I am swooning over this photoblog from Unruly Thing’s Alyson Graves.  Love the color palette and use of Gill Sans.  And I cannot get over that bathroom with the clawed foot tub and insect print.

{images shown via Mossière, actual owners of the photos are listed there}

Loving these gorgeous photos from 100 Layer Cake, especially the paperwhites and gigantic pinecones!

{images shown via 100 Layer Cake, taken by Jose Villa}

Oh. my. goodness.

I don’t even think I can fathom a more original, beautiful, more delicious wedding than that of Hello!Lucky’s Eunice and her husband, Daniel.  Going through their wedding’s slideshow on Martha Stewart (yes, their wedding is not only featured in MSW but is on the cover!), it was if my brain was going to explode from the overload of gorgeous ideas.  With every click to the next image, there was yet ANOTHER fabulous and well-designed wedding idea.  This was truly a designer’s wedding with every detail well thought out.  I love the fruity color palette, her ruffled dress, the backdrop of the ceremony… it’s all perfect to me.  I am totally in love with this wedding! (can you tell?)

More info on the wedding at the Hello!Lucky blog.  Eunice also blogged about the wedding on The Bride’s Guide here and here.  DIY Project how-to’s from the wedding were generously shared via here.

{all images shown were found either at Hello!Lucky or at MarthaStewart.com}

Forever one of my favorite accessory makers of all time, Twigs & Honey always has THE most beautiful, handmade pieces.  These veil alternatives are so gorgeous.  How can I come up with a reason to purchase and wear these since I’m three years married?

They would look marvelous while I’m gardening…

Available in her Etsy shop.

{images shown belong to Twigs & Honey}

Beautiful, textured collage work from artist Jenny Willardson (found via Darling Dexter).  They remind me a lot of one of my favorite artists, Joseph Cornell.

{images shown belong to Jenny Willardson}

Checking out the new space of Studio Choo (well, at least virtually) and love the open and airy feel of it.  I am such a big fan of their work, they certainly work wonders with flowers and plants.  It makes me wish I could have yet another career path, only as a florist (or even a gardener). Those flowers are making me very jealous of those who are already seeing their bulbs sprout in their garden!

For more photos of their new space, check out their Flickr.

{images shown belong to Studio Choo}

Always one for a good color palette, I checked out Postcards and Pretties for some great inspiration boards today.  Reminds me of Snippet & Ink’s boards.  Loving the San Francisco one!

{images shown are inspiration boards from Postcards and Pretties; each individual photograph’s owners are listed there}

To celebrate my Mom’s recent birthday, I thought it would be nice to have a small get together with the immediate female family members and have a tea party this weekend.  Take out the fine china, make some finger sandwiches and soup, and of course have scones and desserts.  I’ve tried so many scone recipes and this one is by far, the best.

Here’s my best advice to any scone recipe… do not overmix the dough when you mix the dry and wet ingredients (or they’ll be absolutely ruined) and use your hands.  I cannot stress this enough.  It seems a little odd, but trust me in that it makes all the difference.  After so many of my attempts at scones came out horrible, I started watching videos of older women from various parts of the UK making scones and the one thing I noticed was how they mixed the wet and dry ingredients: with their hands.  This proves two points: sometimes hands are better than spatulas, and sometimes you can’t just read a recipe to really understand it.

Thank god for youtube… where else can you learn how to properly make a scone from a 65 year old woman from England at 10:30 pm in Massachusetts?

{image belongs to House of Annie}

Today’s forecast for my area: snow.  Today’s visual bliss on my laptop: Quince Flowers + Events photographed by Chelsea Fuss.  Springtime dreaming…

{images shown belong to Chelsea Fuss}

I seem to have forgot what time it is, or day it is for that matter, since I’ve rediscovered An Apple a Day.  I found this blog months ago and forgot to bookmark it and just recently happily found it again.  I’ve been sitting at my computer for hours now, scrolling and reading back weeks of entries, loving every witty and clever remark and wishing I knew this Amy Merrick in person.  She is totally my kind of folk.  Adding to my daily reads as we speak…

{image shown from Emerson Merrick’s flickr}