Once Wed Blog Love

One of my very favorite, creative blogs Once Wed did a feature on our wedding photographers LemonLime Photography today...and looky who's glowing in the picture. Yup, that's us, no heads, shot by the guys for our engagement photos. I like it.

Thanks Once Wed!

11.01.09

All Saints Day.
Dia de los Muertos.
Our first Anniversary.

I must say, it's been quite a brilliant year.

Catch My Fall

It's my very favorite time of year and this fall is raging in all it's glory. The colors of fire are everywhere and my beloved oranges, reds and yellows escort me through my days. Add to that the cooling temperatures mixed with moody skies and I'm in heaven.























And of course there are pumpkins to carve.























Which means seeds for toasting natch.













Yay fall.

Fauxlaroid

I admit it.

I'm a little obsessed with iphone apps that appeal to my graphic designer self and my want to arty up the photos that I take on the phone without taking them into Photoshop on the computer. This dear reader, is way more fun and immediate. Less like worky. More like hobby.







All of these taken on iphone with ShakeItPhoto
You actually shake your phone and watch it develop. Silly? yes. Fun? heck yeah.

Ah Weekend

Time to put the feet up and warm the toes in front of the fireplace.





Kittens like it too









Hope you stay toasty. Have a great weekend.

Hello October

I've been waiting for you. See you very early...




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Dear September...

I am rather done with you. I think most people are too. Thank you, see you next year.



One high point of this fussy, crabby month- our CSA (community supported agriculture) from Lew's garden tonight. Hello green beens, fancy salad greens, kale, arugula and collards. Thank you for making September not entirely s*ck.

Here Come the Warm Jets

Srsly. We're always a bit spicy up here on the Westside. But this past weekend? Good grief. Better throw us in the wa-ta.

Tour of Missouri people. Right up on the corner. Friends, kids, dogs, pinatas, giant sombreros, music, dancing, buffalo bratwurst, a viking, rich, broke (but never poor our 75 year old neighbor born down the street told us), cross dressers and a cowboy looking type speaking German.

Oh(!) and don't forget the cowbells. Real ones. Even my farm girl raised cousin Emily can vouch for that one (it was from a honest to G*d farm store). All I can say is it gave good ring.

Here they come...





They did 7 laps through KC for a total of 72 miles. We got to see them SEVEN times after climbing Summit. I've WALKED my bike up that freakn' hill, um, yeah. I'm in awe.com. **please don't link to "awe.com", it's just a manner of speaking. I cannot fathom what you'll come across if you actually try to go there. But if it's awesome, please let me know.









It was a mighty wind when these guys blazed passed us. Many were in the Tour de France.









Dear Tour of Missouri,
Please come back and wiz through the Westside again next year! Please oh please.
Love, your friend
Angiela

p.s.
If you could take down a lot of those big cruddy billboards on I-70 between Kansas City and St. Louis that would be great too.

And Friday

Enjoy your weekend kittens. And don't forget to

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August 25th

For Brett on the date of his birth.



The Man burns in 11 days. Welcome home.

Hardware Lust

Oden by Krown Lab. sigh










Sexy no?

I Love George Nelson Lighting...

as much as the average designer/wife of an architect, I do, it's true.

But...

...the trouble is, many of the design-y lights and furniture components I like have well, jumped the shark. It's not that I need our house to be Dwell ready, it just so happens I like most of the stuff other designers/architects appoint their recently renovated with. My tastes are aligned with my designer lot, perhaps save my love of the hot pink flocked Jesus bank I refuse to give away. It's a statement piece. Really. Someday I'll figure out how to make it work with a Saarinen Womb Chair (chartreuse please!)

So here's the current dilemma. We need lighting that meets our LEED goals, it needs to marry our champagne tastes with our organic grain fed bratwurst budget AND it can't scream DESIGNER AND ARCHITECT LIVE HERE.

Where we stand.

We've made tons of progress on the monster pile of boxes. You can actually stand in the living room and shoot the dining room, kitchen and remaining boxes. It's progress people. Look beyond the piles of "real life", i.e. piles of crap, and you can see where I'm focusing my lighting search. There are two areas to be addressed: above the dining table (I'm crazy about chandeliers) and something simple in the kitchen above the sink and window that will coordinate (or not) with the two vintage globe lights I scored on ebay for a peanut.

See highly informative photo below.





Here are some ideas I've had rolling around:

For above the sink, this Punga Pendant is pretty sweet

Design by Christopher Metcalfe.

The Punga lights are inspired by the native palm tree which grows prolifically in the New Zealand rainforest. Hug that!






This blown glass number is lovely but pricey.

The Class 40 Pendant Light








And then there's this decidedly whimsical little charmer. (Probably too "cute")

The Perch! Early Bird Pendant Light.







Thoughts? Ok, again, those are initial looks for above the sink. Not really a big deal, but it should be thoughtful.

Now, let's get serious. The dining room is one of the money shots. Look again at the photo, imagine no boxes, no "real life" on the table and maybe a new dining table in the future. Warmth and not too serious are still criteria. Here are a few ideas:

Classic Atomic Sputnik





Lighted balls. On a string. (giggle if you must)
Anthropologie of all places.






Design-y and spendy, but the wood would be oh so nice and warm to combat the coolness of the CFL's (compact fluorescent lamps).

Helios 60 Wood Pendant Light







Really dreamy. Really. If it fell into my possession I would gladly hang it up.

The Mod 2097 Chandelier








But to be honest, this next one is the running favorite. The price is very accessible and the design not too fussy with a bit of humor to it.

The Patrick Townsend White Orbit Chandelier










What do you think?? I'd love some comments or suggestions of other lights to ponder.

Piece of Cake

The lovely ladies of one of my favorite blogs 100 Layer Cake have done a super fine feature on our wedding. You might remember back in April they gave us love for our invitation via a feature on Hammerpress. Well, they decided to share some additional details of our special day. Yay! Check it out HERE beautiful people.

Celebrating Accomplishments

Although a bit premature for a full-on before and after series seeing as we're still up to our chin dimples in boxes, I wanted to do a little cheer for our accomplishments. With an ever growing list of things to do* it was time to take a break and give a nod to what's happened since we started back in March.


After (or should I say currently?)
The filtered sunlight is so beautiful as it comes in at sunset.





Remember this? Clearly before...








And during...






And after, just in case you missed it.




I'll post more as the boxes give way to more house.

*If you are a long time home owner, please do not tell me that the work is never done. It's a real morale buzz kill and if I had a penny...
Thanks tons. Now come visit already.