adore: this ring

to tuck away that love letter from prince charming

[via sense of fashion]

capture: banana

 
i love that this looks like it could be the fifties, but then you notice the car and the cell phone...

[photo by wayne bremser via miss moss]

capture: the gift of god

yes, you do deserve that latte and slice of cake!
...and i love that the man and woman restroom signs are waving.

[image themorningtrain]

peruse: matchbook mag

 i need to get myself to paris...

[image via matchbook mag]

capture: don't cry over spilt coffee

[margarette adams via happenstance]

create: barcelona

recite: sweet talk

sweet talk

You are not the Mona Lisa
with that relentless look.
Or Venus borne over the froth
of waves on a pink half shell.
Or an odalisque by Delacroix,
veils lapping at your nakedness.
You are more like the sunlight
of Edward Hopper,
especially when it slants
against the eastern side
of a white clapboard house
in the early hours of the morning,
with no figure standing
at a window in a violet bathrobe,
just the sunlight,
the columns of the front porch
and the long shadows
they throw down
upon the dark green lawn, baby.

[poem by billy collins via oscar pr girl]
[image edward hopper, cape cod morning via smithsonian american art museum]

capture: julia schauenburg

i love this idea and the beauty australian-based photographer julia schauenburg captures in the last breath of the flowers she buys for herself.

  

“I have spent one year buying myself flowers every week. I am giving myself flowers, in appreciation of myself. I watch them die, I take their photograph, like a mug shot, a document of their existence an honor to mine. I document the moment of loss, the moment when romance turns into nostalgia. The gesture of giving flowers is the desire to manifest, in real time, an emotion, which is timeless in its nature. The tragedy lies within its inherent truth, its eventual death. By photographing a part of its process, the part before the romantic moment gets destroyed, is the moment I am capturing, documenting and keeping. As Hippocrates said, ‘Life is short, Art is long.’”

[photos by julia schauenburg via art hound]

peruse: an object of beauty

"[art is] what lies between our dreams and reality." 

one of my resolutions for 2011 was to read more, so with that my first book of the year was steve martin's an object of beauty. as this review suggests, the novel really did kindle the collector's instinct in me.

[image via nytimes]

adore: this room

[image via jonathan adler]

adore: art for the kitchen

cute and simple prints from m + e design to hang in your kitchen

smile: geez stephanie

[via mischief champion]

adore: heat sensitive wallpaper

what fun!

[images via nevertheless]

capture: mushroom hunting!

[image by kaylah doolan]

adore: golden globes glee

lea michele getting ready for the 2011 golden globes

[image via instyle]

adore: golden globes red carpet 2011

[images via instyle]

adore: visions of spring at jonathan saunders

delicious crisp and citrus-y shades make me look forward to the winter melting into spring...

and how well does this collection channel mark rothko?

[photos jonathan saunders via nymag | mark rothko via art.com]

savor: fried avocado

i must try this!

Canola oil for frying
1/4 cup flour
1 tsp kosher salt
2 large eggs, beaten to blend
1 1/4 cups panko (Japanese bread crumbs)
2 firm-ripe medium avocados, pitted, peeled, and sliced into 1/2-inch wedges

Grated parmesan for serving (optional)

Preheat oven to 200°. In a medium saucepan, heat 1 1/2 in. oil until it registers 375° on a deep-fry thermometer.

 Meanwhile, mix flour with 1/2 tsp. salt in a shallow plate. Put eggs and panko in separate shallow plates.

Sprinkle the avocado slices with the remaining ½ tsp salt.  Dip each slice in flour, shaking off excess. Dip in egg, then panko to coat. Set on 2 plates in a single layer.

Fry a quarter of avocado slices at a time until deep golden, 30 to 60 seconds. Transfer slices to a plate lined with paper towels. Keep warm in oven while cooking remaining avocados. Sprinkle with salt and a little grated parmesan.

[image via the kitchn | recipe via circle b kitchen]

adore: a fluttering dianna agron

[etta james via rogue bicycles]

adore: modern seventies fashion, a love story

go netflix love story if you haven't seen it! i want jennifer cavilleri's closet.

[images via le portillon | asos]

adore: panton's astoria hotel and restaurant

[images via daily icon]

smile: bats in blankets

[via things neatly organized]

adore: elizabeth olsen

i heart ashley and mary-kate, but this is the first i've really heard much of their sister, elizabeth [beyond her being half the namesake of their fab line, elizabeth and james]. i love that she didn't use her famous sisters to catapult herself onto the scene but rather took her time, is studying acting on her own, went to moscow's art theatre school for a bit, and did this:

"The [stage combat] teacher and I got along even though he didn't speak English. He was trying to demonstrate something and asked for a guy. I kind of scoffed and raised my hand, because he didn't ask any of the chicks to volunteer. And we did this exercise where you have to block someone from slapping your head. It was funny, though because he wasn't letting me down easy; I actually had to work to avoid getting hit."

i'm looking forward to seeing the upcoming peace, love, & understanding [and now not just for chace crawford]

[photo via v magazine]

create: roman holiday

adore: emerald silk + sjp

 

[images via elle | neiman marcus]

sojourn: vilano

my favorite place. vilano beach, florida.

adore: recipe boxes

the perfect home for grandma's famous shepherd's pie and your new kitchen experiments destined to become tradition.

[images via rifle paper co.]