Calypso for Target

Yes, the ever stylish boho home an fashion line is doing a line of home items, womenswear, and accessories for Target.  Here's a brief preview.  Gotta put a reminder in my calendar to head to Target.com beginning of May!

Weekend Signoff: Bridal Bliss

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.  I'm heading down to San Diego tomorrow for Cori at Pretty Haute Mess's bridal shower.  Can't wait to see what sorts of activities and treats are in store.

Photo by HostessWithTheMostess

Bedside pendants

I love how soothing this master bedroom is in the San Francisco Elle Decor Showhouse.  It has a pop of color in the artwork yet feels so peaceful (and you know me with my color aversion of late). And I am obsessing about how the pendants used as nightstand lamps free up so much space on the bedside surface. Gotta use that trick somewhere.  It has such an architectural, almost nautical feel with the wire-brushed wood, built in nightstands, sisal carpeting,  and floating bed box.

Cutting Edge Stencils

So, I've been considering what to do with our existing powder room.  One day down the road (the key words being "down the road") we plan on replacing the powder room with a laundry area and creating a full guest bath in our current laundry.  So as much as I would love to turn my powder room into a beautiful jewelbox, I just can't justify spending money on a fancy wallpaper just to rip it down in a few years time.  Plumbing fixtures and lighting can be moved, but not wallcovering.

Cutting Edge Stencils to the rescue.  They have some great patterns that I think would work well as feature walls, powder room walls etc.  Not your typical Americana Mary Englebreit looking stencils, these ones are way radder (is that a word?), funkier, and stylish. Here are some options I'm considering (check out their website, this is just a sampling of what I like, but there are tons of other patterns).

Now, I just have to figure out what colors to use.  Maybe shades of grey?  Tans?  dark sea blues?  Considering my recent aversion to color, I'm hoping I don't also develop an aversion to pattern.

Lazaro Rosa Violan

Loving this Spanish designer's work on hotels, restaurants, and shops.  Such a great collected, casual yet unique and refined feel with no pretenses - just an amazing eye for design.

 All images courtesy of Lazaro Rosa Violan. 

And the winner is...

Killer B!  You chose the Abundance water bottle from Spoken Glass.   I also love your idea for one that say's Familia on it. Maybe that will be next on Conor's list.  Please email me at jess@nesteaglerock.com with your address.

Zoom Zoom

Right now I'm loving Xander Walker's spray painted car art.  It's gritty and has a street vibe about it, but the stencils and color blocking also give it a graphic quality.  Right now his followers consist mostly of auto enthusiasts, but I think I'm going to turn the tides and give him a new flock of design groupies.  I can totally see a series of these hung up in a boy's room.  At around $30 a pop, for an actual signed and numbered print they are really well priced.  Check out his Etsy shop.

Coveting

This De Sousa Hughes Klismos Chair from the Elle Decor Showhouse.

Garden Progress

Some of you have been asking how the garden is looking these days.  It's growing in quite nicely.  Remember what it looked like way back when we planted the herb garden and the back?  Saturday I did some transplanting and trimming.  Here are the herb garden and back garden as they look now.  The front yard needs to grow in a little bit more before we show it off.

Spoken Glass GIVEAWAY

Recently I was introduced to Conor Gaffney's line of dinner table carafes Spoken Glass.  In his Venice, CA studio, Conor laser engraves reusable glass carafes with sayings and custom designs.  He started the company in 2006 seeking to support people in giving up plastic, especially when it comes to water bottles.

Most people know that plastic can be recycled, and perhaps they don't feel so bad about drinking out of a plastic bottle when they throw it into a recycling bin.  But recycling requires energy and plastic bottles can only be downcycled - in other words they can't be made into more plastic bottles.  Because they are contaminated materials they can only be made into other items such as carpet fiber.  Glass bottles can be recycled into more glass bottles.  But these ones you won't want to recycle.  They have swing-top stoppers and give your dinner table a classic bistro look.

Conor has been kind enough to do a giveaway with the Eagle's Nest.  Just comment below let us know which item you like from his Affirmation line (entrants must follow the Eagle's Nest).  The winner will be announced on Satudray morning, March 26.