tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45455874922439940592024-03-05T16:25:55.780-08:00Everyday AylaAylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-58617610313221562792012-06-09T14:11:00.000-07:002012-06-09T14:11:00.518-07:00Niece & Nephew<div style="text-align: center;">
A couple weekends ago, my sister-in-laws brought their babies over for a Sunday evening. We had dinner and chatted and went for a big walk, and then we laughed and laughed at these two cuter than cute kids. I don't know where my camera was when they were laughing at the fluffy sheepskin rug or sharing/licking their light saber, but here they are getting fed by their mommas!</div>
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<br />Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-51826358618467845432012-06-07T18:08:00.000-07:002012-06-07T18:08:00.764-07:00Wedding InvitationsI thought it might be fun to show a few elements from our wedding that we created ourselves. I just think there are far too many crazy difficult wedding-related things on this little internet of ours. There is simply SO much wedding inspiration out there it becomes overwhelming and frankly a little discouraging... cause you can't do everything. And you don't want to copy everyone else's ideas. And what gets me the most is the impression that's given that everyone should have an endless budget and throw money at it like a maniac! There are far too few resources for brides (and grooms) looking to do things affordably, without compromising on the look and feel of the day. Okay, maybe you'll compromise on things because of money, yes. But good taste is good taste and it has nothing to do with money.<br />
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If you want to see the inspiration for the feel of our wedding, see my Wedding pinterest board, by clicking <a href="http://pinterest.com/aylamae/wedding/">here</a>.<br />
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So I will share the first thing we made ourselves in the whole process: invitations, of course!<br />
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I wanted them to be more than some coloured paper glued together... I love texture and mixing materials, and I had noticed lots of different things that are, indeed, paper but are not normal card-making papers. I guess re-purposing is what I'm getting at. And since a mix of neutrals was the look I wanted, there was no concern over matching turquoises or anything like that.<br />
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The front sheet was ivory linen-textured card stock we found at Micheal's on sale. I think it was something like 30c a sheet. We cut it to size, printed the text using our friend's laser printer, and used a punch to round the corners ($20). The paper doilies are from the dollar store. I think we bought 6 packs of 15ish at $1 a pack. The kraft-paper cardstock on the bottom was a $25 stack from Micheal's which had all different patterns but the Kraft brown background in common. I had originally planned to use torn out sheets from an old dictionary to provide this 'patterned' layer. But when the time came, the yellowed dictionary I had was a really off colour next to the other whites and it just didn't work. So when we found this stack at Micheal's, we went for it. And we used every last sheet, so it was worth the money. The return envelopes came from Value Village. I love perusing their stationary section and had found airmail envelopes there before so I found more luckily. And I bought the large envelopes from Grand & Toy near my work because I literally couldn't seem to find them anywhere else ($8/25 I think). This is the largest envelope you can mail with standard postage and it made sense since we had the long airmail envelopes to fit in there. Also, I honestly can't get over the price of envelopes at places like Micheal's. I went to look for some for our thank-you cards but then realised it would have been like $1/envelope! And I don't want shimmery gold thank you very much! (their white envelopes all seemed to come with cards. I remedied this another way. WHOLE other post...)<br />
The thread for sewing the sheets together was stuff already lying around so call it free. Some people's had brown thread, some read, but my favorites were just black thread. I used glue dots from the dollar store for attaching the top invite card to the doily paper. ($2)<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">By far, the thing that took the longest was choosing the fonts and laying out the wording. We found that by making some words grey and some black, it made the whole thing look a lot more legible and kinda professional looking. Thanks to DaFont.com for the fonts </span><a href="http://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=Peach+Sundress" style="text-align: center;">Peach Sundress</a><span style="text-align: center;"> and </span><a href="http://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=Return+To+Sender" style="text-align: center;">Return To Sender</a> !<span style="text-align: center;"> The other text was all Rockwell. Everything was laid out in Word and printed on a desktop printer. Simple.</span><br />
