sad, sad, sad.

One of my favorite magazines (and probably Shift's favorite magazine period), Domino, is folding. It just couldn't hang with the bad economy. I guess we shouldn't be too surprised, since House & Garden folded last year, Vogue Living is no more, Blueprint folded, and O at Home is a part of regular O magazine again. But I was really rooting for Domino. This means I will definitely be buying their decorating book since I won't be able to get their decorating tips on a monthly basis anymore.

get some legs...

how fun would it be to wallpaper your closet or dressing room with this "fishnet in fireball" wallpaper? its red ink of gold paper, handscreened, feisty and, let's face it, wonderful...

I'm thrifty, dammit!

The fiance and I live together in a decently-sized (by NYC standards) one-bedroom apartment. Unfortunately it only has one TINY bedroom closet, which is a problem considering that we both have slightly ridiculous amounts of clothes and shoes. We've talked about getting a bigger dresser for our bedroom but naturally don't want to spend $1,000+ for a nice one. So imagine my surprise when I found this in our trash room on Saturday:Someone was throwing away this beautiful, clean, HUGE dresser -- so of course I had to save it! I called the fiance at work to tell him about it and he thought I was a little crazy -- until I sent him a picture of it, when he said "Put a note on it so nobody takes it!" When he got home we dragged it down the hall to our apartment and spent two hours re-arranging our closet and filling our lovely FREE new dresser with tons of clothes. I was so proud of finding and saving it -- Lucy even likes it! And that was my excitement for the weekend.

{loves it}

Martha Stewart did a show today on blogs and the bloggers that write them (how I forgot to DVR this is beyond me). On her website, Martha had some of her employees list their favorite blogs. One was {this is glamorous} and I'm totally in love:

Talk about impeccable taste. Fashion, beauty, home decor. What more could a girl want? I'm hooked.

Dear Mom,

The Charleston house needs a breezeway like this:And a kitchen like this with plenty of room for us to all hang out in and drink wine while we cook:

If I was designing my own house, I'd make room -- but I'm not. Think you can work it in? :)

From my favorite new design blog, The Inspired Room. Love.

rugs

i'm a firm believer that accents make the room. perfect example? these rugs from stitch