How cool is this?
Chris and I just agreed that if we win the lottery we will be moving to San Francisco.
Smithsonian – I love you, but unless you step it up and start producing art inspired pastry, I may need to defect.
How cool is this?
Chris and I just agreed that if we win the lottery we will be moving to San Francisco.
Smithsonian – I love you, but unless you step it up and start producing art inspired pastry, I may need to defect.
I am in love with Du Buh Du’s fanciful caravan pictoral for Fanciful Twist’s Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.
I just came across this adorable little alphabet print by Emily of Inside a Black Apple.






*UPDATE: Emily informed me that L is for “lace” and Z is for “Zorro.” Aha!
I just found a DC artist (love local talent!) who does wonderful mixed media collage pieces.
Claudine Hellmuth promises “hip art for playful hearts.” I for one think she delivers! Just look at some of her custom work:
When I was a little girl, I made things with paper. Old wallpaper samples of my mother’s…colorful wrapping paper…construction paper…I just loooved to cut and glue and create with paper!
So Susan Schneider’s lovely website, Shandell’s makes my fingers itch to “make stuff.”
She uses vintage paper, architectural salvage and forlorn and forgotten antiques to create all kinds of treasures.
Like lamp shades…




My only problem is that I’m terrified of lighting matches. So in order to use these, I’d have to get over my fear (they burn down so fast!) Well, I may be a fearful person, but with with a matchbox like one of these, I can cower in style!
I found this 1796 cottage located in Charleston, South Carolina on Anna Spiro’s lovely blog. All images come from her and her other source, Pure Style.
It’s now in my Someday House file. I’d move in right now…you know, if the owner wouldn’t think it was weird…or call the police.
Don’t you just love being able to say, “I know her!” Or him, or them…whatever – just saying that you are connected to someone famous. Or kind of famous, or just really well liked…whatever.
Well, that happened to me a couple of days ago when I was perusing my Google reader oohing and aahing over design sites and wishing I didn’t have so many favorites (seriously – I open my reader and see thousands of unread posts – yikes!)
Anyway – one of my favorite favorites (there are tiers you know) is coco+kelly. And as I was breezing through a lovely little wedding pictorial, I had one of those, “I know her!” moments.
See these pretty little raspberry numbers?

They were designed by my friend Kathlin Argiro. I love Kathlin’s work and always feel very proud (and maybe just a bit smug) to show off this connection of mine.
It’s hard to see the dress in that tiny image, but here is a better view in a different fabric:

I would wear this to a garden party. And of course I would tell everyone who gave me a compliment (which would be everyone) that I KNOW the designer. Yes – I’m very well connected…
Do you have any interesting connections? Feel free to brag in comments.
Look – I’m all for the accent pillow. But those looks like big pats of butter. Maybe if they were in different prints – something bold and graphic… Anything would be better than all of that solid yellow.
And the thing hanging from the ceiling? I find it creepy…it brings to mind The Blair Witch Project. But it does work well with the stump-like things that I think are supposed to serve as coffee tables. Not that I’d risk resting a beverage on any of them.
I have admitted before that modern interiors don’t usually speak to me – but I can appreciate a well appointed room. Perhaps if this one didn’t look so stuffed full of white upholstery…a less crowded arrangement would make better use of the light. Then maybe it would hold more appeal for me.
No – I’d still hate that twig thing. Though at the very least, I’d take a “to each his own” attitude.
But hey – this “expert” opinion comes from someone with no design background and a house furnished primarily in hand-me-downs from generous parents…so it doesn’t hold very much weight. What about you? What do you think?
Disclaimer: I promise that in future, I will spew my amateur opinions as infrequently as possible since this is not a site devoted to critique (and uninformed critique at that). But every once in a while I will feel compelled to do this. When I do though, I will always invite the real experts to speak up and set me straight.
So I could fit into one of these tiny-waisted vintage frocks:
This one looks like it might work though, with its straight silhouette.
I think I missed my era. I could totally do corsets.
All images from My Favorite Vintage.
…this sweet little rendering of a design job:
And I love Little French Nest. Have you see this site? It’s new. Add it to your reader. Maintenant!