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Memorial Day marks the official beginning of the summer vacation season. (However it's worth noting, summer doesn't actually begin for almost 4 weeks!) You may not have been able to tell by the weather in New York this weekend, but it has become the season of lemonade and outdoor picnics, beach trips and outdoor eating. These next few days are my favorite of the summer season. Attitudes are easier, skirts more flowing and everyone is spending every extra moment outside in the sunshine.

I love this color palette.

Porch swings should always double as beds from now on.

Patriotic and summery

Summer tabletop

Aerin for Lee Jofa

Lately I've spent a lot of time with our fabric collection and been brainstorming ideas for possible new collections. With the arrival of spring, I've been thinking a lot about our feathered friends, the birds, and trying to figure out an interesting way to abstract them into a pattern. I realized one of my favorite blogs, Habitually Chic, was on a similar wavelength when I saw this beautiful Aerin fabric posted on the blog today. This led me on a hunt for avian inspiration.

I'm a sucker for de Gournay paper and I'm loving this heron.

More de Gournay

Watercolor hummingbird

Fabric available at Lee Jofa

Textile : by Mary McDonald

Prints of birds : by Olof Rudbeck

Study of birds : by Rembrandt

Birds Nests : by Vincent Van Gogh

This morning we had a meeting about incorporating more color ways into our fabric line. The discussion was fun and now I'm hyper sensitive to all of the colors around me. Today is dedicated to all of the beautiful hues in the rainbow!

Designed by Burley Katon Halliday, Australia

Red Interior : by Tony Bevan, acrylic and charcoal on canvas

A real commitment to orange

Y Lighting : Spillray

Sunny entrance

Yellow chair

Green Lacquer Kitchen

Desk Accessories

Cobalt tiled bathroom

Crayola

One of my favorite violet sofas

Pretty bottles and pretty flowers

Many of my designs are based on hard lines and angles. I love organic forms but somehow everything I create turns into a triangle. Today I've gathered some curvaceous images to inspire the organic half of my brain. 

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall : Zaha Hadid : Manchester, UK

Op Art : Bradley G Munkowitz

Sketch of Spiral Jetty : Robert Smithson

Pirce Lamp : Hive Modern

Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route

Bridge : Photographed by Murray Mitchell

Furniture : by Ray Power

Yellow Curves : photograph by JA Gutierrez 

Anatolian Seljuk Mosque : Turkey

Blue Smoke

Lady's Slipper Orchid

A few things that have me inspired today

It felt like a Monday today in every way. Lots of busy work to take care of. When I finally found myself looking for some inspiration, here is what pulled me out of my Monday doldrums.

Inspiring me to create new patterns for the fabric line!

Loving this outrageous color!!!

Always a big fan of the neo-classical look.