Lufdesign

Here comes a post inspiration from an unlikely surprising source - my husband.  He wrote me an e-mail with "they have some cool stuff" in the subject line and a link to their page. I definitely agree.  Lufdesign is a Korean based conceptual design company that has won several Red Dot Design Awards.  They have put two of their designs into production under their brand name Nilfish.

The Leaf tie, a cable organizer, currently available in 6 colors.

 Here is an obvious application.

 This is not so obvious, but so cute.

The Fork and Cream Sauce is another innovative cable management product.

 
I don't know about you, but we have cables all over our house (I shudder at the mess behind our TV).  Cables really bug me, but sometimes we just need to embrace things that bother us and work with them.  A little humor goes a long way, don't you think?

(images: lufdesign)

Tissue Storage

Juliette, at Zuhause in Germany, did a post earlier this week about wrapping paper storage and asked if anyone had a favorite re-purposing organizing trick.  I had to ponder about it for a bit, but then my virtual hand raised itself (think Hermoine in Harry Potter) and I thought "me, me, me..".

I have real issues with the prints that come on tissue boxes (can't stand them) and hadn't really found a tissue box cover that I really liked (although I just did a quick search and found this - hilarious, right?).  I had a few canning jars stored in the basement waiting for me to use them for something.  I know canning would have been the obvious choice, but that is just not going to happen.  I do make my own jam, but these are just to big for that. Anyway. One day, not sure how, I came up with this.

The canning jars are from an old German company called Frauenlob (translates Women's Praise) and are perfect for this application because the opening is just wide enough to get the tissues in.

Anyone have a favorite re-purposing organizing trick to share?

Have a great weekend everyone!