I'll Just Watch the Cuteness From Afar.

Photo from: THX THX THX

This is how I feel when I see people walking their adorable pets around my little community outside my apartment. They're fun to look at and awe about, but do I want to wake up in the wee hours of the morning to walk my very hyper puppy on a leash around Addison Circle in 33 degree weather in my pajamas? No, I don't. Therefore, I'll admire your young little dog from a distance and think to myself how I love the extra sleep I get in my warm bed.

Hope your week is going by as fast as mine!

mace.

A Toast To..

..some really fabulous shoes.

Photo: Jak & Jil

I would be happy with every pair sitting in my closet. And when I say happy, I really mean thrilled. Ecstatic even.

mace.

Turn It Up.

1) Amersterdam/ Griffin House

2) The Cave/ Mumford & Sons

3) Poison & Wine/ The Civil Wars

4) These Girls/ Ryan Adams

5) Heartbeats/ Jose Gonzalez

6) Lua/ Bright Eyes

I've had all kinds of music playing through my speakers lately, but I've kept coming back to my acoustic loves recently. Maybe it goes best with the sun streaming in my windows or my laziness on the couch, either way, this is what I've been turning up.

Sit Under The Shade.

As I'm decorating my new home, I've got so many ideas going in my head, yet I feel as though I haven't implemented any of them. I was browsing some of my favorite sites the other day for inspration and ideas that were steal-able* (as in easy to do and won't require all of my paycheck) and I came across some great stuff. Not necessarily steal-able*, but great. So may I please...

Have my couch under a tree?

And make a table out of adorable books?

Photos: Design Sponge (I spend way too much time here apparently.)

I would love to take a layer from my table and read under the shade.

mace.

*Yes, I make up my own words. So sue me.

Yes, I'll Take Some.

Oh, the week I've had. With work and moving out, I am just pooped. Yet so excited for the changes. I'm moving into my new little loft this weekend and I'm so ready to settle in there. I didn't realize how many thingS I had crammed into such a a little space until I try to pack it up but as I look at my new place, I realize how many things I'm lacking. Thus explains the very large amount of time I've spent at Ikea lately. It's a good thing they have food there.

Photos: Dress Design Decor

Speaking of food, don't those macaroons look delightful? I think I should curl up with a few and de-stress to some Elizabethtown. Yeah, I'm really thinking I should.

mace.

I Wish I Could Pull That Off.

Patterned walls are risky. I'm not a risky girl. I don't bet on football games, I don't have anything to do with stocks, and you won't see me using pennies to scratch lottery tickets. The only risk I take is running through the yellow light when I know it'll be red by the time I'm underneath it. These patterned walls are risky but fabulous. Somehow, they complete the room but don't give it the busyness you would assume zig-zags and stripes might give. This is something I would love to be able to pull off. But I'm afraid it would look like I let Mrs. Williamson's 2nd grade class come over for recess and play with finger paint on my walls, with colors that you didn't even know existed.

Photos: Design Sponge & CoCo and Kelley

Maybe one day, when you come over, you'll see lovely patterned walls in my house, and know that a meticulous professional was hired behind my back because I would never had been able to agree to such a risk. And to whoever hires that professional, thanks in advance, I always wanted pretty walls.

mace.

Okay, I'm Ready.

Normally I'm not a fan of winter weather and being so completely cold that you can't think when you walk out your front door, but after looking at the J.Crew October catalog with perfect looks for fall, I think I'm ready now.

Photos: J.Crew

With neutral layers and booties that have I could stare at all day, I say bring on the cold. I could fight it off perfectly in each outfit above, all the while with a smile on my face and perhaps a heating blanket.

mace.