Summer Style

With Shark Week in full swing and the final episodes of The Bachelorette in picturesque Tahiti I've been craving a little tropical escape...

Are you ready to hit the beach?

{Style Files, Style Me Pretty, The Decorista} 

PS- don't forget to visit me on coco + kelley today!

so patriotic

hope everyone had a fabulous 4th of July! I spent the weekend in our Nation's Capitol...and the surrounding area, with my summer-time best friend- we're used to being in Northern Michigan for the 4th. DC was about 100x hotter...but still a fun filled mini-vacation: 

 

{We took a day trip to the beach! Henlopen State Park- Delaware}

{a trip to Eastern Market on the 4th}

   

    

{a summer treat-- and an amazing collection of vintage letterpress blocks and drawers}

{and watched the fireworks from Capitol Hill}

What did you do for the holiday?

dreamed vacation

This week started off full of rainy mornings. The kind of mornings that make you wish you could stay under the covers forever. Banana Pancake mornings. Sadly- even thought it’s spring break- I still have to pull myself out of bed and splash through the puddles to work.

Sigh.

But even the (oh so close to) record breaking rainfall this month can’t keep me from dreaming of glorious sun-filled getaways. And lucky for me Sunday’s T Magazine was full of spring travel hot spots to jump-start my imagination.

Hawaii... let's go.

{all pictures are from Naughty by Nature by Maura Egan, New York Times, T Magazine}