Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia - Infatuation

A book that I found on a recent trip to London........

is full of treasures.

If I could, I'd move into one of these houses in a heartbeat.

Sadly, they are extremely rare these days.

What do I like most?  The lanterns?  The carvings?  The colors?

The sweet garden decor?

The perfect balance of light and heaviness?

The airiness?

The patterns?

I did say colors, didn't I?

The authors of this book won an award in 2005

for their previous book, Chinese Houses:  The Architectural Heritage of a Nation

I'm sure that book is just as gorgeous.

Find more about them both, click here.

The 'Hood is Hot and Happening - Silver Lake

It's going to nearly '90 degrees next week!  Can't decide if that's a good, or a bad thing!


HAVE A HAPPY wEEKEnd!

Revisiting: Annie's Annuals, Richmond, California

Life can be psychedelic

if you want it to be.

Or if you just hang around

at Annie's Annuals.  Me?  I'd like to move in!

 You?

My Secret Food Life

It's totally O.K. with me

if you'd like to think

that this is what my food life looks like.

I'd like to think so too!

Did you eat anything good this past weekend?

Most of these pictures came from the Marion House blog.  Hungry at all?

Good In the Hood - Lucky Duck, Silver Lake

The very latest addition to my neighborhood: Lucky Duck

If you like Ottolenghi and Nopi style food, I think you'd like eating here.

They still have a few kinks to work out and it's not inexpensive.  But for a treat and a surprise and food you won't find just anywhere, I would say it's "well worth the detour".  Try the potato bombolonis!  (YUM!)

Where will you be this weekend?  Do ENJOY!  

More Decorating? Green Shoots!

Oh yes!  Remember how the hip-hop kids used to say that something was "so fresh!" when they thought that something was cool?

Green shoots: SO FRESH!

Vivement Couleur!

How was the weekend?

Mine was a bit busy so

I didn't have a lot of time to put something

lovely together for you.  But here are some odds and ends of bright, bracing color

to help you start your week out right.

Hope you like it.

The photos are kind of various....

but these last two are from a talented German-by-way-of-New Zealand designer and paper cutter named Ellen Giggenbach.

A litte bird has just told me that IT'S SPRING!  Something to celebrate, no?  Hope you are!

**  A little something else to put a smile on your face for the week:  Would you like to meet some of the "Bodega Cats" of New York City?  Click here.  No audio needed!