To celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, I would love to be drinking out of this beautiful commemorative mug from Joan Hudson. Alas, it might not get here in time for Sunday and I’ve got a new home to furnish. But YOU should buy it!

It’s a full pint. If you forego the tea for ale, I’ll never tell!

Dropped twenty bucks today on fabric paint and glitter at Michael’s. If you’re gonna decorate your mortarboard for commencement, be ambitious, nahmean?

What kind of skullmuggery is this?! I bought this mug at the Science Museum gift shop so my morning coffee would be more metal than yours. It only cost me ten bones! (Taken with instagram)

stuffaboutminneapolis:

“Prince and the Revolution World Tour 1984-85” souvenir sleeveless t-shirt by the Minnesota Historical Society

Want to give me a totally radical graduation gift?  Plan a MN Historical Society heist and get out with this bad boy before the fuzz arrives.

(Source: mnhs.org)

metromag:

Minnesota is known for many things, most notably its lakes, strong musical tradition and some guy named Paul. A lesser known—but equally important—source of pride are the state’s museums. Nearly 600 sit within the state’s boundaries (that’s 1 for every 9,000 residents, twice the national average). Large, small, educational, shamelessly weird, we love them all.

So, it’s no surprise that, for our beloved state, May is now officially Minnesota Museums Month. The event will feature a host of events and special promotions, and is expected to become an annual affair.

To find out how Minnesota came to love its museums so much, METRO sat down with Ford W. Bell, a Minnesota native and president of the American Association of Museums on Monday. Bell was in town for the 2012 annual meeting of the American Association of Museum (the 106^th annual convention served to showcase new technologies for museum and, yes, there was a dinosaur skeleton rigged to a Playstation controller).

Read the full interview here.

Okay, so I know this is a blog about things I buy, but I just love Minnesota so much.  Double the museums per capita?!  We are double awesome!

I will make a tenuous connection here: please, PLEASE spend your money on some museum admission.  Visiting museums supports them and their programing, it makes you smarter, and it’s one of the best ways to get, like, full-sense stimulation and learning.  In the past year, I’ve been able to get to the M.I.A. a few times, the Weisman, the Walker, Mill City Museum (twice), the American Swedish Institute, the Science Museum of Minnesota (multiple times, and including theater-only visits for Omnifest), and the Minnesota Historical Society.  I would love to visit the Museum of Russian Art and the Bakken Museum soon.

Museums make great dates.  And you can always buy something from the gift shop on your way out.

(via stuffaboutminneapolis)

thingsorganizedneatly:

Hunter Boots

Same color as the ones I bought myself!  Different model.   Nice.

designsbyfranklloydwright:

Frank Lloyd Wright Room (1912-1914), currently preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 

Frank Lloyd Wright Room was originally the living room of the summer residence of Frances W. Little, designed and built between 1912 and 1914 in Wayzata, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. 

(via stuffaboutminneapolis)

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Bedroom inspiration for our new digs.  Grey walls with pale, minty jade and orange accents.  The watercolor scene in the upper right is currently hanging in our bedroom now alongside another one, which features cranes and a bold orange sun (they were both purchased in San Francisco’s Chinatown for $20 and $15, respectively).  The small square below the watercolor is a photo of our duvet cover, featuring light blue, green, and orange (purchased at Ikea a while ago for what I’m sure was a mind-bogglingly cheap price).

Our landlady’s strictness has prevented us from painting the bedroom in our current place, and the bedroom’s diminutive size has disallowed any furniture beyond the bare necessities (bed and dresser only—radiator serves as nightstand).  I am excited to have the freedom and space to really decorate.  I’m in love with the little grey-and-white lacquered modern vanity from cb2, and would pair it with a more ornate chair (stool pictured is from Pottery Barn Teen).  In addition to space for my own dressing area, we’ll have an alcove big enough for an overstuffed chair, side table and lamp for Jeff to do some reading and relaxing.  We’ve got a beautiful brown leather one (a gift from Jeff’s parents; I think they got it at Macy’s) that will certainly suffice, but perhaps one day we’ll be able to swap it out with the club piping chair, also from cb2 (the leather one looks so much nicer in our halfway-to-hunting-lodge living room, anyway).

Enough dreaming!  Most major purchases before/during/shortly after our move will be more along the lines of boxes, cleaning supplies, spackle, light bulbs, and paint.  I know we’ll be in our little rental pad for a number of years, though, and I’m excited to slowly make it a home.

For our new bungalow…

Jeff and I would love a new bed. This one is the right height for our sloped upper floor ceilings. It’s the endless loop bed from cb2, and it’s really good lookin.

On apps + ambition

By the way, I made the last entry’s little photo board. I think I will continue to make occasional collages of things I find lust worthy/have bought/want to buy because I enjoyed doing it and because fuck Pinterest.

Stay tuned.