Wait. Lets take another look at that last picture, shall we? ENHANCE!

I think they have a fish problem. Called Photoshop.

But I don’t even care, I’d still totally eat there. Just rethink the flounder.

Via weheart

I never showed you the “before” of my office, once I got it all organized.

Envision a curtain in front of the shelving and printer nook.

And a totally chic office chair. I’m thinking a Louis Ghost Chair….a knockoff of course, because who has $400 to spend on an office chair. (I’ll give you a hint: not me!)

I ADORE the vaulted ceiling and all the natural light from the huge window. It’s a pretty cute room if I do say so myself :]

I grabbed some paint swatches this weekend and went back for the samples I liked. I am thinking a creamy color (like the color of the chaise lounge) for most of the the walls, then the behind the chaise a bold raspberry pink or green. We’re gonna put the samples up tonight, so I’ll report back :]

If you say anything about the fingerprints on the mirror I will cut you deep.

Via Apartment Therapy

I’ve been hittin’ the colorful rooms hard this week, so today I’m toning it down with a more neutral space. Mixing textures like this is a great way to add depth to your home without cluttering it up. Knowing us, the fab minimalist shelf would become the landing spot for our remotes. It’s not my typical style, but I’d definitely spend an evening curled up on that yummy couch with some (spiked) hot cocoa and a good flick. Wanna come with?

Have a fantastic weekend peeps, I have some good stuff planned for you next week so BE EXCITED

Via House of Turquoise

I want to have little teal and lime babies with this room. Why am I so obsessed with huge, decaying clock faces? Sooner rather than later thankyouverymuch, one must be incorporated into mi casa. And goddamn that floor is hot.

Just when I think I know what to do with the master bedroom, I go all bi-polar on myself and obsess over another idea. Oh well, I guess it’ll stay a mishmashed pit of college furniture for a while longer!

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Via Home Sweet Home

I adore this little eating* nook. The table legs, the assorted chairs, the open cabinets with mismatched dishes (seriously – I can’t stand those perfectly styled open kitchen shelves, they are overly matched and unrealistic) and good god the pink wall paper, the colors…

And check it out – you can see a hint of magnetic poetry on the fridge in the background. I loves me a good real, lived in house that is ALSO pretty.

*Because really, how many people actually only eat breakfast in them.

Byron Buffet

GOD this is sexy. If I hadn’t just bought a shelving system I’d snatch this right up for my office. A day late. A DAY LATE!

Dean Sofa

I adore the lines of this couch. And of course it would have tufting. Just to make me want it more. You can even add the Dean Chair to make it sectional-like. I’m not sure how I feel about this though.

What say you?

Nautilus Vase

Burst Candles

I’m not generally one for mass produced art, but this is huge and beautiful and would look amazing over the right bed in the right room (read: mine.)

And then the bust out something like this…

WTF is this, Z Gallerie? A kindergarten throwback? Save that for the dollar store.

Yesterday I spent the day sorting through my piles of art supplies, fabric, shipping materials and paper goods. Now, not only can you SEE the floor, but it looks like a usable room! Photos coming soon.

In the meantime, check out my inspiration. I’m going for sophisticated girlie with a graphic, flash tattoo feel. Much like this first photo. Please PLEASE tell me that one of you knows either who designed* or where to find this poster. I need it.:

Via Cafe Cartolina

Via Style Room – Pink Friday

Via I Suwannee

Via Ink & Peat

Via Patty Young

Via Sprout Home

Via Domino

Via Anthropologie

Apologies for the photos I don’t have sources for, I have been collecting them since before this blog was a just twinkle in my eye. If you recognize any of them, drop me a line as I’d love to give credit where credit is due :]

*I don’t think it’s Ed Hardy because his name isn’t plastered all over it. But I could be wrong. I hope it’s not, just on principle :]

Watch through ’till the end, you’ll be glad you did :]

See that fantastic Moroccan lantern there? The one from HomeGoods that is of course gone now? WHERE DO I FIND ANOTHER?!

