For no reason at all, I give you gnomes...

Have you Seen these Houses?

While my mom and I were tooling around in San Diego, we stumbled across these curious little houses!





Shaped like little ships, they are perched on a hill a few streets back from the beach. I wonder what it's like to live in a ship?





I found an article about the SS Moonlight and it rents for $1950/month! But it's in a lovely part of Encintas, and Moonlight Beach is very close!

Best $20 Old Navy Buy...

These flats are simple, cute, comfy and affordable.  Old Navy stuff is so hit or miss and these are definitely a hit.

 

I tend to be pretty hard on flats, I wear them out.  So to find a cheap, cute solution at Old Navy chuffs me greatly!  Can't wait for the leopard pair to arrive. And to think I considered, ever so briefly, some Tory Burch ones. My senses abandoned me momentarily.

Quick Trip to California

Last week I was able to extend a work trip to California and spend a few days with family. My mom, grandma and I went out to Paradise Cove in Malibu for a little lunch and beach time.



It was my first time ever to Paradise Cove, despite making lots of summertime trips to the beaches in SoCal in my childhood.  It's $25 to park (yikes) but totally worth it if you make a day of it.



It was so beautiful that day.  It really made me curse leaving California for land-locked Raleigh, but what can you do?





My grandma and I at lunch:


Mom and grandma pose in front of the (closed-off pier)

Craigslist + Grass Cloth Wallpaper

I picked up this campaign-esque dresser from Craigslist a month or so ago for office storage. It needed a little sumpthin' so I pulled out my leftover blue grass cloth wallpaper and some spray glue and went to town:

Not too shabby for a free upgrade!

Seriously?

$100 for a bathmat? That's been made in China, no doubt?  That's American capitalism for ya!

A few changes

I moved my giant starburst mirror into the living room:

Burt models the finished runner

Finished it off with some black nailheads: