sunday fun!

Oh, how I love dresses! I was poking around Big Cartel this

morning and found the cutest dress shop..

The Sunday Brunch Dress Shop. 

The store is dresses only, and combines the 

dressmaking talents of several contemporary designers.

Beautiful stuff.. and has a monthly featured artist. 

It has been a really long time since I have had a proper 

sunday brunch. I am going to have to work on that!

the uniform.

Behold: the daily uniform. I must confess that lately, my most

favorite uniform consists of leggings and giant tees. This t-shirt is 

my new fave courtesy of my Sweetie and Ambiguous. From 

artist Piquan, it is one of many from the Artist series of tees

for Spring 09... they are all super cute. Check them out!

My daily legging is from Prairie Underground. 

Also completely fabulous and organic. 

Let's dress alike! Please?

Please report to my office

What we are looking at here is the new color scheme for

my new studio office.. unknowingly provided by 

the cute Perch!

These sweet dangling bird feeder duo is from 

Perch! as well. I am imagining these friends hanging

in my office, overflowing with bubbly succulents.. no?

Why, hello

and good morning with this unexpected peep show from

Nod to Mod Vintage. 

all around cuteness

How sweet is the Noble Youth clothing line? The styling 

is simple and easy - with nautical details, like rope, mixed up 

with back and shoulder cut outs(my perfect combo). 

I am loving, too, the photo shoot styling. I have never felt the

exact feeling of spending summer vacations or going to 

summer camp  at the lake, but I have seen it in 

many movies.. most recently 

Meatballs(thanks, Sweetie) .. and  I like it. These

photos make me happy. These clothes make me 

happy. End of story.

happy weekend!

Now off to the lala rummage sale. Fun fun!

1145 South Coast Highway

Laguna Beach, Ca 92651

www.kerrycassill.com

second verse

To continue on my eco-friendly kick from yesterday..

I still think that Sublet Clothing is the most simple

and beautiful of all eco friendly lines I have seen.

 I was first introduced to them with their Spring 08 

launch of their line,

when their line was minimal and photographed

in white on simple dress forms. The simple detail 

was so beautiful and clean and well sewn. 

Their website has gotten a bit snazzier, and I am

eager to see their Fall 09 line. 

My favorites are still their original basics, which

they still have available to sell, like the Alison dress(above).

the sweetest details. images via the sublet website, early 2008. 

(yes, i saved them.. and for good reason.)

a little bit of this

Beautiful vintage from allencompanyinc. 

This clasp takes an already cute clutch to the next level. 

In unrelated news, I found a cute blog yesterday that details

all of the vintage shopping areas in Portland. Needless to say, 

i was excited. Shop Vintage Portland. 

seriously.

Did anyone ever dress up their cat in little 

snap button front plaid western shirts?

Well, I did and it was hilarious. 

These prints totally bring me back. Classic.. 

from Berkley Illustration. The whole cast of 

characters is amazing including the artist, Kenny, 

who renders himself as some sort of Wookiee friend

of Chewbacca with sharp pointy teeth. 

I need at least one of these on the wall for times

of excessive seriousness. 

tardiness

I got a bit caught up with the painting

yesterday.. too caught up to officially 

acknowledge earth day. 

I did, however, purchase several packages

of  sad Ladybugs that were displayed on the

counter of the hardware store and freed them 

into the wild of our yard. 

Here is a beautiful image from the one and only Sage

to remind us that trees are beautiful.

Let's do our part and sign up for daily news

at treehugger, like this article today about the 

water consumption in North America and

why we are wasting so much water. 

hint: moo. Go green!

Paging Dr. Le!

April gloom is momentarily cured by Mr. Le, who just dropped off

some new shiny chairs. 

All fabric is from Harts Fabric. 

ROY G BIV

I am about to start the painting phase on my new

office/studio(fancy, i know). For color inspiration

I consulted one of my new daily faves.. the Holly Color blog. 

This blog is feel good simplicity and introduces some fun new 

artists I was unaware of. 

Its amazing how looking at colors can make you 

insanely happy. To circle back to my own studio 

painting agenda..here are some blog snippits 

from Holly's blog that inspired me...

This palette most reminds me of myself and my 

flare for vintage disco colors... I am digging the idea of this

green and a couple deeper shades of green...

Image from the Holly Color blog with inspiration by 

artist Hamburger Panda... who, by the way, has a super 

cute thing going on herself. Her drawings are very cool 

and sea creature inspired. wink. 

This palette is the girl that I wish I was. 

