more shit i scanned for you. it's a scan-y treat! like a scandy bar or a scan cream cone.

i'm like the fairy godmother of design blogs right now!!!

speaking of fairies...

while in budget crisis 2010 (as in no one in this family is working right now) there are a few things i refuse to relinquish.  one being this shit:

balls.

it uses agave instead of sugar (score 1 for the glycemic watchers and diabetics) and coconut milk instead of regular cow milk. which as we know is the devil to some of us.  plus dairy causes cellulite. seriously, cut that shit out of your diet for a month, your cellulite will disappear. (this does not include butter as i feel butter is really just angel's blood.)

anyway...it fills a much needed ice cream void while it is 4000 degrees here in the dirty south.

plus it tastes like fucking coffeeeeeeee!!!!  ($5.69 a pint bitches)

the other thing i refuse to give up is my sad magazine addiction.

and trust me when i say it is worse than yours.

so while i have CHOSEN to give up a few of the foreign options, this does not include elle decor france.

it never disappoints and it's only $7.95 US dollars!

so without further adieu...

i give you the adler/doonan (see above) new york apartment....

yeah, so i wanted to give you the full effect here but those foreign mags are so fucking big.

but i also gave you each individual page bc i'm awesome..

like i even needed to tell you who's place this was...

the dining room is so so so fab!  look at the height!! the windows!!!

 

i don't know if jonathan is working on a line of ping pong tables or if he had this one wallpapered but i DO know that i want to come over and play...

i was state ping pong champion in st. louis circa 1983 (no i wasn't) (yes i was)

my mom had that mommy zebra on the floor in our living room when i was a kid..

 

pretty fab isn't it?

i think he is a genius with color...he makes it all look so crisp and clean and fresh. no one color sticks out like a sore thumb. it's all pleasing. this is hard to do. most people try it and it ends up looking like a toilet full of barf.

merry june 29th...

i love friday and i love you

friday is important isn't it?

it's the day before the weekend.

the day you wake up and are happy the shitty week is almost over.

i went for a 3 mile walk today in my favorite neighborhood, druid hills.

big, old mansions built in the 20's and 30's.

i have been walking in this neighborhood for nearly 10 years.

i don't live anywhere near it (i used to) but sometimes i drive over to it, park my car and get out and just go...

i realized i was pregnant with fiona on a walk in this neighborhood. as in it was may and people had fresh dirt in their gardens and all i wanted to do was eat it.

weird, i know. but also a sign of pregnancy.

i really did know in that instant that i was pregnant.

anyway...

friday!!

friday is also the day most bloggers say fuck you!!

i'm outta here!!

and i am including myself in this group this time..

but before i sign off i wanted to give you all a gift for how awesome you are to me. whether you blog or not, whether you comment or don't..

i love you all the same..

sort of like paula deen loves a butter sandwich.

my gift to you is this..

i went through some of my design books old and new and scanned some of my favorite pics.

enjoy and happy farting weekend!!

(sorry, some are more scan-a-licious than others)





could you just die?? 

that gambrel purple? the soft romantic dining room with the roses on the wall?

the hanging lounge pit in the fucking tropics??? adler's purple desk?

which is your fave??

 

images via my books

or

eighteenth century style, elle decor-the grand book of style, easy cottage style, vacation homes, home design ideas, rooms to inspire in the country, provence interiors and provence escapes

the best giveaway in blogtown? shit yes it is..

ok, look...apart from maybe someone giving away a date with robert pattinson this (to me) is the best giveaway ever..

do you knuckleheads know raina from if the lampshade fits?

well i do and that makes me even more awesome..

she is an actual interior designer not someone who just blogs about pretty rooms..

and she is giving away her services..

as in she will re-arrange a room in your house for you..

you see raina just does this naturally and she is quite good...

among her many design talents,

she also owned and operated a few stores that she styled constantly and beautifully...

in fact when we had our blogger meet up here recently we would look at raina and think something might be wrong with her bc she had this distant, pensive look on her face.

when in fact she was just rearranging every store display we came across in her mind..

she has a gift.

don't believe me?

take a look at her house...

living room:

 

guest room:

 

daughter's bedroom:

basically raina rocks.

go to her blog, leave a comment and add your name to the virtual pot to have that room in your house that you can't seem to get a handle on finally look like the room you want it to be.

this is a great prize guys.

images via if the lampshade fits