want!

I want all of these! How have I lived without these for so long??? I'm officially in love with Les Queus de Sardines

birds

My day job is for a great furniture design company over in Cambridge, and I have the best job ever: designing the window displays. Of course that's only one of my duties there, but the one that is the most fun... other than designing furniture, because actually that's really cool too. Anyways I digress, but over the Fall season I sewed a few big and small birds with some super rad and super fancy-pants upholstery fabric from vendors like Robert Allen, Donghia and Starck, and then made some pretty sweet mobile-like displays using twigs and branches. Generally a really cool display- check it out!

Fun things for a not so fun week

It's till rainy and depressing as hell here in the Northeast. For June 23rd this weather is unacceptable (do you hear that mother nature?) and frankly I'm just tired and moody. But there is a fun game-ish thing at Paper Source's website called Colorscope that tells you about your color personality. Kind of quirky and odd, but also a bit fun. Check out my results below>

IT'S TIMES LIKE THESE THAT I REALIZEHOW DOMESTIC I AM

While I was browsing my favorite tried and true blog sites this morning I came across a post about some acrylic containers for cold beverages at Pottery Barn. Well, I got all giddy and thought to myself "How Cute!". Then I took a step back, shook my head and had to have a laugh at myself for getting so excited over a modified cooler! Maybe by looking at these you can sympathize with me at my over-excitement. Although now I'm trying to convince myself it was due to the delicious mouth-watering drinks inside- yeah that's right the contents are what's great about these...

CRUSHING ON: TYPEWRITERS

For sometime now I have been coveting the idea of owning and using (on a daily basis) a retro typewriter. As a kid we had one or two and I remember my sisters and I sitting and typing for hours simply because we loved the noise and the motions of changing sheets out. Weird, I know... but still something that I thoroughly enjoyed, and to this day I am a hard clicker on my keyboard because I just simply like the noise it makes. Check out those vintage babes above (swoon).

VIA foxtreemiscellany on Etsy.

HIBISCUS MIMOSA

This morning on the KITCHN there was a post about mothers day brunch and some ideas for cocktails. This one sounds amazing, and despite it's intentions for Mothers day - I could see this being a great summertime drink at anytime of the day!

Here is the recipe:

1 Wild Hibiscus Flower
1 oz St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur
1 oz Pink Grapefruit Juice
1/2 oz Wild Hibiscus Syrup
5 oz Dry Sparkling Wine

Place flower in champagne flute. Shake next 3 ingredients on ice and carefully strain into champagne flute. Top with dry sparkling wine. Garnish with long grapefruit zest.*