love - from head to toe

This display at Florodora offers a fancy hat for your head and heart-shaped petals for your feet (shoe inserts).

love bites

Cupcakes are a sweet way to share your love. Even if you buy them just for yourself! This love bite is from Sugar Bliss.

love - at Starbucks

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to post some heart-inspired pictures. When I got my Joy tea yesterday, Starbucks served it up in this love-ly cup.

Photo credit: Me. My BlackBerry.

rich colors and textures

While I was waiting for my hair stylist last month, I snapped these pictures from a Harper's Bazaar spread. I thought the editorial was fantastic, and paired with the Maybelline ad on the facing page - dramatic! The snakeskin coat is designed by Frida Giannini for Gucci's Fall 2011 collection. More saturated, rich colors and gorgeous clothes from the collection are available via Vogue's slide show. I love the hats, sunglasses, rich jewel colors, snakeskin shoes, but this fur teal coat is next up on my fantasy wish list!

next up on our (fantasy) registry

Being that I love (most) things giraffe, My mom sent me this Craigslist post - a taxidermy giraffe for sale! As part of our fantasy wedding registry, I think I may have to add him to the list! The ceilings in my condo are at least twelve-feet high - at eight-feet tall, he would fit in just fine.

Photo credit: Craigslist post by Kahuna's Antiques & Uniques in Grand Blanc

The Three Graces

A friend and I went to the Art Institute recently and one of the exhibits I found very intriguing is a small photography exhibit called, "The Three Graces," which runs through January 22, 2012. I've been to many a second-hand shop or flea market and looked through boxes of discarded photographs, wondering who the people were in the photos. A man named Peter J. Cohen came across collections of discarded photographs and started collecting them. He noticed that many of the photos featured women in groups of three and named his growing collection The Three Graces, which is an iconic motif in Western art. Here are some of the images that caught my eye in the collection. 

1910s, Photographer Unknown

1920s, Photographer Unknown

1950s, Photographer Unknown

My mom, sister and me at our friend Kerri's wedding. 2003.

And an addition of my own from my photo collection! 

a new sparrow finds his way (to my) home

My mom gave me this sparrow for Christmas and I love adding it to my bird collection.