You can buy a keyboard designed to
mimic the sound and feel of a typewriter.
Despite the minimal, futuristic design,
the keys make a vintage, mechanical,
switching sound and give a slight
resistance when tapped so you can
experience the nostalgia of old-school
typing without giving up the
convenience of digital technology. SourceSource 2
Like, I want to be made into a beautiful glass thing. I want to be something treasured for a long time and rarely talked about. I want to live in the home of someone who loved me, and touched now and then in silent memory.
I want people to forget that I’m in there, I want the memory of what I am to pass out of the family’s knowledge. I want to be given away, and put out in a thriftstore somewhere.
I want someone to buy my ashes for $4.99 and put me in a window and love the colors. I want to cast beautiful, fractious and curving sunlight across the wall, sparkling and glowing and shimmering, depending on the time of day. I want someone to take a picture of me with the moon behind me, luminous and mysterious.
I want a witch to buy me and put me in her work room. I want an artist to leave me on their worktable. I want to inspire people and make them smile. I want to be warm from sunlight or chilly from the cool air. I want to be packed in newspaper carefully when they move. I want to be given as a holiday or graduation present to someone’s kid, I want to be given as a housewarming gift as a reminder of home.
And god, then, hopefully some day, I want to roll off the table, I want that globe to crack.
And then I want to haunt the living shit out of the future.
Holy shit, the comment made this sixty times more awesome and now I want this to be done to me too.
In honor of the new year, I’ve decided to reblog my Top 10 Facts from 2016. I hope you enjoy them!
(In theory, you should… cuz they’re the ones you liked the most)
#9). Pencil Plants. Or Plant Pencils. I Don’t Care; You Decide.
There are pencils that turn into
plants when you’re done using them.
The ‘Sprout Pencil’ is the first sustainable pencil in the world that can be planted after use.
“We have chosen the seeds for our pencils with great care, and they germinate quickly: i.e. within 1-3 weeks, depending on the seed variety. Most plants can be grown both indoors and outdoors.”
It’s made of natural materials: the body is cedar wood, and the “lead” is a mixture of clay and graphite.
Sprout pencils are available in 22 varieties, including sunflower, mint, lavender, sage, forget-me-not, cherry tomato, sweet pea, cilantro, and wild strawberry.
What to do
“When the Sprout Pencil has become too short to write with, it is ready to be planted. Follow the simple instructions below and see your Sprout pencil sprout.”
They are also available in the colored pencil variety, which makes me oh-so-happy!
Reading is awesome and your books deserve equally awesome bookmarks. Canadian jeweller Manon Richard creates exquisite silver bookmarks that feature beautiful glow-in-the-dark turquoise accents. So they aren’t just pretty, they also make it much easier to find your books in the dark, which is exactly how Richard first came up with the idea for her bookmarks.
“…Richard celebrates literary tales with designs that are inspired by both the fantastical realm as well as our incredible Earth. Dragons and mermaids are fashioned into metal bookmarks while foxes, feathers, and lotus flowers are also attached to the long, curved pieces. Like her wearable creations, the glow-in-the-dark elements accentuate fine details like beading, wings, and scales.”
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