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HE KINTSUGI… CAN YOU?

Turn broken pottery into a whole new aesthetic experience, or better yet, get your partner to do it for you by making them a DIY Kintsugi Kit!
(that’s what I did)

So one half of Social Nesting periodically mentioned kintsugi several times over the course of 2016. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with a gold lacquer, turning a damaged piece into something new and equally beautiful.

He would show me cool images or videos of carefully repaired pottery veined with liquid gold streaks that did make the once-broken pieces not only unique, but also stunning in a whole new way.

So when Christmas 2016 rolled around, I decided to gift him the chance to do some home Kintsugi-ing by putting together the Barry-San Kintsugi Kit – a wooden box decorated with gold streaks and filled with everything he would need to learn and hone the technique.
I even went so far as to smash a small plate and include it in the kit, so he could get cracking (as it were).

Inside the box was speed-set epoxy, two different gold powders, a mirror (on which to mix the glue and dust), a mini trowel to do it with, and of course, the pre-broken plate.

And before he could get to practicing, this happened…

One of our favourite Rob Ryan plates fell off the wall and broke.

It was was Kintsugi Kit to the rescue! But only once he had some free time and we could open the windows wide to air out the epoxy smell.

And once he started, he couldn’t be stopped. He carefully and majestically repaired both plates with perfect, gold-lustred precision…

…and we were lovingly able to get the Rob Ryan plate back to the Social Nesting HQ stairwell, where it brings us so much joy.

Tags: DIY, epoxy, gold repair, kintsugi, Kintsugi Kit Category love'it&covet, update&decorate |

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BEST OF THE BREASTS

Fascinating. Fabulous. Beautiful whether they are bountiful or itty-bitty. It’s time to raise your (A to DD) cups in a toast to a hot new trend that we are eager to nuzzle…

Kevin Tachman for Calvin Klein

We have to be honest: we missed this when it popped out on the Calvin Klein Resort 2016 runway.

Well, Francisco must have tapped into something, because boobs (and boob prints) are everywhere. And they are beautiful.

While we have come a long way since typing 5318008 into our school calculators and turning them upside-down in order to get a giggle, we could do more to celebrate these heroes of the human form. Thankfully some people are.

As delicate (but powerful) as their fleshy counterparts, boob-inspired designs are manifesting themselves in more sophisticatedly playful ways – not for titillation or mockery, but as swinging symbols of diversity, strength and wit. And we say: Hear, Hear!

So put your breast foot forward with this array of clever and covetable salutes…

BREAST PLACE TO REST YOUR HEAD / GRAVEL & GOLD the boob pillowcase

BREAST ACCESSORIES / COUCOUSUZETTE boob accessories

BREAST PAIRING OF PRINT & PURPOSE / HAZEL NICHOLLS one pint milk jug

BREAST FOR HANGING AROUND / NELLY PARK PRINTS boob print

BREAST FOR COVERING THE REAL ONES / KISS ME BANG BANG free the nipple top

Tags: Boob-print design, Boobs, Calvin Klein Resort 2016, COUCOUSUZETTE boob accessories, GRAVEL & GOLD the boob pillowcase, HAZEL NICHOLLS one pint milk jug, KISS ME BANG BANG free the nipple top, NELLY PARK PRINTS boob print Category love'it&covet |

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JASSA RIGHT

The devious side of us wants to pass these off as a collection of wares lugged halfway across the planet from our latest exotic jaunt, but the know-it-all show-offs that are will be unable to resist blabbing that these are from IKEA…

(left to right) pre-cut fabric / cushion covers / side plate / pendant lamp shade / cushion covers / flatweave rug

Tags: cushion covers, flatwoven rug, IKEA, Jassa collection, new, pendant lamp shade, pre-cut fabric, side plate Category love'it&covet |

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IKEA HAS THE BRIGHT IDEA

Does your pulse pound for pattern? Do you heat up for hues? IKEA’s new Jassa collection will tick all your print-obsessed colour-craving interior design addicted boxes…

IKEA must have known that the cure for belated winter blues was to shine an array of brilliant, beautiful and hot-climate-inspired vibes directly into our design eyeballs, thus delivering the message that spring will come, and it will be followed by summer.

The new Jassa collection is a heavy nod to the handmade furniture and textiles of South East Asia and from ink-splatter tableware to rattan furniture (for inside or out), the collection oozes relaxed style.

And it’s the textiles and soft-furnishings in particular that so brilliantly celebrate the marriage of pattern and colour.

Any single item would inject a dose of dazzle to a room, and combined – instead of being a potential disparate riot – the design DNA allows every member of this colourful family to sit side-by-side in harmony. Glorious.

Jassa is a limited collection, so stock is unlikely to be around for long.

Tags: collection, IKEA, Jassa, pattern, print, textiles Category love'it&covet |

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GETTING LIT UP

No room for a bar cart and a lamp and a side table? Cheers to a hybrid of all three! We Frankensteined together a collection of parts to solve the a lack of space issue while turning the home bar into a beacon…

It started with the beautiful plant stand (below, far left) from Hook & Stem… We knew we wanted it but secretly we also knew that we needed a plant stand like a moose needs a hatrack. So it was destined for an alternative purpose.

The pink wire basket (far right) was a Homesense find that smacked of the Ferm Living basket tables we longed to own but are way out of the price range.

The IKEA Sekond cord set came next – again, purchased without a final use in mind, but destined for greatness, especially surrounded by a vintage-look wire bulb cage left over from a previous project…

In the centre (above) are a perfect wooden circular platform and an embroidery hoop – both from Michael’s – that were morphed together to create a lid that fit snuggly into the rim of the wire basket. The embroidery hoop was trimmed to size and glued securely with Goop to keep the makeshift lid from sliding around.

We then covered the top with a bright and brilliant floral scrap from our stockpile and secured it with Mod Podge…

And then it was literally a series of slotting things together:
The legs of the plant stand, the cord set through the basket, the basket into the plant stand, the lid onto the basket and another wireframe basket that was holding our booze stash on the credenza, now sitting atop the whole thing.

And on or off, this takes up the perfect cozy corner of Social Nesting HQ…

Tags: bar table, DIY, Homesense, Hook & Stem, IKEA, lamp cord, light-up bar table, Michael's, plant stand Category update&decorate |

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