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Dear Santa, Love Stephie | 2020

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,

Saturday Morning Swoon

The only thing that’s as delightful as toting flowers comme ça back from the Farmers Market on a Saturday Morning is sitting propped up in your big white fluffy bed with a cup of coffee, in your PJ’s, scouring Pinterest.  Which is what I’m currently doing, and it’s heaven.  Here are a *few* things making my heart beat a little faster this morning:

THIS TILE.

HO-ly testicle Tuesday, I truly cannot handle it.  Tile is by AKDO and was featured in Lonny this Spring.  It feels like what happens when the Great Gatsby and your kitchen meet.  I could seriously rap with this in a smallish dose – like a bar or over the range – that way it’s not overwhelming and looks like the rare jewel that it is. #nomnomnomnom

THIS DRESS.

Simple and structured and sexy and stunning.  And belongs on a Bond Girl in a Bond Movie, but I’d still take it.  This number probably has the same effect on boys as Farmer Ted does on us ladies.  And if you don’t get the Farmer Ted reference and haven’t read some of my shameless Bachelorette recaps, then you probably oughta get on that.

THIS PHOTO… (EXHALE).

…Which is about what living in Southern Cali feels like.  I was staying at the beach last weekend and up early with Gus to fetch my coffee, and about 185 beat-up 4-Runners with surfboards hanging out the back window vroomed by me on their way to the water…  Pretty sure it was Bodhi & his buddies from Point Break.

THESE STACKING BEAUTIES.

Just do yourself a favor and peruse Mociun’s rings.

This one from Dawes wouldn’t look ugly on my hand.  HEAVENS.

Nor would this.  No, I’m not getting married… and when I do, I’d probably just want some thin, stackable pavé guys.  But I wouldn’t say no to this.  And anyone who would should make a B-line for the Looney Bin, stat.

THIS HEADBOARD.

…from a Hillary Thomas install, swiped from her Instagram.  I always think I wanna do some crazy silhouette in a neutral fabric with my next headboard, but how pretty would crisp white bedding look against this bad boy?  The shape is also lovely, lovely lovely.

PS: I love just about everything Hillary Thomas does – we’ll have to do a post on her soon.

THIS PANTSUIT.

My homegirl K-Hud can do no wrong.  Her hair and makeup are also perfection in this pic.  I’m pretty sure we’re supposed to be friends in real life.

THIS CHANDELIER.

…which literally made my jaw to hit the floor when I saw it.  It’s Barbara Barry for Visual Comfort / Circa, and it’s everything.  It reads a little formal / art deco, but I feel like it’s versatile enough that you could dress the rest of the room down a bit, and it would still work beautifully.  We’re thisclose to doing it in a client’s bedroom, and I plan on living vicariously through her.

THESE CUCUMBER LIME MARGARITAS.

I may be making these later on today.  Cuz why not?  Recipe here.

THIS QUOTE.

In the vast sea of quotes you see online that you could literally drown in, this is the one I always come back to.  It has sustained me for most of this *most* interesting year.  It’s the one I literally think about every time I feel like I might have a mini-panic attack… which isn’t often, but you get the idea.  It’s a great mantra.

That’s all I got for today!  I need some breakfast and some yoga.  Hope you guys have a great weekend!

xoxo,