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55.5″W x 42.5″H | $350 | San Diego pick-up

Email: stephanie.m.ballard@gmail.com | Craigslist Post: http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/hsh/5152830016.html

It is with a heavy heart that I put this bad boy up for sale (sniff sniff). It’s a vintage print of Paris and the Seine – taken in the 50’s – that I had professionally framed when I bought my first house 10 years ago. Was perfect over the mantle because of its size (most everything you put over a mantle looks dwarfed), loved it over the console in the dining room, did me proud over the sofa in Chicago (we had 10 ft ceilings in our walk-up and its large scale also worked great) and I never hung it in my bedroom BUT – right over a bed with all white bedding in lieu of a headboard? So chic.

Asking $350 which is far less than what it cost to have professionally framed. Mint condition. 2 hanging hooks on back. Shoot me an email at stephanie.m.ballard@gmail.com or hit up the craigslist post if you’re interested! San Diego local pick-up only, unless you want to arrange for freight.

PS: all the similar sized framed prints with similar subject matter are $1500+ at Restoration Hardware. So there’s that.

xo!

Good Morning Sugarplums (!) Happy Weekend to you! In the ultimate act of procrastination (since I’m supposed to be moving today), instead of packing I’m drinking coffee, rubbing Gus’ belly and fiddling around with Pinterest. Whoops. If you have anything pressing on your plate today, perhaps you should halt and fiddle faddle with me for a minute too:

{WHAT SATURDAYS ARE FOR}

This pic evokes all kinds of warm fuzzies for me, but the ponytail / denim / chambray also makes me feel like Fall’s comin.

{THINKING OF CANVAS-ING AND HANGING ONE OF THESE IN MY NEW DIGS}

Serenity now.

{MAKING ME NOD SILENTLY}

…in an “omg, truer words have never been spoken” way. Good luck with that, bud.

{MAKING ME CACKLE}

…because this is equally as (sad but) true.

{MAKING ME WANNA DO A RED LIP TONIGHT}

…bonus: you get to do everything else pretty minimal when you do. #easybutton

{MAKING ME SMILE}

…cuz this is what his sweet face looks like all the time.

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{MAKING ME WISH I NEEDED ANOTHER RUG}

…Rugs USA’s Overdyed Pakistani Purple Rug.

…Lulu & Georgia “Shimia” Rug. Like worn, faded denim. Like buttah.

{MAKING ME SWOON}

…the cabinet doors make the whole darn thing.

…Tabarka kills me every time. This is Maghreb Zig Zag Large.

…look at the little lip detail on the backsplash. And that sconce. And the ship lap. So cozy. By Ruard Veltman Architecture.

{MAKING ME SCRATCH MY HEAD}

…cuz I can’t tell if these are toddler underpants or adult short-shorts, but I want them nonetheless.

{MAKING ME SERIOUSLY CONSIDER CUTTING MY HAIR}

…and look at those layers! (Sigh), Fall.

{MAKING ME NOD AGAIN}

…because this is so true. Remind me to tell you about the story my friend Jess told me last weekend when I was in Chicago that seriously lit a fire under my ass.