Am on the lookout for chic pillows. Found these from One Thread Fair Trade:
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Inside the Home 2
Welcome to round 2! This should finish off my current desktop…
Not sure what this is, but I like it!
Yeah I really like that server…
Good news! I’ve found a tea I actually like! So far it’s just Earl Grey (found at Intelligentsia, which apparently won an award for best tea/coffee in Chicago? I hope I’m not spoiled now! I have yet to try the grocery store Earl gray…) But yeah, I kind of love this teapot.
What a lovely bedroom! It’d be such a joy to wake there every morning with the birds singing and the breeze blowing inside! 
What do we think of this? I don’t think I’d ever have it in my house, but it’s kinda cool…
I like this rug.
Windows! I like the bright white look.
A lovely reading nook
Get ready for a rainbow of living rooms. Here’s yellow!
The other side of the same room!
Blue!
Green!
Orange!
Okay back to normal. I like the print on those pillows with a dark neutral couch.
Neat fruit basket!
Cool bookshelves
To preface, I really do not like soapdishes attached to the wall in bathrooms, but I kind of like them next to the door to hold your keys! What do you think?
Nice entryway.
Yeah I don’t know what I was thinking here…looking at this now (this has been on my desktop for months…) I must have been in a real folksy mood. Testament to the fact that tastes do change!
Torsby cabinet from IKEA
NOW get ready for…outside the home! I know you’re excited 
Inside the Home 1
TONS of stuff sitting on my desktop. Please pardon the picture dump as I attempt to clear it out and start fresh! I just love looking at all these pics that inspired me…
Tone on tone green living room, so pretty!
Lovely window bench with lots of windows!!! Looks like a great place to read!
I wish I had gotten an apartment on Woodlawn Avenue so I could put my desk in one of these bay window areas.
Happy bright painted dresser!
I like this nightstand a lot.
I’ve posted this pic before for the plate wall art and the sputnik chandelier, but I also really enjoy this rug!
Love those light fixtures!
Pretty kitchen
Hehehe books in the kitchen, sounds like my kind of kitchen:)
Cool couch and I like this print!
Nice Hollywood Regency chair
More fun chairs
Yesyesyes to this laundry setup!
Funky pepple-like mirror
Bookshelves
To-die-for sunroom
Ceiling wood beams
Cool idea…painted stair runner
Kinda funky dresser
Mmmm! I love this one! I think I will copy this look in my next living room.
With a womb chair of course
More ceiling beams
Pretty dining room…love the red lamps!
Lovely Erin‘s living room, so posh!
Sophisticated collages, so fun!
Hope you’re not bored yet, because there’s more to come!!
Pretty Pillows
Oooh are these cute!
Pattern
My favorite patterns of recent–which one is your favorite?
1. stripey pillows and blankets from Crate & Barrel outlet
2. this red, purple, and white floral bedspread from Target (featured in January 2009 Dwell mag)
3. this blue, green, and teal madras quilt from Pottery Barn
4. this photo montage by Grant Hamilton (via Black Eiffel)
5. this beautifully tiled bathroom (sorry can’t remember where I found!)
6. this pretty chair and ottoman set (is this what they call ikat?)
7. this Marimekko shower curtain on sale at Always Mod (via Apartment Therapy)
8. these polka dot pillows from Pottery Barn
9. this ikat teapot from Anthropologie
10. this window decoration by Amy Soczka in an Urban Outfitters store in Milwaukee, WI (via Design*Sponge)
11. this colorfully happy bedspread from Anthropologie
12. this red, white, and black rug from a home in Italy
13. this perforated hotel room wall (via Apartment Therapy)
14. this poppy-themed bedside (via Design*Sponge)
15. these large graphic print walls
16. this beautiful lace-stenciled floor (via Design*Sponge)
A little wish list
Okay, gift guides are coming…it’s just been a little crazy lately. I thought I would at least post this little wish list of my own first, and then go from there. So, begin!!!
1. Remember those fashion plates that you had when you were little that you scraped a colored pencil against to come up with little fashionista illustrations? Well, I was rather obsessed with those things, and I really enjoy this t-shirt that pays homage to a fun pasttime.
2. These adorable plaid barettes!!!
3. This pretty lemon quartz necklace…found on Etsy but really reminds me of John Hardy or David Yurman!
4. These pillows because the corn on the cobb apartments are my favorite buildings in Chicago!!!! I so want to live in them if I end up here next year…
5. These shoes from QVC
6. This robe from Target. I just bought the blanket version for my bed last week, and I am in love. I seriously have never felt anything so soft, and Todd assures me that it stays that way after you wash it. Yippee!
Full Circle
Well one of my first posts on this blog was of an Alexander Girard print, and now almost a year later I’m returning to the simple fun of his colorful designs! Hooray, I love blogging!
Buyer’s Remorse, and Potential Buys
So, the other week I went to IKEA to get some seat cushions, a new pan for Colleen since I burnt a nice HOLE through the nonstick coating of her old one, and some of those pliable cutting boards. Anyway, I ended up buying some rather plain navy blue cushions to set on our rather uncomfortable but lovable antique kitchen chairs I inherited from my grandmother. I brought them home and–success! I could now bear sitting on the chairs for more than five minutes without being entirely uncomfortable with a sore back and bottom. But THEN I made the mistake of going to IKEA’s website and searching through all of their cushions because I came upon these two that I like way better than the ones I bought. Too late to bring back the ones I bought, as I already ripped off the tags, and even though economics tells me they’re a sunk cost and I should make the same decision now as I would have before I bought them, it just seems like a waste to buy new ones, even if they were only like $5. Anyway, I thought I’d share the source of my pain…they’re so cute, right?!
Also on the horizon for future purchases are this orchid/guzmania combo plant (from proflowers, my favorite place to get flowers–they’re always fresh and look great…and they’re pretty affordable and you can usually score a free vase) and this reusable grocery bag, from Baggu. First off, I really need a plant to look at and take care of in my apartment. I think it’d bring a lot of life and satisfaction to my living space, and would break up all the lovely modern straight lines of our place. Second, I’ve been going back and forth about whether to get some resuable bags for a while now. I haven’t yet because I don’t know that I’d remember to use them, but I want to because they’re really DARN cheap, and they do a lot of good. Baggu’s website estimates that one bag would eliminate the use of 700 plastic bags annually, most of which end up in landfills, and can take up to 1000 years to decompose. So…we’ll see. I really should take advantage of these easy ways of “being green.”
Elizabeth Dunker
Really like these prints from Elizabeth Dunker. Swirls and polka dots, what’s not to love?
