It’s the Holly-Days! You know, that time of year when Karrie & I crawl out of the cave of blogging hiberation (in sweatpants, with bed head) to sling around some of our favorite things – partly as ideas for you guys (!) and partly as ideas for our loved ones. Every year we do this feels more and more ridiculous, because we’re old as dirt and don’t need a ^$#% thing. That said – this year, I’m keeping in step with tradition and putting forth a list that is about 3 parts pipe dream (aka totally ridiculous) and 1 part sane. Happy Shopping!
A &^$% HOUSE
Remember that phone booth thing on game shows in the 80’s they’d put people in, then turn the blower on and make you try to grab as much stuff as you can in 20 seconds? Trying to make a real estate decision where we live – in an ever-escalating, ridiculous market that’s getting away from us faster than our little brains can move to figure out what we wanna do – welp, it feels a lot like that. Whoopsie! We’ll get there. SANTA ARE YOU LISTENING?? Image via Martha Stewart.
FENDI SUNNIES
Well if these aren’t the raddest things I’ve ever seen. Can’t find the bastards anywhere.
STACKERS, BABY.
Just like everything in a house, I feel like jewelry is best when it’s collected over time.
SEE-ALL LEATHER TRIMMED CANVAS CASE
Net-a-Porter, $95. Cuz I’m always on the hunt for classic, hardworking travel pieces. I actually do need this.
NATAN MOSS CUSTOM LAMPS
Through Hollywood at Home, $1550 each. They are stunning, and each one is a work of art. I think they remind me – on some level – of this pottery studio that was in our hometown when I was a kid that my parents and some of my parents’ friends still have pieces from. See man, it always comes back to Muncie.
WREN COAT in MELANGE
Ulla Johnson, $995. If I could pick one designer’s clothes to wear for the rest of my life, it would be hers. This amazing, can’t-wait-for-it-to-go-on-sale-but-it-never-will, has-my-name-all-over-it trench coat is everything.
APPLE iPODS with CHARGING CASE
Amazon, $109.99.
A TALE OF INTERIORS, by PIERCE & WARD
Amazon (or check your local small biz bookstore – they may have it!), $38. They are my favorite designers. They have no formal training, no rules and no fear. They are brilliant.
LADY or TWIST PIN
Hand + Fire, $30. Because someday soon, I need to graduate from the No. 2 pencil, which is what I use now to tie up my hair.
ALGAE CANDLESTICKS
Carolina Irving & Daughters, price varies. These are so perfect. Carolina Irving is my favorite textile designer (and a close tie with Jasper, Rose Tarlow and Peter Dunham) but anyhoo – she and her two daughters started a tabletop line a few years ago that would wow any guest at your dinner table. Image below via Nickey Kehoe, who sells them through their shop.
PACK OF 10 TAPER CANDLES in FRENCH ROSE or ROSE TAUPE
Etsy, $21.68. Love these and love shopping small. Both of the colors (listed above) I’m gunning for are currently sold out, but there are so many beautiful others. We go through taper candlesticks in this house faster than clean underpants.
MOST BEAUTIFUL SUZANI PILLOW I HAVE EVER SEEN
In someone else’s house, not for $ale. But doesn’t mean I’m not always on the lookout for a textile like it. Image via House Beautiful.
Merry Merry!! Gift Guide for the Home on deck (and maybe Karrie’s too?)
xoxo,
