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If you're looking for a unique spot to stay if you're ever in the Catskills (New York) area this summer, this off-the-grid container cabin might be the spot. With a 30-foot waterfall (100 yards north of the cabin), staying in the cabin is an experience according to it's owners, not just a simple overnight stay.

Lined in timber, the renovated container cabin offers everything you need for a rustic and tranquil experience including a DIY wood-fired hot tub (a 120-gallon galvanized tub) which uses the nearby stream water to fill it. There's even a yoga platform if you're so inclined and an outdoor fire pit.

After checking it out, we kind of want to make one for ourselves! How about you? Let's take a look!

Earlier this year we wrote about new products from Ukraine-based, FILD. And now we're inspired again by colours their new collection and minimalistic aesthetics of the brand. The super team came together to create images of Pebble Grey Moods. Perfect for a tranquil space.

Photography: Andrey Bezuglov
Location: FILD Store
Style by: Kateryna Vakhrameyeva

The Bunkers is a newly opened Bed and Breakfast located about an hour north of Ghent, Belgium. Originally built in concrete on the brink of World War I, the heritage structure has been restored by a Belgian family with a love for architecture.

Dorothea Lange, Home of Rural Rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California

If ever there was an art exhibit that was made for Poppytalk's readership, Cabin Fever just might be it. The Vancouver Art Gallery launches their Summer 2018 Exhibition this week beginning with Cabin Fever (running June 9th - September 30, 2018) which explores the history of the cabin in North America both as an architectural form and a cultural construct. From renderings, artworks and commercial products as well as architectural models, plans and full-scale interventions, the exhibit surveys this iconic yet humble lodging's utility, adulation and prevalance in Canada and the US.

My Vintage Lane is a 50's inspired mobile caravan bar and cafe based on the Gold Coast in New South Wales, Australia. Recently we stumbled upon their feed on Instagram and were instantly smitten! The caravan which was built from scratch made to look like vintage is available for weddings, engagement parties, to corporate events, photoshoots, birthdays and garden parties. Let's take a look!

Ever since starting our Pinterest account back in the day, we've been collecting some pretty amazing typography and handlettering examples, squirreling them away for a rainy day perhaps? Whatever the case, they're too beautiful not to share really. So I thought it would be fun today to share one of favourite boards "Typography + Handlettering" for a little Monday inspiration. Which is your favourite? Check them out below.

With rhubarb season well on it's way, we're throwing it back this #tbt to this gorgeous cake recipe by Tessa Huff of Style Sweet CA and her cookbook, Layered, Baking, Building, and Styling Spectacular Cakes. Tessa's book is still a favourite, and her Swiss Meringue Buttercream has become a staple in my baking repertoire! This really is a gorgeous book (if you haven't happened upon it yet) which contains 150 recipes which also includes Tessa's gorgeous styling! (Recipe below)!

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ICFF is running also in New York this week, and always a fave in these parts. We also have been oogling over all the gorgeous designs. Here's a few favourites that caught our eye this weekend.
Above: Part of Sight Unseen offsite, we loved this collaboration between @studiogiancarlovalle and @visoproject. Check out more below.

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The National Stationery Show in New York is now in full swing and as tradition has it, we're rounding up a few of our favourites (thanks to Instagram)! Remember the day when there wasn't Instagram? It was always a scramble and a bunch of emailing to ask people to send pics! But there's one thing that doesn't change and that's inspiraiton galore! Let's take a look! Above from 1canoe2.

Today, we're super-stoked to be sharing a DIY from artist/designer, Emily Katz's new book, Modern Macramé, 33 Stylish Projects for Your Handmade Home (from Ten Speed Press). Some of you may know Emily from her instagram account, or perhaps you have taken one of her sold-out macramé workshops she's taught around the world, but if not, let us tell you, Emily creates some pretty swoon-worthy aspirational interiors and her custom hand-knotted pieces are at the heart of this age-old craft that's undergoing a huge renaissance right now.

Modernica recently collaborated with Shepard Fairey to create a new collection of 500 limited edition Side Shell Dowel chairs featuring collage and patterns that have become signature motifs in Shepard's work.

If you’re looking for a few cocktail ideas for this weekend's Cinco de Mayo festivities, we have a few rather delicious options expertly crafted by the folks at Casamigos Tequila. Tequila and Cinco de Mayo are a perfect match, and we're loving these ideas to spice things up! Check them all out below! Happy Cinco de Mayo! Above: Aloe Vera Margarita.

Every spring we have our eyes open for the something new and fun in the camper world, and today we happened upon the adorable, Armadillo made here, right in B.C. Taking the shell of old 70s vintage trailers (light weight 13 foot Canadian Bolers), the folks at Armadillo have brought this compact cutie back to the future.

Rifle Paper Co.

Mother's Day is just a couple weeks away (May 13th this year), and as tradition has it, we've rounded up a collection of adorable cards for that special Mom (or someone like a Mom) in your life. From letterpress to illustration, here's a few favourite ones on our radar this year. Check them out below.

If you followed our stories on Instagram yesterday, as promised, today we're thrilled to be included and kicking off Brittany Watson Jepsen's (The House That Lars Built), blog book tour, for her gorgeous new book, Craft the Rainbow , 40 Colorful Paper Projects from The House That Lars Built.

I haven't seen a crafting book like this in a long, long time and I think it will be one that will go down into the crafting book classics. It's gorgeous! And as many of you know, Brittany is a crafting queen, so not only are the projects, styling and photos in this book stunning, she's also a great teacher (we loved having her here in Vancouver for a paper flower workshop in our old shop a few years back) and she makes the projects in this book approachable, beautiful and inspiring!

And so today, we are excited to share one of the special projects from the book with permission from the publisher, Abrams Books. The book is available at the following retailers.

ABRAMS
Amazon
B&N
IndieBound
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Powell’s
Indigo

Check out the project post below!

IKEA has teamed up with LA-based fashion designer and creative director, Chris Stamp of the west coast ‘Avant-street’ lifestyle brand, Stampd along with freelance designer Maja Ganszyniec for a limited edition collection called SPÄNST.

Geared towards the home and the streets, SPÄNST is designed for those who want to exhibit their lifestyles with the same amount of artistry within the four walls of the home as they do outside of it.