Hello Frances

When I first came across the images of Frances Bean Cobain that were captured by photographer Heidi Slimane I was awe struck. Sure she is grunge royalty but these images cast her in a spotlight that is all her own. The collection is gritty and romantic at the same time, and it is hard to believe that this girl is only 19. 

This image in particular reminded me of a Kurt Cobain poster I had hanging in my room all throughout highschool, haunting and beautiful. 

You can the entire collection here.

Kate the Great

The lovely Kate Moss photographed by Mario Testino (of course) for Vogue UK August 2011.

Sort of in love with those hats, yes?!?

Shark Week & I

2 things that don't mix.

Punky loves the ocean, it is were she has always felt at home. She started surfing last summer and she took to it quick and her love of the water only grew - I am convinced she must be part mermaid. You know what else she loves about the ocean - SHARKS. She has always had a fascination with them and nothing makes her happier than Shark Week on Discovery. 

I will just be here chewing off my fingernails - don't worry about me.

Yea and how scary is that picture - eeeek!!

The Lovely Lila

This week my cousin sent me a text asking if I had seen the blog Lila was Here, well I hadn't but I quickly looked it up and was pretty much blown away.

Lila and her everyday adventures are captured beautifully by her mom and photographer Andrea of Pink Sugar Photography. As someone who has tried and failed miserably at trying to take a photo everyday I am speechless at how beautiful each and every image is. The lighting, the cropping, the captions *sigh*. 

You know when you leave a site and feel inspired and rejuvenated - well that's how I felt. 

On another note we have a busy weekend planned - Punky is turning 10 next Thursday and her big gift (tickets to Selena Gomez) is happening on Sunday. The fact that this concert is happening on a Sunday and starting at 8:00 AT NIGHT, made me feel at little old because my first thought was "isn't that a little late for a Sunday night?". Wish me luck friends as I enter tweendom.

Oh yea - Happy Friday!!!

images taken by Andrea Hanki of Pink Sugar Photography

Beautiful & Bazaar

Two people who fascinate and inspire me, just sayin'. 

Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter Vogue UK December 2008 shot by Tim Walker. 

Cities in Black & White.

These destination logos created by Albin Holmqvist are a perfect example of how lovely simple design can be. These are a few of my favorites, however you can check out the entire series here. As soon as I saw them I wanted to combine them with some vintage black and white images from the city they called home, because well we all know how I love to combine things. 

Hope you all have a very happy Friday!!

image sources 1//2, design layout by AQ

Curiouser & Curiouser

Just wanted to start the week off right with some gorgeous underwater photography by Elena Kalis. I can't seem to get her Alice in WaterLand images out of my head. Isn't it a perfect interpretation of Alice?  

Let's all aim to believe in at least six impossible things this week.

Monday Funny

Love these images of toy figurines and catchy phrases by London designer Aled Lewis. I came across his Tumblr site while procrastinating this weekend. Isn't Tumblr great for that?!?!

Also can I just say how beyond thrilled I am that this is my last week of classes before I take the summer off!! Time to get back to the important things, like blogging, especially since I have officially crowned myself the worst blogger in all the land. 

Airstream for 3, Please.

I am already thinking about summer vacations and long weekends away when this campaign for Airstream sent me into full on wishful thinking mode.

 Lenlee Represents asked four of her photographers to shoot a campaign for Airstream using their own unique style. While each campaign is beautifully done the work of Wendi Nordeck made me long to hit the open road and embrace a gypsy lifestyle, if only for a short time. Delicious food, cold drinks and cool breezes all sound like perfection to me.

The companion printed pieces, which I believe are letter pressed, were created by Ian Nordeck. Pretty awesome, right?

Now if I could only convince Z that we need/ have to have one of these beauties so all our summer wishes will come true.

If you would like to join me on my Airstream day dream check out the entire series here.

Nice Space.

