desert installation.

artist lea donnan is taking found objects, salvaging items, combining them into crochet shelters. oh and then placing them in the desert and other breathtaking spaces and places...

lea has a vast and varied background as an artist and a body of work that includes, object making, installation, video and performance art. you can read alot more about her here, and see more of what and how she creates too. enjoy!

sideboard & stools & noodles.

noodles noodles & noodles. this is a cool company with and industrial edge for sure...

from the white baked enamel sideboard with rivets to those adjustable vintage inspired steel and wood stools, the structured furniture line offered up by noodles conjures up a time gone by, a city, gritty line of furniture.

and sometimes you are seriously looking for all of that, that wood & steel component or mixture of materials and a serious industrial style in either your commercial or residential spaces. in large quantities or small. i even think one stool as a bedside nightstand is a very cool idea! enjoy...

kisses this monday...

hey for monday, and why not throw some kisses in there too!

i love wrapping up in soft t-shirt-y wraps & soft light sweaters in spring and summer. and what perfect to hold your favorite soft sweater closed than a kiss pin? or wear one smack dab and boldly on a white summer t-shirt? or on jean cut-off pockets? so sweet!

they're offered up by the super fun etsy site rockcakes. check out more kisses here.

i hope that your mother's day was everything you wanted it to be. mine was surprisingly relaxing beyond words. just what i wanted. i sat out on my tiny deck soaking up a warm sun (bonus!), drank mimosas with my breakfast, then ended up at my favorite thai restaurant at night where my son whipped out money to pay. my heart sank. why can't it be mother's day everyday? i vote yes! enjoy...

have a super weekend!

this is a good great weekend!

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it's mother's day on sunday, it's feeling like summer, my son is coming home from college for the summer, and well, it's the weekend! enjoy your weekend friends, enjoy the weather, get outside, breathe and feel good!

building block bags. for summer.

sometimes it's just really great product or materials or design. and sometimes it's the way you sell it...

i love this lookbook style from building block. oh, and i want just about every single bag for summer. all in this soft leather tone too. enjoy!

casamania.

i have a tiny outdoor 2nd floor deck. so...selecting seating for it has been a challenge...

i did end up finding 2 metal chairs in a beautiful color. the color is somewhere between a watermelon and burnt orange tone. they fit and they'll do for now. but you know how it is...when you are searching for something for your own home, inside or out, you begin noticing all of that type of fabulous product out there.

this outdoor line offered up by casamania, if i had choices with no restrictions (aka tiny deck space), would be on my radar. i love the mix between timeless and contemporary in their style. i love the clean lines, the color palettes and the painted metal material which adds an inviting texture to a wooden deck space.

do you have an outdoor seating area? how do/did you outfit it? i'd love to hear! happy almost friday friends...enjoy!

braids.

braids can be so romantic, sexy & sweet. and sometimes all at the same time...

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these are 3 that i'd love to try soon. attempting them by myself is another story, but they are worth the try.

how is your afternoon going along? i hope that you are feeling creative and inspired today! enjoy...

contemporary character.

i think that this new line offered up by leolux is fresh & fun...

chock full of lots of gentle curves, easy lines, rich appearances and elegant materials. leolux offers up some contemporary character to say the least. and although leolux is based in the netherlands, they have a very cool page that allows you to enter your zipcode and find their product all around you, wherever you live in the world. very cool indeed. enjoy!

pins i love lately.

why do you pin particular things/images/items/colors....etc.? sometimes you are just loving them and it just doesn't matter why. right?

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these are just a few that i've saved lately, that i enjoy looking at, that i thought were relevant to me. what have you been loving lately? i'd love to hear! i hope that this first day of the week is treating you well so far...enjoy!

dandy stools/tables.

happy monday friends! i was sitting out on my (tiny) deck this weekend and sipping coffee, watching SO MANY motorcycles drive by as it was the most perfect weather for that...

but i was wishing for a little table i could have dragged outside, onto the deck to eat breakfast on. these "dandy" tables offered up by studio baag would have been perfect, plus they're just plain cool.

made from cedar and laser-cut metal, the mix of mediums works so well, mixing texture, pattern, style and color palette. i love that they're versatile too, like i said you can drag them around for whatever use you need them for. check out more of what studio baag is coming up with, tons of original pieces, if you are in the market for original, which you should be...enjoy!

for friday.

happy friday friends!

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feels like another looooooong week. one thing i've been doing differently (since time has been a crazy issue lately) is setting my alarm for 5:30 and getting up to run. now that the weather is warming up, i'm finding that these morning runs are completely peaceful and gorgeous (i pass rabbits all the time!) what are you up to this weekend? anything exciting? my weekend isn't exactly looking exciting but hopefully relaxing! here are a few fun links from around the web, just for friday fun. enjoy!


i had fun watching these guys.

crochet bags on this etsy site.

bold artwork.

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a very cool do-it-yourself idea.

in complete love with these ceramics.

all modern & an observation.

i took a day to goof off last sunday and headed to boston. one of the things i really wanted to do was have a glass of wine in one of my favorite restaurant/bars in the city which was damaged by last year's marathon bombing. it was a space that, a year ago, had a definite character, unique to all of the connecting spaces near by. and since that day, i hadn't been in....

but after entering i noticed that although they transformed it, they had to as it was heavily damaged, whoever was in charge of "fixing" it, just sort of went about it in an easy way, a typical way. so i was disappointed in that i felt that it lost it's individual feel, and became more blended, a bit nondescript and well, was transformed into a space that felt like it could have been just about anywhere. a bar.

these are times when i'm reminded that there are so many choices out there, that designers have no excuse really, to be different, to push it, to create individual ideas, places & spaces. i once had an art professor who claimed that there were so few original ideas out there. i found that a bit mind boggling. because when you have more choices in materials, objects, lighting, pieces, or art than you know what to do with, how can you not help but come up with your own plan, an original making of a space.

these pieces are a few examples that i pulled from all modern's site. an absolute microscopic view of what is out there for choice or for different. a complete jungle of design choices. walking into that bar the other day had me wishing i could have taken over in the space's transformation, in "fixing" it. i think i could have, at the very least, come up with an original idea, despite what my art professor said. enjoy!