A little inspiration

As a student of Holly Becker's Blogging Your Way class I am being a good student and posting our week 3 homework here on my blog. Our assignment was to create an inspiration board and include the things that best design our style and the things we cover on our blog or things we'd like to start to cover on our blog.

I believe mine shows my love of beautiful interiors, a vintage touch to things, fashion, movies, a touch of the funny and witty with a touch of childlike whimsy to my posts. I hope you enjoy.

Keeping Spring in my heart

With cold temperatures and gloomy skies it's hard to imagine that Spring will ever come. Especially since ol' Punxsutawney Phil predicted 6 more weeks of winter only 2 days ago. Haven't we suffered enough cold weather for one season??

But there's one thing that helps chase the Winter blues away and that's Spring looks are making their way into clothing stores. It may be silly to think about wearing wedge sandals, summer dresses and floaty tank tops while I'm bundled up in a hat, mittens, and scarfs to go out to shop for these actual pieces, but the promise of wearing them in a month or so is enough to keep me satisfied.

Several months ago I noticed a sign up at my local Anthropologie asking their shoppers to donate plastic bottles for a window display. This of course peaked my interest and I started imagining what window display would come from plastic bottles and today the secret was revealed!

In their monthly newsletter they shared their concept for this season about finding a way to reuse an everyday object in an extraordinary work of art. Their NYC design team came up with the water bottle; and they discovered when cut correctly the top and bottom make a beautiful floral design. Below are step by step directions if you're feeling ambitious to make your own plastic floral bouquet.

They also have a flickr album set up for stores to share their completed designs and it is amazing to see how all their store interpret the idea of reusing, recycling, gardening, flowers and spring into something totally unique and different. That is one of the many things I love about this company. That they encourage creativity and originality.

So head out to your local Anthro and take in the gorgeous window display, and wish and hope that Phil was wrong about when Winter will be over.

Funny Valentine

I have to share these adorable Valentines.

My Dad's older sister is my favorite Aunt. She's the one that turned me on to collecting vintage things. Being inside her house it's like taking a step into the past. Vintage knitting needles, pie birds, records, dolls, pill boxes, purses, jewelery....the list goes on and on of the collection of things she has inside of her house.

As lovers of the ways of the past we like to mail each other letters between each other instead of email and over the weekend I found the best things in my mailbox! I believe, in an effort to try to get rid of some of her excess vintage stuff she is constantly sending me little treasures and I love her even more for it!

She sent me these great little vintage Valentines and I can't wait to find a little double sided picture frames to display them, because sometimes the best part is on the back. Like with the postcards or the cute 2nd grade handwriting scrawled on the back. I am totally in love with the little kids in the airplane.

So get your scouring shoes on and find some vintage love notes to send to friends just in time for V-Day!