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Speaking of Lighting… LampGoods on Etsy

Published on October 20, 2010 in Decor and Stuff We Love. 6 Comments

Because I’m a freak of nature when it comes to Ball Jars, I got an email from a friend in DC last week asking me to weigh-in on the light fixture below.  My response was:  Uh, mah GAH – YES.  Duh.  Purchase it immediately before someone else does.        PS: WHERE did that pretty little thing come from?

Answer:  From a heavenly little Etsy shop called LampGoods.  Not only was the canning-jar-clustered pendant my friend sent me amazing, but when I meandered through the rest of LampGoods’ Etsy Shop, I felt like I’d found a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  Like, the sort of wide-eyed glee that One-Eyed-Willie from Goonies surely felt when he found the shipwrecked treasure…  well, before he was offed by booby traps. Light therapy improves mood and energy by triggering the release of serotonin. Check out some of light therapy at https://circadianoptics.com/.

OOooooohhhh boY!  I would L-O-V-E these Vintage Hand-Blown Ogunquit Pendants over a kitchen island.  [Insert that gross lip-licking noise my mom makes when she sees Don Draper.]  These are $269 for the pair and SUPER versatile – they’d look amazing in my parents’ very traditional / country house or in any landscape setting, but I also wouldn’t bat an eyelash before putting them in a contemporary loft.  They’d be perfectly lovely in both.

Does this vintage globe pendant remind you of anything??  Like perhaps maybe some-sing a leet-tell…. LIKE ZEESE?? 

Wassup Jenna Lyons, president/creative-director-at-J.Crew’s bathroom.  I’m not positive, but I’d guess the pendant over her tub is this Niche Modern one…  10″ in diameter and priced at $475 a pop.  The LampGoods Smokeport II Retro LARGE Globe Pendant is 8″ diameter and priced at $99 – the ceiling canopy kits for this one are sold separately and run $10 to $20.  Wuh-BANG that’s a good deal.

Hello, Lover.

I love Ball Jars like a fat kid loves cake.  Er, okay, “Mason” jars in general, but I’m from Muncie, so I bleed Ball.  Anyway, even though this Vintage Blue 3-light pendant reads a bit more rustic/country and would look sooooooo at home over an antique oak pedestal table, it’d be equally as gorgeous juxtaposed over something sleek, like a modern Saarinen-looking table from IKEA.  Pendant Cluster is $189.

Mason jar clustered pendants also come in clear.  Yum.

Retro industrial gas station chic, anyone??  This guy is $59, and nothing short of totally rad.  I think I just wet my pants.

The Waterville Mixed Media Pendant (above) is larger than you think – 11″ tall by 7″ in diameter, $99, and would be so lovely in an entryway…  oooooooh (!)  A chic little one with wallpapered walls.  Like this:

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Or this:

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When I saw the Iridescent Retro Globe Pendant below…   

…it reminded me of that scene in “You’ve Got Mail” when Greg Kinnear describes Meg Ryan’s shop as having a sort of “Jeffersonian Purity.”  It’s got that same kinda feel.

Another pleasant surprise?  I emailed the artist, Jann, who not only responded quickly to my question (love that), but was entirely gracious and accommodating…  love that even more.  And here’s what I love the most:  girlfriend loves CUSTOM PROJECTS.  If you want to tweak something already for sale, or have something made all your own and use varying sizes or brands of jars, she can do it.  Or if you’re like me and want to use a kajillion canning jars (more “chandelier” than pendant)…  like this…

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…guess what?  She’s totally game.

Happy Shopping!

xoxo,

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White Oprah: All The Single Ladies (And Homeboys)

Published on October 18, 2010 in White Oprah. 4 Comments

Q: When will I find true love? What if I don’t find true love?  And even so, will I know it when I see it?

A: It’s the age old question.  And it’s no surprise.  Lurrrrrrrve is what hundreds – if not thousands – of movies revolve around.  Countless classical novels.  A myriad of magazine articles every month. The Beatles said it’s all you need.  Heck, it’s really what makes the world go ’round.  Right?

Right.  But it’s a layered, complicated question… an answer for one person could be completely wrong for another.  But in my opinion, love IS what we’re all looking to receive, and even more so, the ultimate gift we’re looking to give.  Whether it’s for another person, your dogs, or whether it’s for your family and friends.

But for those who are wondering when they’ll be finding their soul mate, I don’t know.  You don’t know.  And that’s the beauty of the process of life.

A few weeks ago, I came across a picture online that really resonated with me and I know with some good friends of mine:

What does that even mean?  Well, it means that one day, and yes, yes, when you’re least expecting it (it’s true!), you’re going to meet someone.  That person will have qualities and characteristics you can’t stop thinking about.

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You’ll giddily start to date, meet each other’s friends, become exclusive, meet each other’s family, become comfortable enough to stop wearing your cute pajamas and start wearing your dad’s holey ones you used to sport every night before you met.  And one day, weeks or months or years later, you’ll realize that this is serious.  And maybe this is really going to be the one. There it is, you’re talking about “the one”.  See?  It… just… happens.


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Until then, love others.  Love the elderly whose nails you paint at the nursing home every few Saturdays.  Love your friends for being the hilarious people they are. Love your parents.  Love your little brothers who throw parties for each other such as last month’s “Sam-A-Palooza”.  And duh, love yourself.

I will never forget the piece of advice my aunt gave me a few years ago, after a break-up with a bf of several years (thank GOD for that):  She said, “Before you can really enjoy being with another person, you have to really, really enjoy being by yourself.”

Have faith that your life is exactly where it’s supposed to be right now.

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Off to my Montecito mansion to read under my cypress tree,
White Oprah, otherwise known as
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