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The back held the RSVP card, which was sewn on together with the doily and the kraft card stock. (that was easier than you might think too. Stack them, and push them through the sewing machine one after the other. Cut them apart later.) Before sewing the RSVP on though I took them through the sewing machine with an unthreaded needle to give it a perforation. Most people figured out that that meant you could tear it off. :) </div>
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Love the internet. They, again, were correctly interpreted by most. :)</div>
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And that's all folks! I think all in all we spent more on stamps than on the invitations by far, so I would call it a success. And it was really really fun to do!Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-65578858158276125542012-05-23T00:32:00.000-07:002012-05-23T00:32:05.911-07:00Kitchen LittleCan I just share how little my kitchen is? Ok, I will then. Because it's really important that you know. I think I shall start a segment called "Small Apartments Bite: Tips"<br />
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It may or may not consist of more than one edition, this being the first.<br />
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You see, sometimes I have been known to have a good idea or 2. This post has 2. But they're both kind of the same. Anyhow, sorry if you've seen this already because you've been over to our apartment and I've inconspicuously pointed out how crazy good this idea was... sorry. That's all I can say.<br />
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Exhibit A:<br />
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Here you have my<strike> tupperware</strike> plastic container and baking supplies cupboard. Up top is a container full of containers. I mean, who likes stacking and organizing plastic containers on a shelf?! Not me. So I throw it in there and when I need to find something I pull it out.<br />
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And I see that right next to it is my sweater-wearing hot water bottle - I've been looking for that! What a weird place for me to put it... but I digress.<br />
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So essentially it's a drawer. Which are a hot commodity in a kitchen this size.<br />
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<br />As for the baking supplies basket, It just made sense to me to put them all together because when you're baking you usually need more than 1 baking supply. The category kinda gets used in one shot, so in those cases you pull that bad boy out onto the counter and grab and go! <div>
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So when you have a super small fridge it starts to look like you have a gabillion condiments. Well, maybe we just do. Actually, that was a surprising perk about getting married. The condiment inheritance! Yay! But anyways, the point is, they can take up space and, well, I may as well tell you the whole story here....</div>
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....when we were storing 10 wedding cakes (baked by Mom) the week before the wedding, we had to make room for a rotation of one or two in here and so we took all those condiments, threw them in a cardboard box and put them out on the patio where they stayed fridge temperature, or so we hoped. After the wedding, we swiftly got that straightened out and put the cardboard box back in the fridge! Wow, I can't even believe that happened in real life... and let's pretend it didn't stay like that for three months following. Anyways, it kinda turned out nice to have those condiments corralled except when I wanted to use one. So now we have them corralled on a tray on the bottom shelf. It did appear that that tray (you may recognize from <a href="http://everydayayla.blogspot.ca/2011/06/grad-show-display.html">here</a> hehe) was going to fit the other way in, leaving a perfect gap on the side for our water jug to stand up, but the fridge door would not close by <span style="font-size: xx-small;">this</span> much. So it's in width-ways, but we'll see how long it lasts until I find myself the perfect sized tray. </div>
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I think I like this application of my 'putting things in things' (I need to copyright that- don't mess with a good name!) because I can see almost everything on the tray and can pull it out - like a drawer - to see everything at the back! </div>
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I'm in LOVE with the tea towels above. They're just striped. But they're vintage and the most gorgeous coloured stripes I've ever seen in luscious turkish linen. Yep, you heard right. Turkish. </div>
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Hope this makes you feel better if you think your kitchen needs help. We're keeping it REAL right here! I have 13 cupboards and 3 drawers (and 1 single bowl sink). Count them.<br />
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ayla</div>
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</div>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-7563898486601406032012-04-01T17:12:00.000-07:002012-04-01T17:12:16.406-07:00The day he proposed...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/d5pJBmV6bRw" width="560"></iframe><br />
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I get the nervous jitters every time I watch it!<br />
