[I'M OBSESSED] Lucite Stainless Flatware

We were out in LA last week for a wedding, and at my cousin's house, AFTER the day after brunch, we decided to cook a big pot of Fettucine Alfredo. When everything was ready, Meri pulled out these gorgeous lucite forks.

ZOMG.

I was immeds obssessed.

Apparently they were a gift from my aunt and when I called out "NEW OR OLD??" I found out they were indeed old. I even love the 3 prongs on the forks instead of 4...they are so chic it hurt.

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[THINGS IN HIS HOUSE THAT MAKE ME SAD] The Cracked, Hardened Bar of Soap In His Shower

There are many things in his apartment that make Anna Goldfarb from Shmitten Kitten sad (sometimes glad, but mostly sad). She's promised to tell us all about them (yay!).

Let's put it like this: if I was on the subway and this soap sat down next to me, I'd get up and move to another subway car. What the hell are you doing to it? It's hardened and cracked, like Charles Bukowski's nose. This soap is basically a country song in soap-form; it probably has a drinking problem and hasn't talked to its kids in years. Oh man. It has more streaks in it than the quad on campus during homecoming week.

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Q: Are You A Design Blogger? A: Nate Berkus is Hawt

In case you're not on Twitter (which would be cray cray, but whatevs), you may have missed this killer/kickass/spontaneous @moggitgirls campaign to get adorbs interior designer and Oprah heir apparent Nate Berkus to do a show this fall where he fills his audience with DESIGN BLOGGERS!?

Oh yes they did...and it worked.

So, if you're a design blogger too (HOLLA!), and you can get your ass to NYC this Fall, hurry up and send your Blog url and your name, and one dirty photo (KIDDING, PPL...do NOT send dirty photos) to blogaud@thenateshow.com.

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[WHERE I BLAHG]: Jauntsetter

Each week we'll pull back the curtain, and give you an insider's look into the lives of some of your favorite bloggers with 'Here's where they blahg.' This week: Dorothy McGivney from Jauntsetter.

Honestly, I subscribe to like 11 million billion daily and weekly newsletters that roll into my inbox, and Jauntsetter is like one of the only ones that I truly look forward to each and every week. For those of you not in the know, Jauntsetter is this fab, weekly, chock-full-o-allllllllll sorts of good shit travel newsletter, geared toward all of us chumps that live in NYC.

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[STEAL THIS IDEA] Talking Books

One time in college, I got drunk and went to the library's Biology section and pulled out creepy and inappropriate titles and left them on tables so everyone could see them.  I thought that prominently displaying titles such as The Breathless Orgasm (HOW??!) and What's Going on Down There? was totally hi-larious, and knew that it would piss of that bitch librarian who was my mortal enemy at the time (how does a librarian become your mortal enemy?  Try not paying to use the copy machine about 700 times and see what happens).

But artist Nina Katchadourian elevates this douchey thomfoolery to an art form, with her Sorted Books Project.  Essentially, she takes books and arranges them so that the titles on their spines make for a conversation or commentary.  

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