This Sums it Up

From The New Yorker - found via A Cup of Jo

Cali Bound

Just wrapped up school and heading home in a few hours - so excited to get some California in my system.

I ran across these online yesterday, and was thinking thesis inspiration? Haha, just kidding, but super cute model.

The World Made of Cardboard

Built In

This may be the coolest piece of built in furniture I've ever seen. It's from the Martin House by ALT arquitectura (found on ArchDaily).

3 More Weeks

I am counting down the next few weeks to be over - this has unquestionably been my toughest semester in grad school. I fell upon this quote this morning from Chuck Close, and it seemed all too appropriate for how I need to attack thesis in the next few weeks:

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”

- Chuck Close

On that note, guess I should get to it...

Purple + Pink

The advantage of being a single lady is that I can indulge any more feminine schemes without compromise. Like this dining room found at Amber Interior Design's Blog:

Loving the purple pillows (my mom would be so proud) and the rug. Okay, okay, also the Eames Chairs, pendant and table.

I'll take this Bachelor (Pad)

I need to go to sleep, but drooling over this home in Brooklyn. Found via DesiretoInspire.

Spring is finally here

I've been hibernating again - well at least from posting - this semester has been incredibly tough with very little relief. Anyways, our group got through our 75% review yesterday with mostly positive comments and now I just have a thesis mid-review to get through Friday. See? Never-ending. But, I also realized we have 6 weeks left of school, so the end is in sight (in a completely exciting yet terrifying way). Luckily, the weather is finally warming up, which I realize does really affect my mood - guess I truly was spoiled with years of California warmth. I think my brother actually provided me with some serenity today as well:

That was my zen moment for the day, guess I better get back to working on my thesis paper...