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And I'll never forget this day or the crazy feeling of utter confusion over "who is this man, and what does he have to do with me?!" when I saw the picture of him in the magazine pullout and I'd seen him walking around the thrift store... the only thing that made it all add up was when he smiled. And then I still couldn't believe it!<br />
I just kept saying "you're crazy, you're so nuts" and I couldn't stop laughing!!!<br />
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Best day ever! And I'm so glad it's documented so beautifully so I will always be able to re-live it!<br />
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Thank you Ron for always blowing my socks off. You never cease to amaze me!Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-58667315896389219142012-03-31T11:05:00.000-07:002012-03-31T11:05:24.601-07:00Lovin' every minute of it<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Let's re-cap.<br />
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A year ago I was knee deep in school work, lacking sleep and motivation...<br />
From graduation I went straight into the work world, having been hired the day before my last day of school at a larger design/build firm in downtown Vancouver. I was lucky. And very glad for the paycheck.<br />
I worked through the summer and into the fall.<br />
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Then the boy proposed to me in the most amazing way possible. A day that will never be forgotten (not to mention the day before my first niece was born and I got to take the day and be with her!).<br />
4 months later we were married, on February 18th 2012. We went on a beautiful honeymoon to Riviera Maya and now we continue with working good stable jobs living in a little old apartment perfect for saving up some money!<br />
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I feel so blessed, so struck by the feeling of 'we've got it made' and sometimes get an overwhelming feeling of happiness that can't adequately be described.<br />
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So I'll keep on blogging now, after a year that was documented in vast and various ways other than blogging.<br />
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Stay tuned for:<br />
- a video of the proposal!<br />
- vintage wedding gowns going up in the shop!<br />
- a few little 'lipstick' renos around the apartment<br />
and who knows what else!Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-19463030973586432592011-06-29T18:30:00.000-07:002011-06-29T18:30:40.529-07:00Thanks!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCmuMob5_MrgpfTj19QgLPRoOExz9d9eA4mjBIuR_Rxtb2eN-u4uNkGSNshJdr-3ED1UjoKM_irfWtJ1aJ1e8trgeS2XxLKMU5DsMLL-GEknSSPqUhRoq1JYYc6gJyeWG0_VQ6FF8GGbp/s1600/IMG_6104.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="168" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCmuMob5_MrgpfTj19QgLPRoOExz9d9eA4mjBIuR_Rxtb2eN-u4uNkGSNshJdr-3ED1UjoKM_irfWtJ1aJ1e8trgeS2XxLKMU5DsMLL-GEknSSPqUhRoq1JYYc6gJyeWG0_VQ6FF8GGbp/s400/IMG_6104.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>I wanted to make sure I did a quick shout-out to all the people who've been treating me amazing lately! I have some amazing friends, family, and almost-family (especially considering they've mostly been completely ignored in the last year). I've had cards and gifts and surprise parties and shopping trips! Sooo much more-so than I deserve.So I'm so appreciative of the congrats, even though I still don't feel like it's ended - its just on to the next project!<br />
The monkey card is especially accurate - it says "If you can swing it... take some time to celebrate!" Well, it's been busy. After getting a job the day before the last day of school, I had 4 days to soak up doing nothing, before getting completely back into the swing of things...in real life this time. It's been almost a month now I think... and I'm finally starting to realise how lucky I am. I have an amazing job designing for a very well respected design/build firm in downtown Vancouver. I've been involved with some awesome projects, and (crazily enough) got introduced as "Ayla, a designer at our office" over and over today. (It was client meetings all day! Fun!) And can I just say - totally surreal! The amount of power I have over designs is also awesome (not just a cad monkey after all!) and I'm feeling very needed and appreciated at work (there were small fights over me :P) BUT I don't want to brag at all - this was all big fat plain LUCK! Sooo I'm not going to complain about the workload or the pressure or the fact that client's don't understand space planning when their 'space' is a box drawn on a napkin at a scale of their choosing - I am just going to enjoy and do my absolute best! Oh, and smile lots! Smile and nod. : D<br />
