my phone's an iphone

to anyone out there with an iphone
i have to share with you that I finally got a case for mine
and im in love with it
uncommon has some lovely selections
you can even create your own
I got the case pictured above
but there are lots to chose from, enjoy!

polaroids + wallpaper = encroyable!

(image via Abby Try Again)

Shoesies

Should there come a day where I own this many shoes....
I'll remember this brilliant way of storing them

(image via Nubbytwiglet)

Oh Yes!

My So Called Life is now on Hulu.... batta bing!

Walt Whitman

I don't know many people who are into poetry.... but sometimes, on an especially inspiring day, it is one of my favorite things to read. Yesterday on my commute to work I was reading a little Walt Whitman and I came across this one. I think it is perfection and I want you to experience it too.

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come

O You whom I often and silently come
where you are that I may be with you,

As I walk by your side or sit near
or remain in the same room with you,

Little you know the subtle electric fire
that for your sake is playing within me.

this song and this video.... they tug at my heartstrings..... incredible

<3

Having begun to feel, people's desire to feel grew. They wanted to feel more, feel deeper, despite how much it sometimes hurt. People became addicted to feeling. They struggled to uncover new emotions. It's possible that this is how art was born. New kinds of joy were forged along with new kinds of sadness: the eternal disappointment of life as it is; the relief of unexpected reprieve; the fear of dying.

Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist. There are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written, or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom, or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges, and absorbs the impact.

- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

They would not find me changed
from him they knew,
only more sure of all I thought was true.

- from Robert Frost's Into My Own

I love the idea behind this new site and I really hope it takes off.
I'm always looking for ways to create and recreate
new styles with old things I have lying around.

There are people who have money,
and people who are rich.

- Coco Chanel

Beauty will save the world.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Noteworthy video worth checking out. Love it.

"Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved."

From Sonnet 116- William Shakespeare

"And that's the thing about people that mean everything they say.
They think everyone else does too."

Khalid Housseini [The Kite Runner]

Swim Upstream!

Love the fish swimming up the wall of the spiral staircase in the new Toast catalog.

Chaircouture

This furniture/upholstery/household collection is amazing. Chaircouture upholsters old furniture and gives it new character. I especially love the curtains from the green collection.

perfection

delicate white flowers wrapped up in fancy black paper is one of the most perfect things i have ever seen

(image via domino mag)

Dyer Maker

I have literally searched ten different stores in my neighborhood for fabric dye this week and have had little luck.... then, sure enough, I got my Daily Candy email today and it came fully equipped with an instructional video about how to make your own natural dyes with food. Watch it HERE! I can't wait to try it! What color should I test out first?

The Pen Story

People keep coming up with more amazing uses of stop motion and I think its wonderful. I was browsing through Old Sweet Song today and I found this video. Lovely!

Currently Reading: The History of Love

Having begun to feel, people's desire to feel grew. They wanted to feel more, feel deeper, despite how much it sometimes hurt. People became addicted to feeling. They struggled to uncover new emotions. It's possible that this is how art was born. New kinds of joy were forged along with new kinds of sadness: the eternal disappointment of life as it is; the relief of unexpected reprieve; the fear of dying.

Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist. There are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written, or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom, or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges, and absorbs the impact.

Nicole Krauss - The History of Love