Art Deco, the style that first emerged in France in the earlier part of the 20th Century is back in a major way. Art Deco combines styles from around the globe (Mayan, Ancient Egyptian and Chinese influences are often very apparent) with geometric shapes, bright colors, and cubism, among other things. Over the weekend I…
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Weekend Adventures
I lived abroad three times between the age of thirteen and twenty six. This first two times I lived in Switzerland, the second time I lived in Italy (I ended up staying in Italy for seven years!!). These experiences were extremely formative ones. One of my favorite things about living abroad was that each…
Antique Shopping in Pasadena
I missed the Rose Bowl Flea this month (it only happens once per month) so to get my Pasadena vintage fix this weekend Jason and I went antiquing there. We’re on the hunt for a few things for our garage remodel (more on that soon) and there were quite a few antique shops I’d never…
2019 Home Decor and Design Trend Predictions
Ok friends, it’s that time a year again! 2018 is almost behind us and I hear a lot of whispers that “maximalism” it’s back, apparently (for me it never went away :P). Earth tones, Santorini-style plaster work and highly textured super nubby fabrics are also in the spotlight. What does it all mean? Today I’m…
A girl can dream, right? Our garage conversion
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost four years since we moved in to our #JungalowByTheRiver. Step by step, year after year we’ve redone pretty much the whole house that was built in 1926. The final frontier has been the backyard and garages, which, when we moved in, looked like the above pic. It’s…
“City and Cosmos: The Arts of Teotihuacan”
I visited the LACMA last week, it was the last day of this exhibit: City and Cosmos: The Arts of Teotihuacan. Teotihuacan was an ancient, multi-ethnic, cosmopolitan city that was booming in the first millennium CE in what is now central Mexico– it was the largest urban center in the Americas in its day. The exhibit focused…