Happy New Year

It is time to let the bubbley flow!!

I am so ready for it. The holidays were here and gone, geez time flys. Tonight I am hosting a party at my house with all of my closest friends. The best way to ring in the New Year!! Hope you all have a wonderful and safe New Years!

I am excited to see what 2009 will bring. After all, I will be graduating in May with my Bachelors Degree for Interior Design (woot woot)!!

Flippin Friday

Thank GOSH.

Look at that face, its so tiny!! This was his stop real fast afer darting around the room pose...I was chasing him. Ha. Well I'm excited the weekend is here...been a long busy week with work for me.

My poor Louis (Loo-E) hasn't had much play time with his momma.

I N S P I R A T I O N

I thought it was time for a little I N S P I R A T I O N board... how's this for some color?!

images courtesy of flickr
A bit sexy...

Ornaments where?

Yep on the chandelier, well it certainly isn't traditional.

I LOVE it.

image from dominomag.com

Cause its the weekend Baby...

Yay.

One thing I LOVE about the Holidays, is the poinsettia's! They are so vibrant & pretty. (I have 3 at home now, and hope to keep them alive well into the New Year!)

I am a little plant obsessed...so what. Well going to start Christmas shopping this weekend, and hopefully finish too! Im out on the lookout for eco friendly wrapping paper as well, so wish me luck!

Happy Weekend! image from Flikr

School Project

For class we were to design a dental office, given a current floor plan we were to completely change the plan to our own design. (With specific stipulations of course!) These are my color boards for the lobby and lighting of the Dental office. I really wanted the overall space to have a soothing, relaxing atmosphere....almost like a spa.

These are sketchup perspectives of the lobby. This was my first time playing with sketchup. It's a great program to show the concept of the space. This space took me probably 9 hours to do. The more you use the program the faster it is, just takes some getting use to. Images are copyright- Mi Vida Bonita--if you borrow please site. Thank you! =)
p.s. - I got an A on this project...YaY

Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread

This BREAD is ooohh so TASTY!!

I made this for Thanksgiving, I brought it to my mom's, bf's parents and the last loaf I served at my Christmas party...not a slice left!! So easy to bake, and fills the house with such a yummy scent. This recipe is from allrecipes.com (my fav recipe site). There are various substitutions that can be made to the ingredients. I took one cook's advice and substituted 2 cups brown sugar (yum) & 1 cup white, instead of 3 cups white sugar.

Just click the title and it will send you directly to the page.

INGREDIENTS

1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup water
1 cups white sugar

2 cups brown sugar
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger


DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans.

In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.

Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

So into R E D

V I X E N in R E D --Oooh I want all 3....

Chanel nail color in Shanghai Red, Lotus Rouge, & Dazzling.

$20 each @ chanel.com

Bargain of the Week

Who doesn't love a BARGAIN??!!!

While shopping around for an elf outfit for my Holiday Party (Yes I threw a Holiday Party & holiday-esque attire was required, so I fulfilled my need to dress up like an Elf, a workshop elf at that) OK, so BARGAINS Yes please. I found this unique Baroque Mirror @ drum roll please.....Goodwill- yep for only $14.99. I could hardly believe it, I picked it up right away. The mirrored section is about 15"x10" with antiqued gold finish. I was informing my BF about the Baroque style of the mirror--and he thought I was saying "broke" and said, "it's not broken is it?" How Cute, right.

Well Ladies, what a STEAL. I absolutely Love it. This picture does it NO justice--taken with my Motorola Q--because my digi is in the shop getting fixed.

My Photography

My photography...

Nature is my subject of choice. All of the images were taken in BEAUTIFUL Portland, Oregon.

Oh la la...

I DREAM of one day owning a Sofa like the one pictured here. Ohh I just LOVE LOVE it. I also find the Moroccan table to be a MUST HAVE. Im on a mission....craigslist, ebay watch out. ;) How neat are these tea tins used for a flower vase....that is a DIY project for sure. A great way to recycle and reuse!!

images courtesy of dominomag.com

(LOVE Domino!)

P.S.- the latest issue has a FABULOUS gift guide- in many price ranges!! Very unique gifts for that hard to buy person.

Tres Anos

I am L O V E D

thanks B <3

Vastu

Its been so long since my last post! School got pretty busy....but Im just about done and then its officially WINTER Break! YaY!

Anyhow while doing research for my last studio project I came upon Vastu. They are a design firm as well as a contemporary furniture store located in Washington. These are some spaces that caught my eye. Check out there site! -click the title- it will link you directly!

images courtesy of www.vastudc.com