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Rummaging around today and found this beauty. Love it! Talk about a fun, funky sprig of smile 
Here is another pull together. Flipping through the blogs of fashion and design gets my mind a churning! I was really drawn to some soft feminine things and decided to start to play outfit-putter-together. I also love to try to make an outfit into a room. In reality it is always just layering the right items, textures and colors to create the big picture. Design is in the details whether that be a dish you are serving, an outfit you are wearing or a room you are morphing…the sum is always greater than the parts but the parts are what glue it all together.
Thoughts? Would you wear it or live in it?
Outfits:
Interiors
Creating your happy corner is a must. Mine is starting to shape up and is in my “bedroom” by my bed. Every morning I wake up to a great lamp, duvet cover that I love, pretty accent pillows and my own art and goodies on the wall. What are you going to do to make your happy corner all yours?
Addiction. It’s rough. I’m still in the heavy throws of not being able to break the relationship with the highly addictive (but natural mind you) hair on hide. I want it in every clients home, in my home, in the presidents home. Be it a hide rug, upholstered ottoman, x-bench, pillow or dish towel- I just want it in there.
Now. To let you in on my other addiction. My other dirty secret. Leopard. I love that fine balance between a pattern that can be used to highlight trashiness while also covering some of the first furniture and antiques ever known to man. It’s fun, sexy, sophisticated, lots of different scales of the pattern, endless colors, visual texture and it’s basically just downright perfection. Those leopards sure do know how to put a goo outfit together! Bravo guys bravo!
Now the print is delish as a pattern but what about the actual animal- give credit where it’s due. With no further chitty chat, I introduce – obsession number 2- as a wallcovering.
It may be winter and dreary and gross and nasty and wet (and I will stop myself here….I am a beach and sun girl obvs).
Why not pretend that we aren’t surrounded by the bleh and bring some happiness into the casa? Here are a few things that are making me smile right now that are hitting in that chartruse-green-blue-teal-turquoise-emerald-navy delish palate. Enjoy!
You know those colors that makes most raise an eyebrow (if they inherited that trait) or wrinkle their nose like something smells (despite the fact that we all know that color cannot and does not smell). The colors that don’t have a home in 85% of peoples wardrobes. The colors that no one really knows what to call them and so we are always using odd names to describe them such as fleshy, 80′s Mauve-y, drain water, poopy, clouded, “not pink but…”, warm pale tan (yes, I have heard this one before from a client!), dirty apricot, and _____ fill in the blank.
These colors are some of my favorites right now hands down! Maybe because I can charge more taking the time to think of a new name for them (kidding of course), but really, colors that hit in that “Mauve-Carnation-Taupeish-Purple-Pink-Flesh-Apricot-Dusty Rose- Tan” general field are rocking my world right now! I think I am falling for them because they lend a delish neutral deep background for a little life to come in through a navy, emerald, espresso or turquoise/teal.
Here are a few things that I am thinking are not that bad
Not so mauve but satisfying my pale/fleshy pink addiction too-
and another for my pinky/fleshy/apricoty fetish….a top the mauve fetish…
I think I’ll opt out of the following, however they nailed the color perfectly!
It’s 2012. Time to face some fears and grow a bit. Just a bit. To start, I think I am going to take my fear of kitsch and country and attack them at the same time…
I have always stayed away a little from Mason jars due to their ability to go from decent to kitschy, country and tacky. However, I have decided to get over this preconceived notion of what a Mason jar means and find some “Hanna-esque” ways to utilize the ancient items.
What about great bathroom storage with some vintage photos (or better, find some old photos of cool objects – or the objects you will be putting in the jars so it acts as a label the tweak the colors via photoshop):
Or what about this idea..soap pump by lacquering a picture then pasting it to the inside of the jar like so:
then add a pump:
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I like it. Better than a janky old Mason.
Next, basic I know but the uniformity and color play takes out the kitsch for me and keeps the class.
If I had the guts to have a kid and it ended up being a little lady this could be an adorable storage idea- especially because when it comes time I am going to either have to pay a lot for therapy to remain calm with the inevitable child clutter, have that be the dads duty or have my kid really not like me:
And finally…because I WANT summer. I NEED warm weather and I LOVE being outside and eating, the tried and true candle/light holder:
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