Easy Summer Updo

One of my very favorite things about having long hair is that I can tie it in a knot. While this does not always look chic, it is always easy and effective. This style technique looks best when you’re bronzed and your hair is wet. Bronzed skin being the key to it’s appeal…

Start with damp hair. Apply Bumble’s Straight to damp hair to give it that extra wet look, then add gel for hold. Create a side part or brush your hair straight back. Then, using just your fingers, pull the hair back into a ponytail and twist into a chignon. Secure with bobby-pins.

Modified from Refinery29

Home (Dreams & Musings)

Jan/Feb 2010

I’m house-hunting again. Robert and I are trying to find a place for June 1 and I’m getting antsy. I’m hoping for a big backyard, a front porch, a cozy kitchen and lots of closet space. We’ll see what we end up with. Here are some (dream) spaces I’m loving…I’m trying to keep in mind I’ll be living with a boy. It should be interesting. All images via decor supersite Lonny. What are some of your favorite sites for decor inspiration?

Kitchen

Mar/Apr 2011Dec 2010

Jun/Jul 2010

Bath

Bedroom

Living

Dining

Office

Loveliness for the Weekend

Giovanna

A most enviable shoe closet

So many hats

A very chic pair

Beautiful girls: Natalia Vodianova, Hailee Steinfeld, Elle Fanning, and Chloë Moretz Photographed for the May issue of Vogue by Bruce Weber

Have a lovely weekend. Click pictures for sourcing.

Wave of the Future

SHOW REELA moment captured in my living room by Jamie. Dress by Oscar de la Renta.

Jamie of From Me to You is a phenomenal photographer and has become adept at a technique called cinemagraph, not quite a movie and not just a photo. It’s so lovely.

WHO’S WATCHING WHO?Cinemagraph by Jamie, shot in my apartment last week. THIS IS THE FUTUREThrough my new friends at tumblr headquarters I’ve recently come in contact with a very talented new photographer named Jamie. She and her boyfriend create these unique images she calls “cinemagraphs” - more than a photo, but not quite a video. Mark my words friends, this art form is the way of the future.

via Oh so coco

Can You Call an Ottoman Sexy?

I think you can.

This was stolen from my rediscovered college friend (and accomplished interior designer) Tina. She’s going to help us find out where to purchase. Check out her blog – Sweet on Design.

Honeymoon Dreaming (Anthropologie Swim)

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Ok I know…the sun has just barely come out. In Arkansas, we can barely promise ourselves it won’t freeze again. But nothing has the ability to make me long for the beach like Anthropologie swimwear. As as been their moda operandi they have chosen feminine silhouettes and figure flattering shapes. I just might have to indulge for Positano! This collection is the only thing making me feel better about passing on a sub from the new Green Machine place in Fayetteville. I’ve heard it’s to die…

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Parched Desert MaillotLaughing Gull One-PieceTide Watching BikiniHigh Sun BikiniPlunging Halter MaillotKinetic Gaze One-PieceFrolicking Seahorses One PieceSun Goddess One Piece

via Anthropologie via Everything Fabulous

Bridal Inspiration {An Italian Wedding}

By David Burton in Rome for Italian Elle Bride, 2010

Fabulous Prep

Oh look, here is the rest of his head :)

 

As the weather warms and the flowers bloom, I find myself attracted to preppy classics. There’s just something so fresh about clean lines and bright colors. I’m not going so far as to tie a sweater around my neck but I do have a certain fondness for madras and seersucker. I tend to veer towards the Jackie Kennedy or Kathryn Hepburn version of prep rather than Lilly Pulitzer. How about you?

 


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Sources: Matchbook Mag, Prep Perfection, A woman of casual elegance, Nautical stripes and critter skirts, Just Madras, Pink Preppy

Fallen in love with a bed…

I went to a very chic wedding event at Vs Mobley this weekend and fell head over heels in love with Matteo bedding. It is the most luxurious, lovely, simple, handmade, soft bedding ever. This stuff is going on our registry for sure.

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images via: Sacremento Street, Matteo Home, Bobby Berk, Apartment Therapy