Photo Love

My friend, Andrea, has an incredible photography blog. During the day, this creative lady designs commercial interiors, and at night, she moonlights as a photographer of all sorts.

Check out her blog. She's awesome!

xoxo,

 

Designer Spotlight: 2Michaels

Fantastic residential interior images from 2Michaels Interior Design, a sister design duo. I love that all these rooms feel like they'd be comfortable. They feel put together but lived in. They also feel like some of the pieces and art work are collected, not purchased from a big store. 

Don't you agree?

Isn't this coffee table great with those chairs? Who knew such a neutral could look so rich?

 I adore this big stripe and the long and low credenzas behind the pair of small scale upholstered chairs.

Do you like this style?

xoxo,

Sweetened Condensed Coffee

Vietnamese coffee. 

My introduction to this delicious confection was while we were in L.A. last year. Our good friend buddy took us to this great Vietnamese restaurant and had us order them when he was shocked to hear we'd never tried one.

I kind of forgot about it until recently. 

Now it's all I can think about and I want to try making one. Maybe I'll try this version.

Do you have an easy way to make these? Secrets, please. :)

xoxo,

 

Daybed DIY

DIY Daybed Tutorial from SecondHandHannah. 

She says it's "a solid wood door from my husband, the large cushions were found and given a through cleaning, the hairpin legs were also found by my husband attached to a old warped piece of plywood. The back cushions were in my attic, I bought a couple of yards of unbleached muslin, I had the gray wool for the contrast welt on the back cushions, and after using some danish oil... bought a small can of walnut stain.

So, the total on that is about $10."

 

So amazing! I want to make one!

xoxo, 

 

Girls Only

 This is for the girls: Beachy Hair tutorial from Hair Thursday. It might be changing my life. ;)

(At least, the part about how you blow-dry your bangs is changing my life)

xoxo,

Breakfast Club- members? 1.

Does this look amazing or does this look amazing? 

These photos looks delish. Of course, I found this on Design*Sponge. You can get the recipe there. SAGE pesto? Has anyone tried this before???

I've been in a serious breakfast/brunch phase lately. I even mentioned this to my hubby, saying musingly, "I think I'm just really into breakfast-y kinds of food lately." His facial expression response was one that said, "Ya think?!" I mean, how many times can I make that Smitten Kitchen Breakfast pizza? Or French toast? Or coerce my husband into taking me to my favorite brunchy restaurant Black Walnut Cafe for Eggs Benedict?

Oh, speaking of going to brunch, we had some of our very best friends drive through town for a quick brunch visit. We ate at this great restaurant on Montrose called Canopy. 

 (photo from Canopyhouston.com)

The interior was well designed, materials were beautiful, and the artistic touches (like the twig/nest ceiling sculpture hanging above us) were very clever. Plus, how can you not love that every chair in the place is an Eames potato chip chair!?

I loved the interior, however my man (he's an artist with incredible instinct) mentioned to me that it was lacking something to make it distinctive. He was right. There needed to be something like a trademark piece of art or something not so literally interpreted as a tree canopy. 

Nonetheless, the restaurant was lovely and the breakfast was delish! 

Steak and Eggs for the man (with some kind of chalupa with black beans...)

Eggs Benedict for me (those are sweet potatoe cakes underneath, topped with canadian bacon, asparagus, then the eggs, sauce, and chives- MMM! and a fresh fruit salad on the side)

Yum.

Am I the only one obsessed with breakfast food at the moment? Anyone else?

xoxo,

 

Groovy

The 12-year old girl in me SO wants this mood nail polish. I want the blue that turns green!
Buy it here.



xoxo,