India is intense, amplified and shocking. The people are earnest and beautiful. The situations you find yourself in are all-too-often silly and unbelievable. And if I could live in one place for the rest of my life, it would be there. Between my husband and I we´ve traveled to India and back again nearly 10 times.
I adore anything that mentally takes me back there. And so I´ve been slightly obsessed with the new May Anthropologie catalog. Oh wow. I thought April in Cartagena was lovely. But this is just beyond beautiful. If these photos don´t make you immediately start saving up for a round-trip ticket to New Delhi, I don´t know what will...
Remember that episode of Man Shops Globe where Keith Johnson spies loads of "fanciful" garden chairs at a flea market in Buenos Aires? Well last week I *finally* took my inaugural trip to the very same El Mercado de las Pulgas (literally, "Market of the Fleas"). I say inaugural, because I'll definitely be going back. Probably a few times. With more money, of course.
Brass lanterns, shades of ice blue and black, leopard print and suzani pillows. Some global-inspiration for your morning...
BTW: I finally got around to checking out The Foundary, the new home decor event-shopping site along the same vein as One King's Lane. It's still feels like a new shop (could use a bit more inventory, but I'm sure that's coming) yet the quality and pricing of the sales are fantastic. Today's event is for Lodge cast iron products, which is pretty much best-of-the-best for kitchenware in my book.
Image Credits: 1- via The Style Files; 2- Katie Leede via Bromeliad, 3- via Bromeliad
I love oh-so-low coffee tables. They seem to say, "I don't need your conventional living room, you bourgeois decorator."
“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
Have you read anything by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
? I highly recommend her work for any fellow wanderer. She's a traveler with a penchant for buying up old properties, she's absolutely guaranteed to feed your wanderlust and leave you dreaming up adventure. Start with The Hacienda: A Memoir, the story of her first marriage (at age 17!) to a Venezuelan "don" of a sugarcane and avocado plantation. Signs of his mental illness begin to show up after their wedding day and she actually has to smuggle herself and daughter out of the country. Ok, that part of the book is a little insane. Still, it's hard not to get lost in her beautiful prose and admire the strength of someone moving across an ocean at such a young age to pursue her love of travel. |
Photo Credits: 1-Vogue via Dust Jacket Attic; 2 & 4-via Cherry Blossom Girl; 3 & 5-Natasha via Everything Fabulous; 6- via Everything Fabulous
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| Maryam Montague via Decor8 |
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Jill Malek via TradHome Magazine
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If I ever get bummed that I quit my stable job to travel, but I really miss my stuff, my apartment and my lovely Mac (why am I *still!* so materialistic??), then I'm going to look at this photo of me literally laying my scarf down so I could take a nap in the mountains near Quito.
Ah yes. Beautiful freedom.
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I guess it's ok that I don't have my blowdryer and velcro-rollers after all.
P.S. If you're thinking about your own fabulous/crazy/life-changing adventure, too-- then take my advice: There will always be a job, there will always be someplace to stash your belongings crap and this is the only life you've got. So go and write the best damn story you can. There's no way you'll regret it.
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Literally every single time I read one of Maryam Montague's blog entries I just want to share it with the world. Done. She's perfect.
But I've miraculously shown some restraint. Because you will love being surprised with all the mysterious Moroccan adventure packed into My Marrakesh.
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In my search to find a classic pair of riding boots (nearly impossible) in a country known for its leather (a bit over-hyped, if you ask me), I've come across a whole lot of cowhide. I'm talking heaps. From raw and cattle-like to zebra print, to patchwork to neon, the Argentines have committed innumerable crimes against leather.
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