--- title: My favorite things (a few) description: My favorite things (a few) image: https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302202-jpg/blog-files/inspire-family2.jpg --- - [**](https://www.pinterest.com/cletile/) - [**](https://www.facebook.com/Tilevera/) - [**](https://twitter.com/cletile) - [**](https://www.instagram.com/cletile/?hl=en) [![cle tile logo](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Cletile_March2016/logos/cle-logo-new.png?width=444&name=cle-logo-new.png "cle tile logo")](http://www.cletile.com/) [** search](http://www.cletile.com/search) [** ](https://info.cletile.com/blog-test/tile_envy/my-favorite-things-a-few/#sidr) ## Shop by Collection ### Browse [** search](http://www.cletile.com/search) # My favorite things (a few) 17 February 2010 Have you seen those features in design magazines where they ask a famous designer or style icon to list their top 10 (or 12?) items and inspirations they can't live without? I looove those. So one day, in true Gilda Radner fashion, I decided to write a post pretending that I was that fabulous designer who is asked to give her top 10 list and who, likewise, responds in a most benevolent and glorious fashion. Then when Tile Envy was fortunate enough to be one of the 300 blogs participating in the sfgirlbybay.com [blog-it-forward](http://www.sfgirlbybay.com/blog-it-forward/) event, I thought -hey, I can just post this list- 1- Family- [![(no explanation needed here)](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302202-jpg/blog-files/inspire-family2.jpg?width=530&height=350&name=inspire-family2.jpg "inspire family")](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302202-jpg/blog-files/inspire-family2.jpg) (of course) 2- Sausalito- a most cozy village. [![(shhh...best kept secret)](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302252-jpg/blog-files/inspire-ocean.jpg?width=530&height=300&name=inspire-ocean.jpg "inspire ocean")](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302252-jpg/blog-files/inspire-ocean.jpg) (shhh...best kept secret) 3-Radio Head, Kate Bush, Mozart - can't name them all - pushing on the sound barrier. ![inspire mus](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302282-jpg/blog-files/inspire-mus.jpg?width=533&height=300&name=inspire-mus.jpg "inspire mus") (reminds me the world is magical) 4-Dries, Miuccia, McQueen (RIP), Galliano - and on and on - mixing theatrics with function. [![(art by seasons)](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302292-jpg/blog-files/inspire-fashion.jpg?width=530&height=420&name=inspire-fashion.jpg "inspire fashion")](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302292-jpg/blog-files/inspire-fashion.jpg) (art by seasons) 5- Movies. My perfect day- watching several. [![(the world through a series of visions)](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302302-jpg/blog-files/cinemapara01.jpg?width=530&height=380&name=cinemapara01.jpg "CinemaPara01")](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302302-jpg/blog-files/cinemapara01.jpg) (the world through visions) 6-Magazines/Blogs- with editorials that surprise me. [![cthruhouse](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302317-jpg/blog-files/cthruhouse.jpg?width=530&height=380&name=cthruhouse.jpg "cthruhouse")](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302317-jpg/blog-files/cthruhouse.jpg) (surprising!) 7-Rauschenberg, Freud, Sargent, Cornell, Wyeth - and all artists that connect us to the collective unconscious. [![tokujin water bench](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302352-jpeg/blog-files/waterbench05.jpeg?width=550&height=345&name=waterbench05.jpeg "waterbench05")](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302352-jpeg/blog-files/waterbench05.jpeg)(thanks tokujin) 8-The perfect meal - food, family, friends. ![babette's+feast+table](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302382-jpg/blog-files/babettes+feast+table.jpg?width=530&height=385&name=babettes+feast+table.jpg "babette's+feast+table") 9-Birds -especially crows. [![(visiting where we only dream)](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302412-jpg/blog-files/inspire-bird1.jpg?width=500&height=375&name=inspire-bird1.jpg "inspire bird")](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302412-jpg/blog-files/inspire-bird1.jpg) (visiting where we only dream) 10. Tile. Repetition, color (or not), 90 degrees (or not); fire and earth. [![(and on, and on)](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302442-jpg/blog-files/inspire-tile1.jpg?width=500&height=333&name=inspire-tile1.jpg "inspire tile")](https://info.cletile.com/hs-fs/file-4024302442-jpg/blog-files/inspire-tile1.jpg) There... the first 10 inspirations that popped into my head. It was difficult for me to limit myself to 10. I think I need to do at least 10 lists of 10 inspirations. But, I hope that you're inspired enough to check in on the rest of my [blog-it-forward group for 2/18/10](http://www.sfgirlbybay.com/blog-it-forward/). And for tomorrow- please log onto my tag-partner - [Tiny-Ass Apartment](http://tinyassapartment.blogspot.com/). I've really enjoyed reading about what ingenious small-space creations are featured on Simone's entertaining blog. 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