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02/08/2024

Have we made the cleanest looking belt the world has ever seen? It has always seemed a little loopy to us to have belt loops on our pants AND a keeper loop on our belt. While we were trying to get rid of the keeper loop, we wondered if we could also get rid of the belt buckle.

Introducing Boring Belt!

Boring Belt works like any other belt, but the hidden hook and magnets make it so you’ll never have to wear all that clutter around your waist again. Boring Belt can be both casual and formal. It works with jeans and with a suit or dress.

Boring Belt is painstakingly crafted in the US.

https://ilovehandles.com/shop/boring-belt/

12/06/2024

Need some good cocktail chatter? Below are some interesting facts about our second Topo Bowl, Crater Lake:

-It was formed around 7,700 years ago by the collapse of Mount Mazama.

-Native American oral history tells the story of a battle between the sky god and the god of the underworld that created the lake.

-It is the deepest lake in the U.S.

-No rivers flow in or out of the lake. All of the water is replaced every 250 years.

-The ”Old Man of the Lake" is a full-sized tree (now a log) that has been bobbing vertically in the lake for over a century.

-It is famous for its deep blue color and water clarity.

-the waters of Crater Lake are some of the purest in the world. (In 1997, scientists recorded a record visibility reading of 142 ft deep.)

-Some hydrothermal activity remains along the lake floor, suggesting that at some time in the future, Mazama may erupt once again.

https://ilovehandles.com/shop/topo-bowls/

06/06/2024

We made two custom, white oak Switchboards for a customer, and they look absolutely amazing!

14/03/2023

Six years later, Slabs is still one of our favorite product lines. They were written up in the Seattle Times and Core77, they were sold in West Elm, and in Chip and Joanna Gaines’s store, and…we simply love using them ourselves. Slabs have kept our workspaces tidy with a place for pens, scissors, loose change, keys, tape, and a phone. But what about our wallet? Or holiday cards? Or extra business cards? Or…other flat things? Or your soft ice cream cone sticker?

Meet the new and improved Phone Slab, redesigned with multiple slots of varying widths for your phone and more.

https://ilovehandles.com/shop/slabs/

07/03/2023

The Numbers Game

Wrist Ruler started as a “Workshop” product, which was a monthly sprint to quickly design and make a product in the US. We would make them in small production runs and number them. After a certain point, we made so many that it seemed silly to us at the time to keep numbering them.

A few years later, I was at the One Moto Show in Portland and ran into a good friend, Martha. I got excited when I noticed that she was wearing a well-patinaed Wrist Ruler. She casually took it off and showed me the underside where I could still decipher “LVLY.005.” She was wearing the fifth Wrist Ruler! (I wear an unnumbered prototype, and my wife wears number 6753.) If anyone has any of the early, numbered Wrist Rulers, we would love to hear from you.

27/04/2022

26/01/2022

I get it. That’s how I find everything, too.

12/10/2021

Mini, meet Tiny.

19/01/2021

Notepad is an erasable reusable, restickable adhesive pad. You can write with any ballpoint pen and erase with any eraser!

We made special sizes for iPhone 8 and X/XS, rectangular pads designed for laptops, and yellow squares for everything else: tablets, other phones, water bottle, refrigerator, etc.

Notepad. Write. Erase. Repeat.

08/01/2021

Walnut Switchboards are back in stock!

(White and black, too!)

07/01/2021

White Switchboards are back in stock!
(Walnut and black, too!)

30/11/2020

Today is Cyber Monday, and we are offering 25% off of everything! Click the link in our bio, peruse the site, and save some dough. We have a lot of great gifts for all ages--as well as cool wrapping paper to wrap them in.

We are so grateful to all of you! Have a safe and happy holiday season.

Rich and Avik

Don't forget the code: CYBER25