Dreamy Dresses

Feminine, elegant, romantic, and beautiful have to be my favorite words and these photos fit all of them. This lovely photo series was taken by The Cherry Blossom Girl at Maria Lucia Hohan's Atelier. The corset inspired/tan gown inspires me the most, I've always wanted to make something like that. I'm so jealous of whoever owns these gowns.

Chanel NO.5 Commercial with Audrey Tautou

This is from like a year ago, but i've never seen it on my television! It's such a beautiful commercial...I love these types a videos, and Audrey is amazing too!

J. Crew Fall 2010: Amazing Clothing

This is my favorite Ready-To-Wear Brand for Fall. I am in love with every piece of clothing that J. Crew has made. J. Crew never fails to amaze me. I fall more in love every season.

Italy

It's always been one of my dreams to go to Italy ever since I was a little girl(I'm pretty sure I knew that Italy existed before America. Haha!) I'm finally getting to go, but I still have 3 more years of waiting because I have to wait for High School to end. I'm pretty much crazy about Italy and I haven't even been there yet! I know I'm going to cry when I get off the plane or when I go to Tuscany, for some odd reason it's just an emotional thing for me. All of Italy is beautiful, but what's your favorite part of Italy or what part do you what to go visit or what country have you always dreamed of visiting? As much as I would love to go to all the big cities like, Rome, I'd rather go to the non-tourist areas and really get the full experience.

Inspiring Clothing

Basically, all of this clothing would exist in my dream wardrobe.

Dean Martin (Live) 1964

Dean Martin will always make me smile no matter what mood I am in.

Swingin On the Moon

Dreamy Dresses

Quote of the Week

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. " - Walt Disney

Vintage 1940's Fashion Film - Boudoir Styles 4

So basically, this is adorable. Goodness, I love the glamour 1940's.

New/Old Music I Love: The Dodos

Yes, I am a jazz/classical junkie and it will always be my favorite. But, I must warn you, I do listen to other types of music. My other favorite type of music is indies rock and I also love british bands. The other day my friend told me about "The Dodos" (Their not very new or anything, they first came out around 2006 I think) I love their music, I find it very relaxing and inspiring. You should check them out if you haven't already. I have a couple of their songs on my playlist to the right.

Inspiration at 12am

The things that inspire me at the moment are:

1. Drafting tables! Especially this French inspired one above. I really want one. All I would need to do is put it by a window, add some Prismacolors and paper and I would be drawing for days!
2. Tall, beautiful carved wood candlesticks. Especially ones that are inspired by the beauty of Italian Renaissance architecture(My favorite)
3. A vintage tub! I love them so much, it's always been my dream of mine to bathe in one of them. I love basically anything inspired by 18th-centuray Europe.
4. Big vintage maps! I'm obsessed with maps! I really want to put a big vintage world map up in my room! I think the map of Paris shown above is adorable also.
5. Vintage dressmaker forms! Vintage, vintage, vintage! That's all I say it seems like. But seriously, Im in love with these types of dressmakers forms. I think that the ones with the cage-like things around it are really interesting too.
6. Palladian mirrors. They're elegant and have the beautiful, classic lines that define style. I love the one above, I think that it would be really sharp to lean it against the wall for decor. Also, just found out they're inspired by the 17th-centurary Palladian architecture. Makes sense. Ahh, I can't wait to have my own home.
7. Preserved Boxwood Plants. I'm really into neutrals, but the beautiful touches of this green is my favorite. Definitely getting some of these for my new room.
8. Inspiration boards! I'm making one right now! This is another thing i've become obsessed with. I'm making mine out of this big vintage, french-inspired frame and i'll probably add some linen to it like the picture above.

All the objects and furniture above is from Restoration Hardware. Their stuff is everything I could ever dream of and beautifully made, but VERY expensive. I get a lot of inspiration from them.

Just another lovely day in northern Italy

Evereything is from the lovely store, Anthropoligie.
I made this on Polyvore.

Quote of the Week

"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad." -Jane Austen

Tucker's Fall 2010

I love this video. I've started to notice the past couple of years some designer's (and finally, people's) clothing is starting to get inspired anytime from the 1920's-40's, Coco Chanel, and French/European style (If that makes any sense), which is my favorite type of style and clothing. I strongly dislike hippie, boho, neon colored fashion. I'm more into the classy simple stuff. And Tucker's Fall line kind has a little bit of that. ObviouIsly, it's also inspired by Marie Antoinette, which also, I love very much.

Veneto Region: Finding Andrea Palladio

You may not know this about me, but I plan on living in Italy for a little while for part of my life. Specifically, northern Italy (I'm not trying to be racist at all if any italians are reading this, I just think i'd feel more at home there. Of course, I plan on traveling all over Italy. It's a beautiful country.) Anyways, the Veneto region is one of my favorite regions of Italy because of Andrea Palladio. If you do not know this already, he was an Italian Renaissance architect in Venice in the 1500's. His work was inspired by Roman and Greek architecture. All of his work is in northern Italy. Some of the buildings he designed are in the photos above so now, I'm just going to start from the first picture down describing them:

1: A portrait of Andrea Palladio around 1576.
2: The Palladio-influenced Loggia Valmara, which is part of the Giardini Salvi gardens. It looks over the Seriola Rivera in Vincenza. (One of my favorites)
3: One of Palladio's last projects known as the La Rotonda.
4, 5, 6, & 7: Just some picture's from Vincenza and the area around it. The market, food from Ca' de Memi, the main boulevard and such. They all make me want to go to Italy very badly.
8: The Villa Cornaro designed by Andrea Palladio is 1554, located in the village of Piombino Dese. BEAUTIFUL.
9: The Moses room in the Villa Cornaro with many beautiful painting's from Mattia Bortoloni.
10: Just some delicious Autumn apples from Ca' de Memi.

All pictures credited to the Italian-born author Victor Hazan, who toured Veneto looking at Andrea Palladio's work. If your interested in these places I got all the information from this website: ENJOY! Finding Palladio in the Veneto, Italy