Some blog favorites from last week!

1. Rachel Papo’s photographs of eighteen year old women serving their mandatory two years in the Israeli army. (via NotCot.org)
2. The hysterical 1920s version of GPS. (from Mail Online as found on NotCot.org)
3. Print-a-Day is a great blog to subscribe to! So many fun prints every week. You just wish you could get them on to your T-shirt or into a frame! (Dolls print from Print-A-Day)
4. Sony headphones creating a NYC subway map. (from Saatchi & Saatchi ad agency, via Cool Hunter)
5. Smashing Magazine created a really fun collection of creative time-telling devices.
6. Castle graffiti, need I say more to entice your interest? (via KitsuneNoir)
7. Mini-books made out of tags. So cute and Etsy-ish. (via Happy Cavalier as found on SwissMiss and sold-out on Etsy — that’s a mouthful!)
8. That house is made of TOWELS and everything at this neon-colored event is similarly not quite what it seems (for The Robin Hood Foundation via Design*Sponge)
9. These little crayon carvings (WHAT?! How cute!) are all over the blogs because they are so cool! (most recently found on Veer: The Fat)
10. These Be Baroque stockings are so cool because they look like tattoos! Can I have a pair please? (via Nylon which also explains how to make a tattoo-tight DIY)
11. A spoon created specially so you can WRITE with your coffee! (via Serious Eats, available at Vincon)

Want past weeks’ blog favorites? They’re still fun to look at!

I think this was a good week in Stickers & Donuts land, with lots of fun posts (well, I had fun at least) and sets. How about a round of applause for Tricia who did two spectacular posts this week? I thought her posts were awesome and from the looks of things, so did you! Anyway, here is another small edition of “Currently Obsessed” for your Friday. Have a spectacular weekend!

I’m currently obsessed with the Olympics, among other things:

• This “League of Cliche Evil Supervillans” graphic from threadless now comes in a large print version in addition to the T-shirt version.
• Pizza. Yes, just plain old pizza. It’s so good. I had forgotten.
• The Christmas Tree Shop (especially the stores on Cape Cod). Cute home goods (and more) for ridiculously cheap. A super-bargain shoppers dreamland!
• Olympics gymnastics. So dramatic. So much flipping! Aren’t you sad it’s over?
• I watched all of the Michael Phelps’ Olympic races. EIGHT golds in ONE Olympics?! Close, nail biting races — some of the best Olympic moments I’ve ever seen. (See the now famous “miracle finish” in Phelps’ second to last race.)
• Yesterday, I bought a five pack of really BRIGHT colored socks for $10. I also bought delightfully opaque, and actually comfortable, tights in purple and in green. They have so much footwear this season (at least at the NYC H&M near Penn Station). If you need to re-wardrobe your feet, this is the place to go.

If you are getting tired of hearing from me (that’s me, Maria, who is always babbling away over here), today is your lucky day: we have a brand new columnist (her socks and feet, pictured above)! Not only is her first Stickers & Donuts post today (pencil cases!), but she has tons more coming up (more school supplies! interviews! etc!). I admit to being jealous of her very cute and well-thought-out posts, which feature the same kind of humor she presents on her personal blog, Marmalade Skies and Marshmallow Pies.

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Some of my favorites from last week! (Links in the list below; right click to open in new window.)

• A book of a guy comparing his silhouettes to famous silhouettes (via SwissMiss).
• A hysterical inscription on The Book Inscriptions Project blog from a book entitled “Doktor Bey’s Suicide Guidebook.”
• I really just want to put my feet into these rugs from the Dolder Grand Hotel in Zurich (via Cool Hunter).
• I love, love, love Chris Benz’s colorful clothing lines, and his web-site is pretty cool, too! (via Oh Joy!)
• A pretty awesome chair, good for seat crunchers, via Smashing Magazine. (I’m not sure that you can buy this; it has made its way around the blogs, but I think it was originally part of a show.)
• An awesome flea market guide from Design*Sponge, listing all of the flea markets in a variety of my very favorite states (Connecticut, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine, and Massachussetts)!
• Cool photographs of naked Olympians! (via Crap We Like)
• Another cool Smashing Magazine find — a retro phone that you talk into instead of your cell phone.
• I love this ASL (American Sign Language) pattern (and the tank top, which isn’t availible for sale, unfortunately!) in a book which includes designs from Julia Rothman (from Julia’s book design blog, Book By Its Cover).

I’ll be gone for a long(ish) weekend in lovely Cape Cod, Mass, but I will get a few little things up for you to read early next week. Next week will also be the debut of a guest blogger — I’ve gotten a sneak peak at her post, and I’m pretty excited!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Just had to let everyone know about researchers’ progress on that invisibility cloak. Really. It’s made of really, really small metal fishnet or wires, and it bends light to produce negative refraction — or, something like that — it’s probably best you read the article yourself!

“We are not actually cloaking anything,” Valentine said in a telephone interview. “I don’t think we have to worry about invisible people walking around any time soon. To be honest, we are just at the beginning of doing anything like that” (Reuters).

I hope to get one of these as a gift with in the next five years… what do you think?!

I’ll be doing a short series of posts on Flushing this week, from food to the World’s Fair, and they will all be tagged with the label Flushing, reachable by clicking here!

I just love these pretty glasses from wrapables.com. Not only do these non-sweating glasses obviate the need for coasters, but they hold both hot and cold liquids and look pretty while doing it! I’ll take that coffee on the left with all of the foam, thank you.

(Set of 2 $17-33, depending on size)

1. Beets are making a comeback — this week at least, since the NY Times is posting a new beet recipe every day this week. I managed to concoct a beet salad and beet omelet (from beets in jars) and am feeling rather healthy & pink.
2. Books from Boxes is an amazing song by Maximo Park. On repeat all this week in my cubicle/car/ipod.
3. The new Dole Pina Colada juice is SPECTACULAR, and usually I’m not even a big juice fan. It’s 100% juice and 8oz is 120 calories and counts for two servings of fruits (though you are still supposed to get most of your fruit servings from whole fruits). I like to mix 1/3 juice with 2/3 plain seltzer. Yum!
4. Everyone is obsessed with Mad Men (availible on DVD) because it was nominated for, like, a billion Emmy’s. Now I’m obsessed, too. I wasn’t won over right away, but eventually became intrigued by the early 1960s ad world (mAD men, get it!), and especially love that they also have a female character who is trying to make her way in a man’s world (although almost all of the other females are secretaries or housewives). Anyway, I netflixed the entire first season this week.
5. Now that I have a brand-y new prescription from my eye doctor, I’m super-excited about the blog Glassy Eyes, which explains how to purchase prescription glasses online for about $10-$50. I love these particularly ugly glasses from eyebuydirect.com. They’re so ugly they’re fashionable! (There are a lot of not-ugly glasses at these sites, too, by the way. And you can even print out glasses or “try them on” online by uploading your picture!)
6. Fredflare.com was recently featured in an NY Times article about band-aids (they happen to have sausage and egg band-aids, by the way). Anyway, after even seeing the web-site’s name listed in the NY Times article I got all nostalgic about my fashion-forward, bright-colored friend. I now want everything on the web-site! Someone want to lend me a few bucks?

Since it’s book week and since this blog prides itself on finding creative things, I had to share the latest release from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Hamlet (Facebook Newsfeed Edition). This just gets funnier and funnier as it goes. Read the whole thing here.