Eye Spy

I just found a receipt from this place and had a flashback to one of the most interesting and adorable shops I’ve been to in a long time. Most gift shops have a standard artillery of Umbra plastic housewares, mugs with funny phrases, etc. Eye Spy is one of the few that branches out into some cute stuff you actually haven’t seen before. My husband and I got a «Soap Man» liquid soap dispenser that has actually become part of our family… I can’t imagine ever replacing him, and he only cost $ 10. (if you have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s what it is–
– although I can’t actually find a store that sells them anymore!)
It’s been 2 – 3 years since I’ve been here, but if we ever found ourselves in Toronto again, this would be my first stop on the housewares/​gift stores circuit!

eye spy with my little eye something silly. eye spy with my little eye something to write in. eye spy with my little eye something to help set my table for dinner when i invite my equally silly friends and family over. eye spy something iconoclastic, something created by a real someone, something useful and fun at the same time.
eye spy opens your eyes on a wash of many objects, some useful, some less useful, some large and small but overwhelmingly filled with a lightness of spirit, with a knowledge that if we are going to use certain objects in our lives, why not remind ourselves that these objects, or life itself is not all that precious but giddy. perhaps you might want, as i did, for no particular reason, well, no discernible purpose, a book of over 250 stickers. i dont even know where the hell id put them. but it wouldnt stop me from buying it. (my poorness did, but once i pay my rent…). or maybe youd like to admit that youre a bastard like everyone else and pick up a small book that through the flipping of its pages you can enjoy the images of someone getting hurt by a tennis ball aced to the head lets say (dont even think about thinking that youre not that person — ever stopped to check out an accident? laughed when someone slipped on a proverbial banana peel?). exactly. theres many more objects of similar sentiment.
also, you can surround these ticklers with some of the swank vintage furniture they have there, and then purchase an enormous art book to put on that furniture and some notebooks to write your musings in, or to record the psychosis of others. who knows?
its just impossible not to walk out of here with a smile on your face. its so goddamn cheeky!