Relighting the flame...

Ok, so what started this whole blog thing was doing fun research for my friend Ann. She was just awarded her first project for her new interior design company, DPOV {design point of view}. It's going to be a super chic hotel in Miami! Below are a few images from one of my FAVORITES that I will probably mention on here often, Kelly Werstler. She is the gravy to my biscuit, the perfect shade for my antique glass lamps, the vodka to my soda water. She has such an amazing aesthetic ability ~ to pull the most foreign of objects together and make them work beautifully in a space. It's sheer brilliance. I have followed her career since 2004 when I got to meet her in New York at the D and D building {mecca for NYC interior designers and decorators}. She had just introduced her new line of fabrics for Decorator's Walk. Hope you enjoy as much as I have!

{love the wall colors, art arrangements, chair couplings, organic side table, the way the coffee table is staged, I mean all of it}

{my second favorite chair ever in my favorite accent color}

{again with the yellow! Love the art deco "ness" of this! chairs-amazing mixed with the wall color. I love how she mixes multiple chair types together in a space. Just in this one shot there are 3 different chair types-all blend seamlessly together}

Is anybody out there? :)

Sooo....Hello. This is my blog. I've always wanted one and have a million friends that have amazing blogs...I just never thought I'd really have anything interesting to blog about. Then a week ago, I started looking into my favorite design style, Art Deco, and the fire came alive again. You see, I am an interior designer...always wanted to be one since I was 8 and my Nanny {grandmother} showed me the movie Pillow Talk In the movie, Doris Day is a interior decorator in New York City and just fabulous. I knew at that moment 2 things:

1. I wanted to be an interior designer when I grew up and

2. I wanted to practice design in New York City!

Fast forward to 2010, I'm 29 and I've done both! I went to design school at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, graduated with a degree in Interior Design in 2004. After graduation, I moved to NYC, and spent a year practicing design in THE city. Then I moved back to Knoxville {for the love of a really good man}, practiced design for a few more years then major change occurred. I quit my design job for a sales job in the design community. While its been great, and has so many awesome benefits like meeting and hanging out with new people everyday, I miss design.

LONG story short, fast forward to today: my new blog. This blog is going to be anything and everything that I love, that inspires me, that I question and that motivates me. One of my favorite games as a child was called "eye spy with my little eye, something that is {blank}." My sister and I still play it on road trips. So for anyone that chooses to observe this blog, I hope you eye spy inspirations, things that make you laugh and things that help spark your own design ideas!