House Beautiful

Honey, get in line.

Are you SERIOUS?  Look at this doozie that Ballard Designs just came out with.  Heavens people.  I ran across it earlier today whilst I was perusing the world wide web for my buddy Benny B’s kids’ room – which is a project we’ll be highlighting in the next few weeks.  Anyhoo – I saw this thing and moments later, had to wring out my drawers.  GYAH, it’s like a glorious, majestic bird dusted with gold meets Oly meets a wee round Edison light.  It’s so chic I can’t take it.  And I’m just guessing here, but looks like an easy install…  unlike most pendants or chandeliers, which you have to pimp out an electrician to do. It ended up not being that big a deal. I just went online and looked at the features of a few electricians until I found one that was able to help me with this. Even if this is a bit more niche, it wasn’t difficult to find one that did.  With that done well, that, my friends, should make it *extra* popular with renters the world over (like je).  Ballard also makes a MONEYBAGS suggestion on their website: “Install multiples down a hallway for eye-catching texture and warmth.”  Uh, genius.  Against a watered-down robin’s egg, pastel-ly Tiffany’s box blue ceiling?  I die.

Sprint your little fingers over to the link above and if your nether-regions have the same reaction to it that mine did, buy it stat.   Already doesn’t ship till 3-7-2013.  Which means…  (who’s seen Sleepless in Seattle??) – “Honey.  Get in liiiiine.”

xoxo,

Motivation Monday

“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.” – Ernest Hemingway, via Live.to.the.point.of.tears

Who better than the gregarious Hemingway to give us this little gem?  No need to be a writer to appreciate this reminder to take it in, take it all in.

Happy Monday everyone!

xoxo,