someone really should buy this

the color is fantastic and i would, but i can't. so you should ...


click here to see more images/purchase a fantastic yellow dress. i have such a weakness for yellow dresses, i want a closet full.

thinking about

investing in a pair of false eyelashes. why you ask? because who doesn't need rainbows on their eyes?

i NEED a stampede for my wall

NEED. did you guys see this diy project on design sponge from the lovely ann wood? jaw on the floor. house full of empty walls. a million projects never seen to completion .... i think i'm in.

keeping it simple

it is hard to do in a world filled with amazing flowers and more amazing bits and bops of various motley, but honestly a pared down table is unbeatable.






{1. chelsea fuss, 2. jose villa, 3/4. sunday suppers}

whoopsie

so it turns out today is wednesday and not tuesday (damn you monday holidays) and in case you didn't notice, i completely and totally spaced on the wedding posts. so ... expect them tomorrow. i promise.

photo found here.

daisuke hiraiwa

plastic spoons as chandelier .. i'm in lust.


by london based japanese designer daisuke hiraiwa. found here.

mokuba ribbon

i have always been a midori kind of girl when it comes to ribbon, well i also kinda hover around these, but when i came across mokuba ribbon while frolicking through kate's paperie i maybe, just maybe, found a new favorite. this line is HARD to find via the interwebs but this is a pretty good resource.

my favorite ribbon, which was actually more of a lace (see below), isn't available through that outpost but kate's carries it if you are in the neighborhood.

skipping monday is my favorite thing.

so i'm back along with mas and frances. it was a wonderful trip, and honestly i cannot believe that it is over. there was the NSS, which oh so beautiful paper provides pretty good overview of, then maine for a quick trip to say happy birthday to my brother, which was just so lovely, and on down to north carolina for the bbq and some family time, oh my it was just so wonderful in asheville - green and lush and FILLED with trees. i miss it already...




but now on to things that i found while away ... because honestly there was a lot. first up ... dunderdon. my mom and i happened upon this shop while wandering around and both of us fell in love with the simple fabrics and ridiculous attention to detail. dunderdon was started by a sweedish carpenter who was focused on design and construction. the line isn't huge but every piece is perfect. oh and their boys clothing is wonderful.

happy friday!

you guys, i am in heaven. i am constantly forgetting just how pretty the city i grew up in is. i mean i am absolutely surrounded by trees and flowers and mountains and birds. i cannot believe this is how i am finishing my whirlwind 10 days of east coastieness. and ... the best part ... mas + frances are arriving in two hours!!!! i haven't seen mas in three weeks ... geez that is a long time.

anyway tomorrow is THE bbq (site courtesy of my dad) ... and then it is back to the left coast (and regular posting) starting monday. i am going to be sad to say goodbye to all of the trees.

i hope everyone has a more than lovely weekend.

{photo of asheville via this flickr stream}

dresses, REALLY PRETTY dresses

while walking like a mad woman in new york i happened upon a store that drew me in with such force i am surprised i was able to leave. it was full of glorious, beautiful dresses. and right then and there i knew that if i could have a re-do i absolutely would (ummm how many times have i said that now? apparently i have a thing for fancy white dresses). anyway morgane le fay makes ridiculously amazing dresses out of ridiculously amazing fabrics and they aren't priced out of this world ... if you are talking the wedding world, which i am. the one above called to me from about 100 feet and took some serious power on my mom's part (my best shopping companion) to chisel out of my hands. thoughts of me walking frances on the beach covered in barely pink feathers were dancing in my head and i was liking what i was seeing. anyway the dress would be much more appropriate for some other occasion i.e a wedding so if anyone is looking i say there is much finding at morgane le fay.