Inspiration: Nature

Give us your corals, poppies & tangerines!

Indian Paintbrush are making their limited appearance right now and I am loving the colors.





I'm stepping outside of my normal blues, greens & grays and incorporating orange-y tones into my look by way of accessories.


Essie nail polish in peach daiquiri, $7. Franco Sarto sunglasses, $9.99 from TJ Maxx. Oscar de la Renta scarf, $9.99 from Marshall's



Some more items I'd love to add to my wardrobe:



clockwise:
Rosette parade dress, $65 ModCloth.
Daffodil chiffon hairpins, $12.50 Nomsa on Etsy.
Pomegranate vneck tee, $19 American Apparel.
Kimchi Blue full tencel skirt, $48 Urban Outfitters.
Loyyall platform heel, $50 Steve Madden.
Tie-neck halter, $69 Banana Republic.

Oh, spring!

Table for my printer, part II

Ok, so a loooong time ago I posted a before pic of a little table that I thrifted and planned to use as a printer stand, it looked like this:



Poor baby.



Wallpaper samples were ordered online from Graham & Brown, ideas were gleaned from the internet, paints were looked at, plans were hatched and finally...




it ended up looking like this:





I KNOW! It's plain white.

Well the wallpaper was for the little shelf, but the shelf's bevel put a damper on my plan. Then I experimented with covering just the top of the shelf, doing an inset, doing geometric cutouts and a whole gaggle of other things that I would literally agonize over for days before ruling out. In the end, I just painted it gloss white and called it a day.

But I still think it turned out well! It matches another piece of office furniture that I also scored from a thrift store and did some work on, which I will save for another post...
And the best part, my printer is no longer on the floor. I call that a win.

For those interested in the process: I sanded the whole thing, primed it with Kilz, then applied two, count em two coats of gloss white latex enamel, using a mini roller on the top for an extra smoothtastic finish.

Food for thought

I checked out a blog recently where a dude posts a picture of everything he eats. Every single thing, even if it's just a snack. (It wasn't as interesting as it sounds, a lot them were of powerbars - in their wrappers. Or like just a banana or bowl of cereal. I was disappointed.)

That inspired me to post some of my more recent eating experiences that were pretty & that I happened to have photos of.




Butter beans & rice at home - I ate this for lunch twice this week but could eat it every day. My boyfriend? Not so into it.

Red curry from Danh's in Shreveport - This was my friend Kristen's lunch, it photographed better than the Tom Yum soup that I had.

Crunchy rolls at Ichiban, also in Shreveport - best sushi in the Port, we think!

no comprende

I'm not really understanding how this was a word of the day choice.







What's tomorrow- puff the magic dragon?

April's Fool

When I saw this image on J Crew's homepage i just had to go in search of some floral items. I am really into spring this year, in case you can't tell! Like... really.





Images, clockwise, from J Crew, Anthropologie, ModCloth, Studio Elenus on Etsy (LOVE this necklace!!!), Anthropologie again, LOFT, and Madewell.