Love List-87; Sauce Trio and Plantable Pencils

In this week’s Love List, the SweetPhi team is sharing some amazing sound-dampening artwork, affordable summer chairs you need on your patio and a great way to add a little extra space when you’re short on countertops.

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1. If you’re upstairs in our bedroom, you can hear every word from downstairs. Nick found some cool artwork that supposedly works for muting sounds too!! For acoustics in our living room, I am liking it as an option!
2. Clothing stamps for the win- with all the kids clothes needing labels, it gets crazy, so I just made one with our last name, this stamp actually works! I got one in black but am going to get one in a lighter color to appear on darker fabrics too.

   

3. Now that I’m a parent, I’m even more fascinated by Olympians and raising kids who are top performers; it’s neat to read about. I read this piece on Norway’s radically different approach to sports.  Love how they focus on the ‘fun’ of sports and aren’t allowed to do ranking under age 13!! – Reminds me I started this amazing book called The Danish Way of Parenting I need to pick up again! 
4. I’m really into green hot sauces lately, they’re just amazing, especially on my breakfast tacos.  I’m also into hot honey…then I came across this trio omgggggggg!!!

Bridget’s Picks

1. I saw this great wallpaper tip to make your wallpaper stretch further and make your wall standout.  Shop the beautiful wallpapers here.
2. I find color psychology fascinating and this article talks through why certain brands favor certain colors.
3. This is a fun little Amazon product I ran across the other day – plantable pencils.  Each pencil has a special little saying and make a great gift for Mother’s Day, a teacher gift or even ‘just because.’
4. My neighbors have these chairs and we love them because they have a great little slide out cupholder and phone holder.  The chairs sell out every year, so I’m snagging mine early!

Alyssa’s Picks

1. We have very little counter space so I finally got a kitchen cart/shelf that I turned into extra storage and the top is now a little coffee bar! It’s perfect for the kitchen!
2. Since I work from home I got this laptop stand that puts your laptop a little higher instead of looking down at it. Those stand up desks can be expensive so this is a small alternative!  Bridget just reminded me that she has this exact one (she talks about it here) and loves it!  So I guess it’s a double-recommend.
3. I’ve been wanting to start reading more and my sister recommended this book to me! She said it’s five stars!!