to the page. you open it up, and pull out a folded, handwritten letter from Dylan Thomas to Caitlin, or from Napoleon to Josephine. Wonderful, beautiful, heartbreaking, romantic.

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Bittersweet Chocolate Candle

Updated Jan 17, 2007