12 Days of Holidays: A Blogger Wish List – Day 12

Well today is the last day of my series.  It has been a wild ride! I want to thank everyone that participated.  I really appreciate the time it took to send over your wish list item, as well as any promoting you did on your blog and/or Twitter.  And we all have much longer wish lists thanks to all the fab items you submitted, so thank you for that too!

And don’t forget to enter my giveaway for a blog header design by House 09.  They are the creme de la creme of blog designers!  I will announce on the winner on Friday afternoon at 2pm.

 
 
Colour Pencil and Brass Holder Set – Jayson Home and Garden - $65

Jenny: “I love technology (and secretly an iPad is at the top of my Christmas list), but in almost every decorating project, I still find myself doing hand-drawn renderings. It's fun and easy for me to draw up a room with a pencil and paper and it really gets the creative juices flowing!  I love this brass pencil holder from Jayson Home and Garden.  What a beautiful and sculptural way to display my color pencils or markers!”

1. Light Blue Geometric Print Pillow Cover – Etsy Seller Purple Pajamas - $30
2. Joel Dewberry Napsack in Sunglow Pillow Cover – Etsy Seller Purple Pajamas - $30

Jana: “I love this cushion cover! I would love it for my bed, 2 in a euro size.  Or this one. Why is it so hard to choose for yourself?” 

 
Harriet Table Lamp in White – Amazon - $176

Thanks Jen!

 
Fox Hollow Fabric – Schumacher – check for pricing

Bryn: “"I would love many, many yards of this beautiful fabric from Schumacher. It's not something you see everywhere (a major plus), and the colors are so beautiful in person!"

 
Various Fornasetti Products – prices vary

Jackie: “I've long been enamored with Fornasetti pieces.  The quirky, smirky face of the woman he uses in many of his designs is just too fun!  While a plate or a pillow can run well into the hundreds, I was pleased to run across a book that only costs $40! So that book is on the top of my wish list this year.  And Santa knows I have been a very good girl!”

 
1. Tory Burch 'Coley' Scuff Slipper – Nordstrom - $128
2. Jennifer Zeuner Necklace - $110
3. Laura Lombardi Stud Earrings - $22
4. Scandi Phone – Digs Show Room - $69
5. Hinge Stitched Crossbody Bag – Nordstrom - $118.90

Thanks Alison!

All I Want For Christmas... is tubes.

Apartment living has its perks, but it's no good for my Christmas wish-list. But what girl wants a practical present? No! We want stupidly impractical shoes, and totally impossible solatubes.
Sola-what? Solatubes. They're glorious devices that direct natural light to any room of your home, without the peril of costly or invasive skylights. A small bubble on the roof pipes sunlight (or Vancouver's greyer derivative) straight into light fixtures throughout your home. In the bathroom, kitchen, wherever. I first saw them on a documentary about KT Tunstall's green home... and I've loved-from-afar ever since. Problem? We live in an apartment. And other people live upstairs.

"Hey, I tell ya what I'm gonna give *you*, upstairs neighbours.  I'm gonna give you to the count of 10, to get your ugly, yellow, no-good keisters out of the way of my solatubes."

• Here's how solatubes work
• And here's a world of pretty pictures
• Plus some before/afters (oh yes!)

Can I shove tubing through the living room of total strangers? Maybe at Christmas - the season of perpetual hope? Perhaps not. Since we're flipping our place on a tight budget, it's a love-affair I'm saving for the future.
And that's my whimsical wish, with love from the Ugly Baby

Thanks Lauren!

And that’s all folks!! But be sure to come by tomorrow because I will be showing you what’s on my wish list this year (finally!)