Our New Place

It looks scary and a little industrial in this photo, but we promise it's nice! We're growing up a bit and moving out of our entirely-furnished-by-Ikea apartment- Yippeee!

Cath and I are also super excited because we'll finally be walking distance to work and some of our favorite Decatur shops (like the heavenly, heavenly Cookie Studio- droooool).

We'll be MIA just a few days while we haul our stuff over to our new apartment and pray that comcast doesn't screw us over too badly.

See you on the other side of this mountain of boxes (that's where I'm perched at the moment). Happy (moving) Monday!

LL

Christmas in Our Appartment

After a busy week I've finally gotten around to posting photos of some of our Christmas decor as promised. Since the post from Monday, there's been an addition to the tree. The cute little felted gnome (we've named him Klausy) is actually a boiled egg warmer, but we think he makes a very nice tree topper.



The garland and lights are from Big Lots. No one can accuse us of not being frugal this season!


It took me over an hour to polish all the silver pieces (most of them thrift store finds) on top of the shelf.


Our mini pink Christmas tree and pink roses from Trader Joe's.


For some more Christmas decor inspiration, visit our fellow fashion bloggers at Hiking in Stilettos and We Wear Things.

CL

Gallery Exhibition Opening Wear

Tuesday night was the opening of the Decatur Arts Festival Fine Arts Exhibition. I always love going to the opening every year because the show never disappoints (great, affordable, local works of art) and it provides the perfect excuse to get a little dressed up.

Our outfits in the photos below are what we deemed to be gallery-exhibition-opening appropriate. Some might find our style too dressy for a relatively laid-back event, but until we get invited to the annual Costume Institute Gala, we'll take advantage of every chance we get to dress up.

Lauren is wearing a J.Crew dress, H&M jewelry and Nine West heels (not shown).

I'm wearing a dress from H&M, Anne Klein watch and shoes by Vera Wang from Kohls.

You can purchase these shoes here.

CL

Springtime Inspiration: Chinoiserie

If I had all the money in the world I would cover my walls in hand-painted wallpaper by de Gournay. I especially love their Chinoiserie styles:





Seeing as I don't have all the money in the world and am in a rental, de Gournay Chinoiserie paper is out of the question for me. After searching online for a few minutes I found that I could easily get my Chinoiserie fix with some reasonably priced dresses.

L to R: Cutesy Girl, Tulle, Blue Fly, YesStyle, Delias

The Chair

We swiped this from Wordsmiths (amazing bookstore in Decatur... soon to rule the literary south east) when they were moving (new location on the square downtown. Locals, if you haven't checked this place out, you seriously need to hoof it on ovah!).
Doesn't this chair look kind of Eames-esque? Cath and I have lusted after these chairs since Wordsmiths opened last year (I have visual proof right here. We didn't swipe this black one because it doesn't go with our decor as well). What do you guys, think? We are excited that we have a cool modern piece in our home that might be older than the rest of our stuff form Ikea combined! Woot, woot!

LL