eighth st. — just another girl’s favorite things.

I love me a good before and after. Domino recently put a an amazing slide show of before and after bedrooms that really help me visualize how to take an ordinary room and make it magazine-worthy. Check it out.

Last week my girlfriends and I took a quick lunch break and headed over to the local paper store under the pretense of finding paper for Rachel to frame for her newly-painted bedroom. I immediately got distracted by a poster-size piece of lime green paper printed with Shakespeare’s 18th sonnet in spidery, black calligraphy. I love it and since become attracted to posters of all types.

Check out this one that’s marketed toward kids, but really, I’d hang it up!

Wouldn’t you?

[[counting birds poster, $40, Robin Rosenthal]]

Via The Scoop:

PRETTY!

[[bird tattoo necklace, $80, Cog & Pearl]]

How happy would it make you if someone quietly slipped you one of these cards today? I’ll tell you how happy it would make me: very. What a sweet message on such a sweet little card.

A pack of 20 cards will set you back 7.50 pounds (yes, these hail from the U.K.) plus postage, but think of how small a cost that is for making someone’s day?

[[from Keep Calm Gallery]]

If my girl friends were posters, they would look like these:

Kaelin, the gossip guru

Rachel, the queen of pink and black damask

Marie Elizabeth, the quintessential Parisian honeymooner

Keri, obsessed with raisin bombers and pretty much the coolest

Amanda, to represent the year she started dating and got engaged to Schmoopy

Jill, sisters don’t get any more “pink flamingo” than her

Jessie, because she basically just shoots love at people, which is a great quality for a sister

And me? I definitely want a working typewriter.

[[all posters $89.99, all postcards $9.99, all from The Poster List]]

Pretty stationery makes me salivate, which makes for some pretty sloppy notes (I kid!). I might have to keep a hankie nearby when writing on these unbelievably beautiful postcards. They’re eco-friendly, artistic, and worthy of framing (plus the company has the best motto ever — see post title above). How’s a girl to choose?

[[button flower, $5.50, Night Owl Paper Goods]]

[[terrarium butterfly, $5.50, Night Owl Paper Goods]]

[[folksy floral golden yellow, $5.50, Night Owl Paper Goods]]

[[hello peacock, $5.50, Night Owl Paper Goods]]

[[gourd nest, $5.50, Night Owl Paper Goods]]

I basically want to post their whole site. So go check it out for yourself.

As promised, fun things to put your feet on (because I do love putting my feet on things).

Like Andy Warhol in box form (that holds lots of magazines).

[[danish dot storage ottoman, $68, Urban Outfitters]]

So chic, so sleek, and so able to hold baskets of magazines.

[[square-arm ottoman, $449, West Elm]]

Sophisticated white leather with lots of surface areas for my favorite magazines.

[[square leather ottoman, $849, Horchow]]

When I’m a grown-up, this is the type of ottoman I want. I could totally throw a huge tray on it for food/drinks/magazines.

[[duncan square ottoman, $699, Room & Board]]

Anthropologie offers the wares my cooler self buys. The cool me wears tweed boots like these (with brown nubby tights, natch):

[[tweed twinkle boots, $268, Anthropologie]]

I would rest my be-booted feet on this delightful ottoman (coming soon…an obsession post about ottomans):

[[noctua ottoman, $598, Anthropologie]]

My friend and I recently decided we are forming the Hot Wive’s Club. That is, as soon as we get actually find the lucky gents and get married. Our first bylaw?

1) As a Hot Wife, you are required to own many aprons and wear them often, especially with heels and pearls.

Ok, I paraphrase, but it’s something about aprons. I already own two, but this one is also super-cute and I might have to invest it when I hear wedding bells.

[[Mademoiselle apron, $61.60 (because you can't put a price on hotness), Kitsch*n Glam]]

I love unintimidating art; art that doesn’t scream,”I am ugly for a purpose and if you don’t understand that purpose you are stupid.”

This art I completely understand:

The message is clear, the color scheme coordinate-able, and it’s just likable. I really want ReForm School to make an accompanying poster that you can hang right next to it that says, “Like, I know!”

[[We are So Good Together poster, $35, ReForm School]]

I’m also a fan of this one that appeals to the Brit in all of us.

[[Keep Calm and Carry On poster, $22, ReForm School]]