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Thanks again for all the support all ya'll - you know who you are! Love you!Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-48125803344389917622011-06-15T07:50:00.000-07:002011-06-15T07:50:22.886-07:00Go Canucks!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFFv_dy0tMY9X4yD8tmrAH_T5uY0u4-tEYJ63EoSXOg7VVCJidNLcQZgGs78NdIlzfY9vpqlYSoaN2xcQJNWFRYMD8ZCkxNgmp8-g5fhnJSb30L3l8Nadl3_7m5lO4rD1VH-1JUgjSbDR/s1600/IMG_6101-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFFv_dy0tMY9X4yD8tmrAH_T5uY0u4-tEYJ63EoSXOg7VVCJidNLcQZgGs78NdIlzfY9vpqlYSoaN2xcQJNWFRYMD8ZCkxNgmp8-g5fhnJSb30L3l8Nadl3_7m5lO4rD1VH-1JUgjSbDR/s640/IMG_6101-1.JPG" width="480" /></a></div>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-11389296490099347552011-06-14T09:13:00.000-07:002011-06-13T21:14:41.738-07:00Tuesday Inspiration<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div align="center">Happy Tuesday Friends!</div><div align="center">Hope you have a cheery one :)</div>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-69610553722881798522011-06-12T19:41:00.000-07:002011-06-12T19:41:54.602-07:00Grad Show Display...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Since I never took pictures at my grad show, I knew I wanted to do a little mock-up of what I displayed and take pictures... mom still hasn't seen it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I finally did that tonight. In reality, the grad show was in an open-office workstation at the <a href="http://www.hermanmiller.com/">Herman Miller</a> showroom downtown Vancouver. It wasn't such a blank canvas, but anywho, here's what I did:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portfolio stand on the right made by Ron, the tray held my business card and some take-home notebooks with my card clipped onto the front. And of course them there succulents (fake!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The portfolio stand worked great for viewing at standing height, and got lots of comments! :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The card design... on a tile of my favorite colour (I tried sooo hard to get my name to match the bright red/orange I wanted, but wasn't 100% happy.... I am not a graphic designer or photoshop officianado!)</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">So there's that - over a month later!</div>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-73967355714238910352011-05-19T12:12:00.000-07:002011-05-19T12:13:52.770-07:00PursesProcrastinating and realising I need a woven basket purse for the summer! Etsy is full of vintage ones, I've discovered, and I am planning to pick one of the following:<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="SALE Vintage 1950s Hand Made Picnic Basket Woven Purse" src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_570xN.150936689.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="570" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Vintage Yellow Woven Plastic Purse by Lesco Lona" src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_570xN.98800301.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="570" /></td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-32810497316072353952011-05-16T13:01:00.000-07:002011-05-16T13:01:59.563-07:00Final Material Board<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Finally remembered to bring this home from school today; a bunch of people's boards were stolen from the classroom this weekend so I was lucky it wasn't mine - I didn't even have a picture of it! So now I do. Phew. <br />
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Back at it with the construction drawings for this - its a luxury skybox for a record label of my own invention ("Moontide Records") which is a label for blues/roots/surfie type artists. Laid back, yet luxurious, with lots of green design thrown in (see recycled corrugated cardboard carved wall/ceiling feature).Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-53059037284875315612011-05-13T15:31:00.000-07:002011-05-13T15:31:21.297-07:00Coming up on the final week...I wanted to do a quick blog post .... seems like yesterday I was counting down at 3 weeks, and now its 1 week (plus a 5 day extension on the major project) until school is done.<br />
I'd wanted to chronicle everything during this intense school process, and enlighten people as to what it is we do as interior designers/design students. I don't know how to do that still, and simply haven't had the time to show a whole lot of stuff. When I have time I will upload the pages of my portfolio which was prepared for our grad show a week and a half ago... which went really well.... I officially decided I feel ready for the work world!<br />
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In this moment, as I think about my final gruelling week of homework and studying, I am:<br />
- amazed at what I've learned to execute and create<br />
- excited to get finished with school forever<br />
- not looking forward to NOT seeing my 20 peers everyday (and so thankful for the amazing friends I've made)<br />
- extremely excited to soon be able to clean my house and trash a whole wack of old work, boards, drawings, etc.! That will be sooo fulfilling and liberating!<br />
- can't wait for the freedom of no school and the lovely summer to play in!<br />
- can't believe how much work I still have to do ... wow. anxiety.<br />
- a little nervous<br />
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But anyways, since I really don't feel like I can capture the feelings I have right now, I'll wrap it up.<br />
