i’m a huge, fanatical fan of designer leslie oschmann of swarm. if you’re not familiar with leslie’s work you may have seen it lurking around an anthropologie shop and not even realized the work was contemporary. re-purposed from vintage painting canvases, leslie’s work takes on a whole new wonderful life when she gets to deconstructing these paintings. amsterdam-based... 
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I saw these great bread bags on Daily Candy and when I linked to the site, I just swooned over these lovely, bags of goodness. Choose from two very charming styles. Bamboo-bag is a young company, run by three friends, making cloth containers from naturally antimicrobial bamboo fabric bamboo fabric to replace paper and plastic products. Their first two Bamboo-bags are designed... 
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Oooh, Uppercase has some groovy bags on their site, and this Uppercase Book Bag just spells fun and makes being green, well, just great. And look, this one’s made just for me (oh, and I guess all the other S’s out there on the planet). Draw on your own bag! This black cloth bag has a letter-sized looseleaf paper design where you can draw your thoughts and doodles.... 
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Rachel & Michael, the kindly folks at Maptote sent me this link to their cute cotton shopping bags. I’m a map and a bag hound, so I’m instantly big fan. I have quite a few bags, but they’re a great alternative to plastic bags so I keep lots around the house and in my car. Maptotes are a fun souvenir gift idea too. Delirious from too much shopping,... 
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There’s been this widespread Keep Calm phenomenon happening – readers keep sending me links to t-shirts and tea towels with the calming phrase proudly printed on them. But, reader Barb took the Keep Calm message to a whole new level. When she received her Keep Calm and Carry On poster and hung it, she decided she’d really like to wear it, too. Using an... 
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