Want: Kate Spade Mugs

Loving these Kate Spade coffee cups.

Stocking-stuffer anyone?

Dancing across the city...

I'm officially in love with the Ballerina Project. How beautiful are the dancers, skyscapes and photography?

Not helping with my itch to visit NYC either...

Swedish design find...

Can we talk about how much I love Therese Sennerholt Design?

So cool.

Dreamy room...

Well, it's not particularly glamorous, but this feels very me today. Soft and cozy and ethereal. Just what this rainy week calls for...

{Via Sweet Home Style}

Exposed brick

Confession: I dream of living in a house (slash apartment, I would totally take this room) with exposed brick walls at some point in my life. I feel like lusting after this room is one of my more manageable design dreams, no?

{Via The Decorista}

Design: Original room style

Design Sponge has a great feature today on Olga Naiman, who designed for Domino Magazine and currently still works on projects for other magazines, events, restaurants and catalogs. I absolutely love how she made the space in her bedroom work. The low bed with the exposed cinder blocks as storage is genius!

Happy Monday...

{Via Volume Twenty Five}

Monday

Spotted: Simple style

How awesome is this house that I spotted on SweetHomeStyle this morning? I love love love all the greenery and minimalistic architecture.

{image via Flickr}

Friday favorite

I spotted this room on La Velle Vie this morning and absolutely love it. Something about the backwards-facing books on the mantel is really, surprisingly lovely paired with the hydrangeas. Also, the messy montage of photos is totally me.

Happy Friday!

Etsy find: Earthy-inspired prints

As you can imagine, my Etsy favorites section is overwhelmingly long. There is hardly a day that goes by when I don't find something I'm smitten with (if only I had the budget and space to invest in all these awesome pieces). Perusing through my list today, I noticed The Wheatfield Shop and I can't believe I never posted Katie's lovely prints. No Florida or DC ones yet, but some lovely, earthly prints, quotes and maps are available.

Love these!

Molly girl

Feeling a little blue today.

heart.

Etsy find: Poetry paintings

It's official, I'm obsessed with these paintings from Mae Chevrette. E.E. Cummings is undoubtedly one of my absolute favorite poets and this quote, from "maggie and milly and molly and may" makes me think of home.

maggie and milly and molly and may

maggie and milly and molly and may

went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang

so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star

whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing

which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone

as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)

it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

ee cummings

She has some really lovely other pieces too. (Leave it to me to find the map ones).

Hermes: Ad love

I very well may be late to the game on this, but I absolutely love the Hermes home ad campaign. The tones and setting are gorgeous.

{Via La Belle Vie}

Etsy find: Paper Anniversary

I stumbled on the Paper Anniversary Etsy shop this morning and I'm loving their cute cards. I'll be honest though, I'm feeling a little tired on this Monday morning, so it took me a second to process this:

And how cute is this one? Love it.

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

Desk love

I wish that I could say that I actually sit down and write people notes or letters, but for as much as I love stationery, I rarely do. But if I were to get back into the habit, I think this desk would be the perfect spot.

Love the bulb vase for flowers. I have a similar one on my desk here at work!

Via Brabourne Farm

News: Book blog!

Well, seeing as I frequently post about books, I’m excited to announce a new venture that I’ve started with my good friend Meg—who I began book club with. We’ve started co-writing a new blog for book lovers: Serendipity in the Stacks. If you love books as much as we do, please stop by!

Via We Heart It

Tourist in residence...

This past weekend, with my dad in town, I got the chance to play tour guide and show off my city, one of my favorite things to do. Living in DC, there are so many things to do and see, that I’m always adding activities to my never-ending bucket list. With visitors, I always warn them to bring their walking shoes, because I’m all for maximizing time in the city and usually drag everyone around excitedly pointing out my favorite DC spots, leaving us all utterly exhausted by the time the weekend’s over.

And this weekend was no different. Saturday, we ventured up to the National Arboretum, which I’ll definitely be heading back to in the spring when everything’s in bloom again. We also walked all the way there from Union Station, through scenic Northeast DC (cue sarcasm), which, if you’re familiar with DC at all, was quite the hike and left me feeling a bit like Annie Oakley. But it was a beautiful once we arrived.

Sunday was the highlight of the visit, for me. Having lived in DC for more than a year, I’ve been dying to go to the Newseum—in short, DC’s museum of media. Given that I’m the in the public relations industry and a self-proclaimed media junkie, I knew I’d love this place, but I didn’t realize how much I would. It’s without a doubt one of my favorite places in DC now. Not only are the exhibits so interesting, but the view of DC is to die for. Walking through the exhibit, I kept thinking back to my favorite book when I was kid, “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,” where two kids run away and spend the night in the MET. Seriously, friends, if I could move in I would. While I didn’t get to see everything, my favorite exhibits were, of course, the homage to 9/11 and the Pulitzer Prize winning photography from the last 50 years (some of these images are so searing and haunting, it’s crazy to think how quickly the moment might’ve passed by in reality). Walter Iooss, one of Sports Illustrated’s, most famous photographers also had an awesome exhibit, which I think is only there temporarily, so you should catch it while you can.

Until I upload my own, here are a few cool shots of the Newseum:

The building itself, awesome. Via Freedom Forum.

A giant quote of the First Amendment on the outside of the museum. Via Architecture Buzz!

The view of the Capitol from inside. Via Missouri School of Journalism.

The rooftop view, breathtaking. Via GoBackPacking.com.

If I ever get married, it might just have to be here, how amazing is the rooftop view of the Capitol?

Book nook

While I love a good thunderstorm, the weather today is leaving me a little blue. I have full intentions of ordering take-out tonight and cozying up on the couch with a book. Would love to be coming home to this:

Via La Belle Vie

Girl next door glam

I'm love love loving Jennifer Aniston in this month's Harper's Bazaar shoot. In her homage to Streisand, she looks gorgeous. I really think we could be bffs.