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The REALLY exciting news is that I just got called for an official interview where I had my work week/internship next week! This is like .... my dream job for right now. It's a lot of office planning, some retail, some institutional.... simple basic stuff, but its a large design/build office which means there are lots of resources, learning opportunities, ecological design practices, and the people are amazing, down-to-earth and personable and exactly who I'd like to work with and for. SO let's hope this means I can start work as soon as I graduate - I did not expect to be able to do that AT ALL !!! (I'm cautiously hopeful, as the phone call contained the words "we think we've figured out where to put you...")<br />
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So I am celebrating by eating the whole $5 little bin of raspberries I bought the other day! (they really shouldn't be eaten without an occasion)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">expensive raspberries, reflected ceiling plan on stand to get into autocad.... renderings from Seniors housing project</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-37898294186966083632011-05-07T09:41:00.000-07:002011-05-07T09:41:23.444-07:00Must Watch<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="239" src="http://www.nowness.com/media/embedvideo?itemid=1382&issueid=1478" width="425"></iframe></div><a href="http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/3/23/1382/advanced-style-age-and-beauty">Advanced Style: Age and Beauty</a> on <a href="http://www.nowness.com/">Nowness.com</a>.Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-74319885713358412302011-04-27T18:50:00.000-07:002011-04-27T18:50:38.051-07:00don't forget to...<div align="center" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/13068322/" target="_blank"><img 700?="" border="0" src="http://d30opm7hsgivgh.cloudfront.net/upload/13068322_vo0jJ5ye_c.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px;">Source: <a href="http://ruthlessjerry.tumblr.com/post/3362497461" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">ruthlessjerry.tumblr.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/chrisem/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Christine</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Long time no blog (I miss it!) BUT - only 28 more days until school is finishetinado! </div><div style="text-align: center;">(pronounciation: fin-eesh-ee-na-ta-doh!)</div>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-743429062107396672011-03-22T11:30:00.000-07:002011-03-22T11:30:05.450-07:00Modernism Week - shops and stuff!<div style="text-align: center;">There is such an amazing selection of vintage shops in Palm Springs. You can pick from thrift stores (every other block has one it seems) and vintage/designer shops. These photos start out from the day we walked the design district street and wandered in and out of shops... Some vintage, some not.</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charming Hilary and some outdoor furniture</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beautiful Kristie at Trina Turk's Residential store</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vintage shop window</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretties inside said vintage shop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another vintage furniture store. Stacks of classics - love the Danish mid century modern teak stuff</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A booth in the modernism show called <a href="http://www.urbanburp.com/">Urban Burp</a> - could have stayed there for hours!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vintage cowboy fabric...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristie looking through the stacks of amazing fabrics</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah and I took home a yard of this ship fabric. I'm in love with my 1/2 yard, not sure what it will become yet though!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Best L.B.D EVER! check out that lace! I know it's blurry, but the bottom hem shows it pretty good... just scrumptious</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old posters sporting the most beautiful colours...</td></tr>
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</tbody></table> <div style="text-align: center;">This place is amazing. I am going to find it really difficult not to go again next year, but this time do more of the home tours and seminars that our silly school was too lazy to sign up for until it was too late. I HIIIIIGHLY recommend it; both the Modernism Show that runs every February, and Palm Springs itself.</div><div style="text-align: center;">(plus, my aunt has a spectacular place there, good to sleep 6! Anyone else in?!)</div>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-21155952781291495182011-03-21T18:21:00.000-07:002011-03-21T18:21:53.437-07:00Fresh is Best<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was my favorite thing I saw when first arriving in Palm Springs. Crispy fresh blue sky.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">just another butterfly-style house taken drive-by-shooting style. Still lookin' fresh 50-some-odd years later.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We peeked into a lot of houses this way... At least these guys had the decency to have built-in step stools for us!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">FRESH Grapefruit. Best thing in the world right there. Yes, we jumped at every tree we could and stuffed them in our purses.