I Want This Vintage Scrabble Set For Some Reason

Restoration Hardware has a little holiday source book/ holiday shoppe general store of, like, ye olde nostalgic treasures and trinkets, and this vintage (repro) Scrabble game made of all wood errything is amongst their offerings. I have no idea why, but I kind of want it. I barely play Scrabble (and I'm not even as good as it as I should be), but it appeals to the post-modern analog gamer in me. Oh, fun fact: The guy who invented Scrabble had the unfortunate last name of "Butts." Strangely, knowing that only makes me want this vintage edition even more for some reason.

$199, Restoration Hardware

Mustache Valentine's Cards!!! SQUEEEEE!

$16.95, Paper Source

A Paper Source store just opened up near me, and I swear, it will be one of the many reasons I end up on Hoarders: Cute Stuff. And/or one of those punishing shows about lack of financial responsibility and living within one's means. I mean, regardless of your thoughts on the ridiculousness of Valentine's Day (both the day AND the gag-inducing movie), just LOOK at these DIY Valentine's mustache cards! YOU CAN EVEN MAKE A MUSTACHIOED HEART PIRATE!!! #deadatthis

And hi, Paper Source has glitter wrapping paper. The Ke$ha of paper goods.

$365, By Malene Birger, Shoplesnouvelles.com

Valentine's Day-related dress: also #dead at this easy, louche fuchsia By Malene Birger dress.

Magic Morning Mug!

$29, Gnr8.biz

SO cute. I can't handle it. These sweet mugs by Damian O'Sullivan changes colors from black to white when you pour hot goods inside. So cute. (Wait... That's not racial commentary.) Wouldn't it be so much better to have coffee in the morning with this little guy than with your surly roommate?

Kitsch List: An Olde-Tymey Rotary Phone & A Chocolate Skull From AHALife

 Taking a break from posting about studded booties and skinny jeans to put these two totally great kitchsy must-have housewares on your radar:

1.) An olde-tymey rotary phone! IN PINK! 

($80, Stephiesays.com)

Singapore's Stephie Says sells BRAND-NEW rotary phones in beige, black, red, and PINK, FTW! I don't even have a land line anymore, let alone a "regular phone," but I kind of want a rotary phone just to put on my shelf and recall the creepy split-pea green rotary phone we used to have in my basement when I was kid. A rotary phone always makes me want to redo my bedroom in all pink and dance around my room like Ann-Margret. 

($28, Bond Street Chocolate, Ahalife.com)

And perhaps you didn't realize it when you woke up this morning, but you're in the market for a dark chocolate skull by Bond Street Chocolate. It's dark chocolate, 3D (naturally), and it's the featured product today on Ahalife, which is a new flash sale site that's kind of like Daily Candy meets Gilt. Each week there's a small boutique of gorgeous gifts, housewares, jewelry, beauty products, apparel and more. Basically, it's the better version of the stuff you already have. Like a DIANE VON FURSTENBERG CAMERA!! And a set of Aftelier Perfumes perfume trios (check out the Naag.com story I wrote about Mandy Aftel and Aftelier, and then get ready to never love another perfume again as much as you'll love these.) And the selection is curated by an international set of fashion insiders, experts, tastemakers, celebrities and philanthropists. So sign up. And this chocolate skull could be yours. I mean, after "chocolate skulls," there's really just there's no backing out at this point.

I'm A Big Enough Mad Men Stan To Buy Peggy's Helvetic Poster

($150, Objectifiedfilm.com)

Did you guys see that Helvetica poster on the wall of Peggy's office Sterling Cooper Draper Price? I'm totally enough of a "Mad Men" stan to buy it. Dork City, I know.

+ My "Mad Men" meets Gaga meets Miu Miu dress!
+ "Mad Men" furniture for sale!!

NEED: Pottery Barn Kids Giant Pencil!

($109, Pottery Barn Kids, online only)

If being an adult and owning a giant decorative Pottery Barn Kids pencil with your name on is wrong, then I don't want to be right. Or grow up.

