Twiggy style!

Insanely excited because I just bought a pair of clearance Ashish + Topshop shades like the ones Twiggy is wearing here! Wonder if they will make me just as cool...

White Owl Jewelry photo shoot!

Victoria modeling some of the newest lace jewelry design from White Owl Jewelry!

High/Low

I love modern design, but alas, I am usually too 'financially challenged' to do much more than look longingly at my fancy design magazines. But once and a while I catch a lucky break, like finding this geometric white bowl at Target for about $10, almost identical to a $110 bowl at Design Within Reach... of course my version is melamine and the original is porcelain, buy hey, for only $9.99 who's complaining? Not me!

cafe do brasil (what to do with burlap coffee bags)

So recently I bought a burlap coffee bag for a dollar... the graphic design on the front is really cool, and I have been trying to figure out what I should do with it/where it should go- should it be a wall hanging? A rug? I found a few cool ideas for using these bags in home decor (including a lot of cool pieces with coffee sacks as upholstery)-

 

Two tone walls and doors!!

I am dying to do some two tone or graphic stuff with color on my walls and doors- like this door from rainbowwildfox's tumblr page-

Source: rainbowwildfox.tumblr.com via Courtney on Pinterest

...so unbelievably cool. At the very least I might try the eHow tutorial on  painting two tone walls!

avant garde awesomeness

This girl makes me want green lipstick! What awesome 'Grace Jones'- like style:

New House- Before/After

I have been spending the last few months working on my new house! I have been working like crazy, making improvements inside and out (see shiny new mailbox and fancy house numbers above)

It is always interesting to see the different ways that different people decorate the same house... for example, here is a picture of my kitchen 'before'- as in before I moved in-

The previous inhabitants took their furniture, but left me those scary floral curtains! (and the outdated appliances)

Over the past couple months I removed the upper valances and put up some white cafe curtains instead. I also replaced the chandelier with the IKEA BRASA light fixture (a housewarming gift from my sister). The old dining set my boyfriend and I had was too big for the dining nook, so we put some charcoal grey fiberglass shell chairs ($35 total for the three at my local fleamarket) together with the white Saarinen-like DOCKSTA table from IKEA ( an xmas present from my sister and brother!).

So here's the after-

We briefly considered repainting the vintage minty green wall color, but it grew on me, and we decided to keep it!

remake/remodel

I just moved in with my boyfriend recently, and we have been repainting and redecorating! Things are still a bit messy, but a few vignettes are coming together nicely-