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Kaufman house, designed by Richard Neutra in the 1940s. It is phenomenal. (and FRESH!) If only we could have gone in...</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-48285251121904713022011-03-17T18:06:00.000-07:002011-03-17T18:06:56.189-07:00Ace Hotel Lunch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's about time I shared some goodness from my little trip to Palm Springs! (it was already a month ago!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll start with one of my favorite places we went, the Ace Hotel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We went for lunch after a morning spent walking the street in the Palm Springs Design District, which was breathtakingly lovely, as you can imagine. But stepping into this hotel's restaurant actually made my heart beat a little faster...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and now I'm dying to go stay at <a href="http://www.acehotel.com/portland">The Ace Hotel in Portland!</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The little foyer; loved the Navajo-esque rugs and yummy leather chairs... not to mention: Macrame!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, lots and lots of Macrame! I love that Palm Springs doesn't for a second deny it's 1960s celebrity status!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I fell in love with that tile... it had a pearlescent glow to it and was just pretty in such a simple way.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See the Macrame elephant sculpture on the wall? Now there's a reason to learn macrame!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big beautiful windows with - get this - SUN streaming in! Not so great for photos like this, but I would never complain!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute little menu. Can you see why I took a picture of this page? ;)</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">I can't explain enough how inspiring it was to be around good, timeless design. Everywhere you looked there was something to look at and inspire. It just made me so happy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyways, thats where a handful of us ate one day ... I'll try to share more this week as I'm doin' little to nothin' on Spring Break!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">PS: </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=57707&id=1629540023&l=4edc0d689a">Here</a> is a facebook album if you want to see lots of photos!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=57704&id=1629540023&l=d4eb303b57">and another one .....</a></div>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-33787631474440492702011-03-07T08:46:00.000-08:002011-03-07T08:46:11.570-08:00The Glamorous Life of .... me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5dN-0PI1bymZJQS-pu2AgNuSL5g1XxENVDTm54fnBgU96jl5TD-Hx3r0BMAuxatEqfCNZxk-aPKloUpgE_cRNnsoLv58oYJF8s9-eZREH7F0Qi7_p3jvBV_fj5fMy-wt9ARkc0cqzFjVE/s1600/IMG_5931.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5dN-0PI1bymZJQS-pu2AgNuSL5g1XxENVDTm54fnBgU96jl5TD-Hx3r0BMAuxatEqfCNZxk-aPKloUpgE_cRNnsoLv58oYJF8s9-eZREH7F0Qi7_p3jvBV_fj5fMy-wt9ARkc0cqzFjVE/s640/IMG_5931.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>This is it for another 5 days.<br />
Palm Springs suitcase still not unpacked.<br />
Drawings splayed everywhere.<br />
AutoCAD the only thing I've seen in a week. <br />
But at least the morning sun looks good in here :D<br />
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Sidenote: I thought about moving the honeycomb cereal box, but let's be honest here ... <br />
(at least my other 3 cups are out of the frame)Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-13575123465830701562011-02-24T17:10:00.000-08:002011-02-24T17:10:44.415-08:00Palm Springs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2L3NSuINTQth4gVJMlcNTIoxcp3u47PeGrZF2QSQrqovDU9SEDBkVWTMZtYZRD4WBYKXTxEDkrxHtlvyUTmFAB3k5-hm7B92PgGUM9tKAnOcL3-BHVVwaEuVBPeoEcL5UxWGUL-1Ejato/s1600/182469_10150398514655083_504065082_17259822_2631407_n-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2L3NSuINTQth4gVJMlcNTIoxcp3u47PeGrZF2QSQrqovDU9SEDBkVWTMZtYZRD4WBYKXTxEDkrxHtlvyUTmFAB3k5-hm7B92PgGUM9tKAnOcL3-BHVVwaEuVBPeoEcL5UxWGUL-1Ejato/s640/182469_10150398514655083_504065082_17259822_2631407_n-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Modernism week in Palm Springs was amazing and beautiful and inspiring and oh-so-fun!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I want to share it bit by bit, but I don't really know where to start and I am really busy back at school now ...<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So for now, a photo of us girls. Add 3 guys to it and you have our whole group. Loved it.</div>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-39384639087580769732011-02-11T17:04:00.000-08:002011-02-11T17:04:29.895-08:00Happy Friday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I had a pretty so-so day, and by so-so, I mean nothing about it went good. But oddly enough, I'm in a great mood and kinda talkative and hyper and happy! Don't ask me how it hapenned.