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Tigers and Tigers and Tigers, Oh My!

Hello friends!

Or should I say, “Listen up you M*ther F*ckers!”

You’re not going to believe me when I tell you this, but I actually starting collecting photos for this post about 2 months ago!  That was well before the craziness of Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin took over our lives and HEARTS, and now we will forever equate quarantine with “F@CK CAROL BASKIN!”  But for me this love affair with tigers started long ago when I first started collecting Asian antiques.  I just LOVE me a tibetan tiger rug!  I would spot them here and there at antique markets, but never pulled the trigger because dang, they were pretty expensive.  Now it seems like the world is just as in love and there are sooooo many fun tiger cat options right now!

Li Apartment

Jonathan Adler Now House

Recently I had been buying tiger stuff… I started with this French needlepoint pillow, (which sold already) and then I went full on Tiger-rific with a large porcelain tiger sculpture, like the one below.  I just can’t seem to list it for sale.  The life of a collector/hoarder is hard, y’all.

Urban Outfitters Calhoun Leopard Throw

Let me just inundate you with pretty photos for a sec and things to spend your depleting bank account on…

Tiger Pillow

 

Tibetan Tiger Rug

Pinterest

Damn, I want a yard of this fabric SO badly.  Let’s play a game… it’s called guess how much this fabric costs…. Guess.  Higher.  Higher.  HIGHER.  Did you just say $490?!?  If that seems reasonable to you, then we need to be friends asap.

Schumacher

Pinterest

Here are some more affordable fabric options and I have to say that tiger and peacock is pretty friggin’ fantabulous!  That would be so great in a little girl’s room.  Someone out there please base a room design on that fabric!!

Fabric 1, 2, 3

Can we all just agree that tigers are freaking amazing, gorgeous creatures that deserve to be admired in their full wild glory?  And that anyone who has one as a pet is just outta their loco mind?  And yet, there is something in us that wants to hold and kiss and cuddle a baby tiger so deeply, that maybe it can make anyone of us a little insane?

Let’s agree on this at least, that we must fight those tiger loving urges, my friends.  Lest we risk being (willingly?) enslaved in a cultish harem….or perhaps the new owner of a yard of $500 fabric.

Santa Monica Proper Hotel

Hello there ol’ buddies and pals!

Life is crazy, right?  I can’t believe how fast time flies … it’s like, life is normal and on track and then BOOM, someone says the word “Holidays” and you’re feeling the weight of the year ending and STRESS. Lots of stress.

Right now I’m trying to focus on clearing out some chairs in my living room so I can fit a Christmas tree in there.  And it’s October.  Oc-to-ber.  Sometimes I don’t even know who I am anymore.  I remember a simpler time when I would buy all the gifts 3 days before, slap up a tree and decor and damn if it wasn’t f’in amazing.  Now I’m thinking about this crap in October.

Just slap me.

Anyway, I forgot to tell you guys something truly magical and fantastical that happened to me!!!  A few months ago I sold something to…. (Guess!  Guess!!)

KELLY WEARSTLER!!

You guys, I tried to tell a few of my friends this news and you know when someone has no idea what the heck you’re saying, but they’re trying to sound interested?  (Kind of like what I do to my children every single night at the dinner table – Uhm, why are the beyblades made in Japan better and cost $200??!?)  That’s what I got from them!!  How do you live life not knowing who Kelly Wearstler is?  Just answer me that.

Okay, now that we’re both hyperventilating (since YOU get me), she purchased a vintage piece for the Santa Monica Proper Hotel.  Something I picked is literally hanging on a wall in something SHE designed.

I die.

So here are all the delicious photos I could find – feast your eyes!

So, which picture has my piece in it??  The wall sculptures made with volcanic clay in New Zealand in the 1970’s…

None of them!!  Which literally, amuses me so much… because I think I would literally go nuts if it were.  (Kiss the ring b!tches, I’ve MADE IT!!!)  But since I did not make the publicity shots, it just means that I must stay there to search every crevice and report back.

I will add it to my holiday to-do list.  Hahahahhaaa!

Needless to say, that I came a few clicks from one of my idols.  And you know what?  It felt good.  Real good.  

 

My New Favorite Show

Hi there!

Let me start this off by apologizing.  After scouring the internet for photos, I quickly realized that this show is on A LOT of people’s favorite list… and one that has been written about pretty extensively.  Sorry world.  I guess I’m just one of the sheep.  Sigh.  And sorry to all of you who may have already seen these photos before… ’cause apparently the peeps over on Amazon only want to release like 5 total pictures.

So there you have it.  I’m being a copy cat.

But I just couldn’t help myself.  This show is THAT good.  What’s the show?!  The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel!!  The story of a witty Jewish wife and mother, who after being left by her douchey husband, decides to become a stand-up comic.  All set in the 1950’s.  Intrigued?

A wonderful storyline, with a SMART, STRONG HEROINE, hilarious comedy scenes, and just plain great writing and acting.  All being delivered to my brain in the prettiest package imaginable – FABULOUS sets and to die for hats.

Yup, I said hats.  I’ve become a hat addict.  Dear friends, I am now a weirdo obsessed with hats and have a problem buying hats, wearing hats and wanting more hats.  I think it’s a thing.

See?  So, good.

And I know there are great period shows out there that kill it in the set department.  But yo, this one is my absolute favorite.

Chinoiserie wallpaper?!  Like WTF.  IN PPPPPIIIIINNNKKKKK!!!

Maybe this living room was worth the douche bag??

And color!!  So much yummy, delicious color that my eyes can’t. even.

I want those lamps.  And that hat.  Just sayin.

Anyway, you all should check it out!  I literally laugh out loud.  And when I turn it off, I’m just very thankful that there are bright people in the world that create shows like this.  This show is saying something…. it’s delivering a powerful message, in the prettiest of packages.  Martini, anyone?