heart shaped everything...

if you're not already acquainted with shauna and stephen, i'd definitely recommend you check them out.


be warned tho... they will make you sick.  not only are they uber in love and spend every single minute together as best friends, business partners, and boyfriend/girlfriend BUT they are incredibly talented to boot.  and when i say incredibly talented, i mean it. they are perfectionists in pretty much any craft you'd want to learn, letterpress, woodwork, sewing... 


oh, and they also have a dreamy apartment, that doubles as a workshop, that they are constantly renovating and recreating for themselves.


oh, and to boot, they are super dooper in love and love to find creative ways to express their love to each other.


with valentime's day coming up, i thought i'd share one of their sickening ideas with you.  so simple, yet so brilliant.

even tho these hearts were CUT.OUT.BY.HAND... i just bought myself a mini- heart shaped cookie cutter and will be pressing little hearts of love out of anything and everything that i can come next tuesday, to show my boys just how much they mean to me. 

years from now...

i can only wish that years from now, when my kids are all grown up, that they'd come across some picture of me all dolled up and be able to think to themselves, "wow, mom had style"


this photo is of scott schuman's mom, at age 17!  it's awesome to think that the originality of personal style is something that can be passed on from generation to generation. 


i can't wait to see how my boys grow into and find their own style... and that, maybe one day if the star's align, there might be a baby girl in my life to watch, and maybe pass a few very coveted items of mine on to.

p.o.c's...

not sure about you, but i love me some brad-brad. 

heart him. 
always have and most likely always will.


i've been watching, and in one of his first episode's he mentions his adoration for P.O.C's.






POPS
OF 
COLOR



love it,  love the acronym, and couldn't agree more. 


p.o.c's make winter a little brighter and are going to make spring even better.

flatbed to nowhere...

a little glimpse into a super dreamy kinfolk shoot...


i know just the group i'd have sitting around this table with me for a magical evening under the stars...in a field...in the middle of nowhere... on a flatbed.


Kinfolk Mag - Supper Shoot from Son of Shark Pig on Vimeo.

permanent ink...

i've been told a time or two throughout my life that i have nice  writing...printing...cursive...whatever it may be.

...because it's mine, i tend to love it sometimes and hate it sometimes, but in the grand scheme of things, it's legible, fairly uniform, and yeah... it usually tends to look decent on paper.

but today...one of my best friends took our friendship to another level and had her girls names tattoo'ed in my writing onto her wrists. i've spent the last two months trying to talk her our of this and into the billions of gorgeous fonts and typefaces available, but in the end she.chose.mine... and even though i might cringe because i don't think my cursive is worthy of being permanent...i'm beyond flattered.

guess this means i'll be a part of her life forever....

hee.hee.hee. sucka! 

xxoo.

missoni me!

i'm pretty confident that i don't have the talent, patience or ambidextrous-ness to pull these off all on my own... 


i mean, i might be able to get my left hand to look decent, but my right one would look a little more, well... abstract.


BUT... a few of my favorites and i are sneaking away for a night this weekend, and with a forecast of rain we might have just found the perfect rainy day DIY project to take on.


so...if you're in calistoga and happen to see three ladies with matching sets of missoni nails sipping champagne, giggling the night away, and cherishing their coveted time together... that's us, come join.


...and thanks to those lovely ladies at thebeautydepartment for the how to lesson!!

white is right...

while reading one of my faves the other day, i stopped dead in my tracks when i saw these simply fabulous cake toppers from potter & butler.

...but more than the cake toppers, i loved the juxtaposition of the bright white frosted goodness and the pops of color within the cake toppers.

so simple & so pretty, with a hint of dramatic worked in.

february is a BIG birthday month for my family and friends which means you might find me baking up one or two of these.

... OR if i get reallllllllllly crazy one of these! how cool would it be to find that hiding behind the blanket of white. 

eeek!!! where's my apron!

four eyes...

oh blake... you are such a do-gooder and with your one for one movement you help make it easy for the rest of us to help do-good too.

first... you made a simple, canvas shoe spread like wild fire with your generous shoe matching, and then upped the anty when you started making different styles and incorporating fun colors and fabrics into the mix. 

and now that we've got lots of feet covered, you've honed in on a new "need worthy" body part, helping bring the gift of eyesight to those who don't have the luxury of an optometrist or access to the world of eye wear that we do.

thank you for TOMS and for doing what you do. 

i bet your momma is so super duper proud of you.

i am...2012

ahhhh, 2012... a new year filled with fresh beginnings, revived purpose, and resolution upon resolution being made. i love that the new year symbolizes wiping the slate clean and preparing yourself to put your best foot forward. 


they say that we've lived our whole life to prepare for this moment. each moment. each brand new day. but often times, kind of like new year's resolutions, we end up taking it for granted and wasting it away by getting consumed in the pettiness that lurks around every corner.  


we all know better and sometimes it just takes something or someone to whack you over the head and get you back on path... well over new year's, i got whacked over the head. so much so that i want to share it with you too.


my parents, husband, and i sat down one night to watch a movie and came across this documentary, I AM. we watched the preview and decided to watch the whole thing. from minute one until the closing credits, i was sucked in (and this is HUGE, because anyone who knows me knows that i tend to fall asleep in pretty much any movie i watch at home).


I AM is inspiring, it's smart, it's enlightening, and downright amazing. yet, it's so simple. 


everything in this world is made of the same stuff and we're all connected. we have more power to help and to change than we think we do. so be kind. be a community. cooperate. love. it's all we need to make a difference.


so, as you sit down to write your new year's resolutions. i encourage you to watch this movie and embrace it's message. I AM ready, are you?

it came, it happened & then it was gone...

wham! bam!  the holidays snuck in one door and a few glasses of champagne, some holiday treats, and some "ho-ho-ho-ing" later, it was gone. 


i must have been a pretty good girl this year because  a few wonderful things that i wished and hoped for made their way safely into my sweet abode, but what i love and cherish most about the holidays is the merriment, festiveness, and hope that lurks around every corner and oozes out of everyone you come across. 


i hope you enjoyed time with your closest of close and that you found time to be thankful for your life's abundance and in somehow, way, shape or form helped add richness to someone who is a little less fortunate than you. 


...and may we all keep and carry a little piece of that holiday spirit with us as we charge, full steam ahead, into 2012.