Melissa Loves

Snippets & inspiration

Hello, hello! 

                 I have been so absent and I apologize! I was out of town for a few days and then busy in my workshop for awhile there. But, I am back and hoping you had a wonderful weekend! And for you mamas, out there, I hope you had a beautiful mother's day! It was beautiful weather here & we made the most of it. It was truly, the perfect day. I wanted to share a quote with you, that I found inspiring. Plus, a few things I have been working on, that will be in the shop soon. 

~ I find that inspiring and beautiful. From here ( the writer's tumblr page) 

~ moon and stars earrings

~ Fly me to the moon necklace 

I hope you all have a wonderful week! I will see you back here tomorrow. 

xo

Melis

Snippets & inspiration

Hello! 

** Update: Fenton & Fenton sells the artist shown in the first image, down below. The artist's work will be up on their website soon. **   Did you have a lovely weekend? The weather sure was beautiful around these parts. And watching our girls & dogs, enjoy being outside, was the best.  Thank you for your supportive and sweet comments in response to my shop opening on friday! I really appreciate you all and if you feel so inclined, come on over and say "hi" on my new shop facebook page: here. Over the weekend, I saw some beautiful inspiration, that I thought I would share with you today. A gorgeous dining room, my favorite wallpaper and a purse that looks like a lovely necklace.  

~ Just....gorgeous. I love that amazing painting and the way the chandelier seems to be an additional layer, adding just the right amount of color to the black and white image. The blues picked up in the tray and the grey and black accents scattered about. From Fenton & Fenton, styled by Julia Green. 

~ This bag (yep, bag. It looks like a pendant, no?) is so lovely in it's simplicity and it is inspiring me to create a piece that is it's echo. here.

~ This Julia Rothman wallpaper has long been a favorite of mine. I would love to have it in our entryway and the entryway in this photo is just stunning. I love that rug, the striped runner and the blue accents. From here.

Hope you all have a wonderful start to your week, filled with inspiration and beautiful weather! 

I will see you back here tomorrow. 

xo

Melis

Snippets & inspiration

Hello, loves! 

               I hope you got my message, on friday, saying how sorry I was for my recent absence. I'm back and wanted to share a few things that were inspiring me lately & a few things I have been working on. 

Inspiration: 

~ Love this shop, that carries nothing but, adorable piñatas! I am in love with the numbers, sort of a pseudo disco ball, don't you think? :) 

~ Loving Rifle Paper Co.'s new phone covers. I am having a moment with gold & black, these days. The one above is calling my name.

~ LOVE these new suede Toms. I bet they are super soft.....

Snippets: 

~ custom order initial ring ( may make this into a permanent fixture of the shop) 

~ "Love" ( pink sapphire ring )

~ "Shield" & "Strength" ( white topaz ring) 

~ "Scallop" cuff 

I am happy to take custom orders now but, I hope to have my shop up & running in a week. I will be sure to let you know & hope you will come visit. Thanks to all who have been so supportive and awesome along the way, I appreciate it more than you know. 

I hope you have a wonderful start to your week, my friends! See you back here tomorrow for "cheap & chic".

xo

Melis 

 

Snippets & inspiration

Hello lovelies! 

                   So much swirling around in my head these days....so many things inspiring me and not enough time in the day. We spent a good portion of the weekend easter egg hunting, cleaning out our basement and finaling getting everything, that doesn't belong in my workshop, out of it! That felt great and thanks to my hubby for working so hard on it. Now, I feel a clearer vision of where I want the workshop to go. Natural elements and whites and shades of pink ( light to neon). A little bit of what I am craving, down below. 

~ Kantha quilt here ( I have been wanting one of these forever) We have a chaise, that I think I have mentioned before, that is a great shape but, not the greatest of fabric. Marichelle suggested covering it with plain white sheets and then I want to drape this pretty quilt over it. Simple but, hopefully pretty.

~ No. 60 from Bailey Doesn't Bark's mini series here ( My friend RJ has created this beautiful mini line and I am in love. This one is my fave and I think it would bring good luck to my workshop, if it was hanging in there) 

~ PS cabinet here ( I need one more work surface down there, and this cabinet from IKEA is perfect. Also, the storage underneath would be perfect, too.) 

I hope you had a lovely weekend & a fantastic start to your week.

I will see you back here tomorrow, until then be well. 

xo

Melis

Snippets & inspiration

Hello lovelies! 

                   Did you have a nice weekend? We headed into the city for a brunch in honor of our friend's one month old baby boy ( a tradition in Chinese culture), dinner at a friend's and then our littlest came down with a fever and was down for the count for the rest of the weekend. Poor little thing. I feel terrible, for them, when they are sick but, I do love the extra snuggle time. So many things inspiring me this weekend and a few things just making me happy. Thought I would share them with you, today. 

~ Helen Dardik's "Midnight Madness" here  ( I love the color in Helen Dardik's work & the colors in this particular piece make me really happy.)

~ Jo Malone's Nectarine Blossom & Honey here (one of my old favorites, that I fell in love with all over again. I guess I just needed a little time away from it)

~ Face Stockholm's peony pink for J.Crew here ( a bright, bold pink and I love it! It makes me happy) 

What is inspiring you today?

I hope you have a wonderful start to your week, my friends. I will see you back here tomorrow, 

Until then, be kind to yourself. 

xo

Melis

Snippets & inspiration

Hello, my friends! 