Pastels are so quiet and soft and beautiful.

I will just leave pastels to 

Gwyneth Paltro circa 1999. sigh. 

Image from the Holly Color blog with color

inspiration by Antonio Carusone. 

Thank you, Holly, for such a pretty blog! I 

promise I will be in the know about

cool artists someday?

In the meantime... I am going to buy some

paint and start this thing. 

Photos of the space to follow. 

Obsessed!

Woaah, Nelly! Ramona West has some 

amazing vintage. Truly exciting... see? 

                  Yay for wovens!

amazing

We know I love crochet..this granny crochet bag was featured

last week on the Storque on Etsy. Of course, it is sold. 

Pics of my fabulous crochet Valentino to follow!

bag from Red Comb Vintage.

from the desk of sweetie..

Sweetie likes music. He turned me on yesterday to the group 

A Weather via RCRD LBL.

Aside from being a super hip duo from Portland, they record

abstract videos with stuffed animals, and have a very 

pretty homepage with hand drawn art and scurrying bunnies. 

 You can listen to nine songs by just opening the homepage. They will soften 

your morning and send you into complete dreaminess!

Keep 'em coming sweetie!

two quarters

Is all it takes for a good time on the mechanical pony. 

my Shayla

So I am trying to figure out what 'names' to associate with my 

professional future. I am reminded of the Sex in the City

Episode  where Charlotte pulls out her memory box

 with her would be baby name embroidery.. Shayla. 

My top name, my Shayla, was Nest.

 I was slightly saddened to find today online 

another Nest.. in Australia. Although.. completely 

thrilled to find a little children's design

studio and co-op and their sweet little brand of printed

fabrics and notions - Umbrella Prints.

These flip dolls are to die for and they come in little 

packages that you assemble yourself. 

Nest is very cute and I think we can co-exist peacefully. 

shroomy fever

in the spirit of the live mushroom forest that i really want 

in my kitchen, i did a little etsy search of my own. 

after rooting through the over 6400 mushroom related products, 

i found  that mushrooms are associated with gnomes over 75% 

of the time. Another 15% or magical in either a dark crystal 

or really groovy way. the last ten percent consists of 

amazing letterpress, hand drawn, crocheted, or vintage

shroomies... the kind to be excited about. 

here is a little taste..

 1. Jessica Doyle 2. Pearlmarmalade 3. GoBuggy 4. Disconsolator  5. Laurageorge 

like candy

just in case you forgot about the 

vintage plastic broaches from yesterday..

clearly, i am tiring out my own better financial judgement until i finally cave into 

myself and purchase all of these.  at 40 bucks, a total steal. 

all from yee haw.

what i need

is a little dimension around here. i recently became obsessed with wall decals. 

here are some fun ones.  

i am loving this idea for the avas room, but real nesting dolls. 

with mustaches. in orange. these lovelies are from dezign. 

this 'walk in the park' is from elly nelly on supermarket... and i find it 

to be so sweet and relaxing. Perhaps a good add on for my new office?

is that you, bigfoot?

I was thinking about letterpress yesterday. I visited all of my favorite standards and saw nothing blog worthy. 

Meanwhile, the stork on Etsy.com has the most amazing write up on the letterpress available on their site. Of course! 

I am in love with all things big foot related... the above piece from sycamore street press. It is entirely possible that I am completely dreaming up any connection between bigfoot and that piece. But, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 

The tree cards are from an artist named Yee Haw. Naturally, they are sold out. I am also completely smitten with these plastic vintage broach creations by the same artist. I have no interest in what their exact purpose is, 

but I want ten of them. I have momentarily moved my attention from crazy miniature ceramics to kitsch-y  bright colored plastic. And note, too, that I have discovered Linking. Later today a fancy header! Tomorrow, links to websites! maybe. 

 

little bumpkies

I dressed up for Easter and all I got was this bracelet by Ava Patri 

and Feed Me by Jackson Z Laird. 

My dream man office would include..

Groovy chairs, vintage bowling balls(courtesy of BlackmanCruz.com) and 

charging Rhinos from the A+R store. But, a man I am not. 

beautiful walls

The color of these new spring Trove wallpapers is so fresh and subtle. 

i feel inspired.. what to do.  www.troveline.com

Say hello

to my new object of desire: a live mushroom forest from farwestfungi.com. 

he will live in my kitchen in a glass dome and i will call him squishy. 

Thinking about

The Ferry building in San Francisco. And, Miette. 

miettecakes.com. so pretty