This has been around the block I'm sure...but just wanted to make sure this video takes another lap. Things all of us can utilize more.
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
10.1.12
Lace Radness
Picked up an awesome white lace dress at the bins (ie Goodwill overflow) a while back. Pretty magical. Love it styled with leather...mmm.
via The Sartorialist
4.1.12
Portland///Old & New
Holy cow - Portland is doing some rad things. I truly love living in this city. Check out this beautiful Victorian that has been renovated by London transplants, the Dickinson Family.
Portland is full of beautiful old homes like this one in NW. I personally live in a very quirky, purple version that is over a century old. Every room has doors and is contained to keep it warm in the Winter and cool in the Summer. It is cozy but the rooms are small and it can be dark depending on the season. I think some people may fain away from mixing styles in such a zealous manner - feeling that they should stick with the original aesthetic of the home. But does that really work with modern life? Preserving historic homes is wonderful, but nothing is static. Expanding on the original design and making it functional for modern day living, to me, is what design is all about. I love how they've opened up a home that would have historically felt cramped to feel open and spacious. I also love how the mix of old and new in architecture lends to the same ideals in the Interior Design of the space.
Read more about the renovation at Portland Monthly.
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20.11.11
Schoolhouse Electric Snapshots///
We're open on the weekends these days! Come by and say hello!
Schoolhouse Electric is open 10 - 6pm Saturdays and 11 - 4pm Sundays.
2181 NW Nicolai St. Portland, OR
Look for the big yellow water tower!
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15.11.11
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1.11.11
Thankful///
I'm beginning a few new acts of meditation this month.
First, no alcohol...cleansing and saving are in order.
Second, a log of what I'm thankful for, inspired by my friend Danielle. One entry for every day in November. I've heard of people doing this in various ways - I plan on creating a visual representation with drawings from my sketchbook.
Today, November 1st, is Dia De Los Muertos. A latin holiday in which people come together to celebrate their loved ones who have passed away.
Nov. 1st - Dia De Los Muertos
Today I am thankful for those I have loved and lost.
My grandmother, Mimi, who loved that dogwood tree in front of her house and made sure I can't walk by one without thinking of her. Who would let me do her hair for what seemed like hours on end. Sitting on the back of the couch I would comb her white hair, filling her head with these silly hair clips she kept in her top drawer, right next to her Original Chapstick in the black tube and mauve lipstick.
My Grandfather, who's games kept up entertained...he'd pinch our toes and say, "little pea, pineroy, rudiwhistle, mariostle..." then with our big toe, "gobble, gobble, gobble." So silly but it's always the first thing that comes to mind when I think of him, saying these things in his low scratchy voice. Who with that same voice, told me when I was seventeen on one of our weekly visits to his nursing home, "I thought I'd never see you again." He kiss my cheeks - he thought I was Mimi.
My aunt Nancy who's love of elephants has transcended into all of her nieces. My collection, which started with some of hers that I inherited, is one of my prized possessions.
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31.10.11
michèle lamy///
The beautiful hands of Michèle Lamy.
Inspiration for body, mind and soul in a nutshell. I love this woman.
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Enjoy///
This is Jorie the skunk and me, the shooting star...is this how I stand in real life? FML
"I must learn to love the fool in me--the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool."
-- Theodore I. Rubin, MD
29.10.11
17.10.11
Loving/// Monica Canilao
Feeling completely inspired by mixed media artist Monica Canilao >>> please push through to her site - her work is beautiful.
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via Art Hound
6.10.11
Americana///
How do the colors feel so saturated yet muted at the same time? Everything about this collection is perfection.
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3.10.11
Inspiration///
Thinking about shapes and colors...grammar...likes and dislikes...people who swoop into one's life like a rainbow after a storm...making sugar skulls and headdresses...and Dia de los Muertos parades across SE Portland.
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23.9.11
22.9.11
Dreamy Starscapes///
So sexy and amazing.
Cheap enough that I don't have to wait for a holiday or my birthday.
I want this DIY Romantic Star Projector so bad.
18.9.11
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