trina turks new patterns

love these new pattern's by Trina Turk for Schumacher

WPA zoo posters

i came across this post on mental floss today and couldn't resist sharing these great posters done by the WPA of illinois and pennsylvania advertising local zoos during the great depression. i think the hippos are my favorite....

a most adorable teapot

By Barbara Barry for Wedgewood, available here

happy 2012

Charlton and I had a fun time ringing in the new year at the Campus Outreach New Year's Conference. We got to hear some amazing speakers such as John Piper, Matt Chandler and our very own Pastor Reeder. It was a wonderful way to start the New Year. Here are some fun pics from the New Year's party photo booth that my friend Stacy sat up at the conference to help promote the Briarwood Fellows.

And War Eagle! Auburn won the Chick-fil-a bowl!

camellias

These camellias grew in my friend Lauren's back yard, 

are they not gorgeous!

The Christmas Story

merry christmas

http://youtu.be/kWq60oyrHVQ

stephanie & mike on style me pretty

ok, clearly i was so excited about stephanie & mike's wedding being featured on style me pretty that i got lost in the excitement and completely forgot to tell you about it here! (actually.... if i'm truthful, it's just been an insanely busy week so i haven't had 2 minutes to sit down and do this.)

....but in any case, i'm telling you now! stephanie & mike's wedding which i did the flowers for back in july was featured on style me pretty last friday, and i was so happy to see all of the beautiful photographs by levi stolove up and featured! - see pics from levi below, and the complete link is here!

snippet and ink

I was so excited to have my work from Hannon's wedding featured on Snippet and Ink this week. Click here to check it out.

liz & sergio - city hall

yesterday i put together some flowers for liz & sergio who had a black friday city hall wedding. i've been talking with liz about flowers for their reception here in nyc in the spring, and we decided they needed some flowers for their civil ceremony this weekend too. it was fun to put together a little preview of the concepts we've been talking about for the reception. plus, some of my favorite flowers are starting to come back at the market so it was exciting to work with them again! I put together a bouquet and some boutonnieres/corsages, and had so much fun delivering them down to city hall. there's just something so romantic about getting married at city hall in new york, and liz & sergio both looked so fabulous! - i'm hoping to share some images from their photographer later, but for now here are some of the pics i took on my own...

happy thanksgiving!

i love this holiday in new york. really, i love any holiday that is centered around food...

these are a couple of gorgeous images from new york magazine's spread on thanksgiving recipes a few weeks ago. they were too beautiful not to share... like a dutch still life.

the photos are by zachary zavislak. more of his work...

speaking of dutch still life paintings... the other day in john derian i found some really great glassware reproductions of vessels typical to these paintings. if i had all the money in the world i would drink out of them every day. i'll do a full post about them one day - once i find out the name of the company that makes them. but for now, just imagine these brought to life:

ps - i'm sorry i've been missing in action around here lately - i promise more new posts soon. and they won't be as random as this one was.

christmas at the caroline house

Each year, Briarwood hosts a women's ministry event called Christmas at the Caroline house. Women from the church decorate the rooms for christmas. This year some girls from my small group and I decorated the small dining room. 

painting by Nicki Cochran

Eames Documentary

i just got an email at work about this documentary on the Eames studio that's coming out at the end of the year. i can't wait to go see it! here's the description from the production company's website ... sounds promising. and the good news is that if it's not showing in a theater near you, it will be on PBS in December!

EAMES: The Architect and The Painter
Theatrical premiere begins in NYC at the IFC Center on November 11, 2011. Coming to Los Angeles' Laemmle Theatres on November 18, 2011. Broadcast premiere on PBS American Masters on Monday, December 19, 2011.
EAMES: The Architect and the Painter is first film about Charles and Ray Eames since their deaths and the only film that really endeavors to peer inside their collaboration, their marriage and the “Renaissance studio” they created in a gritty warehouse in Venice, CA.
Narrated by James Franco, the film draws from a trove of archival material, primarily the stunning films and photographs produced in mind-boggling volume by Charles, Ray, and their staff during the hyper-creative forty years of the Eames Office.
Family members and design historians help guide the story, but it is in interviews with the junior designers swept into the “24-7” world of “The Eamery” that a fascinatingly complex picture of this husband and wife creative team really emerges.