dana cowie

We have this one wall in our place that is screaming for a rad painting like one of these. Aren't these just spectacular!? Ohhhh I wish I was an artist...go check out Dana Cowie Gils...I have a thing for her vibrant art. She also has an etsy shop where she sells some of her art...here at DanaGils.

angels & demons

Bernini's Angel

Cannot cannot cannot wait to see Angels & Demons (hopefully today!). One of my favorite reads of all time...as a Catholic, an Art Historian, and a history-buff this book had it all for me! Though I didn't think the movie, The DaVinci Code was anywhere close to being as good as the book was, I don't anticipate Angels & Demons being a better flick than read. But, that's OK, that's normally how I feel about movies made from books.

I think mostly I'm excited about seeing all that glorious art on the big screen!!

Bernini's - The Ecstasy of St. Teresa

star trek adventure

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So My Guy and I went to see Star Trek yesterday...it was ridiculously entertaining and I enjoyed all $7.25 of it. We really really wanted to see Angels & Demons too...but we totally wussed out and wouldn't sneak into the showing after Star Trek was out because the "movie cops" were out in droves monitoring the hallways with walkie talkies. Sometimes being a rule follower is kinda lame.

draw on your walls

her outcome...totally amazing

How often are you totally inspired by something you see in a magazine or catalog? It happens to me every time I flip through those glossy pages. I dog ear all the lil lovelies I see and then they get put aside, forgotten about and probably recycled. I guess I just never really thought about re-creating those looks because it seems like such a daunting task, not to mention so crazily out of my pricerange. I do consider myself quite crafty, but I am surely not an artist, so my talents can only take me so far. Except, after seeing this before and after, I am more inspired to try those projects I come across. Maybe I'll start tearing those glossy pages out and putting them in a notebook instead of trashing them next time.

Check these pics out from scraplog....one reader loved the wall design from an ad campaign and with the help of a gold pen, created the look on her own wall!! Too cool.

her inspiration

contest: delaney's world

So I won something from a blog contest last week. Now I'm obsessed and I've spent the evening scouring the web for more cool stuff. These people have a vase that I think would be fun to get...maybe you'd like it too!

if i had a ladder

I would consider doing something like this....given the wall space....which I don't have. So, I'll tuck it away in my file of awesome re-purposing. From my new *fave* blog, pH: poeticHome

a lil pillow talk

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thetinderbox

I am feeling all sorts of creative these days. Perhaps it's because I keep thinking of fun projects to do for our future wedding. See, A.Mountain.Bride for all the jazz on that fun stuff! But this is not the space for wedding talk...nope...this is everything else...like my bedroom design.

Here's the deal. I refuse to spend money on any sort of decor for our house. Nothing really needs replacing, I mean, all of our furniture has been with me through my college years and was all hand-me-down free furniture to begin with. There are some great 80's pieces, like our huge slightly wobbly dining room table....but it's not broken...so why get something new? You get the idea. I'm also like this for decorative items. I have plenty of beautiful treasures to fill our space. Except when it comes to our bedroom. It's kindof the hodge-podge of where stuff goes when it doesn't harmonize anywhere else.

I want to make some pillows for the bed. We have our sleeping pillows of course, and a couple navy corduroy shams...but we are missing the style mark. I'm thinking about making some of these great bold felt embroidered pillows for our bed. Maybe three would do the trick to bring some of the rad colors out of our comforter (it's navy with striped down the very center in awesome shades of greens, yellows, oranges, and blues....oh Nautica rules.

bonjour teaspoon

Modernality


Sew English

high perch

Portal Films

Sometimes, I like to watch the people too.

perhaps it's prague

I want to visit where ever this print was inspired from. I bet there are some interesting things to see there. I hope it's Prague...it's currently at the top of my list.

via inspirazione.

window of love

I really really hope someday I take the time to do this. Think it looks so warm and charming...especially during that snowy day. Perhaps next January when I get sad that the Christmas decorations are all put away. Yea. I'll do that. Photo found here.