. { calming bedrooms - a must }

How divine do these beds look? Maybe I need another cup of coffee, but looking at calm and serene bedrooms is making me miss my bed. I bet my bed misses me too. 


So, I moved this weekend with the help of my awesome family and friends. Let me tell you, consolidating a full 1BR apartment's contents into a room in an all ready furnished house is not easy. I am bruised, sore, and it took me 15 minutes to find my shoes this morning. Tonight my focus is going to getting my room whipped into shape. Then I can have a quiet and serene little room too! My Dad and I painted my new room this week - the shade is similar to the walls in the left picture ... score.  Sidenote - Have you ever heard of West Elm? I just found this through Cup of Jo, and am loving their lighting!

Anyways, Happy Monday / Halloween!
xoxo
H

(images via the World Wide Web)
(via Al Gore ... thanks, Al)

color palette: rich & serene

I am loving this soothing and rich color palette. GAP's Spring RTW 2011 campaign offers clean and cool lines that remind me of the quiet and muted tones of this amazing home office that I am in complete love with. Pair them with this quiet photo taken in British Columbia, and it makes a happy little trio of calm, quiet, and rich colors and textures. 

Anyone up for helping me redecorate my apartment?

tiny spaces

As I've been browsing some apartment sites, I'm 

starting to realize the extreme costs that come with living 

in NYC! I can afford to live in a tiny studio in very few places!

But, when I look at great pictures like these, it gives

me hope! Just because I can afford a tiny space that's not

the Ritz, doesn't mean I can't be creative with storage.

Vertical storage and creative placement of shelving 

is such a great way to use a space to the fullest ...

These pictures make me want to go move now!

[ tuesday treats ]

I love these quotation earrings by Tom Binns,

so quirky and sharp!

This is a sneak-peak at one of the cards in 

my soon-released card set!

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Belegant Home & Pet has very interesting furniture.

I would love this headboard on a big bed, 

and the upholstered bench for the foot!

{first week back}

I'm finally back to school and as busy as ever!

I am now entering my last semester in undergraduate college,

and to me, that is impossible! I very firmly informed a member of

my beloved security office that I am not going to grow up.

Ever. Ever-ever-ever. (I believe they call that Peter Pan Syndrome).

~

All week long I've been looking through some fun things:

Why does Natalie Portman keep showing up in my blog?

Gosh, she is pretty, though. Maybe it's the hair-eyes-cheekbones

combo (a deadly one at that).

(via Fashion Gone Rogue -- Elle UK, Feb)

Whilst browsing Sister's lovely blog, I went to the wonderful

Desire to Inspire page, and found these. Normally I post things I love

...but these I hate. When I look at them I feel like I'm in a terrifying

time warp with my mother's narration "Oh my word, that looks like

some wretched thing from the 70s!"

I agree wholeheartedly with the wretched 70s vibe. Ew.

But, I did love this (also from Desire to Inspire).

~

And so the long weekend begins!

Have a great MLKJr weekend!

another rainy friday...

It's raining in Maine today... again. Will it ever go away?
Today all I can think of is the Peter, Paul, and Mary song:

Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day...

So, here are some pretty things that have caught my eye and helped my quiet morning and afternoon slide by.

Davie & Chiyo have very cool things on Etsy.
Love this purse! It'd look very snappy and elegant with the outfit I'll be wearing to a wedding next weekend. Alas, I do not have the 85 Buckaroos required to own this baby.

Aaand while I'm in drooling-for-handbags mode, how about this?
Cotton Purr has cute hand bags, and I want this. So snappy! Plus, it's got a wrist strap, which is essential for my handiness seeing that my hands are 100% full 90% of the time. I could see this with jeans (of course) and my white ruffled tuxedo-esque shirt that I got for $12 at Marshall's this spring.

Something else that was pretty that distracted me from my silent office (not that I'm complaining). Found on Etsy by Erase and Repeat. Purples are pretty, no?
~
Ok. Now that I'm done drooling (wiping chin and desk),
I'm on to idea-stealing.