Death By Vintage Peacock Wall Art

($2,700, Candystorecollective.com)

Peacock, peacock on the wall? Why are you the most beautiful but outlandishly expensive vintage wall art of them all? Weep.

HAMBURGER BED! I DIE!

I'm in big big trouble deep. I'm in love. With a hamburger bed. Actually, it's a cheeseburger, but beggars can't be choosers, as I used to tell my ex-boyfriend!

It's the granddaddy of all non-edible burger products. As the proud owner of a burger pillow, I can ONLY DREAM of owning this burger bed. And I never will. It got sold on ebay for $3,050. Grrrr. If only I'd known, I could've sacrificed a wedding dress and just rolled down the aisle between these amazing bunz.

Kayla Kromer of Austin MADE this burger bed, and obviously she is a GENIUS.

You can be friends with the Burger Bed on Facebook and become a fan of Kayla, which you should, because she's obviously a genius, like I said.

I love this snippet of dialogue on Hamburger Bed's Facebook page. It's regarding the BUYER (luckiest human ON this EARTH besides RACHEL ZOE who is SOOOOO FORTUNATE to have cracked the code that allows one to exist ONLY ON SHREDDED LETTUCE!), Paul:

One person: "Is Paul cool?"

Another person: "He bought a hamburger bed. Enough of an indication? I think so..."

Anyway, unless you are Paul, know Paul, Paul decides to resell the burger bed, or, you break into Paul's house (reason enough to invest in a feral pitbull!) you can buy a more size- and recession-friendly burger pillow like the one I own and adore:

($38, Leeleescreations)

You have no clue how comfy a burger pillow is. And surprisingly supportive on one's neck! Kosher for Passover too.

($20, 80stees.com)

Cheesy but cute Juno hamburger phone tee. GET IT? CHEESY?

CB2 Gives Mad Men's Don Draper His Own Couch!

($799, CB2)

Naming a couch (two couches, actually) after the hottest man on TV? Well played, CB2. All that's missing is a cigarette and beautiful, beautiful Jon Hamm. Speaking of Jon Hamm, I wouldn't mind nerding it up and engaging in some fan-fic role playing wherein I get to "be Joan Holloway," and get gangsta 10 ways from Sunday with Don Draper on said "Draper" couch. If ah may be so bold.

FashionBinge Giveaway: Win A Porcelain Postcup By Bailey Doesn't Bark

Okay, aside from the fact that many of us an agree that Valentine's Day is a cheeseball holiday designed to make us feel ridick or inferior or not fancy enough or too bloated from eating too many Whitman's sampler chocolates (it's so sad, but I truly will eat those muted pink spongy, nougaty-on-the-inside ones that at one point in the creative process were supposed to embody characteristics of a strawberry or cherry or something), we CAN agree that Bailey Doesn't Bark's ceramic Postcups are:

a.) Adorable
b.) Reusable - YEY!
b2.) Personalizable
c.) WINNABLE!

Enter to win a Postcup! Think of it as FashionBinge's Valentine to sweet little deserving you. Designer Re Jin Lee will personalize one lucky winner's Postcup with a message of your choosing. I suggest "To: ME. Thanks for being AWESOME. Love, Me!"

Enter to win below! You've got through February 10th! (And, my apologies to the potential winner -- the prizey probably won't get there in time for V Day -- Mama been busy! So think of it as a belated present! Plus, it won't go bad, like those shameful Whitman's chocolates... which actually probably never go bad because of all of those mystery chemicals. Ew.)

Um, Hi. These Jonathan Adler Vases Are $34!

AND, there's free shipping. $34 for A SET of three Jonathan Adler vases! No, I'm not making this up or telling tales.

($34.95, Jonathan Adler, Naked Decor)

Besides repealing the global gag rule on abortion, this is like the BEST thing Obama's done so far!

WHY, LQQK! It's The... Orla Kiely For Target: THE LOOKBOOK!

Let's take a closer look at the green pear subcollection within the super-adorbs Orla Kiely for Target collection that comes out in February!


