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Ermkay, so I kinda have a huge, huge crush on this studio space featured on Apartment Therapy earlier in the week. It’s delightful! I’ve had lofts on the brain like crazy lately, so it’s only natural I’m superduper enamored with this space. (I’m even designing a lofted guest suite into my hotel for university – seriously, lofts on the brain.)
This little (or rather, big) gem is the shared studio space of a handful of creative ladies and gents, and it seems like such an inspired place to head off to each morning. Classic pieces of furniture, an industrial edge, hints of vintage, and lots of bright bursts of colour throughout. There’s so much personality! It’s pretty rockin’, isn’t it?
It’s been a loooong while since I last posted a mixtape. Too long, really. I can’t explain the mini hiatus this feature has had on the blog other than I just wasn’t feelin’ all that musically inspired over the last few months. But fear not, my mixtape making frenzy is back in full force! I’ve put together three (!) in the past week alone. The following, titled Three Thirty-One Twelve after the day the mixtape lull ended, doesn’t so much have a specific theme or concept behind the selected tracks. They were instead chosen for the feeling of a specific moment. Do you ever just zone out and pull together songs at random that just feel right? Like they were somehow meant to be together in that exact moment? (You’re either nodding along enthusiastically thinking, “Preach, sister friend!” right now or looking at me like I have 5 heads. Both are acceptable.) That’s what happened here. These songs just felt like they had to be together and they perfectly describe that March 31st afternoon.
Call me a freak of nature, but I do not drink coffee. Never have, likely never will. But it doesn’t take a coffee drinker to fall truly, madly, deeply in love with Starbucks’ concept store which recently opened in Amsterdam. I’m awestruck! I want, scratch that, I need to be on a plane across the Atlantic right now to see this space for myself in person! As photos typically do not do justice to interior spaces, I can only imagine just how AWESOME this space is in the flesh. It’s so easy to forget that there’s so much beauty in simplicity and natural elements, and this design has embraced and championed that concept throughout. I love it and wish this Starbucks was in my local neighbourhood. I’d consider taking up liquid insomnia for an afternoon here. ;)
How about something bright + colourful + cheerful to start off the day? That seems like a good idea to me with spring on the horizon. Plus I can never say no to some ultra happiness inspiring stationery and paper products. (Yay!) Enter the pretty little notebooks, pads, and cards of Tokketok who are just that: full of saturated colours and cute litte smile-inducing messages, the perfect match for spring. Who can say no to something that makes you grin from ear to ear?
Last week was a little quieter than usual around these parts. Midterms had a large part to do with that. And I needed to take a few days after the fact to just clear my head and refresh the ole creative spark, you know? Now if only I could have transported myself into the photographs of Jennifer Squires, and my task would have been simplified tenfold. Her images of the Great Lakes are the epitome of calm, peace, and serenity, and in a way, almost seem to be their own special sort of creative therapy. I love her minimalistic approach to photographing these expanses of water – it makes them seem so mystical and otherworldly.
