Turbans, silk & strappy shoes! This post about a Valentines Day lingerie shoot for Colette Patterns is so beautifully styled.
There's something about February that starts me wanting to look into cool trip ideas (like our stay at The Rolling Huts last year!). Lately I've been pawing through lists of treehouse hotels, airstream trailer motels, and retro tepee motels. The Shady Dell in AZ, with retro campers and airstreams is so tempting!!
Growing up, one of my favourite books was The Man Whose Mother Was A Pirate– about a button down accountant who has to return his pirate mother to the seaside… and when he gets to the sea he's captured by how spirited, joyful & crazy the sea (and his mother) is. I love this print, and the idea that all beautiful ladies have a wayfaring pirate spirit in them.
White lace oxfords from Pixie Market, that are so wonderfully over the top!
Wonderful, simple advice on how to be a positive person in under 300 words, I think it's all really true- even the last quote! ;)
Beautiful photos from the Rolling Stones' time in exile, when they fled England for France to escape having their assets seized. Another reminder for to get your taxes done! Although the French Riviera does have a lot of charm…
I've been falling out of the habit of reading again, so I think I'm going to start reading one book a month to make sure it doesn't become a trend. I can't wait to start A Homemade Life– by the blogger behind Orangette. It looks up and down delicious.
In the UK there are plans to close over 450 local libraries, so library supporters have been staging Shh-in's and creating retro library propaganda posters. Wartime posters are so fascinating to me- and you can't beat a stylish protest.
via Lauren Gibaldi
I'm crazy for animals and lately I've been really wanting a chinchilla. Preferably named Timothy. And I want to be able to cuddle him, preferably while I knit. The internet assures me that chinchilla's aren't cuddly, but this video is making me think otherwise. His name is Sweep, and I wish he was mine! <3
ps – Don't worry! I wouldn't bring one into my house to be terrorized by my dogs, but I can dream…
Hope you've been having a beautiful, lazy weekend!
LAST UPDATED ON: February 6th, 2011
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H i There! I adore your blog but haven’t ever commented and wanted to come out of hiding to say how much I loved this post! And I’m with you on the Chinchilla…they are so darn cute but I hear they are also quite nasty:( Sweep must be the cutest Chinchilla name ever though…not that you hear them often:)
Thanks so much for writing me a note Niki! I’m glad we’re unified on the chinchilla front- I can tell we’ll be fast friends ;)
RE: Reading More…. A couple of years ago my New Years Resolution was “use the library” period. Best resolutin every. I love the library. II go to McNallys, browse titles, write some down and then go request books from the library. Eventually I get a notification that I can pick them up and read them. Sometimes it’s a few weeks later, sometimes it’s a year later. Whatever, I get to read a book I’m interested in. I love the on-line request system. I also love taking out a book on CD from the library & listening it on my iPod during walks over lunch. One of my goals for this year (maybe it should’ve been a resolution, can I make one now?) is to figure out the eLibrary program.
I love the airstream trailer photo…so cute and retro!
A Homemade Life is literally *the* book that got me reading again. It is beautiful! Plus, if you haven’t read much lately, each chapter is it’s own little thing so that makes it pretty awesome too!
A Homemade Life was so delightful, I adored it!
Also, I adore that Borrow More Books poster!
okay, those vacation spots are amazing. the rolling huts are so neat! and the trailers – amaaaazing! i can’t wait to see your photos if you head down there! xo
You will love that book! I have several recipes I want to try out of it.
Let me know what you think of “A Homemade Life.” It’s on my wishlist.
And thanks for the link to the library propaganda posters – I’m sending it to all of my fellow library-people.
Kyla! You are my hero right now! This post has about a million things that I’ve been looking for lately. Those lace oxfords…amazing! I’m looking for the perfect wedding shoes and those might just be them!!! Also looking to plan a quick mini honeymoon getaway, and the Rolling Huts might be just the place, too. Thank you so much for sharing these amazing finds. If you know of any other cool/quirky places close to Vancouver I’d love to see them. Thank you!
Oh gawd! That is just too much cute! And you know me, I dig cute! But in this post the thing that totally made my day was that quote from Herm! Those lil digs can just make you feel so much better! :)
I used to always want a chinchilla – they look so cute and cuddly and soft and precious!
Closing libraries?! A travesty. I wish I could go and borrow books to help out.
Oh and I dream of treehouse living…probably in Costa Rica or somewhere wonderfully tropical.
I am so in love with those lace oxfords!! I’m oxford obsessed…
I’ve gotten into reading again too!! I was given a HUGE list of ‘must-read’ books from a friend who is an avid reader of really good books. I’m excited to start making my way through the list!! It’s so nice to shut down the computer…put down the needles and threads…and just READ and snuggle.
Oh my Gosh! I love your blog and it was so funny when I went to read it today and saw that redheaded beauty in the first photo and yelped JADE! We went to school together here in portland, so neat when connections like that are made out of the blue!
Also I have a sea baring past and living with water not right outside my window is rough!
I loved A Homemade Life. I hope you enjoy it!
I loved A Homemade Life so am anxious to see what you think of it! I think she did a great job of weaving her life stories + recipes together. And I am envious of the fact that she met her husband through blogging! Too cool!
I used to breed chinchillas! Until about a year ago, I had as many as 7. Finally sold the last 2 when my favorite one died last year. Unfortunately most aren’t cuddly, but some are for sure! It takes a lot of socialization to get them that way. I had mine with dogs, and they were just fine since they were in a cage. One of mine actually loved my mom’s dog, and she would run down to the bottom of the cage every time Peanut came in the room so they could go nose to nose. They were best friends :)
You used to breed chinchillas? I can’t even imagine the amount of cute that must have brought into your life! I’ve heard they do really well in little groups, yours must have been a happy bunch. I hope they went to great homes :)
Actually, they often do pretty poorly in groups :( I had one die after being attacked, and a trio of males I had went to a pair after fighting (after living together for over a year), then one year later the two had to be separated for another fight. I vowed never to keep pairs again after that. Luckily all went to great homes!
–I’m descended from pirates. No joke on that one. I’m from Gotland in Sweden, which was taken over by the Hanseatic League in the 1400s. My dad’s side of the family has been there for as long as anyone can remember, so there you go…pirates.
–I just finished Gaskell’s “North and South” – a very interesting novel surrounding the industrial revolution in the mid 1800s in Britain. Fascinating (and Mr. Thornton is pretty much a Mr. Darcy, to be sure!)
–Chinchillas (at least the ten or so that I’ve worked with) are more mischievous than cuddly. Yes, they’re quite soft, but there is no way they’d just sit on your lap, ever. Even the one that the woman is holding, that chinchilla doesn’t have a choice in that sort of death grip hold. They are also very dusty and kind of make a mess. You’d have better luck with a rabbit, honestly. And some of them get along okay with dogs, too! (but I do think Ash and Mal would be jealous!) But yes, they are so so so cute. I completely agree with you on that one. :)
OH MY GOSH! No way. I knew you were special from the first time we skyped, but I never would have guessed that you’re a pirate descendant- that’s so cool!! We have science to nerd out over and now this? You should move back to MN so we can have weekends together ;)