Very cool way to store jewelery. I hate how my necklaces are stored in a million and one Sign of the Sun boxes. They're always all tangled up, plus, I often experience moments of serious panic when I can't find something because one of the boxes has fallen behind my desk. Those moments of discovering the fallen boxes do rock though... somewhat like Christmas!
via Decorology via Together We Think Funny

I love this idea from Made by Girl.
Would it be a terrible, unforgivable thing to steal the idea and make note cards out of something like this? I can't wait for my big graphic design independent study that's coming in September. We (the minuscule art department at St. Jose's) actually just got a new room that will be converted into a print room/embossing room! The room belonged to none other than the IT office. We (the IT office) stored all of our dead computers, servers, keyboards, mice (not the furry kind), and monitors there. So, the room previously known as "the dungeon" and "the graveyard" and "that awful closet" is now going to be where I spend a lot of time. Cool!
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Idea-Stealing? Check. Now back to drooling:

My heart belongs to the farm. You can take me off of it, you can sell it, you can even put me on a boring college campus. But you'll never make me stop wanting to be a horse-loving/owning country girl.

This is so pretty. I want what my family calls a "Gentleman's Farm" when I'm a big kid and have kids and lots of money (haha). Wouldn't a country home with some pretty little nags be nice?
~
Ok, I've rambled about all the things I want.
Now about the things I have:

I love my family.
I love my education.
So many opportunities that too many people don't have.
I love my country
... regardless of the current leadership's faux pas.
I love my new rain jacket that my Mom bought for me!
Lord knows I need it with this weather!

oh baby you, you got what i need...

a little taste of my trip to Fenway:
Yawkey Way in the background

(while waiting for a brew)

some designs from Haute Hippie
(can we say sexy?)

love the bead-work on this top
(from SS09 collection)

more beads and leather

looking at these bed on Living etc is not helping me wake up.
I want to snuggle up in this bed now.

love the wall color in this room.
(also from Living etc)

a little design from Alternative Motivation

he's been stuck in my head for 5 days. this is the song.
(thanks to this commercial)

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Ruche has cute hippie-ish clothes. I likey them.

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I have an announcement:
I am going to see Dave Matthews at Fenway tomorrow night!
Willie Nelson opens...

... and Dave premiers the new album Big Whiskey & the Groo Grux King!

i love the following:
wall coloring, built-in bench, framed poster, cow-skin carpet

i want to jump on this bed.
(both via Design Sponge)

Phil Yamada makes very cool things.
Above is part of an alphabet series done with acrylic on old newpapers (very cool).

I may be copying this idea very soon...
(via Sesame Letterpress)

Please note the mouse in belly. Thanks.
(via A Beastie A Day)

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Anna Bond's blog rocks, and so do her designs.
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I love Garance Dore's illustrations!

oh wow wednesday

the back of this dress is oh so sexy.
(via .v)

Hugh Stewart is a crazy photographer.
(love her eyes)

(love her boots)
Hugh Stewart

(love her dress)
Hugh Stewart

who wouldn't love a peaceful bedroom from IKEA?


love this chest from IKEA's Hemnes collection.
kind of a modern take on the antique dressers in my mom's house!
very cool fabrics from IKEA.
perhaps I should put some of my designs on fabric?

Rescue Me has got to be my new favorite show.
Season 5 is running now, but hulu is catching me up!

amazing photo of Ellsbury getting tagged at home...
he was out, but we still beat the Angels. GO SOX.
(photo via mlb.com)

I read this Dorothy Parker quote today and giggled:

I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four I'm under my host...

~

happy-happy-happy spring!

Springtime is here, and I can't wait for these!
(via my flickr)

I've got the spring-bug--
my cabin fever's at an all-time high.
I want to go here now.

This jacket by Orla Kiely would be perfect for
wearing to either of the above locations!

I love sketches, especially ones by Garance Dore.

Brocade Home is back in business!
Some of this stuff is too ornate and fussy...
but this chair = love.

Fantastic stationary found at Black Pearl Press.
(via Ali Loves Curtis)

Very cool pattern. Think I could make this in Illustrator?
(via Orla Kiely)

Hooray for paper cranes! These were used at a wedding!
Just for kicks and giggles, I'm making my own version.
(via Eco Chic Weddings)
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Because I'm a dummy, I had to find these great instructions on how to actually make paper cranes.
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Tamara Muth-King photography is amazing.