Rue La La!

One of my (many) obsessions is magazines.  I can't get enough.  About 10 years ago, after ripping up my favorite pages out of the latest Vogue to add to my inspiration box, I realized how silly I was.  From that day on, I started to collect my favorite magazines to keep a better archive of the years that these fashions & designs were taking place.  I now have very heavy stacks of magazines, that is hell to try and pack up each time that I move, but totally worth it.

I am still an avid fan of physically flipping through each and every crisp page and was never a fan of looking at them online.  Until now.  Unless you have been under a rock, you are well aware of the fabulous launch of online magazine Rue.  I really don't have the words to describe it.  It covers every aspect of art that makes my heart skip a beat.  With Bri Emery, creator of Designlovefest, sitting as Art Director, it's really no surprise that the amazing photography is laid out in such a clean, magnificent manner.

I chose a few of my favorite pages (very hard to narrow down from 261 pages) for you. Enjoy!

Photos: Rue Magazine

Flea Market finds

Happy Friday!  Chicago-based Jayson Home & Garden has launched their annual online flea market with amazing vintage & antique treasures from around the globe, focusing mainly from Europe.  If you love flea markets, but may not necessarily enjoy frequenting them, this is definitely the way to do it. 

Paris Fashion Week Candids

Photos: The Cherry Blossom Girl, Tommy Ton/Style.com, Jak & Jil, The Sartorialist

Before & After: A Simple DIY

So, last week while a friend and I were driving around Brooklyn's Prospect Park area, I saw a great white chair at a stoop sale that I wanted to grab.  I saw the great potential of the chair-it was chipped and aged just the way I like it, so all that it desperately needed was a new seat.  I don't know the first thing to reupholster anything, but the seat came off easy enough that I knew I could fix it up with great vintage fabric I purchased at an antique store a few months back.  It now had a purpose!  With a price at only $10 (and a friend with a van to transport it home) I scooped it up without hesitation.

Once home, all it needed was a nice scrub, batting to cushion the seat and some gorgeous, unique fabric.  It is now a perfect night stand to hold some books & magazines!