Tag Archives: design

Made by Southern Hands

Last night, I had the privilege of providing food for my friends at the Dixie Design Collective. They have a new office at The Pointe in Butchertown, and it. is. jaw-dropping. These ladies are designers and hardcore DIYers, so this is all their own personal doing. That boggles the mind.

I want to move in here.

I want to move in here.

The whole space is perfect and beautiful, as one might anticipate the office of Louisville’s best stylists might be, and all the partygoers were the nicest of well-wishers. I met wedding planners, photographers, painters, creative directors, florists, designers, you name it. Everyone was really excited to see these nice people have such success.

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I can’t take credit for those AMAZING cupcakes. Those were allll Stellar Sweets.

If you’d like to see more photos and some links to their effortless, classy, fun work, follow me to the place that the intertrons take you after the jump.

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More Charm than Good

My friend, the fabulous fashion designer Jasmine Chong, has started a little blog to post sketches of the work she’s doing now (the above photo is from her new site). Right now, she’s a full-time designer at Tory Burch as well as being a full-time truly outstanding lady. I bet she’ll even sell you her fancy drawings if you asked nicely. Go look at them!

Breaking: Now we must all buy emerald things.

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Pantone declared emerald the 2013 color of the year, which means we are all legally required to purchase items of this color and integrate them into our daily lives, like we all did with tangerine last year and honeysuckle the year before. You did, right? Because that’s the only reason I let myself get talked into the orange wool capris at J. Crew. They were on sale? Cold comfort now that they’re taking up valuable closet real estate.

Good news for everyone except Freida Pinto is that emerald is a lot more wearable than tangerine and much easier to integrate into the design of your home. It’s less gendered (+1), a little winter-y-er (+3 if you live north of Ohio, maybe +/- 1 for other folks), and chances are you already have some things that would look nice with your shiny new emerald ish. Continue reading

Fantasy Life Update: A Vase

One of my girlfriends got me this for Christmas:

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And trust me, I’ve tried. Poppies, peonies, plumeria. Nothing is as pretty as this vase. In my rich, rich fantasy life (in which I live in Erin’s house with my Great Pyrenees and have this hair), I eat any and all meals on Laura Zindel creations. For now, I guess my early-80s Pier One lotus bowls will be just fine, but a girl can dream, right?