People I admire

Can you guess who they are?
Unless you are a huge design buff, or incredibly thorough historian or maybe a pop culture enthusiast you probably can't. Tony and I had discussed this last night, and we agreed that Designers work speaks for them, providing them a little bit of mystery and anonymity: a trait that I find undeniably appealing in world where looks are almost more important than brains ie. paris hilton.

cheat sheet:
Le Corbusier
Marcel Wanders
Charles and Ray Eames (Tony and I in about 10 years)
Mie Van der rohe
Phillipe Starck

SWOON

This dining area is hot enough for me to consider maxing out my credit card to purchase. Even if I'd only be buying two chairs! But for real this combo of white Louis Chairs and an over-sized pendant with the matte coal fireplace behind? I'm totally digging it.

Here is the rest of the tour over at Wall Street Journal : here

Yes, Please

I want this right now


via onetwofivego on etsy

Craigslist Finds

Check out these cool filing cabinets. The only question is what do I put in them? At $45 for the pair it's a steal! I want them, but don't think I have any use for them...bummer.

Check them out here

Strawberry Picking!

With the recent re-acquisition (is that a word?) of my high-school car, Tony and I are finally able to do lots of things that over the past few years we have been unable to do. Staring with: Strawberry Picking. Actually if I rewind a bit I really wanted to go apple picking, but seeing as the season for that isn't for another 3 months we are doing what is in season, and that is strawberries! So this weekend we are going to go get our fill of strawberries at Tougas' farm out in Northboro, MA. Then I'm going to come home and make lots of sweets and maybe even some jams.

Tougas Farm Website

Remedies

As a kid my mother always made us either A.) Cinnamon & Sugar toast, or B.) Lipton Noodle soup for us kids when we were sick. Now that I'm a grown adult and don't have somebody waiting on my every beck and whim- I still crave those foods when I'm feeling crummy. Why is that? I mean as far as nutritional value goes that sugar toast is null and void. The soup I can understand due to its throat soothing heat, but the sodium content probably wasn't doing us any favors. So why do I still want this stuff? I have no freakin' clue. All I know is that last night I was in sickness bliss while sipping on my salty noodle soup, and I liked it. So cheers to you Lipton and you pre-packaged goodness

Remembering: Spirographs

This creation was probably one of my favorite toys as a kid. Now that I'm older I can still find the simple pleasures of creating repetitive forms with plastic templates. I can also go buy one, and as soon as I cash in my super huge paycheck (yeah I bet your jealous)at the bank I can buy my self one of these. Now that is something that I don't take advantage of enough; doing what I want and buying things that like. Gosh-darn-it I'm an adult now, I can eat Oreos for dinner and buy Spirographs! That is exactly what I'm going to do (sans Oreos for dinner).

Entertaining on your stoop?

The inspiration for this topic stems from NY Times article about city dwellers who are taking their dinner and cockatil parties to the streets instead of their cramped NYC apartments. In theory this idea is great right? The city is your playground, backyard and dining room? However there is a little bit of a skepticism tingling inside of me that is threatening to overturn my initial inspirational thoughts. The reason? Well, privacy or rather invasion of privacy; and I'm not talking about the hosts or attendants. I'm talking about the people who live on the first floor and have to listen to a bunch of yuppies talk about the crumbling economy and their attempts to be greener, as their voices raise higher and higher with each sip of their cocktail. Yes- I recognize that that is one of those things you have to deal with when you live in the city- but knowing that a restaurant is a few feet below your window when you move in is a far cry from impromptu dinner parties on your front steps. The jury is still out on this one- but I do love these pictures and the idea is still cool, but I'm not sold.

Check out full article here NY TIMES

Out of town

Sorry everyone for the lack of postings here. It was a busy week filled with out of town guests, work, graduations and wedding dress shopping! According to my Knot homepage I only have 480 days until my wedding- YIKES! How did that happen?

I've been spending lots of time finding inspiration from blogs and the inter-webs lately so I thought that I would share some of those pics with you all today since I am terribly under the weather. I may just have the swine flu !

Furniture for Lunch

I'm in love with Urban Hardwoods furniture. They utilize the natural beauty found in the lines and edges of raw wood planks like with this mirror! It is breathtaking and truly unique. I think that this could work in any style house, and I'm really trying to think of way on making this a DIY project. I'm not sure if it's possible but this is really stunning!

Sycamore Mirror VIA UrbanHardwood