life envy.

all photos via The Selby

envy will rot your soul. yes. true. but this couple's home is so perfectly gorgeous that i can't help myself. go here and look at their garden/swimming pool/wood stove/homemade pickles&jam and then tell me you don't agree.

thebomb.com

we listened to this on the drive to the breachway on sunday. we had a moment. for sure.

pushing daisies.

i've been in love this show for awhile, but now that the second season is on dvd i've been rewatching a bunch of episodes and just basking in it's loveliness. the wardrobe for "chuck" is my favorite part. it makes me want to wear vintage dresses, raise bees on my roof, and bake pies with my bestie.

hallelujah!!!

these brave men will save polaroid.
guys, we're counting on you.

braids.

there is something so relaxed and carefree about the perfect braid. i've come to admire the way it takes a certain casual elegance to pull one of these off. what i wouldn't give to be able to do it! it seems the harder i try, the more neat and conservative mine turns out.

wine before noon.

i'm in love with this blog. more polaroids. more wine. more ice cream. more summertime.
love, love, love, love, love.


...and if you think that's not sweet enough...
check out the site she made for her daughter, adie, and her polaroid named polly!
i hope to someday be a mom that is this cool.

just a melange...

hummingbird via julia.

riley keough for australian magazine russh via julia

today's design sponge sneak peak...

maria grossman photo via anabundanceof.blogspot.com

stella im hultberg - via daydream lily

kate spade - bisbee, az via The English Muse

via Lolita

whoever finds this for sale (for me) gets a prize.

i saw this on the popmontreal facebook page. i love those canadians and their amazing music scene with their amazing poster art. i can't find this anywhere and i'm sure if i took a drive to montreal i'd be able to tear it off a wall somewhere downtown. bah.

this is what it should look like.

spec-tacular

where can i get myself a pair of these glasses?

rose colored glasses

For the past three months I've been working on keeping a hefty inspiration file on my desktop. Every time I see something really beautiful or inspiring as I'm blogging around, I save it to this file. The first month I had about fifty images in the file. This month is only half way over and I have almost two hundred. As it grows and grows I'm finding myself really interested in revisiting these files and searching for links in how my tastes may change or how my style is shifting. It's also been really helpful in terms of trying to define project ideas or just avenues that I'd like to pursue more in depth.

Overall I've found some really amazing images and discovered some really unique new artists. Each time I find something exciting I'll call Brendan over to share some of these treasures with him. Every time he tells me that I should be sharing these finds with more people and that they would be great posts for this blog. I'd thought about doing this a few times while I've been collecting and always brushed it off, thinking that I'd just be ripping off other blogs that had posted some of these images before me, and worrying about giving them proper credit.

*rosie hardy

*illustrated in full color throughout

The more I thought about this, though, I started to realize that the whole blogging, sharing thing is about just that. Posting and maybe re-posting so that the end result would be the maximum number of people being exposed to an idea or image. I'm just so conflicted about posting something that's been posted already a million times over - and also hyper-paranoid about doing something purely original and true to me...

*sofia coppola (virgin suicides)

*photo by matt erwin

Well. This time I gave in a little and decided to show a few. I guess in the end (even if some of these are shown over and over and over) the combination of these things is assembled by me. Which maybe is OK? I dunno. But here it is anyway...

*ban-do corsage

**all of these are found images published by other artists, collected by me for inspiration. by no means do i claim these as my own.