Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and The Raven all jazzed up in pillow form.

Once in a great while we dive into literary home decor--and nothing says home decor like a bachelor who writes a blog.

I'm an insomniac. This means I have no use for pillows, because I'm just going to be walking around the house, doing jumping jacks, wind sprints, and drinking a gallon or two of coffee. No sleeping after all.

But maybe--just maybe--if I had a pillow with inspirational Peter Pan quotes written all across it about the magic of sleep, I might just end up in the Land of Nod for once.

Sweet Meadow Designs creates a variety of pillow designs, most with words and phrases--but they also rely on quotes from Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, and even a little Edgar Allan Poe.

The Raven pillow looks amazing, but if I'm going to sleep--ever--I don't need something reminding me "Nevermore."



all from: Sweet Meadow Designs

Famous Last Words: Virginia Woolf couldn't keep things pithy even in death.

The Huffington Post has a photo slideshow about famous author's last words.

Half of them are probably apocryphal. I can't believe that Oscar Wilde is glib and sassy just as death awaits, or that poet Walter De La Mare's last words just happened to be so poetically stated as: "Too late for fruit. Too soon for flowers." Sure, pops. Whatever you say.

But I do believe that J.M Barrie was pretty straight-forward and said, hey, you know what? "I can't sleep." Sounds logical when your lungs are filled with pneumonia.

Or Franz Kafka losing his mind and screaming at a doctor to kill him. "Kill me or you are a murderer!" Sounds like a logical thing to say when tuberculosis is starving you. It's short, it's to the point, and you kind of get the subtle gist he's pretty ticked.

Anton Chekhov? "It's been a long time since I drank champagne." He apparently downed the drink, went to bed, and died. Did he toast his death? ((shrugs shoulders)) Sure, why not?

But Virginia Woolf--ahh, Virginia. Her suicide note runs 294 words. 294 final words. Shockingly, it wasn't written in a one sentence long giant block of text that lulls you into a mild state of unconsciousness.