Help pleeeease. I may even have a rad surprise that I will HAND DELIVER RIGHT TO well I’ll mail it to you. If you can find one for me. Ok? Deal? PLEASE?! It’s for the children.

Now wouldn’t this look much better?

Update: I went to HomeGoods and they had them again! …But in green and purple, not my precious shiny silver. Wanna check yours? I WILL PAY YOU CASH MONIES.

Once upon a time I had hopes and dreams. Perhaps unfounded hopes and dreams, but hopes and dreams nonetheless.

They were squashed. The Wal-Mart “velvet” blackout curtains I so bravely ordered turned out to be COMPLETE CRAP. I don’t know what the people who reviewed them were thinking, because they are COMPLETE CRAP. I’d be willing to bet that Wal-Mart filters the reviews. I would just like to emphasize the COMPLETE part of the crap.

They were basically vinyl, with flocking sprayed on them. Don’t know what flocking is? Remember those greeting cards you used to get when you were just a kid with a kitten on it that was a tiny bit fuzzy? That is flocking. THAT IS NOT VELVET.

Oh well, I guess I got what I deserved. I certainly learned MY lesson!

I’m feeling pretty useless, I’ve been sick for a few days and I am SO. BORED. But I’m all fatigued and you know, HEALING and shit so I can’t really do anything. I know you know the feeling. But I decided I could muster up the strength to get one thing done today.

Oh hai. It’s my living room! Remember those glass globes I hung for sexy-swanky-rad candle light? We LOVE them. We have people over about every weekend so we get a lot of chances to use them. It’s definitely a chill place to hang out, everyone loves them. I’m quite proud. You know what I DIDN’T think of, however?

They get dusty… really dusty. Just like everything else in Arizona! Oops. Do you see how filthy they were?! I cannot even begin to explain my dusting woes living in this state, it’s pretty much insanity. I can only imagine how much of it we’re breathing in. I maintain that the desert was never meant to hold life en masse.

But you know it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. It definitely helps that I am a very small person (5’1″… yeah bring it.) so my hands fit right inside there, if I am really careful.

So if you were thinking of hanging some, my conclusion: not that hard to clean. I was kind of putting it off because I was afraid, to be honest. They seem pretty fragile but as long as you don’t drop or put a death grip on one, they seem to be sturdy enough!

In other news…

Tango LOVES sleeping in the little cupped edges of the sheepskin. Like her mama (read: me), she loves soft, fuzzy places to sleep. She won’t even SIT on the travertine. I call this the progression of cute:

Einstein doesn’t need a fluffy rug because he already IS a fluffy rug. He desperately needs a haircut, but I love it. Freaking homeless little ragamuffin!

Oh my god did I just write a post about my dogs and shining balls? I claim fever delirium! It’s good to be back :]

OK OK so I’ve been gone! I’m sorry! Please come back? I know I was not really there for you when you needed me most. I’ve been so bad, not giving so much as a phone call or hello… but I still care. I really do. And I promise things will be better this time around and I’ll bring you flowers and hold your hand and stroke your hair. It will be a golden existence, you and I… take me back? We belong together.

Hi guys! Did you have some good holidays? I sure did but now I’m SICK! Shaf and I went to Florida and then Vegas… but got sick in Vegas for New Years Eve. Shitty. But my plants survived our 14 day vacation! My plant experiment (read: keeping them alive) has gone quite well, I thought, until seeing this today:

Dammit. Well anyways – I’m back! Hullo!

Happy (belated) birthday to the wittiest, prettiest, loveliest, REAL-est, lady around. You know who I’m talkin’ ’bout. This lady rocks my socks on the daily, all the way from Georgia. She’s never misses a beat and has FAB design sense to boot.

I’m talkin’ ’bout all-around-badass JENNY from My Favorite and My Best of course! Happy (a tad late) birthday miss, you are TRULY loved!

Oh and that husband of yours who organized the whole movement? I’m swooning over here. Literally swooning. He just earned some serious brownie points. Let’s not beat around the bush here, I’m talking “yes you can put it there” points. (see what I did there for you Mike? OH YEAH)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOVE!!

