Cool Stuff: Designer Water Bottles

We all know by now that a bottled-water habit isn't exactly environmentally friendly (plus, it's not necessarily any healthier than drinking plain old filtered tap water).

So when you need to tote fresh agua, why not trade in those landfill-choking plastic bottles for a reusable, BPA-free bottle -- and a pretty one, at that?

I especially like the designs above (left to right: William Morris's Anemone, Poppies, Parsley, and Tree), $20 to $26 each from Bright & Bold.

Etsy Find of the Day: Yours Truly Xoxo Bottle Lamps

How's this for clever? Etsy seller Yours Truly xoxo (aka a Brooklyn, New York crafter named Ilana) turns empty wine bottles and vintage decanters into fetching accent lamps with colorful, custom-made shades. Above: Wine Bottle Lamp With Marimekko Shade, $55

Suave Swanky Sexy Lamps, $55 each

Crafty Naturalist Table Lamp, $50

Fuchsia, Coriander, and Wine Table Lamp, $50

Ilana can create shades (for either table or pendant lamps) in your choice of fabrics as well:

Custom Cylinder Lampshade, $22

See all of Yours Truly xoxo's repurposed lighting creations right here.

eBay Find of the Day: Vintage Demijohn

How psyched are you for spring? I am so psyched. I want to fill the house with blooming branches to herald the coming season.

Wouldn't this be the perfect vessel for those gorgeous forsythia or quince blossoms? The vintage green-glass demijohn bottle, originally used for fermenting wine, measures an impressive 25.5 inches tall and 56 inches in circumference and has presence in spades.

Fill it with spring-blooming branches for forcing -- as shown here on Habitually Chic -- and use it as a dramatic centerpiece, set it on a console table in front of a large mirror for an elegant vignette, or place it on the floor next to the fireplace or in an empty corner and buy the tallest branches you can for a striking vertical focal point.

Current bid: $50

Etsy Find of the Day: Sara Paloma Pottery

You’ve seen her delicately beautiful bottles in ReadyMade magazine and on the cover of Restoration Hardware’s catalog.

Now you can find Emeryville, California ceramacist Sara Paloma’s lovely, collectible creations on Etsy.

Grouped together, Paloma’s stoneware bottles evoke a city skyline, and her “Vertebra” and “Bone” pieces are strikingly biomorphic, yet still abstract and ethereal.

A few of the Paloma originals that are going on my wish list:

Ice Blue Stoneware Bottles, $600 for seven

Large Vertebra Vase 2, $120

Small Bone Vase B, $40

You can find all of Sara Paloma’s Etsy offerings right here.

(Via Another Shade of Grey.)