Safety First

Vintage Children's Training Scissors 

$10 from Studio Stebby Lee via Etsy

I can't figure out how these four-finger scissors work exactly. They look like a torture device for poor preschoolers. But an aesthetically pleasing torture device nonetheless. I wish I had known about them when I made my scissor print. 

- Cathleen 

Scissors

Claes Oldenburg: Scissors as Monument, from National Collection of Fine Arts 1967.

Fishs Eddy, Tailor Scissors $22.95.

I love a good pair of scissors. I have a few pairs that are so wonderful they have followed me throughout my life.

Once Martha Stewart had a whole section of her magazine devoted to scissors throughout history. It was an epic Martha moment- but let's be honest, all Martha moments are epic. 

In the art room at the school I teach we have various scissors and one pair of all metal scissors. That old pair of scissors is beast. It has long blades and cuts through everything. They are beautiful in their banality and their dependability. 

-Grace

Best Made Company is THE Best.

I'm obsessed—like get a restraining order-obsessed. I came across this website last night for Best Made Company.

Their mission statement is to sell high quality (and high design) tools that not only encourage their users to go outside, but also to be of such impeccable quality that they can be passed down from generation to generation.

Here are some of my favorite things from their online store:

The Canuck Clipper is priced at $250. I showed this to my husband, a wanna-be full-time outdoors-man, and was trying to convince him that we needed to buy this and he sighed and reminded me that I'd insist we hang it on the wall as an art piece instead of actually using it. True, hubby, true. 

Cloth extension cords, $34 each. After seeing these I was thinking about how badly I need an extension cord even though I currently have 10 unused ones in my utility closet. But in my defense, the ones I have are plastic coated and therefore lame. 

Dog Lead, $56. I don't have a dog, but now I want one just so I can buy this leash! I like how they call it a "lead" instead of a leash. Makes me feel all sorts of inferior.

Matchsafe, $9. So cute.

Metropolitan Whistle, $35. I want to wear this as a rape whistle.

Not going to lie: I'm kind of a scissor Nazi. Just ask my husband. These are Best Made Company's Shears from Japan which sell for $116.

I could literally post about five more things that I personally like, but then I'd have posted all of their inventory, so I'll just leave the rest for you to discover. 

Let me know what you think.

-Grace