vintage charm

i found the best antique store in atl last week...the kind where you go in just to browse and you walk out wishing you could buy everything.  they had the best collection of vintage finds...i was dying over this old industrial cart that would be perfect for a kitchen island and an awesome lucite dining room table...i would have loved to have bought them but i walked out empty handed with my head full of images of how i would have reinvented those awesome vintage finds....

*pics courtesy of desire to inspire, detour design, the style files, apartment therapy

the drive back home....

wherever i make the trip back home, i always drive the same way...i've done it for past 11 1/2 yrs. it's an interstate kind of drive, you know, the painfully boring one where you set your cruise control and sing your heart out to an itunes mix.
this time, i decided to be adventurous... i let the GPS take me home...i am from a small GA town- the kind that requires you to pass lots of cow pastures to get there...a town that apparently when you push the "home" button, you are instantly steered on a path where cell phone service is not accessible...
on tues, i realized, maybe i'm not an interstate kind of girl...i kind of like those country roads and i love the feeling i get when i enter the town's city limits and walk back into my childhood home...
*pic courtesy of flickr/neet editor, flickr/ water and sleep

powder coated....

these make me feel happy and girlie...you know like you just took out your compact, powdered your nose, and applied fresh lip gloss....

*pics courtesy of lace and flora, smeg, design sponge, tom scheerer (i know, i can't get enough of him)

ink blue....

growing up, the color of my dad's pen was always the same...in fact, the pen itself was always was the same one; nothing fancy- he's not that kind of guy... but always ink blue.

that color is no longer just reserved for a piece of paper...

*pics courtesy of design sponge, desire to inspire, sea cloth, habitually chic, decorology

the dining room chair....

i thought i would share a little collection of dining room chairs that i have saved for inspiration. i am still searching for the perfect chairs for my dining room table (that currently resides in our garage...how sad).

*pics courtesy of barrie benson/ domino, mindy weiss/ o home, elle decor, suzanne kasler, elle decor/ katie ridder, aly's beach

farm life

i love this picture of shannon fricke's foyer at her farm house (that wallpaper and cane bench are amazing). it was just published for the australian magazine insideout. shannon traded in her red carpet heels for life on the farm...and from what i can see, life looks pretty good!

neutral settings....

don't get me wrong, generally i am a color kind of girl but lately i have been drawn to a soothing color palette and these neutral spaces are making me swoon..

*pics courtesy of my deco file, darryl carter/thomasville, house beautiful, oliveaux, cote de texas, michael smith