Special Event!

For those of you in the Corvallis area; I'm going to be shooting kid pictures in Central Park this Sunday!! Please e-mail me if you would like to set up an appointment, space is limited and I know it will fill up fast! I will be shooting film, so start thinking if you want black and white or color.

Apothecary Office Ephemera

In our new house, we finally have space for an office. It will mostly be used by my hubby for grad school; so designing something more masculine for this space has been a bit of a challenge for me. His only request was for it to be 'quiet'. Literally, just a quiet place to study...so...I have come up with a "turn-of-the-century apothecary meets mid-century industrial" concept. Below are some images I have gathered for inspiration. I imagine this will be a bit of a work-in-progress for a while; but I promise 'before' and 'after' pictures of the real space eventually!

First up below is our desk! This image is from Country Living; but we found the vintage 1940's desk on craigslist for a steal! I don't like the 'western' feel of this space...but was excited to find our desk in use!

I really like these open wall-mounted shelves from Pottery Barn instead of bookshelves. I think for our space, we will use industrial brackets to hang them and mix in storage cubbies and antique milk bottle containers mounted with the shelving.

I know I'm not alone; but I just love the styling of Anthropologie's latest catalog. Below are a couple of images that I would really like to capture the feel of in our space...too bad we don't have the exposed brick walls...


This lamp is amazing...I love it. It is the beginning in a series of images (three below) I found from a NY Times article about "The New Antiquarians". It's not only an interesting read, but also great to see other bloggers and artists inspired by the old-made-new. I especially love the dark walls (below); but seeing as we have a rental, I won't paint this dark. I'm still figuring out my feelings on taxidermy. I think I prefer the porcelain replicas more then the real thing.





Lovely accessories to finish off the room that I would love to own: vintage replica fan, terrariums in bell jars (image from cookie mag), vintage industrial file cabinet, antique dutch apothecary jars, and an edison bulb. The light fixture in the room is original to the house and has exposed bulbs that would look beautiful with one of these replicas.

Wallpaper...

...of the computer kind. Veer is an awesome resource, and if you haven't checked it out, you really should. One of my fav freebies they provide is desktop wallpaper. Here is a selection of some of the best:










It always perks me up to open up my PowerBook and see a fun design on my desktop. Talk about a bit of daily inspiration! I love to change it up often...sometimes I even put special ones up for holidays...hehehe

Addictive Click Art

I originally spotted this on sfgirlbybay and have had so much fun with it! Nonsek is a website where you can design your own one-of-a-kind (most likely) graphic tee. Here is the description from the site:

The Nonsek Machine generates rare and random graphic remixes with a simple click of a button. You don’t like what you see? Click again. It doesn‘t cost anything, and won’t hurt one bit. Give it a try! Trust us, you’ll hit on an “OMG I gotta have it!” graphic remix in just a few spins. And when you do, we’d suggest that you save it to your cart (you can always remove it later), or risk losing it forever! You see, there’s a KAJILLION-TO-ONE chance (give or take) that the same combination will ever spin up again.

This is really, really fun, and really addictive! It's amazing what combing great graphics and pop colors can do. Every single one isn't a winner, but when you happen upon one that is; it's truly magical!



Have fun clicking!

Just a Little Jonathan Adler Love

These images are from HouseBeautiful of Liz Lange's country residence designed by Jonathan Adler. I absolutely LOVE all the navy and teal against the stark whites. I just had to share this!

Birthday at the Amusement Park

So, my birthday was last week. That morning when I woke up, my hubby (DB) presented me with quite the conundrum. I was to choose if we would spend the day 1) Antiquing in Aurora or 2) at Oaks Amusement Park here in Portland. It was a tough, tough call, but I choose the latter and we had a BLAST! Neither of us had ever been to Oaks before...and it was sooooo fun. Such a carnival atmosphere. I loved all the colors, the kinda wonky wonderment of it all, and I got some great pictures!












Next time we go, I really, really hope we can go roller skating too. It was closed this time, but I hear that it is so old-school and really kitschy. I have another friend getting married soon and I think we will have to have her bachelorette party there :) After the amusement park, we dined at Le Pigeon; an EastBurn staple. It was wonderful and we followed that up with a long walk in NW around Chapman Elementary (where the swifts fly) and then just had to get a piece of cake at Papa Haydn's (since we were in the neighborhood, of course)!

Project Peek!

Some beautiful textiles from Fabricworm. I have a project I'm working on and trying to pick which one to use! I think I'm leaning towards the top one...I am just loving yellow and gray right now...