Pantone Hotel

Pantone has opened the Pantone Hotel in Brussels . The color forecasting company has used the format of a hotel to emphasize on color. Superbly non-linear.

Paint companies can adapt this in brilliant ways by doing up public spaces , collaborating with furnishing stores , off beat restaurants , boutiques.

Leaves..

Love the way the green and dried leaves blend...

Fact stranger than fiction :)

Finnish firm Teddy Tours Lapland Oy (www.teddytourslapland.com) has come up with one solution: holidays in northern Finland for that special stuffed friend costing from 110 euros to 170 euros ($140-$216).

The "Standard Journey" for teddies includes a trip around the northern town of Rovaniemi and is capped off with a visit to Santa Claus. The stuffed animal will also receive a gift, send a postcard to its owner and be sent home with holiday photos.

The "Luxury Journey" includes, on top of the standard journey package, a trip to a reindeer farm where the bear can feed Santa's reindeer.

"This is followed by a snowmobile safari. On safari, Teddy will try ice fishing on the frozen waterway and savor hot chocolate by the campfire," the firm said on its Web site, adding the whole trip will also be recorded on videotape.

Teddy Tours Lapland will also provide the bear, should you not want to send your own abroad or don't own one yet.

Currently the company only offers trips during the winter, but it is also planning summer programs as well.

"People or living pets may not participate on these trips," the firm said on its Web site.

What next ?

..Holidays for your furniture ? They have been cooped up too long in one place

..Holidays for your clothes ? You bought beach wear and never took it to the beach . So beach holidays for beachwear , mountain holidays for your woolens.

Instant weight loss

Like the garbage that washes ashore mailers like this get delivered with the newspaper.

Looks like a pic from a tabloid movie magazine . It's the pamphlet of a weight loss clinic . They hope to imply that by signing up for their services you can aspire to look like this. This could possibly have be plausible if it was the ad of a gym that promised to make you work out extensively.

Symptom of the times I guess when everything is desired and promised 'instantly'.

Anyone that signs up for weight-loss based on this ad needs therapy of an altogether different nature.