An official White House photo of the Christmas Tree. Beautiful!   Via

Christmas day is approaching, and the Christmas Tree is the central point of your holiday decorations. I hope these interior Christmas tree decorating ideas inspired you to find what you need for your Christmas day.
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Wrapping gifts in this QRapping Paper with a QR Code pattern will sure to bring joy to anyone with a smartphone. The Interactive QRapping Paper comes with two 20-by-30-inch sheets and has over 50 holiday themed short films you can scan with your mobile phone and watch. This includes videos like Harry Truman in Heaven, and one in which a gingerbread man torches his foreclosed gingerbread house.  Via

Design by Snowhome for Suck UK, accumulator money box lets you see how much you’ve saved instantly, with handy examples of comparative amounts. Need to konw when you’ve got enough to feed an elephant for a week? And What does 237 pounds mean in the year 1870? The Accumulator will all tell you. One more coin you put into the Accumulator, the closer you’ll get to your next goal.  Via

If you fancy more of an indoor bike rack, check out this one designed by Thomas Deeprose. Designer came up with this solution for fixed gear bike riders to store their bike while also displaying it as a piece of home-made art.
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The romantic idea of a wine cellar was joined up with an even older fantasy: the trapdoor in the kitchen floor. Spiral Wine Cellars is just that design, it’s a watertight, pre-cast cylindrical system that’s sunk into the ground, and can be installed almost anywhere in your home. Just think of announcing to your guests: I’ll go pick up another bottle, and then throwing open a trapdoor in the floor.
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P&C Christmas Cracker by Present and Correct. Made from graph paper, in Devon, each cracker will burst open (with a bang!) to reveal a foiled pencil, a tag notebook, wood rubber stamp, scrabble magnet, vintage animal eraser & finally a chocolate sixpence for luck!   Via

Interesting Halloween costume/odd furniture, Sofa suit by D00M99, Ducky Boy, and Geoffrito.
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Camioncyclette, a transportation bike designed by Christophe Machet, features ample sized storage compartments in the front and back of the bike, and the ride-able prototype can carry loads up to 150kg at one time.  Via

Green Trace project by Designer Junjie Zhang. A flat umbrella stand comes fitted with mesh and some pre-sowed seeds; during the rainy season, rain from the umbrella slips into the meshes of the Green Trace, and the plants will grow particularly well at the most frequent resting spots for the umbrella.
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