Pop Goes the Monkey

Our wonderful friends at Cake Monkey are holding a pop up store in their soon to be flagship shop in Silverlake this weekend.  We are participating along with a whole heap of talented people.  I have to work my store so will miss out on all the yummy fun which includes the Kogi Truck from 11-1 on Sat. If you are in LA this weekend, head on over to 2912 Rowena Ave, Silverlake, 90039.

On Daily Candy

Busy Week. . . And its only Thursday

Its been one of those weeks. . . started off by bidding Adieu to our gorgeous armchair and putting it on a truck bound for Colorado.

Next our banner went up on we love indie.  A while ago I decided it was time to do some advertising on blogs and because I have so many favorites, I opted to act like Switzerland and buy a banner on a portal that is pure inspiring eye candy featuring most of the blogs I love.  Creating the banner turned out to be more work than I thought as getting images to work in the long and skinny shape they needed took me a while.

And then yesterday I got back to my studio from a visit to the Pop Up store location -- see tomorrow's post:) -- to find that there were 20 new orders.  Much as I would love it if that was the norm, it ain't!  Turns out Real Simple featured the cool task clips we carry on their blog's daily find.  First thing this morning I was on the phone to our supplier to order 50 of them -- hopefully they will arrive by Monday latest so we can get them en route to all the lovely customers who jumped at the chance to organize their lives.  Thank you Real Simple!

Pink and Orange

A favorite combo of mine in this great pic from Purl!  Below other favorite shots from my album.  The last one is my screensaver - my sister took a picture of some beautiful dead flowers hanging out in my kitchen. 

Annabel Grey

Came across the work of the super talented Annabel Grey recently. 

A textile designer and artist, whose work is playful, colorful and

creative.  She works on bespoke commissions and recently 

launched a fabric line. Enjoy!

Romantically Challenged

Aren't we all?  Because of our location, a number of our customers are set decorators.  Spy our Leaves pillow peeking out from behind Alyssa Milano in this pic:) Look out for it and other things from the store including bird paintings by Matt Adrian of The Mincing Mockingbird on ABC's Romantically Challenged's premiere tonight. 

William Yeoward

Across the road from Designers Guild on Kings Road in London is the stunning William Yeoward store.  They have sumptuous colorful textured fabrics and brilliant glass lamps. Their "room" displays are creative and whimsical --  I have yet to visit and not want to move right in.   Thought wallowing in beautiful high end luxury was a good way to start the week.

Travelling in Technicolor

I noticed a link to a report on Pakistan's Truck Art  on the BBC web this morning and fell in love with the color, design and sheer personal poetry and celebration in these adornments.  I have seen decorated trucks and buses on my travels but nothing in this league.   These images came from some fascinating articles on this art in thewondrous, pakistaniat and weburbanist.  Looks like one of their sources was this great flickr collection.