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The Messy Nessy Kitsch-mas List

Was Christmas better in the seventies? All that tinsel, polyester and fake snow. Yesterday, I shared my gift guide for the nostalgic old world traveller, today, I thought we’d get a little less classy and a little more sassy… A Classy Cross Stitch Cross-stitches by Alicia Watkins available on her Etsy shop. Cooking with…

A Brief Compendium of the Weirdest Stuff Sold Online (Like Your Soul).

The Internet, that “alien life form” as David Bowie decreed in a prophetic 1999 interview, has changed a lot in the past decade. The dial-up shriek is no more, AIM Bots are probably withering away in a black hole next to MySpace, and the glory days of weird eBay auctions are behind us. Or so…

The Music Your Plants Are Making in Secret

Think twice the next time you pluck a daisy from the sidewalk, because that flower may actually be ‘screaming’ in a language you don’t understand— or at least, not yet. Today, we’re cracking the code of the fascinating world of plant sentience, a.k.a., the secret way in which everything from your Ikea houseplant to a…

How to Outdo Every Halloween Costume at the Party

You don’t want to be that person at the costume party. You know, the one who’s scrawled some whiskers across their cheek to be a last minute black cat, or just turned up with a sheet over their head and declared it a costume. But we also aren’t ones for perusing overpriced, polyester outfits in a crowded…

One Last Shopping Spree at a New York Icon of Fashion

For 123 years, Camelot was on 5th Avenue, otherwise known as the Henri Bendel department store, the place to be for any fashionable woman worth her salt in 20th century America. So when the timeless Manhattan mainstay announced its imminent, forever closure this month, we kind of lost it. Needed a hat that looked like a…

Stop Everything, Check out this Forgotten Library For Sale

You know those movies set in a small town, where a bunch of local kids discover a murder mystery, try to solve it, and end up at the public library, scrolling through newspaper clippings from 50 years ago on the old microfilm machines. That’s how I imagine this library… The old Carnegie Library of Elwood…

Who is the Girl in the Paris Bathtub?

I took a bath in front of the Eiffel Tower once and my naked back has since gone viral on the internet. You might have noticed. People even started painting their own watercolour interpretations of this photograph and one of the Kardashian sisters recently “borrowed” it for her Instagram account. Stumbling upon my own self-portrait on…

For Sale: Your ‘Under the Tuscan Sun’ Fixer-Upper Awaits

When Matthew Hampshire drops us a line, we know it’s time to head into the belly of yet another crumbling beauty. This time, the photographer gave us a peek inside one of his lushest expeditions to date, in the hills of northern Italy at the ghostly Villa Moglia. Step behind her gates for yourself, but…

10 Fabulous Mad Men Props Auctioned Straight Off the Set

When your favourite series ends, typically the denial kicks in first, followed by several other stages of grief and withdrawal. But I’ve came across something that might be able to help victims suffering from television show withdrawal to deal with their nostalgia. Enter Screenbid, an online auction house, but not just any auction house– Hollywood’s auction house.…

Picasso Drew all Over the Walls of this French Chateau For Sale

I grew up part-time near a town called Uzès in the South of France and on our way into town, we would always pass a mysterious property by the roadside. I remember my mother telling us it used to belong to a famous art collector, and she would even let us stop and sneak up to…

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