You needn’t be artist nor child to delight in an everyday set of colored pencils. Plug your rainbow of lead (such as these made by Prismacolor*) into the connector piece and you too, can chat gaily with guests over a 36 Pencil Bowl centerpiece.
A few caveats: We strongly advise that you hit the art supply store with connector piece in hand, as the pencils must be hexagon in shape and 7 mm in diameter—key information not typically shared online. We’re also wary of how much the finished bowl can hold before the pencils snap or splinter.
On the upside, splurge on a 120-pencil set and you can design (and redesign) your bowl to complement your walls—or whatever treasures it holds. Available in black or white. $59 (sans pencils)
Decorating a room in earth tones, searching for a piece that looks more expensive than it actually is, the Hand Painted Earth Tone Metal Abstract Squares Wall Art is what you are looking for. The piece feels and looks solid, being made from metal. More than 3 feet wide and high, it can command attention on a small wall or blend into a large one. And it is on sale now for $80 at Visiondecor.
It’s a Matryoshka doll for geeks. Except, instead of stacking wooden renderings of family members one inside another the six Matryoshkus Nero figures represent ever growing units of digital data storage, from a byte up to terabyte. Perfect for little computer scientists to-be. $50 through the Art Lebedev Studio.
It’s like a Colored Pencils of the Month Club. Except it is cooler than that. Because these colored pencils from the Japanese company Felissimo come with wall mounts that all you can use to create colorful works modern art. The standard package has Felissimo sending you 1 mount and 25 colored pencils of like hues every month for 20 months. But for the impatient among you Felissimo can also ship the whole caboodle at once.
