three little spaces

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weekend

I dare you not to smile at this.

I have lots of fun things to share this week!

Jimmy Fallon’s hilarious #misheardlyrics.

I recently bought the Massachusetts print from Paper Parasol Press and can’t wait to add South Carolina to my gallery wall.

The only grocery list you’ll ever need from The Everygirl.

Coolest. Thing. Ever.

What a throwback.

My sparkly new earrings and Oscar winners’ gowns through the years.

Happy weekend! I’m off to NYC!!

decorate / my gallery wall

You may recall that my living room gallery wall currently looks like this:

Most of the “art” is temporary as I just wanted to get the frames on the wall. Everything except the two dog note cards and the “Ellie” frame is intended to be temporary. I actually ended up really liking everything and plan to expand the wall instead of replacing the Julia Child quote, JCrew model, etc. 

However, my geometric kindergarten style painting is just not cutting it at all. I’ve been itching to replace it and finally ordered this baby:

{Michelle Aramas via Etsy}

I CAN’T WAIT for it to arrive in the mail! 

decorate / my gallery wall

A little while back I posted about affordable art and shared some art prints I had my eye on. Well friends, I bought a stack of Ribba frames from Ikea about six weeks ago and they finally made it to my living room wall. Only a couple prints are permanent (the rest are probably placeholders until I can buy all the prints), and I’ll be buying prints as my budget allows.

Behold:

Clockwise from top left:

1. grey dog in boots—This is a card my mom sent me (the set of note cards is from Rifle Paper Co.)

2. diy quote—I love this Julia Child quote and created this with glitter stickers and paper from Paper Source. This one is a keeper, I think!

3. calligraphy “Ellie”—This was my place card at a friend’s wedding last October. The calligraphy is so beautiful and I simply mounted it over this Paper Source paper.

4. “i believe in…”—Inspired by Cupcakes and Cashmere, I wrote my own manifesto and typed it up! I think this will eventually be layered over the zebra paper. See Emily’s here.

5. Let’s just pretend I’m not sharing my terrible art non-skills with everyone. This is just something I painted last week. My first print purchase will be for this frame. 

6. a page from the J. Crew style guide

7. zebra print paper from Paper Source

8. another dog note card from my mom

You can’t tell from this picture but that wall is about 11 ft long and 10 ft high. Now that everything is hung up, I’m thinking that I might add frames moving forward which would accommodate both the prints I have picked out and the filler art that I really like.

For more focal wall ideas, check out this great video from Emily Henderson!

decorate / wall art

I’m going to keep this short and just say that I’ve had art on the brain for weeks as I brainstorm ideas for my living room. Here are some of my favorites as of late. All are available for purchase except for the second one.

{clockwise from top left: Janet Hill / Katrin Korfmann / Mario Testino / Flamingo Mingle / Coney Island Beach / Gray Malin}

Any amazing and affordable art you might suggest?