Buy the The Polaroid iPhone Decal at the Photojojo Store!

It is somehow always cooler to make fancy schmancy modern possessions appear much less fancy schmancy and modern than they really are…case in point: iphone decal mimicking the front of a classic Polaroid camera.

Tired of the corporate world’s daily grind, Australian-Polish duo Alexandra Wrega and Rafal Szamborski traded in their day jobs to pursue something a little more rewarding. The couple began designing leather; felt; linen; and cotton bags, totes, and cases and their shop rib & hull was born. Using the highest-quality materials — 100% German designer felt (the highest quality of felt available), locally tanned leather, organically grown and dyed linen Swedish linen, and organic cotton– the duo successfully executes stylish products for stashing your gadgets and day-to-day items.

In honor of Have A Handmade Holiday, rib & hull has generously donated a gorgeous anthracite-gray wool felt and black leather iPad sleeve (it also fits a Kindle) for you to win! We hope you’ll find it appropriately relevant, what with Apple being the news lately and all — have you heard? The Beatles have officially gone digital!

Here’s how it works!

Add a comment to the bottom of this post and tell us which item is your favorite over at rib & hull‘s shop.

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We will close the giveaway on Friday, November 19th at 5:00 p.m.! So get your entries in!

We’ll start it off . . . 

 Here are the contents of Kim’s iPhone: 

Here are the contents of Ryan’s iPhone:
  

You can download yours here –> on Always Mod.

Studio OOMS Twig Memory Stick

Cake Royale USB Flash Drive

Human Thumb Drive

Cereal Spoon USB

Bacon Flash Drive

Mechanical Memory Key

Sushi Disk

When we spotted the Brinca Dada booth from across the convention hall aisle, and we immediately abandoned our planned trajectory to check out the miniature house perched atop a table. Since there were so many people gathered around, Brinca Dada founder Douglas Rollins (super nice guy) gave us a tour! The Emerson dollhouse is the first in the Brinca Dada line (with a townhouse and miniature furniture line to follow very soon).

Not only is the entire house made of non-toxic and lead-free wood stains and paints, but its six rooms — living room, library/office, master bedroom, bathroom, and child’s bedroom — are powered by solar panels! And yes, they really work! The Emerson also features mitered-glass corners, two fireplaces, sliding glass doors, and recessed LED lights. Let me tell you, The Emerson beats the pants off the second-hand Fisher Price dollhouse that I exhaustively played with as a kid.

But this is too much: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/04/ie6.funeral/index.html?hpt=P1 A funeral for software? I chuckled to myself at the petition to boycott Comic Sans (and I agreed). And before that, yes, I thought it was funny that “Rick Rolling” had become so… omnipresent. But this is just too much. See for yourself:

I have been waiting to write this post since I first discovered Alice while poking around for some new iPhone apps. What is Alice you ask? Only the best thing to happen to city dwellers and busy people everywhere! The brain child of Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire (no not the baseball player), Alice provides the convenience of ordering household essentials like toilet paper, cleaning supplies, paper towels, pantry staples, etc., online. But that’s not all, Alice also offers tons of coupons and, get this — FREE SHIPPING!!! You can also set up your account to remind you to reorder when your supply is running low, so you’ll never run out of toilet paper again.

When reviewing your order, you can add or subtract ducks from your cart, each duck is a product category, i.e., shampoo.

I recently placed my first order with Alice, and within 24 hours, it was already being shipped directly to our apartment. I think the shipping could be faster though (it sat in Shrewsbury, Mass., for two days), like Zappos, which somehow manages to send shoes overnight for free (Alice take note, you should do this, too.). Anyway, yesterday a big blue box arrived, and inside I found my order neatly packed and just waiting to be integrated into our home.

This is just one of the many planning tools Alice uses to help you visualize your household budget.

So are the savings worth it? Yes. I think so. Especially for someone living in a big city. We have to buy our toilet paper, cleaning supplies, etc., at CVS. We don’t have the luxury of shopping at a big box store for discounted items, and often even when using a coupon, CVS is more expensive than say Target. For example, we recently ran out of dryer sheets, so I went to CVS to pick some up. I picked our usual brand, Bounce, and was appalled to see the ticket price was nearly $7.00!!! I put them back and went generic, still overpriced at about $4.00 (and they didn’t smell nearly as good). But on Alice, I purchased the same Bounce dryer sheets for $2.34! And it’s the same deal for toilet paper and paper towels, too. Sure, you have to plan ahead, but once you set up your account there are so many budgeting and planning tools for future purchases it’s practically a no brainer.

Oh, and for all of you who are into design like myself, Alice’s site hits a home run. It’s easy to navigate, it’s readable and graphic, and it’s well branded. It kind of reminds me of a cross between Martha Stewart and Twitter.

Le sigh. I never knew I could get so excited about household items.

But this year, instead of risking gadget and digit, pull on some Etre Touchy gloves. Etre Touchy gloves are cleverly designed to expose only the tip of the thumb and index finger, while keeping all other digits toasty warm inside a woolen glove. They come in a variety of sizes and colors, including brown with mint stripes and charcoal with rose trim (fashionable!).