I found a neat little eBay store over the weekend while searching for an alabaster deer head. Strange item to desire, but you must relate... I think we've all obsessed over something that others found a bit odd (your boyfriend, those jelly shoes, that eggplant hair color). I first came a white deer head in Real Simple magazine, then I spotted another on flickr from Shimrit + Yaar. Seeing that I couldn't find any in local stores, or online (when I did they were always out of stock), I turned to my friendly eBay and searched for 'deer heads'. Simple enough. Or so I thought.

I kid you not, I had to endure endless images of creepy stuffed heads until I found my diamond in the rough, a seller that not only had several in stock, but the price was right. He also has an online store in addition to his website, and his home won the 2005 "Home of the Year" award from Metropolitan Home magazine. A Thai-American living in Washington, D.C., Supon Phornirunlit, has a great eye for design and stocks some great products, so I'm sure you'll want to shop his finds in both his eBay store and website, Home Republic. See Supon's home here (don't miss his retro cookie jar collection!).

I know some say antlers are out, but I think good design is good design and if it makes you happy and looks great in your space, then that is all that really matters. I plan to have a dog someday and think this would make a fun hook for a dog leash in a mud room, so once I tire of it on display in my living room, I'll move it over to another area of my home for a more functional purpose, like the entryway.

So, what do you think of these heads? Be honest.