We’re digging these eco-friendly, self-adhesive pattern tiles from Blik and Threadless. With no PVCs or phthalates, the environmentalist in you will love them. I love that the tiles can be cut, combined and arranged in any number of ways. There are five designs to choose from. My favorite is Trees.

Blik is also running a Summer Madness Sweepstakes with the always cool Threadless where everyone who enters get an automatic $5 off code. Just another incentive to pick-up one of the new wall tiles. Check out their Facebook fan page to enter.

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Flying Mouse 365 designer Chow Hon Lam enjoys poking fun at pop culture with his quirky t-shirt designs, as seen on Threadless. They ooze so much cool that they’re practically always sold-out.

I had a dream once that I was in one of Thomas Kinkade’s cottage settings, only instead of being pastel and pleasant, it was full of flames and people running for their lives screaming. Years later, I’m still not sure what that was all about; except that I’m afraid of country settings and that my fear of not being able to prevent a forest fire might come true!

All that aside, I couldn’t help but smirk a little when I saw this shirt on Threadless, titled Firelight Cottage and designed by Nathan Stillie. The image of a robot destroying what looks to be like The Painter of Light’s home settings is probably every art school student’s dream, and yet it was my nightmare come to life. A nightmare I bought for only $15.

Seriously, all jokes aside, we really need to tear ourselves away from our computers every once in a while. These shirts, on sale at Threadless, may be intended as a light-hearted jab at modern culture, but who will be laughing when our hands become gnarled claws from decades of ceaseless typing and our spinal columns have fused solid from lack of movement? Evil monkeys, that’s who.