Twiggy

If I had been asked before I started this blog, I would not have thought my tastes ran quite so rustic. That seems to be what I've been drawn to lately, though - as evidenced by how much I love the art of Leif Holland!




{image by thelastminute on Flickr}




{'medusa' by Leif Holland}


Huge thanks to PoppyTalk for pointing it out!

Friday I'm in love...

I absolutely love the vintage feel of the jewelery from Mama's Little Babies on Etsy!












Of course it was the various butterflies and bees that appealed to me! But it's not all wings and flying things over there...




{all images from Mama's Little Babies}

slightly steamy

Lovely Etsy seller discovered this morning thanks to Cafe Cartolina: stiksel.










{all images from stiksel}

Friday I'm in love...

Browsing through the online catalog for Anthropologie yesterday, I came across the "Eat, Drink And Be Merry Chandelier," and it just about knocked my socks off!




{image from Anthropologie}


Absolute love!

Re-vamp

A perfect idea to dress up one of those chunky, cheap white dressers that seem to be so ubiquitous to apartment life:





Summer at Summerized added wrapping paper and ribbon to her dresser to create a completely fresh, modern look.




{images from Summerized}


Taking that project as inspiration and starting point, I might add a framed print like Mirror Birds by paper sparrow at Etsy.





Then, maybe I'd throw in a bedside lamp that complimented the blues in the print - off the top of my head, maybe something like the Sapphire Ceramic Table Lamp at Target. (Although I'm not a huge fan of the stark white shade here, it might wind up complimenting the white of the dresser and the print. Shades are easy to replace, however!)




{image from Target}

sparkle

I have never really been a fan of overly cutesy things, so - by all educated guesses - I would not have been predisposed to like this lighting fixture. I have always been, however, absolutely nuts about bird cages. Maybe that's what drew me to this ceiling lamp... I will say that I think the execution of the design is absolutely superb (cutesy daisy shapes aside). Somehow, it manages to be simple and elegant. (And thanks to the decor8 blog for leading me to it!)




{image from Tonic Home}


The more I look at it, the more I see a project in the making, though. Given the right kind of wire base/birdcage, it could be possible to create a "cage" for your own lighting fixture - using crystal or glass in perhaps less cutesy shapes. (And, you know...maybe for a little less than the wopping $2600 pricetag that comes with this fixture.) I'm not entirely sure how I'd pull it off, but it's definitely within the realm of possibility!

String me along...

I know that many of my friends are knitters. I came across a collection of twine holders today on Jeri's Organizing & Decluttering News today, and had to wonder if some of these options wouldn't also work for knitting yarn. I think it would have to depend heavily upon how thick the yarn was and how easily it actually came out of the dispenser hole. If it did work, though, I thought something like one of these would be a cute idea!




{Acorn Twine Holder @ Williams-Sonoma}



{Jumbo Twine Stand & Jute @ West's of East Dean}



{String Dispenser @ Period Features}



{Victorian String Holder @ Lee Valley & veritas}



{Hanging Twine Holder @ Ancestral Collections}



{Twine and Dispenser @ The New York Botanical Garden Shop}

Cozy corner...

{image from housetohome}

It's that time of year again...

We're having a cold, drizzly day today, and I'd love nothing better than to curl up with a good book and a cup of tea before the fire.

I'm not sure if I'd overload that mantle quite as much as the designers here did! (Although I love the snowflakes dangling off the edge.)

That got me thinking about using pine cones as decoration. Around this time of year, people start doing a lot of truly silly things with pine cones (particularly involving spray paint and fake holly berries). But a lot of nice, tasteful things are done with them, as well. Take for example, this:




{"Nature's Floor - Decorative Sphere" by KG Design at Etsy}


Speaking of days that make me want to just curl up with a book, big thanks to design*sponge for posting about these gorgeous Penguin Classics editions, which look like they're available exclusively through Waterstone's.






{images from design*sponge}