Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts

9.30.2010

Coming full Circle

Seen as Julianne Moore's West Village townhouse was featured in the late Domino and has already been blogged about, you may find yourself asking why I have decided to blog about it now? Well as any and many of you Nate Berkus fans might already know, she was a guest on the designer's show yesterday and as great as I think her townhouse is, that is not the reason for this post. I am much more interested in the Isamu Noguchi Paper Lanterns. You see yesterday morning I sat down for my daily ritual of coffee and blogs. Me, my desktop and coffee caught up with my daily reads, one of which includes Ms. Emily A. Clark. She blogged some bright ideas on alternative powder room lighting and the topic of lighting conversion kits arose. Well it also so happens that I purchased a Noguchi inspired paper lantern from Ikea last week. My intentions were to hang it in my hallway but I became discouraged once I realized I really didn't know how and was ready to return it until yesterday's show and Emily's blog post. To make a somewhat long story short, I think I'm going to take my pretty lil' behind to Home Depot to buy one of those conversion kits and I'm going to go ahead and try to hang my Isamu Noguchi inspired lantern. I mean they are quite nice and the stripes in my hallway deserve some much prettier lighting than the current fixture is providing them.









9.27.2010

Someone took my sunshine away but I think I found a little of it today!

Ever feel like throwing your hands up to the sky and yelling," To hell with it!" Well that's a little of what I've been feeling for the past few weeks now. Blame it on the current monotony of my life, this crazy Chicago weather, the ever-developing projects that occupy my mind; be it whatever it may, this feeling has been hard to shake until today! After a long day at work yesterday {a beautiful event that’ll I’ll be sure to post about later this week} I decided to head out to the Randolph Street Market and spend some much needed and well deserved time away from the kids and also some quality time with my mother hunting for fabulous finds.

This weekend was the last of the year for this large Chicago flea market. Vendors gather from near and far to sell collections of antiques, vintage jewelry, clothing, furniture, artwork and more. A coffee, blueberry muffin and mimosa later I had the absolute pleasure of meeting Alaina of Live Creating Yourself who also happens to be the Managing Editor of the new and fabulous Rue {please note the “Do you Rue?” button on the sidebar.} She was uber sweet and I was ecstatic to say the least. I have been following her blog since I joined this world of blogging back in February and I absolutely adore her. I can’t imagine there are many that don't already know of this beautiful girl but if you don’t please show her some love and stop at her blog, her etsy shop LCY graphics and at ruemag.com. You're bound to fall for something!

{This is a horrible picture. I look 15 lbs. over-weight. It was windy and cold and I was reluctant to post it but what the heck, it's with Alaina and she came out great!}

I love the hunt!

And, took to the hunting grounds instantly.

My mother purchased this great conversation piece, a magnifying lamp.


And these antlers, that'd be my purchase.

Now to find a home in my home for them, shouldn't be too difficult

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