Not Tired of Winter

I can tell I'm not tired of winter, because I think this Finnish home, especially in it's snowy setting, is amazing. Lori (Automatism is one of my favorites) featured it yesterday, and I couldn't resist showing some of it here, too... Please go see Lori for the other photos and the link to the article!

Flokati Evolving

Happy Monday to you! I've had sheep on my mind for a while now. It may have started with this picture (from the same home as this):I started noticing sheepskin more [remember this?], and then flokati rugs. Pretty flokati...Along the way, I found this sweet pouf somewhere...and I started thinking about how cozy and cool a flokati beanbag would be. I searched, but could not find one. Until I saw these in the current Lonny...
I love that beanbag! But, it is rabbit. Can't do rabbit. With a quick sweep over the picture, I learned it is from Maison de Vacances, which is why Lonny is so great. You can mouse over almost everything and click directly to its source. How fun is that?! So, I visited Maison de Vacances and found that they make these...Wow. I now want the one in back. It's perfect.
credits: Vogue, Ohdeedoh, The Modern Home, Lonny, Maison de Vacances.

2 Michaels

Happy Saturday! Via 1st Dibs, here are some pretty scenes created by 2 Michaels...

Happy Friday

I hope your Friday and weekend are beautiful. Last night, I was looking for Kiyoshi Saito woodblocks and found these...Love them.
Nuns in Paris, 1974 and Meditation Paris, 1960

Fun Pieces

I'd like to have from the Palm Beach Modern, Century 20: Modern Design Auction this weekend...A Gaetano Pesce Chair, a Loet Vanderveen Sculpture, a George Nelson Eye Clock, and a pair of Alexander Calder sculptures (andirons?). I hope you are having a great day!

I Think

this is perfect. If it were mine, I'd stay here all day.Happy Monday!
Laura Clayton Baker (The Uplifters) via Remodelista

Happy Weekend

I hope you have a restful, happy weekend. I've been meaning to tell you for a while that I loved seeing Albert Hadley's home in Lonny last month...I appreciated his quote: "In order to live amid beauty, you have to be intellectually engaged."
Quickly searching the blog world, I found these older shots in the same room in his home, and really enjoyed studying the slight evolutions. The first from lovely Becky at Hatch in 2007...The last via The Peak of Chic, also in 2007.

Love These

weathervanes...All are from the 19th century. The top two are being auctioned at Sotheby's. The bottom two at Pook and Pook. I think they're beautiful.

Playroom Design Board

Our little library became the playroom when our son was born. It's been through many transitions and it's going through another one now. It still has the bookcases along the back wall, filled with our books on the top shelves and toys and children's books on the bottom shelves. It has a small table and chairs, and a big, ungainly train table that is now used to hold our (astoundingly large) collection of Legos. This room always looks cluttered and I can't stand it. I think the Lego table has to go. It is almost too low for our son now and it looks like a dump, which it is... for Legos. We need more, attractive storage and a new rug. So, I've put together this...We've had the bookcases, the table and chair, the posters and the soft storage baskets for a while, so I'm incorporating those. I think this looks quite boring and I'm tempted to add some color, but I know what happens to even the nicest of calm, neutral, or white spaces when the reality of a five-year-old with his (or her) stuff moves in...Stuff everywhere...every surface covered! This is not to say I don't love these, but there are belongings to deal with - lots of them. Add a wall of bookshelves... and maybe you can see why I'm staying away from color in furniture or rugs: it's too much for the eyes.
Ahhh, well. In my dreams, our little room looks as adorable as these... I will show you a picture when it's done.
Board resources: bookcases, Argington giza table and chair no longer available, blockbox, posters, storage cubes, Lego storage, flokati, rug, drawer unit, and storage baskets.
Images: Desire to Inspire, Stil via Elmarie on Pinterest, Hop Skip Jump, Slumber Designs, Elmarie, Desire to Inspire, Emma via an earlier post, Ikea.

Brrrrr!

What a fantastic, but COLD, snowshoe we had today...our family's ritual on New Year's Day. Brrrr - it warmed to only 8 degrees (Farenheit). But happily we move into 2011, hoping that will be the coldest day of the year!

ps... that's my 25-yr-old Patagonia hat on Eddie!