around the blogging world...

Some posts I liked from the last week...
Flourless chocolate cake
Frame Risers
I loved these two posts from Black Eiffel
Alvhem
This Young House
Green Wrapping from Your Heart Out

photo found here

meet me in st. louis

The Gateway Arch, if you ask me, this is up there with the Golden Gate Bridge, Statue of Liberty, the Alamo.

Union Station, this has been turned into a shopping mall but it looks amazing inside, they have paddle boats and all! Pictures from here and here.

Forest Park is larger than Central Park. It houses gardens, lakes, the World Fair Pavilion (it is where the World Fair took place in 1904), the St. Louis Art Museum, Jewel Box atrium and Planetarium among other things.

Lafayette Neighborhood is one of the historical neighborhoods in St. Louis.

St. Louis Basilica Cathedral sounds like it is one of St. Louis' gems. The inside looks amazing.

I think the City Museum looks awesome.

poppies

I saw this picture on Martha Stewart's website (it is part of the Party-Planning Guide). I love the poppies with the table setting. I think I will try and grow poppies again this summer (they didn't come up last summer, the forget-me-nots took them over) so that I can have them to put on the table for our BBQ's and such.

landscape secrets

I found this Front Yard Landscape Secrets guide on Better Homes and Gardens website. This was my favorite front yard of the 16. I like the structure of this yard and the fact that it looks easily maintainable, but you still get some fun flowers too.

chad whys

I got my $10 painting in the mail yesterday and I love it. I can't wait to get a big white mat for it. I would love to get another of Chad Whys' paintings.
These three are all $20 or less.
I saw this post on A Room Somewhere ($10 drawings), I don't know if I am sold on the idea but it certainly intrigues me.

pretty posies

I love these earrings from Anthropologie.

waiting for spring

I was at the grocery store last night and I saw boxes of bulbs for lilies of the valley and ranuculas (my new favorite flower), I couldn't resist. I can't wait until it is warm enough to plant them outside.


I would love to have this beautiful window box on my patio.

rugs

Anthropologie is probably one of my favorite places to look at rugs, theirs are so unique and colorful, albeit expensive. I love this rug from Anthropologie so much I would be hesitant to put it out anywhere someone could potentially spill on it.

I like this circular rug from Pier 1, but would you put a circular rug in a kitchen? I don't know if I would, but then I am not generally daring with that kind of stuff.


I really like this rug from Pottery Barn, although looking at it more closely it looks like more of a cabin rug to me. This is one of the few over $100.


I love the simplicity of this rug from Pottery Barn. This other rug is from Target and also simple, it reminds me more of the kind of rug you would find in a colonial period home, I kind of like that about it. It is one of the more expensive rugs though.

I love these sisal rugs from Pottery Barn. You get a nice neutral tan with the kick of color on the outside.

I love these rugs from Ikea, my sister-in-law has the yellow and white striped and it is darling.

If you are looking for a simple solid color rug, I think this looks like a good one from Target, and it comes in several colors.