{Easter Inspiration}

I love holidays. Seriously, give me any holiday and I will gladly take the challenge of decorating for it. Holidays really give you the chance, and excuse, to add a bit of whimsy to your decor. Obviously Christmas requires an overhaul of practically every room in the house. Smaller holidays, such as Thanksgiving and Easter, on the other hand, call for more subtle decorative additions that better fit in with the overall decor of the house. Holidays are also always a great time for crafting, another reason why I love them so much.

With that in mind, lately I have really been drawn to Easter-inspired decor and fashion. I am seriously loving pastels, florals, light spaces, and touches of greenery.

Elaine Griffin Interiors

House Beautiful

Pottery Barn

Shelter

via Absolutely Beautiful Things

Better Homes and Gardens

House and Home

via Life in the Fun Lane

Lonny

Lonny

Shelter

William Waldron

Burberry Prorsum, SS10

J. Crew

Harper's Bazaar

Country Living

J. Crew

{in⋅tern⋅ship[in-turn-ship]–noun: any official or formal program to provide practical experience for beginners in an occupation or profession}

If stuffing, sealing, stamping, and mailing over 500 envelopes is considered "practical" experience for my future, then I guess I am in good shape and learning a lot from my current internship.

After such a long day, I would have loved to come home and take care of some work in a beautiful, interesting, and functional office such as this:

{Cottage Living}

Unfortunately I can not. Making the white walls of my dorm room an inviting and creativity evoking space is a challenge I try to tackle almost every day, usually without success. I tend to turn to blogs as a sort of "dream world" for the homes and rooms I would love to live in.

I have a feeling though that my next project for the week might help make my room a little better...

{New year, new beginnings}

I have been trying to start a blog for a little over a year now. I am an avid reader of blogs (I follow about 30 on a day-to-day basis) and I am constantly being inspired by the creative people and ideas that I discover online.

How perfect, then, that one of my classes for the Spring 2010 semester, Writing for Online Media with Professor Strate, requires that we create, maintain, and post onto our own blogs at least three times a week.

While some students might find an assignment like this, worth 50% of our final grade, mind you, overwhelming, daunting, and annoying, I find it to be an enjoyable challenge. I am beyond excited to *hopefully* join the ranks and the friendly community of bloggers that I already love and enjoy following.

I'm a little hesitant to put into words what I hope for this blog to be about, because I know it will end up being a mix of fashion, home decor, NYC, crafting, my daily life, and happenings in Fashion for Philanthropy as we lead up to our big spring fashion show. I guess, for the sake of narrowing my interests down, this blog, in short, will be about things that inspire me. And trust me when I say that all of this is subject to change.

So here goes, and I hope you enjoy!