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Anyways, I got a mark back today that started with a 5 and ended with a 5 and then a %. yep. Beaut. But I had a good sit-down with the one who wrote those 5s down, and we decided it was a good learning experience! ha! In reality, my design was pretty, but it was also pretty complicated and hard to build, and therefore, with the nature of the drawings, I made it hard on myself. Such is the nature of Interior Design school. But what happenned next was, my good friend Sarah kindly tore the worst comment out of my mark sheet, chewed it up and will *poo it out later. And therefore, it never happenned. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">* just kidding, she said she was going to poo it out but really she spat the pink wad into the garbage can.... just in case you wanted more clarity and specifics ...</span> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> That's us at the IDS West show, back in October. That's super motivating and insiring Caitrina on the right, who I also thank for this photo stolen from Fbook. And we are relaxing on the most beautiful Montauk sofa (I want) in between hauling free design loot around. Tiring. note: good lighting for making sofa look pretty, bad lighting for making people look pretty!<br />
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Oh Sarah, how I love you. I cried of laughter slash real crying, because then a few other classmates got all sympathetic and made me realise how much I <em>needed</em> sympathy for such a crap mark which made me feel worse... but at least Sarah took the worste part away. <span style="font-size: large;">I shall love her forever. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paula, sitting in Sarah's beautiful and comfy denim palette chair. Sarah's awesome at stuff, and since I love her, I dedicate this post to all kinds of awesomeness she has up her sleaves. <br />
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</tbody></table>So, the weekend is here, and one week from right now I will be sitting in the sunshine of Palm Springs... Oh boy, do I ever need a lil' vitamin D. (I mean, I bought the capsules, but it's just not the same!)<br />
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Thanks for listening, have a good weekend internet!Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-37627128763212529682011-02-10T14:30:00.000-08:002011-02-10T14:30:01.692-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij-E27-bLBHMAi9d9aIPpag1eKPxAARKWkRLl6iNP5w4ZBDvoHc6HqL8eEUyDY2dTr_msAAlxev2rzfPU9i8cDCtZ7gDu6IA_J1kzX6YPEZxGXHoixK9DSbkt8BMRx-88tk3mL528_E6gw/s1600/IMG_5110.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij-E27-bLBHMAi9d9aIPpag1eKPxAARKWkRLl6iNP5w4ZBDvoHc6HqL8eEUyDY2dTr_msAAlxev2rzfPU9i8cDCtZ7gDu6IA_J1kzX6YPEZxGXHoixK9DSbkt8BMRx-88tk3mL528_E6gw/s640/IMG_5110.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Vivian Maier (thanks mom for showing me this in the first place, by the way!) was a street photographer/nanny in Chicago who lived from 1926-2009. Her work was discovered way later (in 2009) after the photos had been taken, stored, some un-developed, and some still on the roll. Nobody had seen them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Her images are amazing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There is a book and a film coming out some time soon, but for now you can keep seeing new images of the collection regularly on this blog: <a href="http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/">vivianmaier.blogspot.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And watch a little preview of the film here: <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/800508197/finding-vivian-maier-a-feature-length-documentary">"Finding Vivian Maier" </a></div>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-51409726127318199482011-02-04T13:56:00.000-08:002011-02-04T14:01:00.076-08:00Happy Friday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMQuLSlbcoJHrbdlBy2AotQc21P4tXdG9AjtlcrS90z-FajvC_AD1LCyAo6_e3xo4HNdZk0J23H6kot0WPVTOsUPcsk2fk7DQSWeSdrOUjTnqhuZjMZ32rNobwdPF1blM5e_osOxzhf8pu/s1600/IMG_5069p.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMQuLSlbcoJHrbdlBy2AotQc21P4tXdG9AjtlcrS90z-FajvC_AD1LCyAo6_e3xo4HNdZk0J23H6kot0WPVTOsUPcsk2fk7DQSWeSdrOUjTnqhuZjMZ32rNobwdPF1blM5e_osOxzhf8pu/s400/IMG_5069p.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Random fact: I am not one of those people who thinks of cilantro as a garnish</div>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-45988442209175448082011-01-29T10:47:00.000-08:002011-01-29T10:47:48.294-08:00I Have Seen The Rain<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mJrftgq6KKw" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Beautiful performance by Pink and her dad, Jim Moore.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have never really been into Pink's music, but lately keep noticing myself gravitating to her sound; she's now my new favorite. This song, in particular, makes me cry; enjoy!</div>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545587492243994059.post-10715774659061421702011-01-27T20:41:00.000-08:002011-01-27T20:44:15.844-08:00whats breaking my back today:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">a) building the floor of my wood frame house model</div><div style="text-align: center;">b) building a light fixture</div><div style="text-align: center;">c) drawing a 3D model on cad for design projects</div><div style="text-align: center;">d) drawing a bathroom in vectorworks</div>Aylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01506682708308773069noreply@blogger.com0