Dream Big

So sweet for a nursery. (And it goes with one of my current fave color combos!)

robinandmould's Etsy via 6th Street Design School

The Writing on the Wall

Now these are my kind of words on the wall:

Sweet

Oh, hi!

It's true

Would be cute over a bar cart

Who doesn't need that?

You can find them at Etsy seller WilliamDohman.

Gators & Whales

I just added these $10 salt and pepper shakers from Wrapables to my Amazon Wishlist. It's not like we need any - for some reason we have been gifted an abundance of different S and P sets by a certain person who gave birth to my groom* - but they are adorable and I'd like to virtually pretend they're mine. 

They remind me of this $44 set from Jonathan Adler:

 

Although I think I like the Wrapables whale better. The photo shows the whale holding the pepper and the gator (or is he a croc?) with salt, but I'd switch them. Because you know, whales live in salt water. (Oh, and the spray coming out of their blowhole would be white.) And the alligator is meaner, and well, pepper can sometimes give you a kick in the pants.

And in my same dub-dub-dub internets browsing session I ran across this bedding and thought to myself, ooh, they both have gators and whales in blue and green, I can do my own "this and that" post like Oh Joy!. (Put your baby in this crib bedding, season your now-cold food because you don't have time to eat with a fussy baby with these salt and pepper shakers.)

And then I realized that what I thought was a whale was an elephant. Oops.

Gotta go work on my animals.

* How do you nicely sell/donate items that have been gifted to you but aren't your favorite? You know, so you can replace them with objects that will help remind you of the difference between whales and elephants.

Cute Little Illustrations

I just can't get over these cute illustrations from Rosy Designs found via Contented Me. It looks like you can even customize the people and add text to the prints.

Frame this poster and display it at your wedding reception for guests to sign the mat. (This Just Married one would work, too.)

Add your baby's birth stats and display in the nursery.

I don't have a specific idea for this one but I loooove it.

I like the idea of framing the boy and the girl side by side...

(Even though they're youthful, I'd love these blown up and placed over each person's side of the bed.)

...But I'd also happily take them together as one print.

I had to stop myself from posting the entire collection!  See them all here.

Crazy 'Bout a Sharp-Dressed Man

My dear husband is flying out today for his first residency interview.

As I helped him come up with shirt and tie options for the dinner tonight and the interview tomorrow, I was thinking how awesome it would be to have a collection organized like this:

From this cool dorm room

Previous to his 3rd year of med school, J didn't have a lot of need for ties. Last year during rotations I discovered he really likes wearing ties (and dislikes wearing scrubs, which is the whole reason I sometimes wish I was a nurse/doctor/in some kind of medical profession, so I think that's a total waste).  Now whenever I'm at T.J.Maxx (which is a lot), I stop by the tie section and try to find one I think he'd like. (You can beat that most of them are around $10, compared to the $30-40 price tags still on many of them.)  

J's idea of organizing his small collection is laying them out on a chair in our living room...maybe I'll come up with a new system while he's out of town. I have this crazy idea that they should be located in his closet (some training will be involved), and I just need to figure out what will be best to use where they don't slide off the hanger.

Friction Tie Rack and Scarf Hanger, $7

via Houzz

I may even go wild and organize his closet so he can actually get to the ties. I need something to feel some control during this interview process where there is pretty much no control in where we end up! (Which has definitely

Do Not Trifle With Me!

I've been a little down in the dumps lately so I've been staying away from this little blog of mine, and today was an incredibly frustrating addition subtraction to my current attitude.

But now that I'm home, and I didn't get hit by a tornado, and I had some Cherry Garcia fro-yo*, I'm feeling much more cheerful.

From the lovely Annechovie

But still, I'm not in the mood for anyone to trifle with me. 

Hoping to have a better attitude soon,
Bad Attitude Laura

* Since my husband pretty much always passes up any type of sweet, I was surprised when he fell in love with my Ben & Jerry's fro-yo. (Now we stock multiple flavors at all times.) Except he calls it frogurt.  According to Urban Dictionary, he's right.  What do you call it? (Besides delicious.)

The Look for Less: Numerical Plates

 Anna Coyle Interiors via Room Remix

 

$12, Target

Fontariffic

So You Need a Typeface poster, found via {BLACK. WHITE. YELLOW.}

Only $22! Get yours here.

I'm wondering what decision leads to Comic Sans in the process flow...because, you know:

Found via feel so fancy

Don't Be Trapped by Dogma

source

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.  Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all price, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.  Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.  You are already naked.  There is no reason not to follow your heart.

[...]

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.  Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.  And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.  They somehow already know what you truly want to become.  Everything else is secondary."

- Wise words from Steve Jobs, who I greatly admired way before it was cool, in an excerpt from his 2005 Stanford Commencement address (full text here)

Mulling some things over.  Be back soon.

Put a Flower On It

I'm loving these kickin' flower shoe clips!

$8 (on sale!), DaintyButton's Etsy

I really, really wanted navy  heels when I got married for a shot of color underneath my gown, but I couldn't find the perfect pair in the height I needed so I wore a pretty gray satin pair instead. They would have been even cuter with rosette shoe clips like these in my color of choice!

$12, sunshineandcarousels' Etsy

Love the puffiness.

I want to wear these in my hair, too.