constant changes

can a boy wear a skirt to school, provided the skirt meets the length requirement?  o, who cares?  too many stupid rules for kids.

- photo and article by ny times

please don’t judge me for being stuck in early 00s - i’m still gaga over faux bois.  maybe because i’m the product of the 70s, the era of wood-paneled basements.  or maybe because this ring is simply mega cool.

- via vivre

not sure who i crossed in my past lives but i’ve not had a proper closet since 1998.  i lived in one shoe box apartment after another, and just as i bought my own place with my very own closets, i moved in with sean.  o, there was a two-month period there when i sublet a room in the suburbs, my judgment clouded by a spacious walk-in closet.  but other than that…o, poor, poor me.  [cue violins]

well, starting monday, this little missy will have her very own closet!  this is a mid-job photo — the doors, hampers, trims, crown and base moldings come on monday.

plus, we have a pumpkin pie, fuji apples, homemade cookies AND granola (thanks, m-in-law and sis-in-law!), a TIVO full of thursday night specials (30 rock!!!), and a really good book (the year of magical thinking) for the weekend.  is this what heaven feels like?

(a thousand apologies for the crappo picture — my poor bberry is not so great at anything but receiving/sending emails.  but let’s not give the bberry a complex — the photo is good enough for me.  good job!)

see that owl in the back with the closed eyes?  o, that was always me when i was little.  ”you ruined the picture!,” my mom would sigh.

via ohdeedoh

how cool.

-by kyouei design

LOVE sesame street!!  LL Cool J is hard as hell.

via aziz is bored

so so so love window seats.

(via architectureblog)

during another night of no sleep, i spent the missed zzzz hours thinking about my nest.  Self, you are on a seven-month deadline to get this little house in order.  that table at the foot of the stairs?  that’s gonna be topped with little pots of ivy.  and this little terrarium from my wish (turned reality!) list.

via etsy

goal: by next summer, i want to have the mosquito situation under control so that we can enjoy our upstairs deck and downstairs patio.  if this impossible goal is somehow achieved, my next goal is to have outside movie parties.

- super duper movie idea via inchmark

how gasp-inducing is this bathroom?  love love love.  best part, we only need to swap out the wallpaper, lights, & toilet seat to realize this dream.

but…the wallpaper, while super lovely, might be too busy for our 100 year old cramped space.  so, maybe these guys instead:

- graham & brown curvy

- graham & brown squares

- graham & brown darcy wallpaper

- top photo via domino (boo, i miss you!)

something like this on the long wall downstairs.  underneath, would love the cole & son birch wallpaper, but at almost 200$ per roll, i would have to slip something into sean’s drink to get budget approval.

so, maybe these guys (unless sean agrees that the birch wallpaper is too lovely not to have in our house):

- julien mcdonald paradise

- graham & brown bittern feather wallpaper

- graham & brown green & beige wallpaper (i’ve two first second-best choices - this is one)

- mibo clacket lane wallpaper (this is my other first second-best choice)

icanmakewaffles:

I love how Jenny at Little Green Notebook displayed an assortment of old family photos in matching bright red frames. (Little Green Notebook)

seriously, i’m worse than my mom.  my brother is dating a super nice girl, and i let my mind wander today.  if they decide this route, which they don’t have to, no pressure!, these would be cool wedding bands.

via etsy

hey, santa — this is what i want for christmas.

- composter by by nature mill