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ahh… rugs.
Rugs are such ingenious things, really. Just in case you forgot or never noticed.
I’ve been looking at persian/oriental style rugs online. I actually don’t want any that I’ve come across, but there are some very pretty ones. I started out looking for those adorable persian rug mousepads and coasters like at museums and bookstores, and kind of branched out to full-size rugs from there. (Btw, some great mini rugs can be found at SmallCarpets - they have a free bookmark promotion right now - and at the Museum Store Company - which is an amazing store in itself - and on Ebay - by the hundreds.) Anyway, in my internet adventures I decided I would look for pretty full size rugs too, and I found some great sites with info on rugs. I even found one (Rug Rag) which lets you take a quiz to find your perfect rug, and then gives you several buying options and pages of history and general info for your results. (Through which I discovered I have rather expensive tastes in rugs and I never want to become a rug specialist. Oh well). Ebay is the biggest rug bargain spot that I came up with, but I was not exactly playing a serious shopper, either. I don’t like the color scheme of some of my finds but there are others that I would love to design a room around. The picture in this post is one of the more drool-worthy carpets I have found.
Anyway, I am still on the lookout for what I would really like to find: synthetic, boldly dyed persian style rugs - for example, a site that either sells every color of the rainbow or takes custom orders, so that you can have your five favorite colors in a floor rug, or buy placemat versions that match your dining room, or have coasters that match your couch, etc. That would be really awesome (and probably also too expensive for any normal person). I’m all for authenticity, but sometimes twists on classics are really amazing. I mean, purple plaid fedoras are modern and old school simultaneously and they rock. I think this could be one of those situations. Regardless, I haven’t found any like I’d hoped.
I also struck out on finding persian/oriental carpet desktop wallpaper, even though I looked really hard. I would like for my computer screen to be carpeted sometime… It might actually make my cursor feel warm and cozy too, since it could kind of virtually squish its toes into the background.
Okay maybe not.
I did find an Apartment Therapy article (eek, I heart Apartment Therapy) on a rug that you build yourself out of rubber puzzle pieces. It’s called a Puzzleperser and is designed by Katrin Sonnleitner, and I think you’d have to be really really bored to put it together but it’s a really cool concept for people who like puzzles. I personally don’t fancy them much… but a puzzle rug is very unique and I like the idea. The Puzzleperser has 1,225 pieces but the cute thing about it is, you don’t have to use all of them because they all have the same shape. Nice. Good thinking Katrin, wherever you are. You get a gold star from me.
Alicia <3
recent internet epiphanies
Yesterday, i found a strictly amazing mini Rolleiflex Digital Camera online. At the time i just thought it was peculiar, because i didn’t know what a genuine Rolleiflex was. But now i have been enlightened! and it’s still peculiar. Maybe one day i shall buy one, out of sheer curiosity and amazement. Anyways, the information i retained was that (a) the Rolleiflex was invented in Germany around 1920, and (b) there is not a celebrity in Hollywood who has not been photographed with one. i don’t know if that last part is true or not, but it definitely wouldn’t shock me considering that they are supposedly great portrait cameras.
Secondly, i found a pinhole camera on the same website. Which i thought was just classic. We’re selling pinhole cameras… Online… how (you guessed it) ironic.
THEN, something amazing happened. an entire world of amazing USB thingiemabobbers opened up before my eyes! first, there was the USB vacuum. Then there was a USB fan that actually like fans things! Not to mention the Mini Amplifier Speaker for your laptop…
outside of the USB and technology world, there were these Trompe L’Oeil rug things that i REALLY like…
is there a career that involves surfing the web all day and being more and more excited by each strange find? because i would SO rock at that.
Alicia <3
P.S. if you’re lucky, tomorrow i might stop babbling about stuff i find online and delve into the comic subject of how Communism is permeated with Satanistic thinking. i learned about it today in Government and Economics and my brain is flying all over the place, so by tomorrow i might actually have something interesting to say about it.
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