spotsandstripes

More Red and White Striped Dishes: Cornishware

This reproduction cornishware is gorgeous. Thanks, Sara! And it can be personalized.

Wooden Dots Christmas Tree Ornaments

We picked up these Christmas tree ornaments at Canadian Tire. They appear to be made out of tiny slices of sticks glued to both sides of what looks like a plywood sheet, then cut into the shapes of a heart and a fir tree. I'm still trying to figure out a way to makes something like this ourselves.

Edible Chocolate-Filled Toadstools

Yum. These edible chocolate filled toadstools are made by Andie's Specialty Sweets in Los Angeles and sold via Etsy.

Making Rainbows

I've had my eye on these solar-powered rainbow makers for some time -- they'd make great gifts for almost anyone. My kids would love this; my mom would love this; who wouldn't love this? Trouble is, whenever I've come across them, they've always seemed a little pricey. My National Geographic Christmas catalogue lists the double one for $39.99 but Amazon is offering all three styles right now for roughly half-price. Unfortunately, they don't ship to Canada.

I'm also considering getting this Uncle Milton Rainbow In My Room projector for the kids.  It requires batteries and leds, though, and has slightly mixed reviews.

Striped Felt Christmas Trees

Jenny B. Harris of the blog Allsorts designed these striped felt Christmas trees and she provides a free pattern if you want to try to make them yourself.

Christmas Decorations: Wool Pompom Ornament

This wool pompom ornament is from Anthropologie. Pompoms qualify as spots, don't they? 3D ones?

Christmas Decorations: Striped and Spotted Christmas Stickers

Striped and spotted Christmas stickers, also from The Container Store. It just occured to me that if you have sticker paper for your printer you could make these images themselves into stickers -- or any fairly sizeable images of Christmas ornaments, like the birds in the post below. We've got some of that paper, which comes in clear as well as white in either matte or glossy, kicking around here somewhere. I'm going to give it a try.

Christmas Decorations: Little Birds With Striped Hats

These little birds with striped hats are some kind of gift wrap embellishment at The Container Store but they'd make good Christmas tree  decorations. Brace yourself for more Christmas decorations -- I'm getting ready early this year.

Observed While Shopping: Spots and Stripes

A tween, wearing mismatched striped knee-high socks, checking out the toys. 

Striped and spotted undies in an array of bright colours.(From Joe Fresh, my favourite cheap clothing line, available at our local grocery store.)

Striped and spotted Christmas decorations at Canadian Tire. (The same designer, Debbie Travis, has a line of fairy-tale-themed Christmas decorations, which has inspired me to do a small tree on that theme this year. The main tree will need to be decorated only in non-breakables because of the presence of a one-year-old in our house.)