DIY Do it Yourself Days

i even made the necklace myself

with the economy the way it is these days and the ever-increasing abundance of discarded things at garage sales, estate sales, flea markets and thrift stores, DIY seems to be more and more the trend.  i have never been much of a sander or a furniture restorer, however, with furniture being so expensive, i made a commitment to pick up some skills starting out with a few small items.  i found a beautiful desk accesory box at a santa barbara thrift store and picked up a robin's egg blue paint and actually did it. so inspired was i by the DIY thing that i began to make my own linen pillow covers with hand-crocheted trim and have used my ingenuity to the max, using recycled linen from the same stores.

so it' sbeen all about putting together the guest room over the past several days. i first decided on the colors a while back, aqua and beige with a bit of tan in between.  remember that blanket i crocheted in those colors?  over the years i had collected quite a few pictures in that palette too as well as some decorative items so all that was missing was putting it all together. 

 so the vision of a guest room has slowly begun to take place.  i also found a really dirty champagne bucket that has sprung to life after hours and hours of scrubbing with brasso, revealing a beauty that had probably been hiding for years.  my intent is to use it as a vase for now.

and then, walking through trader joe's lo and behold, peonies.  i hadn't seen peonies in quite a long while and these are just stunning.  i feel suddenly productive again after a lull.

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pink saturdays

dias de caminatas por la playa

el largo silencio se debe a que me he perdido

en largas caminatas por la playa

porque la Naturaleza es el acercamineto mas proximo al corazon de la Tierra al que uno puede aspirar

jugando con mi camara

 trate de captar la sensacion del viento en mi pelo

y mirando los pequenitos detalles en las rocas

recogiendo tonteritas de la naturaleza

como estas algas marinas

y este otro objeto inidentificable

se refuerza la vida bella

mientras tarareo una cancion de keane

Oh simple thing where have you gone

I'm getting old and I need something to rely on

So tell me when you're gonna let me in

I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

So if you have a minute why don't we go

Talk about it somewhere only we know?

This could be the end of everything

So why don't we go

So why don't we go

This could be the end of everything

So why don't we go

Somewhere only we know?

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semanas seguidas de celebraciones

ni un minuto hasta ahora para contarles todo lo que me ha estado pasando y rodeando ya que me llego visita de chile, mi amiga paola, que se estara quedando conmigo unos dias.  por lo que obviamente nos hemos dedicado a pasear sin parar por los alrededores, aprovechando todas las ultimas celebraciones que acontecieron por estos lados y en el mundo entre ellos la folklorica fiesta de 5 de mayo y earth and arbor day.

 para cinco de mayo, nos hemos dado una vuelta por mi favorito restoran mexicano, money pancho

y el dia de la natureleza a aprender sobre esta lechuza llamada "rosie"  

 y aprendimos sobre flores silvestres medicinales

 luego, nos hemos virado al norte a santa barbara donde almorzamos comida italiana y tuvimos este detalle decorativo en nuestra mesa. creo que nunca habia visto un clavel mas lindo.

y nos enamoramos de esta casa esquina

 en ventura caminamos y caminamos por la calle main gozando de la arquitectura antigua

 y, por supuesto, visitando mis favoritas tiendas de vintage

 y las tiendas de segunda para almacenar mi tiendita en linea

 entre lo que hemos traido a casa, este plato maravilloso pintado a mano con "no me olvides"

 y esta mano de vidrio lechoso

y este encaje

todos ya fotografiados y puestos en la vitrina

espero todas entretenidas y felices en el intertanto y perdon por no poder visitarlas para comentar como quisiera, pero, como ven, estoy de paseo en paseo por unos dias.

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