flowers for friday #106

well, it's friday!!!

i have such a great story for you all.

last night husband and i went out to dinner.

it wasn't take-out, we actually went and sat and ate. it had been awhile. and it was great.

when we walked in, it was busy so we decided to cozy up to the bar and eat.

there was only one other man up there.

we ate. had a lovely meal.

in the mean time, that solitary man had left.

our bellies full, we ask for our bill.

the bartender smiled and said it had been taken care of.

we say, "huh?"

he says, "that man to your right, he took care of your bill."

we didn't know him. in fact we didn't even exchange words.

at one point our eyes met and i smiled.

that was all.

and then he bought our dinner.

so nice.

soo sooo nice.

hope for humanity again, right?

now it's our turn.

we're going to pay it forward.

it was such a lovely thought and it didn't go under appreciated by these 2!

have a great weekend.

go do something nice for someone else!!!!

JILL

{via house beautiful}

crazy pretty.

it legitimately hasn't rained here for more than a few seconds in 2 months.

until last night, right in the middle of one of my senior photog sessions.

perfect timing, right?

but it didn't just rain, it unloaded.

with a little hail, and a whole lotta lightning.

so we had to cut it in half to resume at a later date...

but on my way home,

this was the sight to the left of my car:

and this was the sight to the right:

the most crazy beautiful, bubble looking clouds mixing with the sunset,

and a FULL double rainbow.

i saw the start, the middle and the end of this rainbow and it was so vivid and bright!

anyway.

i'm just sharing because i feel like i'm still 6 on the inside sometimes, and that rainbow made me smile like a nutty 6 yr. old girl who also happens to like glittery sprinkles and unicorns.

JILL 

don't get me wrong.

i am the last person to shoo summer out the door,

but this outfit is looking soooo good right now.

i think its the fact that my summer work wardrobe is waning on me.

i'm so bored with it.

my cardigans and closed-toed wedges are givin me the sad, puppy dog face from the back of my closet.

luckily its cooling way off around these parts. finally.

at least for the next 3 days.

JILL

{via ginger-snapped}

more papah

so i'm having a sort of love affair with wallpaper right now.

as i mentioned yesterday, if i could afford it, i'd be papering everything in sight. but with some rolls costing $150 a piece-- even my small bathroom would need 9 or 10 of them. it just doesn't make much sense when i compare it to a $35 gallon of paint.

but that doesn't mean i don't love love love this stuff.

it's not your grandma's old floral snooze anymore.

{although i could make a case for that if it was styled right!!}

i'm especially loving some great wallpaper paired with some great art.

i have lots of options for you so buckle your seat belts:

i mean. for this one, there are no words.

found here.

i wouldn't care if i stole and copied every single aspect of this room for my very own.

it's not really stealing, i like to think of it as the most sincere form of flattery :) 

here.

here.

here.

and the more the paper/art combo "doesn't go" the better in my opinion.

here's some i pulled from around the internet.

lots and lots of good good paper out there.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

because i just couldn't decide :)

my favorite wallpaper in a different colorway.

art 1.

art 2 unknown.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

how's that?

love this stuff.

JILL

the look for less.

i'm back!

we didn't get internet at work until last night around 9.

turns out it wasn't our server, it was something something something (i have no idea what i'm talking about), but our entire city block was out and at&t was running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

bad visual. but it gets the job done.

they! got the job done.

finally.

try working without the internet. it's like working in the dark. honest.

back to our regularly scheduled programming.......

wallpaper is expensive.

expensive.

but you can get the same look for a little bit less!

i obsess over this room.

like obsess.

i love the black. i love how it's big girl pattern in a little girl's space.

i love how sophisticated it is for a kid but black polka dots bring it right back down a smidge. it's a little unexpected, but i've come to find that i am a #1 fan of the unexpected.

so yeah.

this might be happening in the future if i have a daughter.

more than probable, actually.

it'll happen.

{i'm screaming}

IT'S SO PRETTYYYYYYYY!!!

SO PRETTTTYYYYY.

sanderson sweet bay magnolia wallpaper.

it's a paper made in the uk. i found it online anywhere from $50-60 a roll. (not terrible, but for a room the size of above, there will be lots and lots of rolls.....)

but it's gorgeous and if you can swing it, by all means swing it!

unless you can sleuth out these 2 almost identical (actually, i like one of them better!!) for less:

(this one, i like this one better! throws a bit of pinky-lavender into the mix.)

ashford house, #YV9001.

found it online for about $30 a roll.

that's half folks. half the cost of the sanderson paper.

and it's SO PRETTY, TOOOOO!!!

hooha!

and then there's this one:

strikingly similar to sanderson, no?

york green black AD8202, magnolia vine.

found it between $90 (yikes) and $35 online, per roll.

then we come to the wildly popular, blogged about to death, cole and sons hummingbirds in aqua.

so dreamy, ethereal and whimsical-ly.

and this room below, God i love it with those bright orange/red josef albers prints.

it's good.

cole and sons, hummingbirds in aqua.

this paper will set you back between $115-150 a roll online.

but then thibaut comes up with their similar but everybit as whimsical rendition:

thibaut augustine paper, top in aqua and below in the blue coloway.

this baby will run you around $85 a roll. better than cole and sons, but still not super affordable.

 but it's just so cute!

so like i said, if you can swing it, by all means, swing it!!

i've died and gone to wallpaper heaven with that black magnolia stuff up there.

i'm smitten.

JILL

bummer dude.

well. my server is down at work and i didnt know it before i got here. chaos around here i tell ya.

in my head my post for today is ready, but on blogger it hasnt been started. so... im stuck reporting from my phone this morning.

there are at least eight of you that bought a hong kong j.crew necklace that told me about it and nothing excites me more. some of you are starting to receive em, too. so far everyone is happy so if youre still waiting, keep your head up.

hopefully i will be back shortly with our regularly scheduled programming.

love love love.

JILL

flowers for friday #105

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i'm out.

JILL

{image via amber interiors}