some recent, summertime shots...

(via my instagram)

around the house:

exploring the city:

toast a/w 2012...

the always inspiring lookbook from toast, for the autumn/winter 2012 season.  seriously, could the photography and styling be any more gorgeous?

it is currently eighty two degrees, here in atlanta... i'm desperately trying to make boot and sweater season happen. i thought that if i just paired them with shorts that i could make it work?  and then i went to run errands and almost collapsed from heat exhaustion... in the first thirty seconds. 

we did have one rainy day this week with temps in the upper sixties!  so, obviously, i gleefully zipped on a pair of boots and skipped off to buy a pumpkin, with a giant grin plastered across my face.  

sadly, while reaching for that one perfectly shaped pumpkin in the center of the mound, i caused a domino effect of rolling, runaway pumpkins everywhere.  some nice people helped me to collect and return them .... some people bundled in coats. and gloves. with hoods wrapped tightly around their heads. who complained bitterly of the freezing temps. and looked utterly miserable.  where do i live?

anyway, back to dreaming of more such weather, and outfits like these...

happy friday

september at home...

a few images from around the house, for september...

some fun, original paintings i found at the thrift store.  the quaint city scene pictured above, and another portrait of a bearded man, further down (i mean, who could pass up a beard painting!)... that one was actually unfinished, and was painted atop another, earlier portrait of a woman, which you can still see when you turn the canvas upside down.  it's funky and i love it.

i found this red, wool, navajo rug a few months ago, while out thrifting with my sister (i think this was right before she gave birth to my niece, tessa!)... it fits perfectly on my white trunk (my grandfather's war trunk, which he later painted white to use as a toy chest for his four children), which is sitting as a coffee table in front of my daybed.

recovered the lamp shade in this recycled red and cream toile (was once a bed sheet), and found the perfect red and cream antique plate at the thrift store to hang on this wall as well... when i get around to it ;)

my sweet niece... now two months old

happy monday

living room...

the forever evolving state of my home.
after moving all of the furniture around in the living room, i was left with a giant blank wall on one side... a drop cloth, a bit of paint, and the words of e.e. cummings helped fill the void.  an under $20 project... which makes it easy to replace with another, when the mood strikes.  several ideas are already floating about it my head; but, for now, reading this every morning over my cup of coffee is proving to be a lovely way to start the day.  here is the full poem...


"i will wade out
                        till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
                                       Alive
                                                 with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
                                       in the sleeping curves of my body
Shall enter fingers of smooth mastery
with chasteness of sea-girls
                                            Will i complete the mystery
                                            of my flesh
I will rise
               After a thousand years
lipping
flowers
             And set my teeth in the silver of the moon"  - e.e. cummings

now i'm on the lookout for a big rug and a few more splashes of bright color to balance the gray, black, and white tones.

happy sunday