Posts from — October 2009

We received a nice surprise in the mail today, a late wedding present! So sweet, and such perfect timing for a crate and barrel gift card, considering we move this weekend!  I can’t stop staring at this lamp…

I would like to put these little pinwheels all of my walls… perhaps one day in a nursery… yes, I think that is a great idea!

From here.

I scored this today from craigslist:

Our new kitchen was by far the largest we saw, but it still need a little extra room.  A little white paint and this will house plates, serving bowls, and will be a nice place to showcase my kitchen-aid mixer and my cook books!

With only one week till the move I am so excited. Excited to decorate, excited to move back to the small beach town I love, excited to get out of this apartment complex… and this island has just made that excitement grow.

Thanks craigslist. And Charlie for selling it to me!

I love when I hear that my tutorial helped someone, and I love it even more when I get to see the outcome!

Laurel sent me these pictures and told me a little about the baby shower she threw:
“The shower was hosted at a pool-side cafe inside a Las Vegas resort hotel. We ended up using a few of the flower balls as table centerpieces, which I think worked out well. The shower theme was pink elephants with zebra print accents. The handmade invitation  featured a cute little elephant cut-out and the same zebra print ribbon we used to hang the flower balls. The theme also carried over with the cupcakes and cupcake toppers. I was originally going to only do dark pink & light pink flower balls, but ended making the orange ones to tie in the color scheme of the restaurant. So glad I did because the overall event looked so much more complete.”

Thanks for sharing Laurel!  I love the colors, zebra print and those elephants! So adorable!!

loving this picture (and those dresses!) shot by Hugh Forte.

(shot by matthew morgan. edited by me)

I want… no I need this office.

So bright, so organized, so pretty. I wonder if bright yellow walls would go with our chocolate brown carpet… Hmm…

Office created by this Lady.

Loving the bold colors and prints on these May Books.

happy monday! (well, I post at night so it is still sunday… minor detail….)

This weekend was filled with photo editing (a real wedding I will share later on in the week), an event held at the mission,  our 3 month anniversary (!) and a trip to the Getty Villa with my mom and sisters. I had never been before, and it was the perfect weather for an outing.  Lunch and a little shopping in the Santa Monica Promenade finished off the trip.

(all images by me)

P.S. I added a new link category for some of my favorite home design blogs! And as always, if you have a blog that you think I would like, leave it in the comments section so I can check it out!!

Well lovely readers, we signed the lease for our new place!  Goodbye 1 bedroom Mission Viejo complex apartment, hello 2 bedroom Capistrano Beach duplex apartment! We are so excited!  And it definitely needs some love, so expect more than a few before and afters and a whole lot of inspiration searching here. (Um, taupe walls and dark chocolate carpet… I will need to consult my new domino book!)

This weekend brings the Getty Villa and The Vintage. A nice way to relax before the craziness of moving really sets in.

And because every post needs a pretty picture:

(shot by the very talented Matthew Morgan)