I dream of Italy

 

Missing my month in Italy right about now. 

These photos are of my time in Florence a year and a half ago.

The best.

They'll invent teleportation soon enough...

 

    

 

tilt-shift tuscany

 

 

 

All photos taken October • 2010 • Madeline Jacks
Views of Florence from atop the Duomo (the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore)
Last photo view of Florence from the Bardini Gardens

pin me

I'll be honest with you. I first jumped on the Pinterest train when it was a brand new and very unheard of thing, but I thought it wouldn't get off the ground. And now it's practically become the ground that the Interweb stands on. At least the parts with good design sense and phenomenal taste. 

I adore Pinterest and the ease of its dainty little "Pin It" button on my browser's Bookmarks Toolbar. It's become like an external segment of my brain, acting as a personal catalog for photography inspiration, recipes, event and styling ideas, crafts, reminders, and all around beautiful things that would normally remain lost forever in my over-clogged Google Reader. 

And it's added new vocabulary to our everyday verbiage, which would otherwise sound fairly stupid. For example, here's a pin from each of my boards:

Food Styling & Photography: 

Max Wanger

Interior Design:

Wisteria Wallpaper by Jocelyn Warner

Escapism:

Nepal

Loooooooook...:

homemade piano

Photography:

Doug Keyes: double exposure (Statue of Liberty, New York

Typography & Print Design:

Helvetica

To Make...:

Crafty craft time

When I Marry Into Money:

crystal bullet necklace: $310

Soviet Kitsch:

Soviet Owl

Sexy:

backless sequined black dress

<3:

lace back wedding gown

No Mom, I'm Not an Alcoholic:

watermelon and strawberry vodka fresh berry mojitos

Most Important Meal of the Day:

whole grain pumpkin pancakes

Savory:

Shawarma lamb w/ couscous salad

Veg:

pearl barley & puy lentil salad w/ roasted heirloom baby tomatoes, green bans & baby radish

Sweet:

ombre pink rainbow layer cake

Everyone Has a Type:

really hope they're besties in real life

Leading Ladies:

Mila

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like...:

simple wreath

I have 19 boards and counting right now (too many?). How about you? Let's see 'em!

Amalfi Coast > Seattle

Loving the forecast this week!

PSYCH.

Scusa il sarcasmo...but one year ago I was returning back from the more-than-lovely and warm coastline of Southern Italy.

And I must have been in denial of my return to America or hungover from all the Limoncello...

>>JOKE<<

...because I somehow never blogged about our southernmost travels. 

 Which—arguably—were the most exquisite.

The Amalfi Coast is more photogenic than Kim Kardashian on a good day. (Too soon?)

Even Italian kittens are cuter than American ones.

 

I mean COME ON.

Happy girls: Erica and me

Thanks for humoring me.