I popped into West Elm in Portland’s Pearl district, and browsed around, as I’ve only seen their online store (though I’m told they DO have stores in California). I fell in love with these:
Ikat towels:
Honeycomb vases (on right):
Pierced votive holders:
To move or not to move…?
Sorry for the lack of posts- midterms this week, as well as just general craziness including a weekend trip to Portland tomorrow after my last class… I’ll be back to more posting next week hopefully. I leave you with some photos of things I’m studying for my Botany lab exam tomorrow! I get to look at about 20 slides and identify them, and various parts of the specimens. Exciting stuff, right? Beautiful though, you ave to admit.
3.1 Phillip Lim, that is! Did anyone else know that the lovely Phillip Lim did a shoe called the “Eros” for Birkenstock? I actually like it a lot. On sale at Barneys for $70 which seems reasonable considering that those things are super ergenomic and last forever (an ergenomic designer sandal seems like it should be an oxymoron).
Ok. So just to be clear, I think I love everything on this site. Thanks to Dear Ada for the original posting which led me to spend way too much time perusing the CDC stores site. Here are two favourites:
I love these shoes from Shofolk for men. Actually, all their menswear is great.
Oh, and these for me!
This is what a botany book should look like. I found this a while back… probably at a thrift store, but I don’t remember.
I don’t know if I mentioned this but at the ripe old age of 28 I decided to go back to school to finish my Associates degree, and this semester I’m taking a botany class at Pasadena City College, to fill the science lab-lecture requirement. I was very excited about taking this class, and still am. My teacher is Dr. Debra Fulsom, who is a research botanist for the Huntington Botanical Gardens and also apparently a published author (which I only found upon Googling her!). It’s a fascinating subject for me, as I have been obsessed with plants since I was about 13. Anyway, I just wanted to post this beautiful old botany book and have you compare it to this cover, which is what is on my actual schoolbook… no offense to Van Gogh, but this is inappropriate for a botany book.
