someday

I will live in a cottage, have this kitchen (which would clearly fit in a cottage...), a huge vegetable garden a plethora of floral print dresses to wear and a pink vespa to drive into town and get groceries while my children are at school. :)

Anthro

I discovered a few weeks ago that Anthropologie has a presence in the EU!! Alas, not in Spain.. but if I ever go to London, i will track it down. Here are a few *loves* from the anthropologie.eu website. :)

jill. katie. here.

I don't even know or care if this is *actually* France.

But this is where we're going.

a few of my favorite things right now:

turquoise (always)

cottages

claw-foot tubs

florals

vespas

(pictures coming soon...whenever our modem arrives)

Fabric part 3

This fabric that I found is lightweight and really slippery so the tutorial I found for making rosettes wasn't working! So I made my own :)

Nest

Whitney and Kelsey.

I thought of you both RIGHT AWAY when I saw this.

This is a real store! Called NEST!

And it's as adorable as you'd imagine.

And its about a 60 second walk from my apartment. :)

fabric part 2

Probably less than an hour after I said I don't know where to find a fabric store... I found a fabric store. And purchased two meters of my "accidental favorite color" to make into... something fun and adorable. :)

But now I'm going to go make an apple tart.

fabric

I'm having a hard time finding floral fabric here that I like. Partially because I probably just don't know where to look. Not sure what I need or want fabric for... but I've been looking.

Who needs Jillian Michaels...

...when you have Hudson Cash?

village

Whitney. We should have our cottages here.

I just had a talk with my Mac and it told me it wants this.

these.

If I'm going to wear heals this year, it might as well be these...

new shoes

J. Crew February 2011 Catalog

Might have had some quiet time in my 'room' this morning looking at this month's catalog online. Not quite the same as having it in hand, but better than nothing! :)

fishtail

xoxo

I love when Blair makes this face.

owls

Jill. We need this.

yes, yes and yes.

porch.

Oh that I were somewhere in or around this house right now. Madrid is a great city. As far as city's go... it's a great place to live. But I am quickly realizing that I am not a city girl. At least not yet (probably not really ever). I like being outside. I like my garden. I like not-city air. I like bonfires and seeing the stars and quiet. Right now, I would like to be sitting in that chair on the sunroom porch with Pride and Prejudice, drinking some tea.

I would drive this car

I wish I was having a Strawberry Creme with Amiah today

or an iced tea with Jill.

coat

want.

(also. Carrie.)

I {heart} IKEA

Went to IKEA for the first time ever today!

I loved it :)

And want one of these...

and this too.

see more pictures here:

http://ashleyinspain-madrid.blogspot.com/2011/01/ikea.html

i want to live here.

love everything about this.

Whitney.

new shoes

these look almost exactly like the new shoes i found today

except mine are gray :)

favorite.

breakfast

Basically since January 11... food consumption has been a little bit... lets just say "survival mode." We're in temporary places, trying to find grocery stores, we seem to be hungry all. the. time. because we're walking around non-stop. Needless to say, I haven't been eating the greatest, at least not like normal. This is today's breakfast (more or less... can we call it breakfast when I eat it at almost noon?) and it makes me feel very normal.

Also we don't have an oven here and I can't wait to move into our permanent place so I can buy groceries like a normal person! and bake a cake! or cookies! or whatever I want!

cake

Right now, all I want to do is bake a chocolate cake.