I’ll be taking a week or so off for the holidays to visit friends/family near and far and indulge in some festive fun (we’re even including a fun bowling tradition into the mix!). Until I return, enjoy those sugarplum-enhanced dreams as the holidays mark the end of yet another lovely year.

Happy holidays, friends! I so love sharing this world’s awesome with you right here, every day. I’ll be back January 2nd, ready for another full year of creative finds!

Love,
e.

p.s. If you want to see my entire home decked out for the holidays (yes, that’s Edgar my glittered deer above), enjoy the following post on HGTV.com. Merry Christmas!
p.p.s. If you still have some last-minute gifts to purchase, check the 2011 gift guide for some fantastic ideas!

Very pleased to see Peter Nencini’s limited edition packing tape for sale at Awesomeville ($40). While you’re there, check the black sequined boxing gloves for a pretty penny.

LINK: AWESOMEVILLE

Evan creates paintings with tracing paper, his smart phone and the everyday mundane tasks he performs. These two are “slide to unlock” and “Twitter.” Love!

LINK: EVAN ROTH

You can’t find a lame thing in this perfect accessory shop.

LINK: PYRAMIDE on ETSY

Sweet (and easily shippable!) suggestions for your long distance loves who you’ll be thinking of this season:

1. Artichoke 20-inch floral wreath ($44) at Overstock.com
2. Mayan hot cocoa & hand-carved frother ($50) at GiftTree
3. Hot peach chutney ($7) at The Virginia Chutney Co.
4. Mini gold geode wooden ornament ($23) at Michelle Hartney
5. Effie’s gift box sampler ($18) at Effie’s Handmade

6. Cinnamon wood tea ($30) at Dean & Deluca
7. Lovi ball ($15) at Merchant No 4
8. Blueberry muffin grab & go ($20) at Stonewall Kitchen
9. Fir fragrance log ($12) at Terrain
10. Massimo Giacon & Alessi’s nativity ($100) at A+R

For more gift guides for everyone on your list, click here!

If Dori Tomcsanyi is a color mecca (she is), this tote is her Ultimate Mascot. ($124)

LINK: THE GARDEN STUDIO

Inflated/Deflated hosts an awesome social project about balloons, messages and deflated self-esteems. Rad work, trio. (Thanks, Lauren!)

LINK: INFLATED / DEFLATED

Fideli makes the craziest things out of paper. Am totally adding her to my “Reasons Why Sweden is Amazing” notebook asap.

LINK: FIDELI SUNDQVIST

Gift ideas for the man in your life that alphabetically organizes his USB drives, accidentally types his emails in HTML and knows exactly how much REM he has on any given day:

1. Recycled motherboard pen ($5) at Perpetual Kid
2. Cardboard FM radio ($35) at Fred Flare
3. Icon watch ($75) at POKETO
4. USB Hubman ($20) at Amazon
5. Web mail notifier ($4) at X-TremeGeek

6. LED Bicycle Light ($30) at A+R
7. BuckyCubes ($25) at ThinkGeek
8. Robot ($15) at CB2
9. The World’s Smallest Camera ($100) at Hammacher Schlemmer
10. iWoz ($11) at Amazon

For more gift guides for everyone on your list, click here!

There are far too many goodies in Pinling’s portfolio to choose one. Or three.

LINK: PINLING HUANG on FLICKR