Image : Joe Schmelzer

I am in love with this kitchen. The natural light, those turquoise pendant lamps, the pop of yellow, and how clean and uncluttered it all looks. I have a bit of kitchen envy truth be told. This picture also made me want to add a fun polka-dot border just because it made me so darn happy. 

This blogging journey has been great in allowing me to find out what I am drawn to and to begin to develop my own design style and voice. I find myself drawn to really simple design and I have noticed with my own work that I tend to want to keep things very minimal and clean, but I do like to play around with color and pattern. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, but that is part of the process, right? What design elements to you all find yourself drawn to?

Happy V-Day!

Image courtesy of: Life

Happy Heart Day to all you wonderful people!! I know people either LOVE or HATE this day, but I always think any day you can spread a little extra love around is a good thing. Z and I decided to celebrate this weekend and since it was "date night" anyway we thought we do it up fancy. We headed down to the Gaslamp and dined at the Palms Restaurant, I may or may not have devoured way too much cheesecake, then headed to see the San Diego Ballet Company perform Romeo and Juliet, and still managed to be home by 11. Every time we think we may make it a late night we are home no later than 11. Oh well being a homebody isn't so bad. Tonight we decided to make Punky her favorite dinner (pasta of course) and have some yummy chocolate cake.

Are you all planning something fun this evening?

I made Z this valentine and sent it off to him via email this morning just to say "Hi, I like you lots!", then I realized I may be doing too much math homework since apparently Venn Diagrams are showing up in my Valentine design.

Women We Love: Brigitte Bardot

Image via: Google images

Love the hair, what more needs to be said.

Picture and a Song.

I thought I would keep it simple this afternoon so here is a lovely image from the movie Atonement to inspire you all. Isn't that green just beautiful?

And since it is Friday I had to share a song. "California Sunrise" is by a local San Diego band Dirty Gold that I heard a few months back, I dare you not to dream of early morning surf trips and warm California breezes when you take a listen. Enjoy! 

Women We Love: Natalie Portman

The lovely, talented and super stylish Natalie Portman. 

Hello Stranger

Hello strangers!! Hope you all didn't miss me too much, well maybe just a teeny tiny bit, absence makes the heart grow fonder right? I do apologize for the brief lack of posts last week, I felt terrible not visiting with you all.  I started spring semester and I wanted to make sure that I had all my ducks in a row and had my plan of attack somewhat formulated so I can get back to the fun stuff here.  Also have you ever noticed that in 1 week there is so much to catch up on, my blog reading is way behind and I feel like I have missed out on tons of goodies. 

I love this picture I came across on the Life website. I highly recommend taking an afternoon and browsing through all the great images they have, so much fun and I even on occasion learn something, added bonus.

Image courtesy of Life.

Hey Joni, What's Your Sign?

Images Via: Caroline in the City

All of this Zodiac sign changing  business that has been the talk of the town lately has allowed me to discover two very important things about myself. 

The first being that I am utterly confused by the entire thing. One article says your sign has changed, another says it only changes if you were born after a particular year, another says it only changes if you stand on your head every fourth full moon (OK I made that one up). I figure that I am glad I never have been one to follow horoscopes and that I have always identified with the Virgo sign so I think I will keep it. So take that Parke Kunkle

My second discovery is that I am kinda psychic. Just a few days ago (before all this hoopla started-see psychic I tell ya) I bookmarked these gorgeous images over at Caroline in the City that were shot for Vogue UK. Aren't they gorgeous? If you want to see the remaining signs head on over here and take a peek, they all are simply gorgeous, but these were my favorites.

Also since you know I like to start of the weekend with a song I thought I would share some classic Joni Mitchell, her talent never ceases to amaze me - Enjoy!!

Women We Love: Tina Fey

Me too Tina, me too.

Tina Fey shot by Mario Testino, quoted in an article for Vanity Fair.

Women We Love: Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow photographed by Mario Testino.

Women We Love.

Kate Winslet photographed by the amazing Mario Testino.

Women We Love.

For my beautiful Mom, thank you for being the inspiration behind this post. I love you.

Photo: Mark Shaw