There's the cute-n-comfy chair pad:

($13.99, Orla Kiely for Target)

Practical AND presh casserole oven mitt:
($4.99, Orla Kiely for Target)

I'm sure this works for cookie trays too!


Two-to-a-pack kitchen towels!

($5.99, Orla Kiely for Target)

Very pear-y tablecloth!

($21.99, Orla Kiely for Target)

Cutie-pie serving tray!

($19.99, Orla Kiely for Target)

Large canister!

I assume this is $19.99 -- the site currently says $1.99, which would be nice but probably is a typ0.

The highly coveted granny-chic apron, FTW!

($14.99, Orla Kiely for Target)

+ Check out more Orla Kiely for Target images, and view the entire lookbook here!
+ Plus: DON'T fergit to enter the FashionBinge Chloe & Jane Spa Perfect Spa Set Giveaway!

Poster Binge: ABCs Poster For Kiddie (Or Grown-Ups)

A friend of a friend of FashionBinge made this amazingly designed poster. Her (swear to God) real name is Tahiti Starship, which is amazing in and of itself. Her ABCs poster is 24” x 18”, and you can also have it customized with the name of your little bewbear (or yourself).

It can hang on your wall for $38! Get it now at Starfishwish.com (you gotta click on "Posters"!)

Shout Hallelujah, Come On Get Happy! Orla Kiely For Target Coming February 2009!

Song of songs and PRAISES! We are all collectively nearer our Gods to thee -- Orla Kiely AND Target, who are teaming up to bring US, the hungry, cuteness-addicted masses more '70s-inspired housewares -- towels, cannisters, aprons, tumblers, an oven mitt, organizational supplies and more -- printed with fun, sunny pears, flowers, and dots. The Orla Kiely line launches February 2009. SWOON!

(Via Apartment Therapy)

Binge Stocking Stuffer: Tank Bank!

I had the day off today and spent it hanging out (in my fun new Alternative Apparel "chill pants") and wandering around with my sister, who's visiting from Virginia. We stopped into our favorite store, Exit 9, where I tee-hee'ed over this cute water tank bank:

They're all sold out at Exit 9 (online, that is -- they had a bunch in the shop), but you can get them at MoMA for $25. They're mini replicas (obviously) of New York City's famed rooftop water tanks (Brooklyn Industries uses a water tank in their logo), which have been around since the 1800s. One of the coolest things about water tanks, aside from the cool juxtaposition of their olde-tymey appearance atop new buildings, is that they're still produced by the same two family businesses that have been making them all along -- Isseks Brothers and the Rosenwach Tank Company. True story!

Anyway, $25 is a bit much for a bank, but you can put that RIGHT BACK INTO IT when you save your pennies inside! THINK ABOUT IT!

Even More Peacock Pretties: Dresses, Hair Pieces & More Peacock Plumed And Feathery Accessories I Crave (Including a Peacock Lamp, Even!)

I continue to adore these feathery treasures derived, inspired and sometimes taken directly from the lovely peacock -- and even a few from pheasants! Read on, won't you?

($128, Orion, Asos)

So sweet. Orion's a British label, and Modcloth sells a lot of their fun, flirty retro-inspired dresses, so go do that.

($398, Hayden-Harnett)

Oh Hayden-Harnett. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. This ikat print dress isn't peacocky per se, but the colors are right there. And looooooky close -- leather trim says "Why yes, I will make charming conversation with you at this cocktail party, but I will also swear like a cot-damt sailor once I get a few old fashioneds in me!"

($29, Look From London, Asos)

Bold but would look really cute with like a dark denim mini and maybe a slender black cardi? Because sometimes you CAN mix brown and black!

($39, Bakers)

The "Reese" sandal from Bakers is a leeeeetle much of a much, but I still really like 'em. I saw a girl wearing them and they're MUCH cuter "in action," if you will. Also, this COULD be the world's FIRST gladiator peacock sandal!!!

