my favorite specs

These vintage sunglasses once belonged to my Mom, and I have had them for years. They, simply put, my favorite specs ever. Over the years they have picked up more than a few scratches. I have always vowed that if I ever, ever found anything that looked remotely like them, I would have to check them out. And then I saw these:

Some Things...

some things that I am loving right this very second:

{image - d*s}

parquet. for the obvious reasons that it makes everything, well perfect.

this plate made exclusively for anthropologie by artist Nathalie Lété.

Narumi's hauntingly beautiful photographs of cherry blossoms! {via pia jane bijkerk} and the fact that spring is really,truly here!

Gallant & Jones

Lovely, lovely outdoor chairs from Canadian company Gallant & Jones. With every purchase, they donate $5.00 to Love Trees. Plus isn't their website just adorable?

perfect haircut

As I said last week, I've been trying to grow out my hair for sometime now. And this is a photo from Garance Dore that I've been holding onto. Almost there, but need to trim my bangs! And get some summer sun on my towheaded mop.

Update:

Another great cut today on Garnace Dore! A little funkier than the one above, but I really love this one, too. Thanks to my sister for pointing it out.

the world at your fingertips

via the blog tulips & flight suits

I have got to get my hands on one of these rad hand-drawn world maps. (Even if they are sort of crazily expensive.) In case it hasn't been made patently clear by now, I am obsessed with travel. I guess that's what happens when a little girl loses her first tooth on a plane to Bali--that little girl grows up to become me.