Let's Rodeo!!!

HELL. YA.

I better find some fabulous, western inspired homes!!!

S_______pace.

Space! I crave it more than a fat kid craves cake. I don’t need it because I feel cramped in my apartment, I adore my apartment. I actually prefer smaller spaces. Truly, I think great rooms are THE most over rated thing in contemporary house design (just a personal opinion). Cozy, inviting, engaging, charming, and warm are all my favorite ways for a space to be. So, after diss-ing the thought of too much space, now I will go back to talking about how I want more of it, lol. I have this thought regarding how I want to design/arrange my living room (if I had a bigger one). Imagine a dreamy, cloud like couch (with a deep seated bench cushion, so there is no falling between the cracks) that just soaks you and that special someone in. Now, what’s behind that sweet sofa is what I am excited about. It’s not a console or an art filled wall… it’s a desk!! Aaha. I love the idea of having a desk behind my couch. My laptop, stacks of all my favorite design glossies, a flourishing plant, a Kelly-green porcelain lamp, and a crazy comfy chair. Go figure, I can’t find all of the images I have of that layout. Oh well, I will just post other pretty pictures.

This and that...

Ready yo-self for my most dizzy, slaphappy post evaaaaaa!

First off, eBay… I WON! I freaking, flipping, stinking WON!!! I have bid on so many things… and I am always a big-fat looser. Not this time, oh no. I usually deserve to loose since I try to take it easy on the pocketbook. It was pretty dimwitted to think that I even had a chance of winning with my pathetic, bargain-basement bids, lol. This time I bid like a baller and I won… and I had to pay for it… dammit. Anyway, I am stupid-happy that I am about to get these 18 antique, milk glass vases that I have absolutely no where to display them or room to store them away…




Numero dos, painting!!! Tomorrow… Texas Art Supply... I am there and I am buying brushes, a canvas (or two) and some paint. Slapdash creativity = (hopefully) frame-worthy art. I totally missed out on my dads artistic gene. He used to paint, freelance, on water towers!!! Yaaa…

3. My new dream bathroom. My God… drool.

The fourth is wedding-ish stuff, lovely stuff. It’s been so neat to watch my affianced bestie's dream wedding unfurl… Love love love. A girl can’t help but to get lost in her own fanciful ideas of their own dream wedding.

Here is my wedding…

Here is my reception. If I could marry bentwood, I would!

Here are my flowers. Maybe I'll have a use for those milk glass vases one day, eh?

Here is what I would LOVE to have the groomsmen wear. Do you think the Avett Bros would play at my make believe wedding? Lol... I would have to get married in January.. because their song... "In jaaaannua-a-ary, were gettin' married..."

...and the photoshoot. I would be happy with one perfect shot in that sumptuous pink settee.

Next… or, 5…
This makes me want a creepy attic so bad, its scccaaaary… I don’t want a legitimately spine-chilling attic. I want a sweet home with a TOTALLY UNHAUNTED attic and I want to creep-ify it my self. Those beds are eerily and alluringly awesome. It would be the perfect first two pieces to the perfect guest bedroom quarters where my easily spooked friends can sleepover!

Sixth-ly (new word). My backyard. Again… a dream backyard… But a totally attainable one, because it’s so tiny! I would change one thing, the bottom half. I would want that to be all plush with grass.

And lastly, but not least-ly… the pics below, I just love em’.
The lamp, the pillows, the salon-style art filled walls, that subdue, washed out minty colored teal… and just the rooms in general. No words.

Antiques of the future...

Below are some of the pieces I will be romancing starting tomorrow… seems like a simple enough task.

Aren’t these pieces irresistible?

I would love a custom camel leather Chesterfield sofa of my own with a hide for it to float on, and a newly constructed piece reminiscent of an antique map cabinet to house my media (oh, and a 19th century gilded Louis Philippe mirror for good measure).

How about this rustic, yet contemporary Klismos styled chair? Would you believe this design dates back to the 5th century? Those ancient Greeks sure did have a great eye for design!

And these frames… how gleeful!!! I love the colors…

Positively positive...

What a whirlwind of a week. This girl is dog-tired. The first week of my last two is over and much was accomplished. I did the last floor move I may ever do for MMA. I snapped some photos for nostalgic purposes.




This Sunday will be my last leisurely one for a while. I plan on spending it in a dreamy way, full of naps with my sweet little Abby (my precious pup). If I think about the future and what it holds it can be overwhelming, but its all good things… and I shouldn’t let goodness bread anxiety! That’s just absurd. Each moment is a brand new opportunity to embrace the vitality of newness.

Happy Sunday everyone.

A wee bit of change is on the horizon…

I am shifting from antiques to antlers with the “rearrangement” of my career.



Although change is always a bit unnerving (and in this case, totally unexpected), this transition is a welcomed one and I am eager to see what transpires!



I will miss my antique world.



The pictures below are inspiring… they show me how I can introduce rustic sensibilities while still embracing my love for all things old and gold!

The one above is so me.

Urban Market Finds

A vintage miniature globe to replace my cheesy Pottery Barn purchase.

My very own Thonet Bentwood chair!!!

...and a sweet little painting of a colorful arrangement.

It goes along with the watercolor my aunt drew when she was in junior high... and the stunningly beautiful ballerina that I just moved from the hallway to above my bed. The ballerina was a gift from my shop too!

This is my...

desktop background.

so pretty

Miami or Hollywood?

What do you call this look… Hollywood Regency meets Miami retro chic? I know most won’t feel the same as I do about that gilded Marginata (I know my plants -- thanks mom!), but I dig it! What I love most about this room is the pale lilac, argyle wall motif. I was trying to talk my roommate into letting me (with her help) do this design on her wall that her bed is up against, but she doesn’t find painting as therapeutic as I do.

In all honesty, this room doesn’t knock my socks off or anything, but I do like it, a lot. There is something about the color palate that is offbeat but totally picturesque. The pillows are a design gaffe, for sure – but hey, to each there own. So to sum it up, “gimme the gold” and I’m “all about that argyle!”

Peace out.

...with a twist.

What do you want to bet that King Louis XV had a settee just like this sitting in one of his royal rooms in his regal palace?! I love murdered out antiques. ;)


Everything about this vignette I want to recreate. However, I am going to tweak it a bit because the most recent addition to my antique collection is a stunningly awesome, 18th Century French settee from Maison Maison Antiques (where I manage the showroom, it was a gift from my boss). It is newly reupholstered in a creamy white linen and its original bullion fringe was salvaged and reattached after its face lift. Splendid, don't you think?

I plan on reproducing that delicate, salon styled display of art and a mirror above my French classic with some artwork that I already have, I just need to have it all framed uniformly. I also need to find the perfect, miniature, gilded mirror (I love the one below, but its a bit $$$). Once its all finished I will post the completed look. New pillows are a must too, I've had the ones you see above for years -- they are tired and no longer my taste.


I also plan on using a rug instead of a hide... I know what I want, I just need to buy it! I am forever in love with my Anthropologie chinoiserie duvet which has branches that are a soft shade of gray. I'm pretty sure that the softly looped, gray, wool Doily rug from Anthropologie is the one. Will buy ASAP!



Now if I could only splurge on a sweet, crystal chandelier... I cannot wait for The Urban Market!