Hi I'm Sara from Sara Says Aweome, here is my guest post!

August 12, 2009 sara says awesome

When I was even considered to do a guest post for Design Crisis, I nearly flipped! It was like being asked to sit at the cool kids table. Thanks ladies you both are gorgeous!!! After the excitement, I thought.... SH*T! What do I write about?!?!?! I was seriously stuck for days. DAYS. If you haven't been over to my blog, Sara Says Awesome, I curse a ridiculous amount and I didn't want to scare the readers of Design Crisis. I actually had another post I was going to do but there was so much cursing and WAY to many sexual innuendos . I decided to scrap it all and just do pictures. I won't get in trouble or frighten anyone with pictures. So.... I hope you like my post!!!

G Select CONTEST!!!!!!!!

August 11, 2009 karly hand

You know what we love around here? Love letters. You know what we love even more? When said love letters include an offer for our dearest darling readers. Last week the lovely gents at G Select, purveyors of awesome men's care products, wrote us with a preview of their newest endeavor: a web store chalk full of awesome home goods. The note got better with the offer of a contest. G Select is giving one of our commenters a fine fine prize from their new shop. Let's take a look at the goodies that they carry and I'll announce the prize at the end of this post.

There are 2 key things I look for in home decor: 1. quirky-ness. I love an item that makes me giggle. Or think. Or both. and 2. Clean lines. No fuss please. I'm happy to say that the goodies in G Selects shop kill on both counts. Clockwise from top left:

Hippo Door Mat (psst, they also have a rabbit version)

Black Moose Trophy Head

Aurea Dish Rack

Dip Vase in Black

Ballfinger Floor Lamp in White

Leti Table Lamp in Brown

Bloom My Buddy Vase

Tableau Tablecloth

There's tons on this well stocked site, but the section that caught my eye was appropriately labeled to die for

Oh, I wish they could give all of this away. To me. Here's what we've got, clockwise from top left:

Milk Bottle Lamp

Tomas Eyck Multi Color Pillow

Chandelier 85 Lamps

Bespoke Pillow

Thomas Eyck Yellow / Purple blanket

Thomas Eyke Red Lime Black Small Blanket

Don't worry, for our discerning male readers, you can still get all spiffy clean with their well-packaged men's care line, GESSATO

And now, for the fun part, our give-away:

G Select is giving one of our readers a Tam Tam stool in their choice of color: indigo, red, jade, black, white, or orange.

Leave a comment to be automatically entered to win. You have one week to enter, deadline is midnight central time next Monday (August 17th). I'll then activate the random number generator and beep boop beep boop: The winner will be announced in my post next Tuesday. How easy is that?

movie posters as awt

August 10, 2009 the claw

Let me just say that I could not be happier for Mama Erin and Papa Erin (sorry, don't remember your husband's name right now) and their new babe-to-be. He is sure to be adorable, full of style, spunk and have a fantastic sense of humor from the get-go, and that is just from his Mom, I'm sure his dad is pretty rockin' too. As the mama of two young boys I can tell you firsthand, having a son is awesome, and you will know this very soon - congratulations! A call was put out by Karly and Erin for guest bloggers to help out while Erin is busy oohing and ahhing over the new tiny man in her life and I, The Claw, answered that call without reservation. Let me first say, I am endlessly entertained by Design Crisis and by Erin and Karly's abilities to post quality and quantity. Please, Erin, once you have your son, post shorter, less awesome posts, or I will feel even more inadequate as a parent and blogger.

So I don't know what my blog is about, and I know very little about interior design except for what I like. But, I know a lot about rock and roll and movies. Erin and I discussed that I might do set design for a topic for my guest post, but I think I would be too overwhelmed. I immediately thought of her awesome space capsule/Kubrick post and how I could bookend that with a Clockwork Orange set design post, but alas, not enough of the images I wanted easy to find on the web and I'm sort of lazy (read: just thinking of all that scanning of my Kubrick book made me yawn). Check out that book though, if you are a Kubrick fan, it's pretty fantastic.

Soooo...hey - Movie posters as art is a good idea! Provided you pick the right poster. One that no one has heard of is great, or better yet, one that people had heard of, but choose the foreign version of the poster and it is sure to be way cooler.

We've done just that in our home with a few Cuban movie posters. We have these two and a few others and I dig 'em. I don't know what the movies are, but I like these guys. Don't think we are too arty, we also have this movie poster in our house. It is, in fact, the first thing you see if you enter our house from the side door. Welcome, and pay no attention to the exploding Winnebago.

I found this Spanish Truffaut poster for his film, Stolen Kisses and I may have to buy it, I love it so. Here are just a few more foreign film movie posters I found and loved...

Once Upon A Time In The West- in Italian, I beleive - great movie, soundtrack and great poster.

A movie you love doesn't necessarily have the poster you love, here is one of my favorite (among many) films, An Angel at My Table, directed by Jane Campion. Wonderful film, okay poster, Even in French it isn't making me want to hang this on up.