Via Psyho

Via Eva Solo

Via Lifestyle Bazaar

Via Charles and Marie

Via Unica Home

Via 333cn

Via Plastic Foliage

Via Charles and Marie

Via Psyho

Because really, who doesn’t dream about boobs?

Go get something fun and unusual and put it in your house, would ya? I’m tired of all these sterile, hoity-toity magazine spread rooms. They’re pretty, no doubt, but LIVE a little! BE UNEXPECTED!

Via Dogs Looking Like People

Erm… hi :] This is a bit embarrassing. I have been MIA! AFK! DOA! And all those other acronyms that mean “srsly slacking on the blogging front” I have been epically busy and epically lazy at the same time. Just when you thought that it wasn’t possible… I somehow pull it off. Well rest assured that I have been doing worthwhile things such as

• Running a LOT in training for the PF Changs Rock and Roll Half Marathon
• Volunteering for Habitat for Humanity
• A big event at work that I was in charge of the design for (which involved being on call 24 hours a day for a week and a half)
• Working vehemently on reupholstering that pesky second chair
• Cooking an entire Thanksgiving meal after on a “morning-of” whim to have it at home after all
• Selling lots of old furniture on craigslist
• Searching for my lost camera
• Spending time with my best friend who was in town from Denver

I’ve been SO BUSY in my non-electronic life, that any second that I had to myself was spent, well, asleep*. I mean I didn’t even make a freaking THANKSGIVING post! I’m pretty sure that’s grounds for immediate termination in the blog world. But somehow… here I am :]

OH HAI THURR. I’M BACK TO HIJACK ANY PRODUCTIVITY YOU WERE PLANNING ON HAVING WHILST ON THE COMPUTER.

*Where “asleep” may or may not involve building my tanks on Fishville.

Via Desire to Inspire

Via Shoot Factory

Via who the fuck knows! Somewhere totally chic no doubt.

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

YES. YES. YES. THIS MUST BE DONE.

Via Curbly

*I’M TALKING ABOUT SEX

Meet Archibald*. Isn’t he regal? We’re not sure this is where he is going to end up, so he’ll probably move around a bit.

I’ve been wanting him for a long time but with moving in to a new house and everything, I just couldn’t justify spending $70 on a ceramic horse (albeit a FABULOUS one) when we needed… say… a COUCH. And a BED. And to PAINT.

Well what I really mean is that IIIII could justify spending it but I didn’t think that my more logical and level headed husband (whom I love and adore and am forever thankful for keeping me sane and out of debt) would back up that justification.

So I had sort of given up on my dream (besides the haunting wails you could hear coming from our house late at night) until this weekend we found him for $50 at HomeGoods. I couldn’t believe my LUCK! And Shaf liked him too. THE END!

*I’m pretty sure Hallie‘s friend has the same horse and called him Archibald… I am totally biting that name because it’s PERFECT.

Well regardless of how it started, I love them now. They come in so many colors and shapes, and can be arranged in stunning ways. Here are some of my recent finds:

Via Studio Choo

Via Martha Stewart

I love love looooovvveeee it!! I guess you can make this with chicken wire?? All the colors… ALL THE COLORS! I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE!

Via Design Vagabond via Mosstika

and then of course you have MY succulents:

(the two in front… the left is Stella, the right has not presented a name yet ;])

In mah little owlie there. I actually separated the one that is in the right red pot above, and put half of it in the owl. Can I tell you that I about had a heart attack ripping the two sections apart? I don’t see how you can destroy a plant like that and still get them to grow afterward. But it seems to have worked.

My ever-so-talented Mother planted this cute little pot for me while she was here, using clippings from the yard and some that a friend brought over. They’re actually planted in a trash can that I had in college. Resourceful! I guess these aren’t all “succulents” as much as they are “cacti” but you get the point. They’re small.

You don’t have to live in the desert to keep succulents. I guess you can grow them in anything. I am not even going to attempt to tell you how to care for them based on the fact that I have only kept plants alive for a whopping 3 months now. But it appears that you have to water them. And give them sunlight. But not too much of either… or they will diiiieeee. That ambiguous enough for you?