j'adore

this red, this door. It is hot, hot, hot here today, so I am not much minding being inside the shop and out of the sun. What's the summer like where you are?

via littlebrownpen

yellow

I've been smitten with the color yellow this summer, all sorts of shades. I know this photo is meant to be an example of creative bike storage, but man, I love that wall. Delicious!

In other news, I bought a painting yesterday. I know what you're thinking: Is it a painting of a whale, Kelly? And yes, okay, of course it's a painting of a whale. But! But the artist owns a shop across the street from mine and is a very nice lady! I AM SUPPORTING THE LOCAL ECONOMY.

photo from here

dazzle your eyes

This is absolutely the neatest thing I've seen all week. The Multicolr Search Lab by Idée pulls photos from Flickr that match the colors you specify, up to ten at a time. It's incredible. Go ahead, play with it. Put in your favourite colors, colors you hate, colors you would never want to see next to one another in a million years: you'll be amazed. Each thumbnail links to the original's page, so if you see something you love, you can view it larger and explore the photographer's other work.via Apartment Therapy

love it!

At the moment, I'm loving all things daisy yellow, and this is no exception! More and more, I find myself cutting out pictures of classic cars for my inspiration book, and is it any wonder? Love the scale, the curves and lines!

from Fiat 500 via ATBB

travel tickets

Love the variety of the colors on these travel tickets. Via the Design Files.

pretty wanderings

Since my job ended in April and I began my period of waiting-to-hear-about-internships which has gradually become one of caring-for-homes-and-pets-as-a-career, I've been spending a great deal of time online. I find it funny that, although I spent most of my senior year in college working a job that required me to sit at a computer and wait for the phone to ring, I never really grasped how much the internet had to offer me. There are so very, very many pretty things online, and there's little I love more than pretty things. The image above is a screenshot of the tabs I opened via links from everything that was in my Google Reader this morning when I woke. At the point that that shot was taken, I hadn't looked at any of them yet; I needed to take a break for a while before filling my head with more prettiness. That said, here are some very pretty things I stumbled across today.

Oh, but I love the combination of wall colors ("mint and moss") and that gorgeous red cabinet! From a Design*Sponge profile of Elenor of pullmepushyou design.

Split Pod vessels from Whitney Smith (also at her etsy store). Whitney was an Unexpected Guest over at sfgirlbybay today. She has a lot of Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts-inspired pieces, and as those are sort of my favoured decorative arts movements (okay, there's no sort of about it), I find that pretty much the bee's knees.

I've recently become addicted to Apartment Therapy, mainly because of one crucial thing: it lets me look into other people's homes. Because other people's home are so much prettier than mine!

Take Kyle's Jamaica Plain Jem, for example. I just want to lie down in that room and absorb the colors. Yum, yum, yum. The whole site is just chock-full of examples of creative people who've accomplished incredible things in very small spaces. Take a gander at the Small Cool 2008 finalists, you'll see what I mean.

the colors, Duke, the colors!

So I've had mad colors on the brain since deciding that the mustard-yellow walls of my bedroom had to go. Fortunately, the internet is accommodating my mindset.

both from the style files, images from Danielle's recent trip to Istanbul

also from the style files, photo by Vincent Leroux

hula seventy: green monday

hula seventy: yellow tuesday

hula seventy: orange wednesday

hula seventy: pink/red thursday

hula seventy: blue friday

Then there's always Chris Cobb's bookstore organisation project, which I read about in Neil's journal ages ago. Now that was colorful.

there is nothing wrong in the whole wide world flickr set

And the home-grown version:

from chotda's photostream

Ah, internet. As always, you provide me with far more inspiration than I know what to do with.

ps: did you get the reference? Yeah, I'm a child of the 90s.