spotsandstripes

Rainbow Striped Nursery

Rainbow striped nursery, Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Ideas, 1975. Via pinterest.

Guinea Feathers

Gorgeous naturally striped and spotted guinea feathers. For your fascinator. (What, you're not donning one at midnight for the wedding?) They also come dyed pink, yellow, or turquoise.

Striped Wooden Letters

These striped wooden letters are by Tatiri.

Psanky Psanky Easter Eggs

Apparently the full colour spectrum set is sold out but you can still get sets of four in pink, green, orange, and blue at the Psanky Psanky etsy shop. What a gorgeous heirloom.

Rainbow Coloured Wedding

Don't the champagne glasses look pretty as they reflect the streamers? This is a photo from an absolutely gorgeous and fun wedding, which involved a day-long celebration, 80 guests on bicycles, and wedding-couple-themed mini golf.

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: Ceramic Striped Tree Ornament

This striped Christmas tree ornament, made out of ceramic tiles, is also available at Anthropologie, but only online. (Incidentally if you're going to try to make Christmas stickers out of Christmassy images, as I suggested below, you might try Anthropologie for some great images.)