green chic

check out these fabulous reusable bags on delight. now you can be fashionable and green. and each bag holds the equivalent weight of two supermarket plastic bags. it's a win-win-win situation.

i love lamp

i'm mentally preparing to decorate a big space... and by that i mean i'm gathering ideas, doing lots of research, and keeping myself up late at night scheming and daydreaming. one of my main concerns is lighting. there's a lot of it, overhead. not so much of it upon tables and floors. and i love me a good lamp. CB2 is actually one of my favorite lamp-searching spots right now... they have great options, for prices that make my bank account grin.

i'm thinking a pair of these would be quite lovely for the bedroom:

and this for the living room. oooh, i can see it now.

and, if i decide to go the hanging route over the dining room table, this seems like a simple yet stunning option. it's on sale, so i may have to make some quick decisions...

hanna's dress

this is my little sister and her little red homecoming dress.

this was her date.

she's pretty darn fun.

art & secrets

i spent this past saturday feeling oh so cultured. first, to the MCAD Annual Art Sale to look for some art for the blank walls of my place of living. (i figure if i live there, i can call it mine, right?) sadly enough, nothing was bought, but it was still fun to browse.

the art sale was, however, trumped by the PostSecret exhibit at the Minneapolis Central Library. if you haven't been, go. it's only here through november 30th. and if you're unfortunate enough to not live in minneapolis, i suppose the PostSecret blog will have to do. it was amazing reading hundreds of secrets that people from all over the world had mailed in... some were funny, some were shocking, all were worth reading. it was quite powerful indeed.

(*some photos compliments of the lovely Sarah Pollpeter)

inspired by kd

a friend of mine recently purchased a beautiful calendar from etsy. which caused me to go a little overboard, searching for a calendar to call my own for the twelve months of 2009. i made myself stop after about sixty pages... i am a girl with things to get done. here is a compilation of work from some very talented etsy folk...

fabric!

oh how i do love a good pattern. yum. a delicious treat for my eyes. and j caroline creative is one of my most recent feeding grounds. these fabrics have me seriously considering buying a sewing machine and learning how to make pillows and blankets and cushions and stuffed things to put in little places. but until that happens, i'll have to think of some lower-level projects to create, because i don't think i can resist buying some of these fabulous swatches...