Forever and a day ago I had written down to do a DIY with palm leaves and here we are! I actually tried to do palm leaf napkins with last year’s inkodye napkin DIY and it was a hard fail so it never made an appearance, but I never forgot about it. With summer entertaining at the forefront again, I wanted to make some modern and minimal linens with my favorite summer motif, and I partnered with La Crema wines to do it! I’m so so excited to work with them since we are major wine people over here and their wines are some of my favorites ever. See the full post and tutorial over on the La Crema blog! Read More
Sources for Everything in My Living Room
Let’s do a short room-by-room series here tackling the number one FAQ I get, which is “Where did you get that?” I definitely agree that I can be a lot more thorough about sharing the sources for the all the things I feature on the blog, and seeing that there have been a lot of new readers around here lately (welcome!!) it’ll be good to get us all on the same page and catch up on things we may have missed, starting with my living room because I think I get the most questions about it!
Summer Beauty Must-Haves: 9 Products I Use Everyday
I say “summer must-haves” keeping in mind colors and staying power for those really sweaty and melty summer days, but we could also call this what I wear on my face every single day (for now!) The idea to do this post came to me this past weekend when I was at the Renegade Craft Fair and it was a million degrees. I was feeling extremely gross and uncomfortable from all the sweating, but somehow my face made it through looking way better than I felt and I thought yea, I need to share some of this. Read More
Patio Dreams
Over the weekend, as we sat in our friend’s backyard over a delicious meal and drinks, I was reminded of my dine-al-fresco-everyday dreams and how BIG of a priority it is for us to have an outdoor space at our next home, wherever that’s going to be! Especially during these summer months, we fantasize about the things we’d cook on our grill, the wine we’d drink out there on quiet nights just us two, the guests we’d like to constantly have over, the way we’d decorate the space (that’s just me I don’t think he thinks about this at all), so come along with me as I daydream about it all.
This kitchen patio combo situation is the one.
This one too!
Backyard pool party lounge dreams also apply.
Friday Finds
Love a good, short week (thank you July 4th!) Looking forward to a mostly chill weekend and gonna be taking a look around the Renegade Craft Fair. I love love love love love these kind of maker events and discovering new artists or finally seeing works I’ve been wanting to see in person. I try to go to as many and all of these kind of events that I can, so pretty excited for that. It’s gonna be LIT.
Have a wonderful weekend!
A must read on Instagram etiquette and how to properly credit/regram photos.
This white and gray home oh my goodnessssssssss.
Ooo how do we like concrete countertops?
Adore everything about this outfit and I’m already thinking about fall fashion (too soon?)
Stunning bedroom makeover. I want that floor!
Really cute DIY for marble tube beads.
Some very cool minimal nail art ideas.
June Highlights
June has by far been the best month yet! Maybe of my life!! If you’ve been keeping up with me regularly then you already know of one reason why but either way, let’s catch up.
THE BROAD
Last year we had tickets to go to The Broad contemporary art museum around when it first opened, but a last minute trip forced us to cancel and we never made up for it. He surprised me with tickets last month, which he’s so good at doing that kind of thing ugh, and it made a really cute date.
I loved the art in this room the most and discovered Mark Tansey, which my guy is now saying is his new favorite artist (Did he have one before? Nope!)
The best exhibit for sure was the Inifinity Room by Yayoi Kusama. It was the shortest 45 seconds I’ve ever experienced, which is what they limit your time in the room to, also made shorter by the terribly long wait time. We put our names down right when the museum opened and were told to come back in 2.5 hours!
ENGAGED
My friends joked with me about how this photo was proof that I wasn’t expecting the proposal, based on how my nails were not cute!!
The feelings following this moment were something I don’t think I’ve ever felt before. For this day and the following days I was completely carefree with pure joy. It sounds so sappy but it’s 1000% truth. I mentioned it a little in my post about our story and engagement but since then I really feel our relationship has deepened, most likely due to the more frequent conversations about our hopes for the future. Anyways, I’m still elated, still more in love than ever, and still putting off planning the wedding ha!
We stayed in Malibu and celebrated by ourselves that night and the following day at this cute little getaway.
We visited the Getty Villa, which I’m so so so late on going to. It was gorgeous and maybe not somewhere I’d need to go back to again, but I’m glad to have finally gone.
WEDDING
My good friends got married and it was such a beautiful weekend of celebrating. They’re the first of our group to get married and having all of us be a part of the wedding party was such a precious and fun experience.
It was also pretty swell that Oleg and I got to be in it together. Have you I told you his name before?? His name is Oleg. We look unintentionally kinda sad but this was the only shot in this series of photos we took that wasn’t horribly blurry. LIFE.
POTTERY
I signed up for another session of pottery classes, which I actually cancelled and am signing up for the next session because it worked out better for me and my friends, but before that I got two pieces back from the kiln!
This little black dipped bowl is going to be so loved. Also I think I’m going to be doing this kind of glazing on everything now.
I also made this little speckled dish and am feeling like I’ll speckle everything as well. Welcome to my pottery line, haha!
BLOG FRIENDS
Within the madness of blogging is the jewel of being able to meet really cool and really awesome people. I hang out with Molly and Sarah pretty regularly, and this time Sarah joined and she was only 7 days away from her due date!! Do you see her little bump? Doesn’t she look amazing??
We had lunch at Winsome, which was as delicious as it was cute. For sure coming back here.
Whenever I’m out east of LA I have to make a few stops. The cutest shops are out here, like Eightfold Coffee where we hung out for a bit.
I also love stopping in Esqueleto which is right next door. Tons of pretty things too look at in here, my favorite thing to do.