WANT!

Globetrotter Pouf from UrbanOutfitters

combining my love of maps, leather, furniture, neutrals, globes...

... now let's just work on my love of "cheap price," UO.

before...

we have a bit of an obsession, sort of a love affair, with a movie. well, two movies really, but the second is a continuation of the first, as it should be. if you've never seen Before Sunrise and Before Sunset with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, these photos and the clip might not mean much to you, but to me, and the hubs, so much about them solidifies these two in our top movies ever. Please watch them (again) and enjoy!

itching to travel

Roma

the hubs and i just realized that we haven't lived in europe (glorious europe!) in almost 4 whole years now. FOUR YEARS! to be away from a place we know we love for that long is becoming unbearable, but we're trying to save up as much as we can before hop back across the pond for good. no vacations, no splurges, just workworkwork and savesavesave!

powder in Zillertal, Austria

Praha = true love

for now, amazing videos like Mike Matas' still frame movies keep us focused on our goals!

Morocco & Spain from Mike Matas on Vimeo.

this is the TRUTH!

we've moved!

LITERALLY!
... now, to organize ...

promises

i promise once we get settled (and have constant internets) there will be more consistent blogging going on. i SWEAR!

for now, some things that have been catching my eye lately:

this gorgeous Brunswick Stew created by Kevin Gillespie of Top Chef fame

Budapest! want to go (or live) here soon!!

this cork map satisfies so many of my needs and likes:
maps, cork, pointless wall art...

Always enticed by the thought of growing our own food despite our mobile/apartment lifestyle, this Edible Greens Kit is right up my alley! $50 too much right now? possibly. maybe i can recreate it for cheaper myself!

this shower curtain from killy & oliver's bathroom redo

Can't wait to settle down for a bit!!

UPDATE!

OH how time flies when you're ...... doing nothing. Lots has changed in the month and a half I've let this blog languish, and you might think that means lots has been done, decided and accomplished. Well, you'd be mostly wrong. But here are a few things that have happened:

1. Jake left St. Thomas on a boat! ... then it started sinking and they came back.


2. I left St. Thomas on a plane!

3. My brother got married in Jamaica! Lots of snorkeling, lionfish, ganjaImeanlocalflora ... we all got sick. We're blaming the water.

4. I gathered all (ok, well, a lot of) our scattered, stored belongings in hopes of setting up our lives

5. The 4th of July approached and along with it, Jake approached Charleston, with fireworks to welcome the ocean-weary crews to the mainland!

Scurfing, yes, in the middle of the ocean

6. I drove down to SC to meet up with my hubby as well as recent Savannah transplant, cousin Jessie!

Charleston is cooool

7. Back up to Baltimore to hang out for a few days, then on to Pittsburgh for a whirlwind weekend of unsuccessful apartment hunting (although we did get to hang out with buddies)!

8. Aaannnddd back to Baltimore. Limbo. Lots of Industry Night (though we're stretching the industry in when we're actually unemployed), outdoor movies, baseball games and money liquidation.

could've been a great game... go O's!

movie night madness

We've got to get this life show on the road!

ridiculous

my brother is getting married in jamaica at the end of the month and i have procrastinated booking our flights because it is SO FREAKIN RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE to fly there from STT that i just couldn't do it! i'm talking $700rt/person!! we are already IN the caribbean for pete's sake!

i can literally fly to DC, fly round trip from there to jamaica and back and then fly back to st. thomas and back home in july for the price of one round trip ticket STT-MBJ. that is 5 flights for the price of 2. SERIOUSLY?! seriously.

and that may be what i do.

we just wanna go here ;(

sharing is caring

just a round-up of things I've been reading/digging/loving right now:

why oh why wasn't it i who took this photo?! ie. i want to be there!

Prêt à Voyager is quickly becoming one of my favorite blogs, mostly because she resides in paris but also because she hails from baltimore!! i lovelovelove the boarding pass series and frequently find new blogs to read through the interesting travelers she features. also, great paris blogs and generally fabulous links on her page!


she recently returned to charm city for a wacky race around (and in! eek!) the harbor called the baltimore kinetic sculpture race - check out the post and pics here!

gabby the gypsy in budapest

one of the blogs i've found through her and become devoted to is gypsy*diaries by a chica living in budapest. oh man can i tell you i've had a thing for budapest ever since seeing how cheap the housing is there on househuntersinternational? i want to mooove there! the city looks gorgeous and i am totally living vicariously through this girl

a sneak peek from england!

emma and james emmerson of greeting card and stationery publisher 1973 show off their gorgeous victorian home in brighton, england. click the picture for more!

the sneak peek feature on design*sponge is one of my favorite recurring posts because of all the inspiration garnered from real homes around the world. granted, i may be partial to the european aesthetic, but i like them all in their own way ;)

other newly-found blogs intéressants:
bikinis and passports - vicky, living in vienna - travel, pics, fashion
5 inch and up - sandra, finnish fashion student in london - some beautiful pictures


ciao for now! bedtime!!

Mexicooooo

Hotel Hacienda Xcanatun

Based on the title, you might assume this means we're headed south of the border for a bit... but you'd be wrong :( Someday though I hope to stay in one of these gorgeous haciendas while exploring all Mexico has to offer!

Hotel Hacienda Santa Rosa de Lima

Hotel Hacienda Santa Rosa de Lima

Hotel Hacienda Santa Rosa de Lima in the Yucatán Peninsula consists of 11 rooms in an 18th century villa, nearby to ancient Mayan ruins and colonial villages. Outdoor activities such as mountain biking, caving, horseback riding and sink-hole exploration are all available as well.

Hotel Hacienda Santa Rosa de Lima

Hotel Hacienda Santa Rosa de Lima

Hotel Hacienda Xcanatun

Hotel Hacienda Xcanatun, also in the Yucatán was rebuilt after being abandoned in the 1980s. Originally built to raise horses, this 18-suite hotel reopened in 2000 after extensive work to preserve and renew the original architecture and ambience.

Find many more photos of gorgeous hotels, haciendas, ruins and villages of Mexico here, and start planing your trip today!

Dreamstream

So for our upcoming 2011 roadtrip, the dream camper to buy and fix up would be a vintage airstream. You know, the silver bullet beauties of yesteryear! While my head is swimming with motorhome renovation ideas, I made the mistake of looking at Airstreams' new models and found THIS awesome specimen.
Hello, gorgeous!

la France

What am I doing state-side? Why aren't I in France??

Trip Photos, Skewed

I recently came back from a weekend trip to San Francisco to visit a good friend and I returned with about 300 photos (impressive for only 2 full days!). Upon my return I noticed a post on Apartment Therapy about Tilt-Shift Miniature Making, where you take an ordinary photograph (usually a landscape/cityscape) and tweak the focus to make it appear to be a miniature model! I had tons of fun fooling with my SanFran pics and look forward to playing with this feature in the future!

the photo above is the tilt-shifted version of my original photo of Sausalito, below:

(Click on any photo to view it in extra-large)

check out this site with it's Tilt-Shift-Maker to create your own!