Out And About In Detroit: Tour de Hood

Well, misterarthur made the big time last week. His biking journal, Tour de Hood, was discussed in Time Magazine’s Detroit Blog. Yay! You can read what they had to say here.

This is my personal favorite

A few years ago, misterarthur decided to start taking photos of strange and interesting discoveries during his weekend bike rides through the streets of our fair city of Detoit. It’s really rather fascinating and, at times, a bit sad. But it always makes me laugh.

Cat or Fish? Hmmm, I can't decide

Follow this link to discover the real Detroit brought to you in a way only misterarthur could deliver it.

Caroline Rogers Guest Blogging at Design Sponge

I’m so excited for my friend’s daughter, Caroline Rogers. She’s a guest blogger this week over at Design Sponge. Caroline is a textile designer who with top-notch companies on her resum?©.¬† She knows her stuff and has a great eye. Not only that, but she’s a talented illustrator (see above).

Make sure you scoot over to Design Sponge to read her posts. Then, stop by Caroline’s blog, It Looks Good To Me. See you there!

My interview at Housewears

Jillian, the writer of the design blog, Housewears, interviewed me a few days ago and wrote a lovely post. If you’re interested in reading about my work as a designer, hop on over and read the interview here.

Thanks, Jillian!

Collections: Spoons at Pigtown Design

While we’re on the subject of gifts, adding to a friend’s collection is a nifty idea. Or why not take your friend’s interest in, say, antique spoons and start one for her?

Scoot on over to Pigtown Design to read this nice post about her French ivory flatware collection.

To start your own collection, try Go Antiques. I used to collect snowball ornaments from around the world. Now I’m into little boxes. I also collect stones from places I visit. They’re purely sentimental, but actually look rather nice.

What do you collect?

Design Blogs Discovered at the NY Times!

I’m swamped here at the Mitchell household today. So I thought I’d invite you to read this nice article from today’s Home Section of the New York Times. It’s a nice pat on the back for us bloggers who try to stay on the cutting edge of what’s going on, and write about it with our own individual perspective.

You’ve probably heard of most of these blogs. But some are new. Check them out. The blogs listed are:

• Cool Hunting
• Design Sponge
• Apartment Therapy
• Hollister Hovey
• MoCo Loco
• The Peak of Chic
• Unbeige

The article also lists some of the bloggers’ favorite things. Have fun. Smile. Take a long lunch. I’ll be back at the end of the day with my Chair post.