Apartment Therapy= My Addiction.

I have this thing for blogs.
Obviously.
I have my own, but mostly I love perusing and browsing all the other blogs out in cyberspace for inspiration and to keep me going on a daily basis, otherwise I'd probably give up hope.

2.Apartmenttherapy.com is one of those great websites that updates daily and gives me everything I need. LOVE it:)

Today I found this picture, and lots of times I wont like everything in it, but for some reason I love the piece of art in the background. It's the one that is mostly blues and reds, a small rectangle. It's directly above the two blue lamps. Here's the link to the website: It's on today's front page.
Shop Tour: The End of History
548 1/2 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
212.647.7598
Monday - Friday: 12 - 7pm, Weekends: 1 - 6pm
theendofhistoryshop.blogspot.com



Long a favorite of some of New York's top prop stylists and editors, we were a little surprised to discover we had never given the West Village's The End of History a proper shop tour. EoH specializes in mid-century art glass, arranged in unique, at times arresting combinations.


2. I also found this picture on apartmenttherapy.com for another blog:


I think this is absolutely beautiful and I had to end the post with something Christmas-y because it's my favorite time of year!

Collages.

Do you collage? A lot of times I like to collage different pieces of inspiration, whether its furniture, colors, patterns or even words from all the magazines I read, like Domino, Better Homes and Gardens and even Instyle. I love shelter magazines the most. I use different catalogs as well. Here's some of my collages from the last few weeks:)

New Beginnings

Hey:)
A lot of times when the weather gets gross outside, like it is right now, all snowy & windy, it makes me wish I was in other places (I also have a 12 page paper to procrastinate). But, the other night I had the most incredible dream, I was in this huge, airy apartment with lots of light and I had my dream wrought iron bed with a grass green comforter with flowers on it and an orange accent wall. I had this white hutch desk that had a brand new mac in it and I was doing room designs and decorating my new apartment. I went to an art class and made these incredible drawings and i was literally in one of those dreams where you never want to wake up.
As much as I am excited to graduate Fisher in May, and so sad to leave my friends (janny, beth, laura, monica & nicole), sometimes I get the urge to just leave and start something new. I know going to MCC in the fall for Interior Design is the next step for me and I'm so excited to finally study something i'm INTERESTED in, and really be studying art, doing hands on learning and just absorb everything. I'm excited to finally keep my books because I want to, buy them and want to read them before classes even start and just take everything in and learn. I love interior design, spending hours and hours just getting inspiration on blogs online, like apartment therapy and casasugar and all the independent blogs on blogspot. I live for reading domino every month and all of my pottery barn and decorating books, I've spent well over $300 in the last year on them, I can't get enough. I just am in love with design. It's so great to finally know what I want to do and be passionate about it and be good at it at the same time? I didnt know I could be so lucky. People have always told me I had an eye for design and my mom called me 'little martha' (as in stewart) from when i was a little kid. I spent hours on saturday nights as an eleven year old watch HGTV and watching shows like Decorating Cents and Room by Room. What eleven year old do you know does that?
I'm not eleven anymore, and yeah I probably could have just went to MCC in the first place, but coming out of high school I didnt want to go to MCC. Not that I was 'above' MCC, but I had worked hard to get great grades and I truly wanted to go to Fisher. I had wanted to go to Fisher for communications & journalism and be a journalist, because I knew I was bad at math and a lot of the programs were geared towards architecture and design and I was interested in that and I was worried I would be really bad and I knew being a journalist was a practical option and I could get paid to do something that I loved as well. I had loved being a co-editor of the paper in high school and I still really love writing and journalism but my true passion is interior design.
As for my major at Fisher, I hope someday to use it, but if I just use it for a bachelors' degree and the experiences and friends that I have gotten, like London and some of my best friends in my life so far, then fine. I've learned a lot in the classes, and a lot about life. I've truly had the chance to grow up there, especially when I take into account the person I was freshman year, moving in that apartment on Elm st with jess to where I am now, I've grown so much and I'm so thankful for all my experiences. I am however, ready for new ones. I can't wait to enjoy being in my 20s and get started on my career (!) and start my interior design business after MCC or go to graduate school for design (I'll see where life takes me then) but for now, I'm just gonna take things day by day.

Destin fl interior designer

Much in the way jazz altered our concept of music, glass art has changed our expectations of residential lighting. In fact, glass art lighting is being hailed as one of the hottest new trends to hit luxury home design. According to 25-year Southern California interior designer Greg Griffith, G. Griffith & Co. of Destin, FL, “It’s emerging as a transitional point for a more energetic look. From Asian to 18th Century, every style and design can incorporate glass art lighting. The fact that these are actual sculptured pieces means you’re adding art to the room without cluttering the wall.”

Aside from aesthetics, the benefit to glass art lighting is that it’s so flexible, it ends resolving many design conflicts. Take, for example, the story of the Wisdom Window. This stained glass pieced was created by a California glass artist to create a welcoming light at the end of a dark, New York apartment hallway. The artist created four matching sconces, but wanted the end of the hallway to feel like a window. He innovated a design where a diffuser sheet will be installed underneath the stained glass piece, and lit from behind.

One New York glass artist developed a unique way to illuminate her bathroom. She created her own mosaic glass sink and lit it from underneath to create a warm, amber glow. It also doubles as her nightlight. To underscore the look of an underlit sink, matching sconces are ideal. Some kitchen designers are commissioning glass arts sconces and pendants to match underlit glass kitchen countertops. This creates interesting, ambient lighting in a more finished-looking lighting package. Glass art lighting can be a subtle accent, or a prism through which the light bathes a room in a swatch of exotic colors. “I find many decorators driving décor based on the lighting fixtures,” says Seattle-based glass artist, Suzanne Guttman. “It’s easy to fall in love with a tentacled pendant light or chandelier and make it the centerpiece of a room.

Fragonard Birthday Card

I thought that it would be nice to show the digital birthday card that I recently made with photoshop for my mothers birthday. I wanted to do something artistic, inspiring and different than the usual. I think it turned out great. The artist is Jean-Honore Fragonard of France and his works are so inspiring.

Happy Birthday mom....