Fall inspiration

{images via Aaron Hom, Everthing Fabulous, Home Magazine, Country Living}

I like twigs and leaves..you know just the stuff that comes straight out of Mother Nature's territory...the best kind of inspiration.

I am really having a hard time getting into the hoilday season. I think once Halloween is over I will be good. What about everyone else out there..you feelin it yet?

art and composition

It all started out because I loved the above print by Gerhard Richter’s “1025 Farben”. I loved how it added color to the black-walled combination library and home office . Raja Radhakrishnan is the woman who designed the above space and she had no formal interior design training but relied upon her own innate sense of aesthetics and composition. I can tell that she has a love of art and design because she has some fabulous pieces of art hanging around her space. On her site I even noticed a pair of Eduardo Chilida pieces.

Above space designed by Raji Radhakrishnan out of Washington D.C.

{images via Metropolitan Home}

The above art reminds me of the new Kate Spade store in London. Packed full of colors.

A good looking family space

Hmm looks to me like the above space has both kids & great design. Go here to read more about the above space.

Images came from a new online magazine to me called Southern Flourish but found via The Way We Are blog.

GOT KIDS...

Yah they're cool and all (the kids) but sometimes they like to take little situations into their own hands. I'm not just talking about face painting but why we are on the subject...why wouldn't a kid want to take a crack @ painting all over their brothers face after having that same thing done to them at one of their favorite stores. I mean after all they did have fun and so why not share it with the rest of the world..and not to mention my kitchen table. They even did it after I warned them that you have to use a "special" paint that washes off and not the kind that was used to paint on plastic. I fully watched them as they went against what I said and just let them do it. You see these sorts of things just happen..quite a bit in fact. Learning to pick battles is huge over here. One of the battles I have learned to not fight is the battle of a perfect house. That is even funny that I have ever thought that things would look clean all of the time. In my eyes as the manager of my home I thought for sure I would bust out the stainless steel cleaner at least twice a week to keep that fridge of mine sparkly clean. Apparently though I have bigger fish to fry like sand shovels in the toilet and then toilet water all over the floor..good thing only a few bobby pins perished in the act...oh and a few Barbie dolls (but we aren't talking about that).

Anyway I think I have made the point clear that when you have kids you don't have a perfect house and if you did then that would be scary...I think..but I wouldn't really know for sure because I've never had it. I really don't want my house to be devoid of all signs of kid life but I don't totally want to be over-ran by kids either. There is that whole balance thing popping up again. I swear everything is about balance...kind of tricky in my book. That is why I am so excited that Kirsten over on 6th Street Design School this week put together a series about having kids and good design at the same taime. It is called good design * kids in mind. Go check it out here.

Now if I could only I could get my disaster zone cleaned up in a timely fashion. Didn't quite make it to the dishwasher/sink station last night.

{fluffy lantern - DIY}

Need a project to do...then why not buy 1200 coffee filters and make a sweet fluffy lantern. That is exactly what Nichole over @ Parlour did. I say it makes for a huge impact over her table. Love it and think this would also be great at a really special party. I am pretty sure there was some finger burnage going on from using all of that hot glue..at least there would have been if I were the one handling the glue gun.

Go here & here to read more about it.

(weekend inspiration}

Currently inspired by velvets, plaids, beautiful table settings, coats and all things festive for fall. In fact I am working on a little craft that requires spray painting with a color inspired by the above images. I'll be back!

Have a very nice weekend friends!

{images via tumbler, decorista, greige, dress, design decor,}

I shop Overstock

Do you shop Overstock?

I have ADD

Do you have ADD?

Like first I've been looking at the dark painted shelves amongst other items in the below room..

{via here}

But to get back on target I just wanted to say that sometimes I shop @ Overstock and when I do I don't mind an extra 10% off. When my sister called me yesterday saying she was interested in the knock-off tolix chairs it suddenly made me recall an email from some folks that said if I posted a few links to the O then I could offer anybody who read this blog an extra 10% off of anything. Go crazy!

Some of my picks:

http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Furniture/32/dept.html

http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Lighting-Ceiling-Fans/300/cat.html

http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Beds/2013/subcat.html

Many of the items I picked were from the Worldstock fair trade department.

If there is a need to get your 10% then enter the code: 121728

{All the ideas and opinions expressed are my own. No monetary compensation was received for doing this post, however, I was provided with a discount code.}

{A few things}

Just in case you were wondering, I blog from an unfinished man cave in which my husband is not too fond of the fact that I put nice fabric panels on the sides of his desk. Wait until he finds out what my next plan of action is. Something to do with antiquing mirror squares and slapping them all in that little cove. Hope it works.

Secondly I just bought a zoo pass and wished that I would see things there that resembled the below...love that little girls room that I found via My Notting Hill.

Lastly I really appreiate subjects hair on the right. I do have to say she might be the reason I would chop my hair off.

{via The Bobby Pin}