enchanting

LaMontagne {Image: Garance Dore}

happy weekend

{A little house inspiration...most of these images are of Kate Spade's apartment}

all over the place

these images are from all over the place. i like them together. they fit in my mind.

Little thrills.

I need to remember this when I'm doing my LSU assignments. And while cleaning my room.
{Saint Verde Digest}

Babies.

Babies are on my mind. Don't freak out. I won't be having one for a while, but I think it's worth mentioning for now, at least, that anytime I see a baby in public I get completely transfixed.

Also, tonight at Cooks of Crocus Hill (where I work), my family sat by a young married couple at a father's day cooking class. The couple has twin baby girls, just 8 months old; the mom is an English teacher, and the dad is a financial analyst at Target. They both did their undergrads at Bethel, and the dad got his MBA from Carlson. They were attending the cooking class to celebrate their family's first father's day, and had received discounted tickets from their church small group. {I fell in love with them at once, obviously!! They're like, the perfect family!}

So I decided twins might be kind of perfect. I think that little family will stay in my memory reference bank for a long time, as I continue to dream about my own family someday...

abstract berries

Forgetting where this was from {help?!} Love the colors, very summery.

maybe this.

Stone Arch Festival from 10-6 today. Trying to fit it in with the Jazz festival also going on today...

solitude

ring

Courtesy of Allison C. Photography. First ring I've seen in all my blogging that I actually really like.

james morrison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvVZP091Seo

not a tea cup

It's a tree cup! Fancy centerpieces or party favors for guests. How lovely.

old beauty

These images explain in sum why I am a sucker for antiques. Imagine the stories behind such beautifully crafted tiles and dresser knobs (!!)...

If ahead of me, my destiny is to someday own a store, you can be sure trinkets like these will be browsed by my future patrons. {Images from alloverprint.}

Twin Cities Jazz Festival

Twin Cities Jazz Festival: June 18-20; Mears Park; St.Paul. I would love to make it to this event- anyone want to join? Music at the main stage is free!

peonies...

...as you must know, are one of my favorite flowers. There's something really elegant about their thin and fragile petals...their soft scent... and their big pillow-y blooms. I might go cut some from the neighbor's lawn for my desk. I think I will. Tomorrow. {These were from the SPFM this morning.}

These jeans

From BR are my next purchase.

color boards

These are the works of 100 Layer Cake, a unique wedding planning resource/ blog for thoughtful, crafty and modern women.
They title the top board 'softly summer' and the bottom one 'sultry garden romance'. Love the names. {That would be a fun job- sorta like the people at Crayola that get to name the colors of crayons.} Anyway, these boards are beautiful- good way to come up with a color scheme for your big day by collage-ing images that you love, and drawing out the common colors from each.

{Thinkin'}

It's awfully funny how the world works out in the end.

blooms will always inspire

Alaska

Never thought I'd say this, but- saw someone's pictures recently of a trip she took to Alaska, and now I really want to go...

June 10.

Hearing the good news today made me want to fall to my knees and praise God. The sun has finally peaked out of the clouds... (!!!!)

More updates to come on J.Murphy & Associates and Cooks of Crocus Hill!

wooden hangers & gorgeous florals

So....what else could a girl ask for? {Images by Lena and Canelle et Vanille}

i have a fetish for coats like most women have for shoes

This one is especially beautiful.

where i hope to be working soon...

Cooks of Crocus Hill on Grand Ave. :)

happy feet

happy, healthy, summer feet :)

quenching my color thirst on a rainy day

These photos are all from Saint Verde. Cray-pas anyone?

Missing this face.

s a t u r d a y

Rainy days like today make me want to curl up on a comfy, over-sized and engulfing sofa, with these cableknit socks, a cup of coffee, and a good book or movie.

latest purchase

...this BR necklace {collar bone confection}.

Paris

"So we spent most of our time walking and eating in Paris. The weather was so good we barely set foot inside, only to rest up at the end of the day in our sweet little apartment on a bustling street. We didn't go to any galleries. We will save them for next time, maybe Autumn when there is a chill in the air, when only a Picasso or a Monet can warm your heart."

...One of the most poetic paragraphs I have read in a long time. Oh, how I envy Lee for her ticket there this summer...

Martha

Was scoping Martha's website this morning, and became really inspired by these crepe paper crafts. I really want to make some pretty paper lanterns- would be great for a summer bbq, or Lee's HP party?

Yay. Took this photo in my room. To the left is one of the necklaces Lee and I made last night....SO proud. The beads were supposed to be strung on the prettier, peachier colored ribbon- but the hole in the bead was too small to fit the {prettier} inch-wide ribbon, so I had to improvise with white.

Can I just tell you how happy a strand of pretty ribbon makes me? Very, very happy- and costs $1.50 for a yard and a half.