($12.99, Honeydew, Modcloth)

If it seems like I have a serious bone for Modcloth, it's because I do. And it's so hard to find undies that straddle the fine line between boyshorts and bikinis. These seem to do the trick!

($225, Dangerous Mathematicians)

Brown's usually one of my least favorite colors, but the real peacock feathers on this brown satin clutch have me rethinking that.

($48, Pluma)

This headpiece is made of PHEASANT feathers, which totally flips the script on peacock feathers, changes the game, and takes this shit to a whole new level, to use three cliches in ONE sentence. I don't know that I can pull off headpieces -- actually wait. I KNOW I can, I just basically lack the hairstyling skills. But if I DID have those skills, I THINK I could rock this. I'd love to buy it, but I also know my cat would probably discover it and rekill it. That dick. Anyway, check out the rest of Pluma's gorgeous handmade feather headbands. They're all pheasant (I think), and they're all quite reasonably priced for such prettiness.

($25, Portobello, Etsy)

Love this little peacock headpiece too. A little more subtle.

($48, Urban Outfitters)

Y'all, I even found peacock housewares, like this circle rug. I did, y'all! I really truly dit!

($302, Oasis, Neiman Marcus)

Someday, I will have an entire house filled with nothing but peacock lamps with orange lamp shades.

($16.90, Tracy Porter, Neiman Marcus)

One of my other MANY houses will be filled with obscenely affordable handpainted peacock salt and pepper shakers, like so.

+ The evolution of my rich peacock fashion lust...

Okay. I'm flying back from Vegas ANY minute now. I've survived nearly four hours and several crappy sandwiches. Gah! Can't wait to get back to the BK! And I DO NOT mean Burger King, people! (Though I would rip off someone's press-on nails right now for some Taco Bell.)

Thursday Quickies...

BOLLOX! Been SO damn busy! But not too busy to sweat these GORGEOUS blue patent pumps:

($395, Sergio Rossi, Footcandyshoes.com)

Gorgeous! Perfect height and amount of toe-pointiness!

($38.50, Delias)

I've been on a bit of a blue binge lately and drunk-shopped this last night. (Whoopsers!)

($29, Smith & Hawken)

Um, I really don't NEED a glass gourd. I don't even need a real gourd. But this is the kind of cute decorative thing I'd imagine people who are REALLY good at seasonal decorating would use to trick out their garden, and it sorta makes me wish I had a garden to the begin with. A garden that someone else tended to, of course.

And, in more un-fashionable news:

+ Guess the celebrity teeth! (Via Chicago JP.)

+ PUPPY AND KITTY TIME!
Scroll down for some more awesome animal situations (Barnapkins, via NYC's Eva)

One of The Cutest Things I've Ever Seen In My Whole Life...

... Is this:
($6.99, Fred Flare)
It's a plate, by the way. And it's pretty much the only plate you'll ever need.

I Bought It & I Don't Know Why

Now it's time for a little section I like to call "I Bought It & I Don't Know Why."

Today's random purchase:


($16.50, White Barn New York, Bathandbodyworks.com)
I saw it in Lucky, and I had to have it. Also, it was on sale (use promo code "pineapple" for about $4 off). Also, I love pineapples, and also I love clean, white, shabby chic porcelain stuff (against my better judgment), and also I have a shopping problem.

Also, WHEN did Bath and Bodyworks become cool??? I kept staring at the products in Lucky and asking myself, is the SAME store otherwise known for selling shitty 3 for $10 plastic-bottled body sprays in scents usually worn by girls who got into their third choice of sororities?? (I'm sorry, but freesia and vanilla are vile. Ditto to any "Christmas" fragrances. The only BBW product that doesn't make me wretch is cucumber melon. And that's pushing it). Anyway, are they like Bigelow now or something? Hmph!

Okay, next, I really want this bag:


($64.35, Asos.com)
The awesomeness! Such a well-done basic!



($28, Hansel From Basel, ActiveEndeavors.com)
Cute cute cute!!!!

Toodles!