Online store Find - Artistica.com

Everyone knows my weakness for pottery, and especially chunky hand painted Italian and Spanish ceramics. Granted, I only own a few (actually 2) pieces of the real stuff, (a hand painted coffee mug from Torrefazione in Pioneer Square, Seattle and a fat water jug from Deruta, also in Seattle) and the irony is that I paid so much for them, I don't use them for fear of dropping them or chipping them!!!

Anyway, long story short.....while surfing the web for some oil cruets, I came across this site and did a double take! You know sometimes you are asked, what will you do if you win a million bucks...??? Well, I would buy up this entire store...or at least half the store cos the prices are so high that's all I could get for a million bucks!

So in case you are wondering what I am talking about, take a look.....

Anyway, as it turns out, what I wanted (pic #1) is way too pricey...I could go to Italy for that amount!! So I am just going to have to add it to my wish list, or win that lottery!!!!!

Store Find - Eucalyptus!

Maybe some of you have aleady heard about this store....but in case you haven't, this is Eucalyptus, a fabulous new home store in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad and fortunately a stone's throw away from my home.....which, as it turns out, may not be such a good thing. Because if you see what they have....you'll know why I find it so hard to stay away! They carry a range of bed linen, quilts, bedspreads, cushions, table linen, runners in stunning colors.....which will transform your house into a home!
The designers behind this are Shaila Nambiar and Shruti Phagre-Mahajan, friends from Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting at the M.S.University of Baroda)to PG (batchmates at the Textile Designing programme in NID(Ahmedabad). The core behind Eucalyptus is entrepreneur Asha Reddy who met Shaila and Shruti during a designer workshop through a common friend. The wavelengths harmonized and the threesome came together, like the three points of a triangle, to take a concrete shape in this home store in Hyderabad that has plans of branching out to the other cities as well.

Here are some of their gorgeous products!

To see more spectacular stuff visit their website here.