Working on our front yard. Werk

Update: 

The California poppies have already decided that they don't like our offer to get out of their containers and into our soil. Sadness! They're my favorite. 

Pretty things...from the weekend.

After gushing over their Instagram and owner blogs and artwork for a while I finally made a stop at General Store in mellow, sea salty Outer Sunset- holy moly. That's a beautiful shop, like, I'll take everything, backyard too. (So many links to link to, but it cannot be helped, it's such gorgeous stuff). And revisiting Flora Grubb to get inspired all over again by palm trees and succulents for the garden makeover T and I are tackling (and to plan imaginary super expensive parties!). But the very best part was spending the day with my friend Morgan who is so rad, and whose blog Pandahead is one of my very favorite sources of inspiration, recipes, photography, style, humor and (so much) more. It's also just a damn good read. So check it out. So great to see you lady!! Too bad we are on opposite coasts because I want to hang way more, but hooray for social media. Sunday was a great day too, as T and I went to a (twins!) baby shower for our good friends Laura and Damien. We are totally bummed that they are moving to Portland in a few days but so excited for them and their new adventures. They were among our first friends out here and are now a very good excuse for a road trip to Oregon...

Indoor Ceremony

If you're a tumblr fan, maybe you'd like to take a look here. I have begun a new small creative outlet, Indoor Ceremony, gathering all the most beautiful parts of being at home, and creating your own indoor ceremonies. 

Sail cloth

Tocco and I (and Brian DeM!) have been talking about sail cloth today. You can really make some amazing things with it.

For example, I want to make an clean and bright overhead umbrella for a corner of the backyard:

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Tocco wants to add more privacy to the fences along the side of the house:

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And Brian wants a bag that's at least a little bit as awesome as he is:

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Good stuff. I especially love the huge triangles in the sky, like a giant sail overhead. I feel like it would be pretty dreamy in the yard. And it only makes sense since we live near so much water, to add more sail cloth pretty much everywhere.

Seascape

I really love this photo Tocco took today: "The daily ferry commute to work, crossing the bay, a slalom course through one of the largest ship parking lots I've ever seen. I don't even know if I captured all of them. It feels like they are getting more and more each day." 

Danger danger

Just came across this collection of outlet photos from when we first moved in. Goodness! They look so torched and scorchy, I'm surprised the house didn't burn down... 

Art

I found this photo print today at 20x200. It looks so much like our backyard!! We should start ca$hing in. zOMG

Upon further inspection I find the artist, Liz Kuball's, statement charming - and she's from DC! Kindreds.

"When you move out to California from back east, you come for a reason: You're leaving behind a bad relationship, escaping your hometown or thinking you'll be a star. And what you find when you get here is that things aren't what you thought they'd be. There's some of what you expected—sunshine and palm trees and long, wide beaches. But there's more: houses with cacti and succulents in place of the green lawns you grew up with; women in bikinis climbing ladders; trees groomed in an archway, the expected path between them blocked by a gateless chain-link fence. You answer an ad on craigslist for a used car and find yourself in a boxed-in car lot in Van Nuys and go for pie at Du-par's afterward, because pie makes sense when you're on Ventura Boulevard and it's 95 degrees and the car wasn't what the ad said it would be. And you'd think that, after all this, you'd become disillusioned and go back home; some do, of course, but many more of us stay and, instead of growing bitter, we hang on—hang on to a world that, to us, is even more fantastic than the one we thought we'd find, because it's real in its absurdity and because we have stories to tell."

Happy Weekend

Daydreaming back to last month's vacation... take me back