bedroom inspiration: romantic bohemian

So my sister's bedroom is my first plan of action.
She wants lots of color, floral motifs, a boudoir feeling, art + lots of books.
I kinda am feeling a coral color...mixed with white bedding, candles, displays of jewelry and feminine art. 
Here are a few images that are going on the mood board.
Now its off to shop for fabrics!
I plan on starting by making her curtains + pillows with my sewing machine
so I can get the perfect look...
shopping for the perfect pair can be so hard sometimes.
Now...if only I could make them with scalloped edges like the ones below.






inspriation: WALLPAPER + Colors

Such a rainy day here in Los Angeles and I am loving the fact that there is no way I am missing a beautiful sunny day while indoors and blogging my heart away.
i love the rain!

On another note...
Wallpaper or not to wallpaper?
This is our question of the day.
Tuyet, my client + sister, wants wallpaper in her bathroom...
something bright and fun. 
So, we are on the hunt...she likes yellow.
I like purple or blue or something very flowery and fun,
something like these below.
Nothing says feminine like flowers, right?



working for the weekend...


hope everyone is having a happy weekend!

My sister and I finally picked out her new digs in Brentwood.
She has hired me as her designer, and we got full permission to upgrade her new 
cottage rental any way we choose to, or should I say...I choose to.
(my sister and I have exact opposite taste)
Yahoo!
(i'm dreaming it could be like the inspiration photo above)
So...
Designer mode is kicking in and we are off to the bookstore to buy way too many
inspiring design books.
I can't wait to get started!!!

well... I kinda already did.
...been brainstorming and sketching all morning!

House + Horticulture

I'm gearing up for the weekend.
 I have mapped out my shopping excursions and even prepared accommodations to have puppy in tow.
 Los Angeles has so many places to see I can't possibly reach them all. 
I have been dying to check out this flower shop called
how cute is that name...hoot and heart?
Anyway, they are amazing. I have been reading up on them.
Their website is full of images of their work...
they help with staging photoshoots, also with events and party planning.
You have got to check out their stuff...and I have got to check out their shop in Santa Monica.






Also, here are some images of the shop found on Canadian House + Home.




Z is for Zebra

Each new year I find so exciting...
because it means my birthday is right around the corner, 8 days to be exact!
While looking around + searching for the perfect new handbag
 to start the 29th year of my life off right, 
I found an amazing  zebra skin handbag at Coach
I guess its going to be all the rage this year, along with the color gray.


It looks beautiful.

It also brought me to searching interiors for the delicious zebra pattern.
There is something so hip about zebra, 
I don't know what it is...but I am loving it.

how rockstar would you be with this bathtub in your home?

If I am ever fortunate enough to buy a house with stairs, I am sooo doing this!
{above images: source}

{you can buy this here}
{image:source}

getting snap happy, luxuriously

Ever since becoming a blogger, I have become a little snap happy.
Everywhere I go and everything I do, I want to document it.
Not to mention the fact that I lost my grandfather earlier this year and not only was he an AirForce fighter pilot, but he was a photographer as well.
He took pictures all over the world and thanks to him our family has thousands of happy memories in film or digital form.
Lucky me!
Needless to say, I am ever so anxiously trying to become a leisure photographer.
Simply as a hobby, nothing less, nothing more.

In my research I have learned that LEICA make the best cameras.
And the rockstar that I am, I feel that I must have the best. 
This beautiful orange number is exclusively made by Hermes, only 200 were made. 
Oh how I wish it could be mine...A little, ok maybe a lot, out of my price range, at 14,000$ these bad boys are costly. 
Camera couture...it't genius.
I want it sooooo bad!

So I can look like this...

and this...

having a 'gray day'

Gray is so the hottest color right now!
I bought a gray dress today to wear to my friend Meghan's birthday party at The Village Idiot tonight. 
It is one of my favorite places to go in Los Angeles, the perfect place to sip some wine on a cold night. 
I am loving gray right now, it's everywhere. It seems to be the new color of 2010, not only in the fashion world...
but in the interior design world as well.
Here are some ways to add a little gray into your world.

2. Gray circles lamp from West Elm.
3. Gray Nairobi throw from ZGallerie
4. Rebecca Minkoff bag Hobo
5. Stockings from grace home
6. Alexander Wang Daphne Duffel
7. Mark Rothko, Blue + Gray 1961 from Art.com



my gray inspirations:
victoria beckham, of course...
elizabeth and james Fall 09 collection...
molly sims 'gray-tastic' home
{images via people + instyle }

gold rush

Metallics have been making a huge comeback and this Christmas I have been bringing gold back into my home. I think it brings a bit of glamour to any outfit of any room. 
I'm spending my holidays in Palm Springs this year, hoping to get some vintage shopping in.
I am ever in search of the perfect gold items to put some pizazz into my pad.
Here are some of my most inspirational favorites.

(where i am dreaming of writing Christmas Cards)
(where i wish i was dreaming)




(dreaming of this handbag)

{images: dailymail.co.uk}



(also secretly dreaming of wrist candy in gold form...)

all on the western 'cold front'

No matter the weather here in Los Angeles, us girls break out our UGG's. 
Uggs are an ultimate staple in any LA girls wardrobe....
I have a few pair, but seeing as this cold front is freezing the heck out of my apartment,
I need to invest in a new pair...
I have them in beige, tan and brown and for a girl who wears all black, i'm thinking
BLACK! 
I am dying for these, exclusively made for NORDSTROM. 
Need these now!