This is totally random, but Sean said something that made me think of Belinda Carlisle, and then I got on this Google image search to look up her cutie late 70s early 80s punk photos, and it turns out she just posted a bunch I’d never seen in the last week to her Facebook. Is [...]

Yeah, so the thirty five post got me thinking. Here we are, on this internet, and yeah, it can be homogenous. But we like tea parties. We like rosy glows. We like old things with history, we like new shiny golden things. Our hearts resonate & vibrate to these things, we are not always just ‘being [...]

2011 is on the doorstep & all the tasks I’d delegated to this holiday week sit undone, a thick fog floating up around me as I become one with the couch, kittens & cocoa. What I allowed to be a short rest and recovery after the wedding is fast becoming stagnation. I have plans! Things [...]

Every hexmas I watch Bell, Book & Candle – I think Gillian might be my #1 fashion icon. For dinner this year, I’ve got a long sleeve black silk velvet 1960s dress I plan to sparkle up with rhinestone bracelets and brooches. I need way more dressing up occasions in my life! New Years resolution? [...]

These are so fun to make, I’m sad this is the last one I was planning on doing & it’s not even Thanksgiving yet, jeez. I guess I’m pretty excited for the holidays. I’ll have to think about other places I went to last year – maybe an elegant grandma gift guide inspired by Palm [...]

Next up – Paris inspiration. I’ll take one of everything on this guide, thanks! Is it weird to want beauty products? I like giving & getting tiny luxurious things I might not spring for myself. That Huiles & Baumes dry body oil is absolute heaven, btw. I had a tiny sample from a Parisian pharmacy [...]

While I’m not a big shopper, I do love playing pretend and making gift guides. I’m inspired by three of the places I traveled to this year: Ireland, Vermont, & Paris. While obviously some of the items are inspirational & not realistic cost-wise, they are possible to find in handmade or lower priced iterations. I [...]

You can tell I’m in the wedding home stretch, the last few posts have featured other peoples photos! I feel bad about that, but I have so much work to do, no time for adventures & photos!! I’m just trying to gather all my final prep for the wedding, and gathering last minute inspiration around [...]

At the beginning of March, I made a quick and dirty Facebook status update, asking if other women would want to get together to map out business plans & goals for art/work & network & inspire & brainstorm. The response seemed positive, and more and more interest in this formed in my head. So many [...]

I’m attempting a style evolution, or at least a cohesion. I started tracking inspiration on Tumblr for everyday fashion, vs the wedding tumblr I’d started with fantastic over the top images. I LOVE TUMBLR, by the by. It’s like tiny folders for my head, with other people contributing. So good. I’ve been trying to pay more [...]

I’ve been drawn to spring things, pinks and blues, strange for me! all photos in moodboard mine except nest, ceiling, & screenshot from Bolshoi Ballet ’67. Click to enlarge! Recent finds: Royal Staffordshire teapot, pink milk glass cake stand, gold and pink dish, green creamer, embossed glass goblet/vase. and 25 of these glasses, for very [...]

I worked from home today, and while cleaning up my desk area, noticed a card for the weekly fabric sale at Erica Tanov, which is just down the street. I’d been wanting to go for months and months but am never on home on Thursday. So today at lunch, I ran over! Eeeek! This is [...]