Rosette Love

So excited for spring, and yearning for longer hair...

House of Telsa headband. Layers!


Gorgeous headband from Miss Ruby Sue's Etsy Shop.


A textured bib/necklace from MissRubySue.



Girly/Tomboy Moschino tee


J. Crew Pink, preppy & sweet.

Yellow Before, Purple After

I've had this yellow buffet for awhile, and I had been wanting to paint it for sometime. I was inspired by these pretty little purple flowers to paint it purple. It was definitely an impulse thing, but 'm happy I did it. I went to Anthropologie and found these gaudy drawer pulls on sale! Thank goodness because I had to buy eight of them.



I love how it turned out.. . it's not forever, but it's fun for now.

Paper Flowers

Chanel couture show. just lovely.

Superficial Crushes

Wow. These last days at work are making me want to end my life. I. Am. So. Bored. Hey, here's some candy:

Thrifty Fleur Find

Last Monday I hit up Goodwill during my lunch break and found this lovely picture of a citrus flower in a heinous faux gold/marble and toile matte. I couldn't pass it up for $4.99, so I purchased it. A quick matte change and a coat of basil spraypaint, I had a brand new botanical print for my apartment.Easy-Peasy-Japanesey.

Every Day Matters

Some pretty ladies in color. Lately, I'm only drawing super girly things.. just keeping it pretty.

I was feeling pretty uninspired, so I was looking for a list of things to draw. I found this group called Every Day Matters, and everyone in the group draws the same thing for a year or something? The "challenge" happened last year, but it's a nice long list and I'm going to start doing it. Join me? I'll start tagging them "Every Day Matters."

Freshly Picked Circles

From my Moleskine.

Who rides thy bicycle?

Every month I have a meeting at Fluor Corporation, a huge engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance organization. That doesn't mean much to me, but the huge campus-like offices always seems so drab and impersonal. To my delight I saw this floral bike at the bike rack and it warmed my heart that some goof rode this to work everyday.

Vertical

Nope, this isn't a game of Get The Picture--I take random pictures of whatever catches my eye, and as I was browsing through my pictures from this week, I noticed most of them had a vertical stripe theme.

1. rain on my front porch
2. hanging blinds in my bedroom (yuck)
3. planted flowers downtown
4. gift bags in my backseat
5. part of the Niels Esperson building downtown...it's the only complete examples of Italian Renaissance architecture in Houston. Designed by John Eberson, the Esperson buildings were built in 1927 and 1941, respectively. They are elaborately detailed with massive columns, great urns, terraces, and a grand tempietto at the top, similar to one built in the courtyard of San Pietro in Rome in 1502 (wiki!)

Fantastical Photos

BEST. IDEA. EVER....These photos were inspired by children's crayon drawings. They're so whimsical, fictional and sweet-- I love these use of tissue flowers and elaborate costumes. You could easily see all these photos in a super-hip glossy magazine. More at fishki.net

Shangri La Gardens

Yesterday we got up early and went to the Shangri La Gardens in Orange, Texas. Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center is the first project in Texas and the 50th project in the world to earn the U.S. Green Building Council's Platinum Certification for LEED®-NC, which verifies that the design and construction of Shangri La reached the highest green building and performance measures.

Orange is a small town that hasn't seen much growth over the past 25 years, so it was cool to see such a beautiful, new garden with modern Green facilities. All of the buildings were so attractive.

I couldn't possibly post all the pictures I took.. with my cameraphone. I swear, I'm getting a decent camera soon. Anyway, these are just a few of the pictures. All the pictures of orchids and other flowers I took didn't do the plants justice so they're getting left out all together.

Pitcher plant-- holds water and catches bugs.

Everything about the garden is green.. it recycles rainwater, uses wood and brick from Hurricaine Rita, uses solar energy, etc. I asked one nice, old man who worked there what he did if he saw snakes and he said he won't kill them because there's "too many tree-huggers 'round here."

We spent about three hours walking around the 252-acre tract and admiring the plants, birds, flowers and butterflies. Sunshine and Lemon pie!



These bottle trees were cool, something I might try when it's house time.

From wikipedia:

Glass "bottle trees" orginated in Northern Africa during a period when superstitious people believed that a genii or imp could be captured in a glass bottle. Legend had it that empty glass bottles placed outside the home could "capture" roving (usually evil) spirits at night, and the spirit would be destroyed the next day in the sunshine. This practice was taken to Europe and North America by African slaves. While Europeans adapted them into hollow glass spheres known as "witch balls" the practice of hanging bottles in trees became widespread in the Southern states of North America, where they continue to be used today as colorful garden ornaments.

Pigment-Injected Showers Bring Rainbow Flowers

How awesome, yeah? I found this at a random blog, JustinSpace, which might be my new favorite thing. Justin says the pigment-injected roses were ordered them from a shop in L.A. at $6 a stem.

I'm thinking it wouldn't be too hard to recreate this with a little experimenting, especially if you can nab a needle from a diabetic friend or Amy Winehouse. I love them so much.