Oh the Del Mar Fair!

I don't know anyone else who would get excited about extract except for me! We went the fair last night and came home with Chamois, Ray Bans, and 5 different flavors of extract for cupcakes!!! Pineapple, Peach, Banana, Strawberry, Lemon.

Do Your Part to Save the Enviornment

Plastic water bottles are littering the earth. As a lot of people recycle their bottles, most still don't. Dan and I bought stainless steel water bottles and use a Brita two gallon tank that we keep in our fridge. Dan hasn't had caffeine since. It's amazing how good the water tastes out of these! You can get them at REI, whole foods and any other "green" store. This red one is Dan's.

I love this!

This SIGG is pretty.

Kellie has this bottle.


Also, If you are in to sending a message you can get this one right off the SIGG website.

Mid Century Ranch Style Home

Would most people be excited to move into a neighborhood with elderly people all around? Or rock yards? I drove through the area while we were thinking of buying in a completely different area and fell in love. It wreaks of Mid Century Modern and hopefully we can restore the front to look like it did originally. It was built in 64 and has the original oven. Hope it works! These are a few examples of what Ranch Homes look like. Unfortunately this is not my neighborhood. I think these house numbers would look great on it.

Wallpaper Lined Shelves and a Book Case I love!

My Color Palette

It is looking a but drab isn't it? Reminds me of June gloom in San Diego. I need to figure out a way to add my favorite color...poppy. It compliments all of these oceanic tones but is still a huge contrast. I found this old vogue spread from April that shows the great combination of these colors.

Molding Frames on the Walls

I love this idea. I think I would do a double set of it, more like a frame. It would be really cute to put wallpaper in between the inner and outer set of molding. I think this adds a great architectural element.

Some great Tiles

I am really into glass mosaic tiles right now. I hope it's not just one of my obsessive phases like my black and white damask phase I went through last year. I want to use it for my kitchen back splash. It's also shown in a bathroom that looks really cool! Still haven't decided what color scheme to use. I will have white cupboards, black granite and once again, gray walls.

Wallpaper

These are prints from heaven as far as I am concerned. Anyone who knows Dan and I knows that we love bird and animal art. Can I figure out a way to incorporate this, what could be hideous to others but delicious to us, wallpaper into my house? Oh and if you love it too, here is the website http://www.trustworth.com/wallpaper.shtml.

Help me out with my floor color!!

Which one looks best? My walls will be a cool, light gray and my molding and plantation shutters white.

POLYVORE

Have you heard of Polyvore? You can do everything from outfits to random collages and storyboards. Here are a few room ideas and outfits I put together. The best part is that this is all stuff that you can buy online!

It's been awhile...

I have no idea what I have been doing for the last 6 months that I don't have time for the blog. Let's face it, I haven't had the desire. We're moving into our own little house soon and now I have decided to share the remodel of our tiny Ranch House so I have the opinions of my friends. Trust me I need every opinion you have, I am horrible at decorating!!