11 November 2010

so I guess it pays to put yourself out there


When I started this blog in May I was bursting with passion and ideas about design (still am), so it really was a natural next step....(free!)  I was spending so much time reading design blogs at night, I thought, "Why not just start one myself."

When I first wrote Sissy about fabric or something asked me if I worked in design.  I said, "No.  But I want to."  When you know you have a strong desire about something, don't you find yourself looking for validation outside of you?

Anyway, I hope y'all are tired about me sharing everything about what it going on and starting a business.  This is just how it is unfolding for us and I want to share it!  I really do have a desire to have a successful design business one day, to have a shop, and to keep writing.  

  I was talking with a design blogger yesterday and she was telling me how a lot of designers who have their design business up-and-running and then decide to blog think negatively about bloggers who then wish to create a design business after they have been blogging (like me).  I can see how they might feel that way...but life is a journey and none of us can really plan where it might take us.  Well, we can plan, and we should, but "life is what happens after we have already made plans" right?

But even though I dreamed of being published one day I didn't think (if it did happen at all), that it would happen so soon.  I still don't know the date but you know I will share when they are here!

And now they tell me that the renovation magazine "Kitchen and Bath Makeovers" (a sister company of BH & G) will be shooting our master bath.  I am so excited!!  

And the Milk and Honey team (Anisa and I) are meeting with our first prospective client today...here home in Buckhead is going through a major renovation.  Fingers crossed that the family likes us!

Thank you, readers, for reading when you do and your comments and encouragement have meant so much.  Without you none of this would be happening!

Love y'all........Julie

10 November 2010

random (tired) yumminess


kelly green swan chair 
home office from a home tour in this month's Southern Living Magazine
(I need one now!)



great quote from quote blog--I will dig up her blog and link it!


picture of the kind and laid-back Daryl Carter from the other week
at Urban Electric Co. in Atlanta (yours truly is cropped out)

He had patches on the elbows of his jacket--I have a thing for professory blazers.


perfect creamy front door


soft contrasts
(both images via Farrow & Ball)


LOVE this monochromatic first look with the strong lip color
(J Crew)


chambray shirt & sequin skirt--too good
J Crew



and a perfect sunny fall day

enjoy your Wednesday.....Julie






08 November 2010

project runway ain't got nuthin' on her

Why have a blog if you can't brag from time to time about those you love & admire?

Please see the work of my beloved cousin Allie's work.  She is finishing up her BFA at Ole Miss and for her master project this senior year she's doing a "rags to riches" line of couture.  

Hello--here is her model in trash bags.  I'm speechless!


Her dish cloth formal:




Unbelievable brown bag skirt!


coffee filter sculptural piece


Is she not talented?  I am in awe.

Not only is she talented in fashion (and interned at Saks in Atlanta this summer doing displays--how cool!), but she is gifted in photography

(her photo self-portrait below)



gorgeous


And one of her real loves is the graphic arts

(she made this for me!!)



You're gifted, Allie girl!



And she is graduating this year---so if anyone needs to hire a gifted designer of all trades--please look up Allie.  I'd love to hire her myself :)

                                                                       Julie