stay home club

Stay Home Club (the brainchild of illustrator Olivia Mew) recently launched to brighten the spaces we should probably never ever leave because the world outside is terrifying.  The shop is currently stocked with pillowcases featuring the work of some of our faves and plans to expand to include a greater range of limited run textile-based home goods created in collaboration with supercool artists.  As if we needed convincing to avoid getting out of bed!

Tea towels by Olivia Mew

 Caitlin Shearer and Rik Lee

 Olivia Mew

Becca Stadtlander

Mociun for UO

Every once in a while, Urban Outfitters will do a designer collab that makes me almost forget how shitty they are (and can we please talk about how strange it is that Urban and Rookie are doing a thing together?). Mociun for Urban is sort of perfect. And by sort of perfect, I mean I need every piece in the collection. My head should be resting on the throw pillows right now. Now I have to deal with my moral dilemma at wanting to order some of the pieces.

SHELVES!

What is it about being in your mid-twenties that suddenly makes organization and shelving units so appealing? I'll be moving into a new apartment next month with limited kitchen storage and have been obsessing over shelving possibilities. After seeing how expensive ~rustic shelves are over at West Elm (see below), I've decided to take on the task of making them myself! All I need is a drill and some wood. I CAN DO THIS! And do not fear - there will be pictures and a tutorial: "Shelves - How to overcomplicate what should be simple"

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score+solder

While Tricia and I were doing some internet research at our internship today, I came across this lookbook from score+solder and immediately had to stop what I was doing to share them. One day when I'm a real adult with a real job, I'll have more thoughtfully placed greenery around the house. 

all images from http://scoreandsolder.com/

home inspiration: erin templeton

Ever since the late night decision to turn the rarely-used dining room into a studio, I've, once again, become obsessed with the infinite opportunities on the internet to glean inspiration from afar with the hope of successfully crafting my ideal home and workspace.

One of my favorites by far is the cozy space of Erin Templeton captured by Jennilee Marigomen for 01 Magazine - bursting with plant life, textures, and white walls walls adorned with the kind of details I'm sure visitors get lost for hours in...it's definitely the kind of place that would make me feel at home.  Plus, the fuzzy cat ain't hurtin'.  

See more photos here.

a kitten, records, and zines / around the house

This was not initially intended to be a post having anything to do with cats, but Pumpkin seems to be sneaking his little face into about 75% of the pictures I take these days, so it's kind of hard to avoid making things all about him.

Anyway...

Records and magazines are cool to me not so much because I glamorize the past (people talking about how much better it was way-back-when makes my blood boil)...but because of the leap of faith involved. I like holding the finished product in my hands and thinking "this could have flopped so badly" and knowing the fact that it ended up with me means that it didn't. I guess it's a bit like the emotional investment I put in every roll of film and the anxiety of waiting to see the finished product -that spectrum of emotions is so cool to me and not something I would ever completely abandon in my life.

And kittens are just cute. That's a fact.

New zine storage inspired by Abby Try Again's spice rack idea. We're too into zines to not display them prominently, right? Caroline's fondness for Christmas lights gives it some extra whimsy.

Best little face.

Tea and The Gentlewoman make a pleasant afternoon.

 Bear (and kitty!) corner.

 

My bedroom.

Pumpkin likes sitting on my records, which doesn't seem too comfortable to me, but cats are freaks.

from the desk of...

Artist and jewelry designer Fanny Bostrom is one of my biggest girl crushes so I was super excited to see little tidbits of her Brooklyn studio on "from the desk of..." It's pretty much my "dream" studio area as its bursting with almost every essential item for crafting and making just about anything. Tricia and I will have a little space to set up our own little studio area in our new house in Austin which I'm extremely happy about. In the past, my "studio" has been a corner of my bedroom that somehow overtakes the rest of the room (paints and sketchbooks in my bed, the floor covered in paintings that are drying, etc). We already have some projects planned that we can't wait to work on and share with everyone! :)

all images via from the desk off...