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DDC “Thick Lines” Playing Card Set
Some of the boldest, most vibrant playing cards you’ll ever own.
Lodge Cast Iron Skillet Handle Mitt
Comfortably protect your hands against potential burns while cooking with cast iron.
Quality Linkage
Caper Endings, Different Perspectives, and Creating Great Experiences
A weekly roundup of links to articles, videos, and/or photographs that have a focus on art, life, hard work, simplicity, creativity, and mindful living.
Press Coffee for iPhone
Time your coffee brews, keep a detailed log of them afterward, and more.
Paper Pastries Wooden Border Stencil
An easy way to snazz up your handwritten correspondence.
USB 3.0 External Hard Drive with Military Drop Standards
Just because you are on the go doesn’t mean that you should go without making backups of your hard drive. While I love Backblaze for offsite backups, Apple’s Time Machine is a pretty robust program for onsite backups. It even backs up iCloud Drive documents with the most recent Yosemite update (10.10.2). If you need a durable external drive for travel, Transcend’s 2 TB USB 3.0 external drive would be a great addition to your hard drive collection.
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind
My day job varies greatly from the freelance work that I do. My day job is very task orientated, with tasks that have well defined beginnings and endings. My freelance work is a lot more creative. It’s a lot of writing, researching, and strategizing. Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind is a productivity book from the folks at 99u. If you do creative work, this would be a great purchase.
Thou Shalt Hustle (Sponsor)
A practical guide to pushing past average & finding your purpose. Just $6.99 on Amazon.
iPhone Case Review
The BookBook Case for iPhone 6 Plus
If you want to carry less on a daily basis, the BookBook will give a nostalgic look to your optimized everyday carry setup.
ONA Clarendon Photo Accessories Bag
A small, Italian-leather folio designed to hold and protect small photography accessories.
Baron Fig Confidant Giveaway
We’ve written a lot about Baron Fig products in the past, but they’ve always had one negative: their products weren’t free. Today, we are solving that problem. We have three Baron Fig Confidant notebooks (Dot Grid, Ruled, and Blank) and three Baron Fig Apprentice packs to giveaway. If one of your 2015 goals was to write more, these giveaways will get you on the right path.
Manifest — A 5K Periodical by Pictogram
A monthly digest of two 5k wallpapers and other perks, published by Sebastiaan de With.
Grovemade iPhone Dock
A beautiful steel-and-wood dock that offers true one-handed use. (Be warned though; the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus editions have no set release date as of Feb 7th, 2015.)
WordBoard Keyboard for iPhone
Save custom text snippets as iPhone keyboard keys.
Quality Linkage
Travel Photography, A Century of Maps, and 40 Years of SNL
A weekly roundup of links to articles, videos, and/or photographs that have a focus on art, life, hard work, simplicity, creativity, and mindful living.
AllCast
I mentioned in my cord cutting guide that I switched to Roku last year and sold all my Apple TVs. One of the things I do miss is AirPlay (when it works). AllCast for iOS is helping to bridge the gap, though. It allows you to cast your movies, photos, and music to just about any streaming device. It works with Chromecast, Xbox 360/One, Roku, DLNA compatible TVs, Apple TV, WDTV, and Amazon Fire TV. It’s free with a $4.99 in-app purchase.
Manready Mercantile All-In-One Lotion
“Deep, mossy woods” scented lotion that is 100% vegetarian and great for all skin types.
Earth Primer for iPad
A science book for playful people.