                 Did you have a lovely weekend? I sure hope so! We had lots of cousin-time (sleepovers), workshop time(made a new ring) and cleaning up time(cleaned turtle's tank, the hamster's cage and gave our littlest dog a bath). All and all, a very productive weekend. I thought I would share with you a little bit of what is inspiring me today. Beautiful pinks with black....these days, when I see something like this, I think about how I can translate it into something in my workshop. That makes me happy. What is inspiring you these days? 

Inspiration: 

~ love this gorgeous combination. Black and this shade of pink go so well together. From here.

~ love this beautiful plate by "half light honey studio" here. 

~ So spectacular ( I can't seem to find the source for this photo but, I am pretty sure the original was yellow, it is a papaya, no? Then photoshopped this gorgeous pink! Does anyone know the source?) 

Snippets: 

~ the ring I made this weekend 

~ a chain I am working on 

Have a fantastic start to your week & I will see you back here tomorrow. 

Until then, look out for one another. 

xo

Melis

Snippets & inspiration

Hello, my friends! Hope you had a glorious weekend! We had a great time celebrating our littlest's birthday with a party, on saturday. The surprise we had planned was a hit, a gal came with 8 different animals, the highlights being the chinchilla, the kinkajou and the fennec fox. I am not sure who was more excited about the animals, the kids or me! :) Over the weekend, I saw lots of beautiful things that inspired me to get back into my little workshop and some things that just made me hopeful for spring. I thought I'd share them with you & wish you a lovely start to your week! 

~ I'm mad for this nail color, wouldn't it be a gorgeous gem color as well? here.

~ I've never seen this little plant before but, I am on the lookout for it now! I love those sweet paddle shapped leaves, image from here. ( The plant is called the Chinese Money plant, missionary plant or pilea peperomioides,I haven't had any luck finding distributors, it you know of any, please let me know!)

~ Falcon Wright always makes the most stunning patterns. Loving this new one, and that warm, rich green, here. 

I'll see you back here, tomorrow. 

Until then, be good to yourself. 

xo

Melis

Snippets & inspiration

Hello lovelies! 

                   Ok, so slight change of plans. Once all of my tools came, I couldn't stop worrying about them being in a room so close to my girl's rooms. So, I called the fire department. Huh?! Well, I thought it would be a good idea for them to see the torch & it's proximity and tell me their expert opinion. And what did they say? Move it to the basement. I had a feeling they were going to say that. So, move it to the basement I did. It's not cute and inspiring down there. But, perhaps I can make it that way. A new challenge! That hasn't stopped me from being down there, way more than I should be, making, making, making. It makes me really happy. Over the weekend, I saw a couple of beautifully colorful things that made me feel very inspired. One is created by two lovely ladies, Carrie and Morgan. I met these two vivacious, colorful, beauties at Alt. Summit last year and I love their sunny outlooks and bold love of color. Their new iphone cases are gorgeous! My fave is down below. 

~ awesome boots here (via Justina) * Here are the boots on the Anthro site but, not sure whose photograph it is, does anyone know? 

~ beautiful case here

~ gorgeous bedroom here ( just scroll through images) 

I hope you have a wonderful start to your week, my friends! I'll see you back here tomorrow, for a new cheap & chic.

Until then, take care of yourself. 

xo

Melis

Art Love

Hello lovelies! 

                So sorry there haven't been any posts this week, until today. A few of us were a little under the weather the past few days. Much better today and everyone is back in school. Yesterday, I saw the gorgeous embroidery work, below, by Jazmin Berakha. I fell head over heels & was promptly inspired to get an outfit together, inspired by Jazmin's piece. So, today is kind of a monday, tuesday & wednesday post, all wrapped up in one! 

~ Jazmin's site here (thank you, Ashley, for the intro) 

~ top here (love) $69.50 

~ necklace here $32.00

~ baggu clutch here $40.00 

~ flats here $59.99 

~ pants here $19.97 

I hope you like it, my friends! I will see you back here tomorrow. 

Until then, be good to one another. 

xo

Melis

Snippets & inspiration

Hello lovelies...

                  Here's to the start of a new week! How were your weekends? Anything fun or exciting to share? Let's hear it! :) We had a snowed in, relaxed & fun weekend. My eldest gal's school play was this weekend and there was a sleepover, dinner with family and lots of rest. Over the weekend, I also rearranged my study. What?! Shocker! ME, rearranging furniture?! ( if you know me, you know I do that all the time). I have got it in my head that when I finally have a jewelry workshop in my house, it will be in that room. There is room to expand out onto the sunporch that is attached to that room & I love the light in there. So, I rearranged and thought about ways to make it conducive to what I hope it will be. It is so hard for me to wait. I would be in there, experimenting and creating all day, if it was set up. I can't wait for that to come to fruition. Fingers crossed. I was inspired, over the weekend, by a creative space, a diy and some good words to remember. I thought I would share them with you....

~ This is a kid's space but, I just love the use of color. It is so happy & so inspiring. The colors all work together so beautifully and though it may be alot, for some...it is perfect to me. Plus, the pegboard behind the pictures, factors in prominently in my study/workshop ideas. :) From here ( via Holly)

~ This is just an ordinary flush mount from Home Depot but, the diy paint job is stellar. I love the patina she achieved and what a great way to upgrade those standard flush mounts that alot of us have in our rooms. No? From here

~ Just a little reminder....we can all use from time to time. Things DO have a way of working out, sometimes it takes alot of time but, it works out in the end. by Emmy

I hope you have a wonderful start to your week, my friends! I will see you back here tomorrow for a new cheap & chic. 

Until then, be kind to yourselves. 

xo

Melis