good message

picked this up on etsy early last week (my first etsy purchase in almost a year!) It arrived super quick and is already hanging in my bedroom

Seeing wonderful things, hearing beautiful music. $28 from Honey & Bloom

stardust

sigh. love it.

We Are All Part Stardust, $25 from Christopher David Ryan’s shop

The Brick House

my favorite newly discoverd blog: The Brick House

I’m especially digging her new guest bedroom (apparently bedrooms are on the mind these days)

lampe gras

part of re-vamping my bedroom was putting a desk back in there (I haven’t had a desk in the bedroom for years.) I ended up pulling a long-ignored table out of my over-full basement to use as a desk,  but the basement, while home to many things, was unfortunately desk-lamp free. This one was *way* [...]

cursive

Love these. They would look great framed our leaning on top of a door frame

Cursive Handwriting Classroom Charts (Black) $25.00 from Three Potato Four

Paint Job

I’m still alive, really. Just in the middle of about a million projects all the time. But I’m working on getting my schedule more organized which will *hopefully* include carving out time to come back to this space more. For now, some hastily taken before and after shots of what will be the new bedside [...]

flash cards

This post from Say Yes to Hoboken reminded me that I hadn’t posted pictures of my redone dining room, specifically this arrangement on top of my sideboard:

I bought the flashcards on etsy a few years ago (from a now defunct shop,) and just framed them a few months ago. Pictures of the rest of the [...]

time killer

www.badpaintingsofbarackobama.com

my only complaint is that they’re displayed randomly – I want to look at every single one
(via . . . somewhere)

ouch

Last night while walking to my car my shoe caught on a part of uneven sidewalk and I did my first ever full and complete faceplant.. Fun.:

(my bottom lip is usually bigger than my top one, not the other way around.) The swelling you see here is actually much dramatically better than it was this [...]

luster

love the simplicity of this light fixture from West Elm:

luster glass pendant, $89 each