Totoro 2011 Calendar

Studio Ghibli takes their calendars very seriously... possibly as seriously as you can even take a calendar. But this makes for some absolutely gorgeous planners and funny Totoro calendar stands.









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Pretty Colorful Treats

Such Pretty Things recipe for ice cream sandwiches is ripe with food dye and edible bejeweling.

Bears + Brooch = Bearch

These Bears are my new favorite thing. They seem to be bears carrying brooches but turn them around and see they are in fact brooches themselves! They come in every conceivable color combination.

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Dog in a teacup

THESE DOGS STAY TEACUP SIZE. Yes. They are genetically engineered for cuteness. Why don't you see these in nature? Yeah, they are $4500 USD each... that's why (and they are imported from Korea). LuxPup can be blamed for this new pricey dream.

Mirrors

Domestic enlists the most wondrous of artists to turn mirrors into works of art. One more way to affix art onto your walls and make it functional!

 

Hope

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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
- Maya Angelou

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
- Maya Angelou

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- Thomas Jefferson

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
- Dalai Lama

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
- Orison Swett Marden