Just wow to these Y2K Pottery Barn plates

"Smoke Free"/"Hip Hop"/"Surf the Net"

(via Etsy)

When I was 15, there was this Pottery Barn bed that I desperately wanted. It was in the style of a brushed aluminum cafe chair which I felt represented a very metropolitan aesthetic. (This would also be during my “metropolitan@gurlmail.com” era — if you know, you know.) Sadly, in my eBay wanderings I didn’t come across it, but I did make, lik…