Buying art is hard. Not just because it’s often a serious investment, but also because it has to move you (and hopefully whoever you’re living with too).
These Italian beach prints by Gray Malin move me. Like in a take-me-to-Italy way.
I love a rocky cliff-covered coast line. I’d take that over a five mile stretch of unbroken white sand any day.
And it sure makes for some beautiful shots, like these from Malin’s La Dolce Vita series.
Which is a series I’d happily invest in.
[Images: Gray Malin]
While everyone and their grandmother is obsessed with Taylor Swift’s squad these days, I set my #squadgoals on a posse of LA-based designers, bloggers, photographers and creative types: Emily Henderson, Joy Cho, Bri Emery and Max Wanger. Their aesthetics are different (their talents are too) but there’s some serious cross-pollination happening in their bright and colourful, sunshine-infused looks. Which makes for some fun collaborations.
Is it the Southern Californian weather? Is it the LA creative community? Are they friends in real life? I don’t know.
But I do know that when you follow any one of their Pinterest posts to their blog, chances are there’s some sort of shoutout to one and other. All the sunshine and smiles make me want to add colour — and a bit of gold — to everything.
[Images: Joy Cho’s nursery/office by Emily Henderson, Love print by Max Wanger, Bri Emery’s dining room by Emily Henderson]
I live for oversized scarves. The bigger, the cozier, the better, as far as I’m concerned. The Sahara Travel Wrap by Vancouver’s own Bare Knitwear certainly fits that bill. Made of melange alpaca and adorned with hand-knit tassels, it’s the kind of thing I’d wear straight through until March and then on every plane ride I take for the rest of my life.
The Anthology’s Pinstagram column marries the dream (Pinterest) and the reality (Kelsey Dundon’s Instagram photos of places and faces in and around Vancouver).
With child. There’s no maternity wear more amazing than a vintage mumu (thanks, Katie, for the photo!) + an embroidered toddler dress that would make for quite the mommy ‘n me look.
Graphic imagery. Wild new wallpaper at Grub on Main + the work of Roos van Dijk.
Workspace. A necklace I’m using in a Global segment I’m working on + a desk I’d be quite happy to work at.
Posted notice. An ad for what might be the most fun dance class ever + a work of art by Jenny Prinn.
Golden child. My kid’s hair matches the decor + a shirt that would camouflage right in.
P.S. There are more photos where these came from so follow @KelseyDundon on Instagram.
I can’t remember the last show I went to (I’m pregnant, I have a toddler, I pass out at 9:30 every night).
But I don’t need to actually have attended any of these shows in order to appreciate the gig posters by Milwaukee-based design studio Catharsis.
Medium poster-sized and $25USD a pop, they’re a bright, colourful way to capture a moment in time.
Even if you actually slept right through it.
[Images from Catharsis.]
Mustard yellow doesn’t sound all that glamorous but, boy, does it look it. It’s like a little bit of muted sunshine for your closet and your floor.
Wear: A day dress at Totokaelo (one of my favourite stops in Seattle).
Where: A kitchen (with art in it!) designed by INT2 Architecture.
The Anthology’s Pinstagram column marries the dream (Pinterest) and the reality (Kelsey Dundon’s Instagram photos of places and faces in and around Vancouver).
Lights! Colour! Action! Bright studio lights + bright gallery lights.
Pop of yellow. Sometimes you need a pop of sunshine + sometimes you match your decor.
Workspace. My office is never tidy enough to shoot anything but a patch of floor + a corner of an art studio that looks suspiciously tidy.
Somebunny loves them. Selling breakfast to a toddler + a kitchen that could sell anything to anyone.
P.S. There are more photos where these came from so follow @KelseyDundon on Instagram.
Style, my friends, is Natasha Goldenberg.
She rocks Prada like it were vintage. She always looks put together and a little undone, like only a European can.
Is it the hair? The minimal makeup? The attitude?
Or the fact that she’s always shot on a cobblestone street near a 100-year-old doorway, by the water with her daughter, or out at night with her glamourous friends?
I don’t know, but she’s selling the European lifestyle like few can. And boy, am I buying it.
[Photos from Natasha Goldenberg’s Instagram feed.]
Follow @NGoldenberg on Instagram and follow @KelseyDundon while you’re at it.
In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.
I don’t remember how I first stumbled across Erin Williamson’s blog Design Crisis (probably Pinterest. It’s usually Pinterest.) but I am so glad I did.
It’s beautiful, quirky, inspiring and shows you all the guts, dyed fingers…
…and real-life mess that go into a design project. 
Her finished products are always so bold, so full of personality, but they’re often done economically with treasures hunted from vintage shops and eBay.There’s a whole lot of love that goes into the homes she works on. Including her own.
She doesn’t post nearly often enough (but hey! Neither do I.) but Design Crisis is definitely worth bookmarking. And bookmark The Anthology while you’re at it.
[Images from Design Crisis, naturally.]
P.S. Beef up your list of favourite links with The Anthology’s Bookmark picks.
I am an obsessive redecorator. Always have been. And there’s nothing I value more than a second opinion (well, that and a little Pinspiration). So in honour of the upcoming BC Home and Garden Show, we’re giving away a design consultation with Marie Joy Design worth $250!
The design duo will be like your own personal Apartment Therapy, answering your most burning questions like How do I make my living room seem bigger? How should I light my dining room? Is a kitchen carpet a yay or nay?
The winner will also get four tickets to the BC Home and Garden Show happening February 18 -22 at BC Place (where you’ll be able to bid on my Home Tweet Home birdhouse, benefitting Ronald McDonald House BC).
So let’s make your place amazing! To enter to win email KDundon@TheAnthology.ca with subject: Marie Joy Design. Contest closes Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 12:00 noon PST. Contest open to BC residents only. Good luck!
CONTEST CLOSED: Congratulations, Sarah!