Headpiece accessories

These are from Sara Gabriel. There's also Brenda's Sweet Home Alabama birdcage veils on Ebay at Brenda's Veils



These two are from Jennifer Behr.



This python leather flowered headband is by Paige Gamble, she calls it magnolias made out of smoke coloured anaconda Paige Gamble



These are from Myra Kim's Twigs and Honey on Etsy or on her own site. This is the Etsy site



These two were profiled on StyleMePretty.com but not sure where they are from.



This is a vintage headband from Etsy sellers Boring Sydney Boring Sydney



This is from House of Telsa, an Etsy seller. House of Telsa

Decorating rooms and design styles

Eleni's in NYC cookies

Vintage Burger Signs

These are perhaps the antithesis to beautiful, traditional wedding flowers and soft silk materials, but I thought that they could work in an invitation for a fun and casual party.

I was inspired by the black and yellow sign for Jcrew's vintage shop, painted on a white brick wall. My idea would be to take these motifs and craft something that had a vintage burger shack or garage advertisement feel to it, using the populist colours and shapes of road trip highway signs, tatoos and pop-art items.

Either it would be a bunch of shapes super-imposed on each other or simplified into one logo and motif. The signs are mostly red anyway and the sky background, which I really love in the photos, is easily made into a more river blue. The favours could be stuffed into pagoda chinese take-away boxes or into red popcorn boxes or could go traditional with cake in a red box and contrasting silk ribbon.

Funny...it really is an indescribable zeitgeist of modern, casual and yet quality.

The funkiest rooms

Pictures that made me smile today

Inspirations

The reality is...I have nothing to post about anymore. There is no more apartment, well, it's been rented out, so it's not really ours right now. I did get to see it once aftereward and it's being kept is marvellous shape and cleanliness, which I'm real grateful for.


However, that leaves me with my new Architectural Digest magazines, idly flipping through Diane Keaton's home and thinking, oh, I really like her green paiseley coverlet on green and white broadstripe wallpaper.


I've also moved on from apartment therapy to other similarly visual and tactile blogs about fashion, wedding trends, colour schemes and all manner of photographic inspirations and images. Of course, I do this all the time with food styling, but I'm far more objective about that, there's no picking out what "I like", with cooking and baking photography, it's just what works. And of course, most things work, if not for the style, then for the effort that went into it!


The main thing is...the photos are piling up in my folders!


This would be part of a pink and beige inspiration page. These colours are hard to pull off together, but they must be some of the most feminine shades in the earth. I love the pink dahlias, they make the arrangements. More importantly, I love how the pink in these photos is made to look vintagely quaint and stylishly hot at the same time. It's not my colour but I love the look!