Nothing makes guests feel more welcome than homegrown ingredients and touches, be they edible or decorative. Obvious marijuana jokes aside, there are lots of great plants to cultivate in your garden if you love to throw parties. I've chosen a handful offavorites, all of which are relatively easy to grow, lovely to look at, and practical for entertaining. • Mint is a bit of a no-brainer. It's perfect for cocktails, garnishes, or even in floral bouquets, and it grows like crazy, even if you basically ignore it. In fact, it has a tendency to spread and conquer even the most carefully tended ...
It's Adventures and Outings Month here at Ohdeedoh, which means we're writing about all things travel-related. But what if you're not planning any big trips? You can still globetrot without leaving your home, just by owning a globe. We have yet to meet a kid who doesn't find globes fascinating, which might explain why these are mainstays in so many of the rooms we've toured.
Prior to my Tom Ford addiction I was known for my hoarding of many things Paul Smith. And if there's one sole piece that it pains me to say was never mine it was a mock-envelope purse. With air mail detail and faux stamp flourishes, it was too feminine for my bag. Worse still, it was / isTania's and she wouldn't have been at all please to have it stolen, particularly by me. But now I get my own back, courtesy of Dunhill and their take on the fashionable iPad case. From Dunhill's Spring 2011 collection, the iPad case will be available in the near future.
Living in the Northeast and having to deal with blizzards and ridiculous snow storms each and every year, we can't image paying to stay in a snowy, icy accommodation. Like most vacation destinations, they're not catering to everyone. We imagine you have to be somewhat of a cold weather loving person to appreciate these opportunities to cool out. As you would imagine, traveling to stay in an ice hotel will take you to places you wouldn't otherwise visit. To stay at the Ice Hotel you need to travel to Jukkasjärvi, Sweden — 200 km above the Arctic Circle. The Ice Hotel is ...
A while ago, we wrote about woodsy wallpaper as a way to create your own interior forest. This is similar, but not quite the same thing. While forest motifs tend to be dense with a lot of vertical shapes (like forests themselves), leafy patterns are lighter and airier. Wallpaper is one way to bring a canopy of leaves into your space, but stencils can also be an effective method. A few simple, well-placed painted leaves can add a hint of the natural world, but you don't want to get too countrified with the look — we recommend staying away from sponge-painted ...
Yesterday I set aside an hour in the afternoon for a little catnap. As I sprawled across the bed, enjoying the summer breeze through the window, I was just about to drift to sleep when WWWHHAM! the bedroom door slammed closed. After calming myself from a near heart attack, I set about to find the perfect, stylish doorstop.
James Tufenkian, the manufacturing maestro known for his exquisite, handmade Tibetan and Armenian rugs, is taking his Big Apple-based Tufenkian Artisan Carpets across the drink, opening their newest showroom in London’s spiffy Design Centre at Chelsea Harbour. Opening on September 25, the day before London’s big annual Decorex Internationaldesign show, the showroom will be Tufenkian’s first flagship location in Europe, following a smaller second location serving several dealers in Hamburg, Germany and stateside outposts in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon. “London has become a very important market for us with its designers serving clients from all over the world while shopping ...
It is always a good idea to use markers to help you remember which plants inhabit the various spaces in your garden, but these inspirational stakes take matters a step further, helping to sow a little zen in even the most riotous outdoor space. Though you may need to key each message to a particular plant, who wouldn't want to label their daises as "happy" or their daffodils as "joy"? These handmade Inspirational Stakes are cut from slabs of stoneware, stamped, glazed and fired to cone 6 in oxidation. They are sold ...
With the announcement of Google TV last week, the online advertising giant left no hint of uncertainty that it doesn’t want to be just an online advertising giant anymore. It wants a piece of the TV pie. Even in our Internet world, TV still matters. A recent Citigroup report on the company points out that the average...
Growth in China is going to slow. After the country posted 11.9% growth in the GDP for the first quarter of this year compared to last, there’s really no other option. For one, the sovereign debt scare in Europe, which has eroded the purchasing power of China’s largest export market, will be a big knock on the...
The weak economy will continue to keep a lid on salary increases this year, but the outlook for next year is slightly better, according to a survey released Tuesday. The Conference Board, a New York-based business research group, said the median budget for salary increases — meaning the percentage of payroll that...
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