Hello, Hello Birdie

Whenever I come across amazing textile-fabric online, I get the urge to go out and buy a sewing machine. Anything I've ever sewn has been hand-stitched which hurts my back and takes an excrutiating amount of time.

Even if I can't use this amazing fabric from Ink & Spindle to actually make anything cool, I could at least use it as makeshift curtains for my closet!

-XO

Soko, So Late

So apparently French singer, Soko, has been around for a couple of years and I'm late to the game, but I just heard her bizarrely, awesome song, "I'll Kill Her" this week and I just had to share. I also love her style, a lot.



-XO


Photo via Edouard Plongeon.

Cuteness from 京都市 (Kyoto!)

Yesterday I spent two hours in Japantown with Vanessa, and we giddied-out over all the awesome Japanese fashion/style/design magazines. I could only allow myself to buy one (they're all $12 - $30, mostly staying on the lower side of that range), but I was totally inspiration hungry for more, so I looked up some sites online and found this great place in Kyoto, Japan (they have a few stores according to their website tit-rollo.com (yes, I know, the name is "Tit"...).

Their clothes are not all flattering for my tastes, but I love sweaters and tie-wrap vests and all the colors are fantastic! (Blue, white, gray and brown together make me swoon!). And so I picked out my favorites from the site, which unfortunately, I can't seem to purchase anything from online.

It's one of the rare times that being in the US actually makes it harder to get something! But I'll be sure to keep an inspired eye out here!

-XO



PS! - Check out the awesome canvas and burgandy-pink bag from Chronik! It makes my heart all bubbly!

Let me write that down for you on a slice of pear...

It seems that I have a bit of an obsession when it comes to sticky notes and memo pads. So of course these cute memo pads from Gallery Nucleus caught my eye!

-XO

A Sunny Day in Glasgow (and in San Francisco too!)

There is something exciting and happy about the band, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, that is just represented in their music as well as the art on their 12" record covers. I fell in love with this art the moment I saw it. I'm a sucker for colors, especially in watercolor paintings.

Click on any of the photos to go to Weekly Tape Deck to listen to their single, 'Failure', which of course it totally isn't!

-XO

Baxter Residence

I love texture from different woods when it comes to interior design. I also have an adoration of wide mid-century style chairs; they're easier to curl up and sit in with a book or a dish of mint-chocolate marble soy ice-cream.

-XO

Found over at Bestor Architecture.

I'm a sucker for wood and turquoise.

...which is why this necklace from A Small Collection has me enamored!



-XO

How to Dress Like a Non-Douchebag

Bradley Cooper is constantly playing douchebag characters in films, but the truth is (at least according to anything I've read about him or what he's said), he seems like one of the least douchey guys in film.



This recent photoshoot and article in Details magazine seems to capture that cool, nice, every-guy image that seems to elude him in his movie roles. And really, I just love this look. It's so laid-back and unpretentious.







-XO


Need Supply Co. for the shoes, Abercrombie for the jacket, and American Eagle for the jeans.