Glimpses of beauty and simplicity around the world.
The husband/wife photography duo behind The Image Is Found is hilarious, creative and quite talented. While I wholly admire their work, I adore their home. It's light, airy, colorful and so very personalized. Adoring the orange walls. (The description of the heart-process is here.)
What becomes clear here around these blog parts is that I fall in love with a photo pretty much every day, and each time declare, "I love this one the most!" Please gaze at what my heart is pitter-pattering over today! Loving all the items on the table that match the garland…..the light from the unadorned windows, the white table and chairs.
image: the purl bee
Organic Bikes is giving away a complete Organic Bikes Dylan Single Speed Bamboo Bicycle. No kidding! (okay – I'm related to the creators of this bike and don't think I can win….but YOU can.)
Here's the contest page with the details.
My fingers are crossed that you win!!
Elisabeth of Inspirational Spaces has graciously allowed me to post photos she's taken and displays on her blog. I adore the pins on the bedding, the pretty reading corner (note to self: imitate this reading corner), and the overall look of the homes.
[This is going to sound like an award acceptance speech but….]
I'd like to thank Amy of Sweet, Sweet Life for introducing me to Lucy of Attic 24 and all the glorious color and coziness that abounds there. The photo above reflects just how I spent my Sunday afternoon and evening: reading and relaxing with warm beverages. Today it's back to the Real World.
How's your venture into the Real World going today?
images: Attic 24
new years weekend has been low key – and pretty much sums up all of my December. Caught a cold last weekend and it turned into an awful cough within a few days. after throwing up every hour all night Wednesday night and at times hardly able to breathe, i dragged myself to work and then to the urgent care clinic to see a doctor. she diagnosed "bronchitis with a touch of pneumonia" and promptly prescribed a sixty dollar cough syrup. that's not really in my budget..so she broke down what was in the cough syrup, realized it was essentially vicodin + an antihistimine to help one sleep….so she prescribed a handful of vicodin pills and made me promise I'd use them only with a cheap cough syrup. am also on antibiotics. that regimine has me sleeping solidly through the night and feeling much better. if only the daytime coughing episodes would lessen. hopefully soon.
today I used the Christmas gift my mom gave me to get my hair done. "done" – not in a "set in curlers and my hair is done for the week" kind of way (that's what I pictured) but more like got my hair highlighted in the darker blonde sections, lowlighted where the hair is all white in front, and then a third color mixed in where the dark and light sections met. complicated? yeah. it is to me too. my stylist holds the secret to the hair color solution!
all that sitting in a chair and having two stylists dry and straighten my hair while I read magazines was exhausting. (such a rough life, I know!) so i went home, napped sitting up (never the most comfortable napping position) and then dashed out to meet a friend who was in town for the day.
tomorrow's Big Event will be going to church and then hanging out at starbucks with one of the teens from church. then it'll be home to cozy up to the couch and do some reading and watching of movies. I rented "21" and "My Life in Ruins".
are you having a good weekend?
images: irina graewe via aqui pelo campo
Home + Vintage is a new-to-me blog that has quickly become a favorite.
Happy New Year to you! Hope you have a celebratory evening and a restful weekend! I'm playing it low-key as I am still getting rid of a cough I picked up over Christmas. A couple friends are coming over to play games and watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia with me.
Apartment Therapy is doing a Top Posts of 2009 series and sent out photos from April, 2009. How did I miss these photos the first time around?!
I've been away from here again. Picked up a cold from a niece and nephew and was curled up in bed Sunday and Monday. Was worth it though to have spent the time with them over Christmas!
Here's what's been happening lately:
What a great idea to put game pieces into jars!
What a great idea! And check out the couch and pillows below the portrait (if you can tear your eyes away from the brady bunch wall!) Jennie (of Focus Jennie) got the couch for fifty dollars on Craigslist (and fixed it up to her liking).
Until I saw the first photo (Yvestown's sun room), I'd never wanted to buy a rug like that. However, I do now, and plan to visit IKEA sometime this weekend to look for one. Also soothing to my eyes are the orderly piles of magazines and the pretty arrangement on the table.
Along with a road trip to IKEA (two hours each way), I plan to relax at home and crochet some squares to make a garland…..which will give in to this urge I have to have many more handmade items in my home..made by me and by others.
Happy Christmas Eve Eve!
images: lolalina & dottie angel & natalie jost
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