One of the things I love most about Kings Highway (besides the food) at The Ace Hotel in Palm Springs is the big rope elephant head.

It’s a little random, a little safari, appropriately desert and totally genius. Well now you can bring that same feel into your own home with Cardboard Safari’s latest release, Eyan the elephant! Read the rest of this entry »

Sophie Ellis Bextor "Bittersweet"
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Stunning images of buildings in Hong Kong. By Michael Wolf as part of his “Architecture of Density” series. More here. (via trendland)

So, if you are a fan of Happy Mundane on Facebook, I guess you’re now a “like”-er . If you’re on Facebook, and not a Facebook fan yet, but you like Happy Mundane- click on the “like” please! (see right side bar)-

A little color gradation always brightens my day-
(From May 2010 Living Etc. photo: Chris Everard styling: Harriet Paterson)

Everything looks so much tastier when it’s in a pretty bowl

I often get asked where I got the pillows for my downstairs bedroom (see reference pic here). I actually made several of the pillows myself, and the rest are store bought. For the ones I made, I got a lot of the fabric from remnants at the local fabric store (Jo-Ann’s) but the best place I found for awesome fabric scraps is… the Crate&Barrel Outlet! You can get amazing Marimekko fabric scraps for waaay cheap. If you follow my twitter or FB, you probably figured out that last weekend I went to Palm Springs for a little getaway. On the way, I stopped by a few thrift stores and also made a point to go to the Crate&Barrel Outlet in Cabazon.

I got a few things (they also have CB2 items there as well) , but the best was this pile of remnants. They have this big barrel of scraps and it’s sold by the pound for just 95cents a pound!! So I got all this for just $2 bucks! My favorite is this blue one with these gorgeous streaks. I’m thinking it might become a table runner for summer… hm…

Of course I have no idea what I’m going to do with the rest of them, but the patterns are so lovely I’m sure I’ll use them eventually- (famous last words, I know) but anyway- if you happen to be going to Palm Springs soon, (and are in the market for some great fabric scraps, maybe for a pillow, or some other project, definitely check it out!

I’ll share the rest of the goodies I got from the thrifting in the next day or so- stay tuned!

happy munday. City Sonata- Siki Im fall 2010 “a new era” – by Robert Hamada

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so… yah. apparently my gmail account got hacked. apologies if you got a spam email from me this morning.

anticpiating summer!

Delorean – Stay Close (HD) from Weird Days on Vimeo.

Had a little IKEA run with fellow blogger Mary Jo of Trust Your Style yesterday. Spotted these two neato kitchen things:

This IDELIG mixing bowl is so happy with it’s vintage-esque turquoise color (also comes in red).

And I loved this RARITET container. I’m thinking it’d be perfect for rice- it has a built in measuring cup in the lid!

um… Love this! Fishcondo by Teddy Luong- from Unica Home- via LAT blog

It’s kind of a moody sunday morning. Feelin’ a little french pop mystériuex with my morning coffee via Alizée. Hope you’re enjoying your weekend! Whatcha up to today?

Alizée – Les Collines (Never leave you)

Alizée – Limelight (video teaser)

Happy weekend folks! I’m leaving you with some beachy chic and relaxing images of this Shelter Island home in the current issue of House Beautiful. It was designed by Harriet Maxwell MacDonald and Andrew Corrie.

Totally inspired by all the washed wood and artwork! (I’m a little on the fence about the pink in the last image, but we’ll be discussing that in a separate post next week)- Anyway, check out more here. (photos by Ditte Isager for HB)

I remember seeing this as a prototype in design mags a few years back, but how cool is it that it is actually in production AND available at Home Depot?! Created by Mathieu Lehanneur and David Edwards, the ANDREA uses a plant’s natural ability to “absorb and metabolize gaseous pollutants” in the air. I totally want one! oooh the future is now! Available here. (via)

awesome new prints from brainstorm design- more here.

The other weekend, I stopped by the flower nursery to pick up a few succulents to spruce up the patio. They were giving away small strawberry plants as gift with purchase. I planted one in a pot and it’s growing! I have three little strawberries- which is quite a miracle seeing as anything besides succulents seem to die a cruel, quick and mysterious death around these parts. They’re not very big and a little mangled/ gnarly looking, but cute and special nonetheless. When are you supposed to pick them? Do you think they’ll grow any bigger? or when they turn red, is that as big as they’ll go?

Type + Towels= awesomeness. Spotted this towel at Target the other night and had to have it.

Color wise, the towel is more true in the second image- with the dark brown and blue-ish grey- so lovely. (the lighting in my bathroom blew out the color in the camera) Anyway, available in a set here. (but you can get them individually in store- I just got the hand towel)