A few months back when we were invited to Svpply by our friend deedee914, we were on inspiration and buyers envy overload. Our eyes were opened to a whole new world. A world where the carefully curated and finer things in life were readily at your eyeballs [fingertips]…and all in one place. There have been many a things we’ve added to our collective Svpply’s, and a few things we’ve actually invited into our home…our favorite so far being the Themis Mobile by designer Clara Von Zweigbergk and sold by The Future Perfect.

This no-ordinary mobile arrives Ikea style…in other words, put it together yourself. So we set out to fold each piece and carefully put the thing together…all the while saying to each other, “don’t bend it like that, your fat little fingers are going to mess it up!” and “hmm…it isn’t supposed to look like that”…but as you can see, our fat little fingers did a most excellent job.

For $27, you really can’t beat this fabulous mid-century inspired mobile. It currently resides above our desks and adds some major flare to the often long work day.

As we were putting this together, we used an iphone app to take the photos…resulting in cool, but not completely true colors. Here is a photo of the mobile in true color…brilliant and beautiful!

Many of you have heard us rant and rave about Workerman aka Adam Brackney before, but what we haven’t shared before are his amazing woodworking skills. A couple months ago we received our Design Bureau magazine and spotted his handlebars right away…we then proceeded to buy a couple things from his store and thought we’d share these amazing finds.

The MUCHroom hooks. These are even more awesome in person.

The ingenious Blok pendant light

The Plank: Coolest piece of bling I’ve ever owned…sport one on a regular basis.

Some of the most unique and amazing nesting dolls we’ve seen. These mid-century inspired creations are one of a kind…bummer.

Check out these handlebars…

As some of you may have noticed, we’ve been a little absent over the last few months here…but not to worry, it’s with good reason! A lot has been going on around these parts (new clients, lots of new design work, vintage hunting, eating, babies, holidays, etc) and instead of talking your ear off, I thought I’d give you a photo tour of some of the things we’ve been up to.

As some of you may know, this past Summer we moved into a darling new apt in Seattle, on South Lake Union. We love it and couldn’t be more happy with our hard pressed find.

Here’s the view we get to see each day…

Copper loves his new home and has taken up permanent residence on our new rugs.

Can anyone share in the pain of cleaning such rugs? ugh.

But he stares perpetually out the window, longing for his beach. (we moved from a beachfront home)

We’ve met lots of wonderful friends, including Kevin, our new BFF and most wonderful client.

We’ve gone to many exciting design and social media events…including one at the Arctic Club.

We’ve eaten out…a lot.

Our favorite Pho.

We’ve babysat friends’ dogs…this little munchkin is named Gizmo. He is crazy.

We’ve eaten out more…

And then realized we didn’t talk throughout the whole meal because we were too busy taking pics and tweeting.

We’ve gone to games…they lost.

Discovered the most darling French bakery…and eaten way too much.

David grew his hair out…and forgot to shave.

I’ve become a hard-core obsessive knitter…making a plethora of things for our new baby niece.

Copper took up modeling professionally.

We decorated for Christmas and vowed to only purchase and decorate with vintage decor. We’re super stoked at our growing collection of ornaments, lights and creepy elves (that one’s for you Vintage Cabin).

Took drunken, blurry photos of the Space Needle. Just kidding…kinda. :)

And we received the most wonderful, amazing, beautiful Christmas present ever…a little baby niece named Cadence Joy.

She was born over two months early, weighing a little over 2lbs, but we couldn’t be more thrilled to share that she is doing so, so well and is completely healthy.

A true Christmas miracle.

You’ll be hearing more about this little gem…a lot more. What more could you expect from a first time uncle and aunt?

And lastly, we finished the holiday off with crappy chinese food…an unofficial tradition in our family.

Merry late Christmas and happy early New Year you guys!

-David & Ashley

We’ve got lots of new and exciting things for the blog and store…so stay tuned.