desk du jour

{via slumber designs}

{via slumber designs}

rumbly in my tumbly

while i'm smelling but not yet tasting my host mom's cooking and my boyfriend is taunting me with his pasta dinner via skype, i thought i would distract myself from my hunger by alerting you to a beautiful foodie website called la tartine gourmande that my sister told me about. the food photography is gorgeous and they even have a vegetarian section for people like me! i could go for any of the following right about now.

{pea risotto with basil and lemon}

{stuffed potatoes with mushrooms}

{spaghetti with arugula and cherry tomatoes}

pardon me while i wipe the drool from my mouth. is it dinnertime yet?!

while i'm smelling but not yet tasting my host mom's cooking and my boyfriend is taunting me with his pasta dinner via skype, i thought i would distract myself from my hunger by alerting you to a beautiful foodie website called la tartine gourmande that my sister told me about. the food photography is gorgeous and they even have a vegetarian section for people like me! i could go for any of the following right about now.

{pea risotto with basil and lemon}

{stuffed potatoes with mushrooms}

{spaghetti with arugula and cherry tomatoes}

pardon me while i wipe the drool from my mouth. is it dinnertime yet?!

what goes at the foot of the bed?

an email from my mom about decorating my bedroom for our senior year house (it sounds like she's already been picking up a few things — lucky me!) has me thinking about the layout of my room. she says she found some inexpensive suede storage cubes at target that might work for the end of my bed. an easy enough purchase at $17 apiece, i'm too detail-oriented to make the purchase sight unseen. here are some rooms that might prompt me to make the right choice:

{kathryn ireland in house beautiful}

i love the simplicity that this old wooden trunk brings to a room otherwise brimming with bold fabric choices in typical kathryn ireland fashion.

{massucco warner miller}

two small ottomans neutralize a turquoise bed skirt and orange throw pillow.

{nuevo estilo via delight by design}

i love these x-shaped benches! how cute that one provides seating and the other features a tray for collecting what we can only assume are more of the homeowner's pretty things.

{via deliciously organized}

doesn't the scale of this bench seem a little at war with the grandeur of the canopy bed? still i had to include this bedroom for all the features that work: the subtle moulding, the sunburst mirror, the perfection of those throw pillows...

{via jamie meares' flickr}

not that my collegiate bedroom will sport a fireplace, but isn't the idea of putting a loveseat at the foot of your bed a nice one? the mix of chairs keeps the sitting room from being stuffy, though i'd worry that the loveseat would merely become a new destination for my clothes.

{domino}

there's something so delightfully un-decorated about this space from blogworld's favorite (and sadly folded) shelter magazine. leave it to domino to make an askew throw blanket and a messy stack of mail on one of two yellow garden stools look like the epitome of effortless style.

{jonathan adler in house beautiful}

a long bench that runs the width of the bed mirrors the color on the walls and offsets the prominence of the bed curtains and patterned fabrics.

what do you have at the end of your bed? do any of these inspiration rooms speak to you? i always love to hear your thoughts and i would love some advice from my stylish readers!

an email from my mom about decorating my bedroom for our senior year house (it sounds like she's already been picking up a few things — lucky me!) has me thinking about the layout of my room. she says she found some inexpensive suede storage cubes at target that might work for the end of my bed. an easy enough purchase at $17 apiece, i'm too detail-oriented to make the purchase sight unseen. here are some rooms that might prompt me to make the right choice:

{kathryn ireland in house beautiful}

i love the simplicity that this old wooden trunk brings to a room otherwise brimming with bold fabric choices in typical kathryn ireland fashion.

{massucco warner miller}

two small ottomans neutralize a turquoise bed skirt and orange throw pillow.

{nuevo estilo via delight by design}

i love these x-shaped benches! how cute that one provides seating and the other features a tray for collecting what we can only assume are more of the homeowner's pretty things.

{via deliciously organized}

doesn't the scale of this bench seem a little at war with the grandeur of the canopy bed? still i had to include this bedroom for all the features that work: the subtle moulding, the sunburst mirror, the perfection of those throw pillows...

{via jamie meares' flickr}

not that my collegiate bedroom will sport a fireplace, but isn't the idea of putting a loveseat at the foot of your bed a nice one? the mix of chairs keeps the sitting room from being stuffy, though i'd worry that the loveseat would merely become a new destination for my clothes.

{domino}

there's something so delightfully un-decorated about this space from blogworld's favorite (and sadly folded) shelter magazine. leave it to domino to make an askew throw blanket and a messy stack of mail on one of two yellow garden stools look like the epitome of effortless style.

{jonathan adler in house beautiful}

a long bench that runs the width of the bed mirrors the color on the walls and offsets the prominence of the bed curtains and patterned fabrics.

what do you have at the end of your bed? do any of these inspiration rooms speak to you? i always love to hear your thoughts and i would love some advice from my stylish readers!