LET'S PRETEND...

 I have always been a fan of Paul Ferney, especially his Cake paintings. Yum! He recently captured me again with these beautiful beach paintings. As if I wasn't longing for a nice beach day already? He captures the feeling of being at beach so perfectly and his light splatters make them really come to life. Hang one of these up, lay down with a fan blowing, and boom, you can pretend every day is a beach day!

GRAY MALIN {I WANT TO PARK MYSELF THERE}

I am obsessed with photographer Gray Malin's work and I'm not afraid to admit it. His previous series made me drool a little and long for a tropical vacation and though this series is by no means tropical I still want to hop a plane right this second. This latest series is shot high above New York City and Chicago highlighting their most famous parks. That grass! Seriously, can we just skip real life and lay out on a lush green lawn all day? No bugs please, since we are making unrealistic wishes might as well make it worth while.

TRENDING {PATTERNED SHORTS}

1 Saturday small square shorts / 2 Zara geometric print

3 GAP polka dot cutoffs / 4 GAP polka dot refined shorts

It's finalllly short season! I can finally get the sun I so desperately need. This week it's in the high 80's here, so I feel like I can finally get excited to wear shorts and not be let down by a sudden crazy temp drop. Fingers crossed. I am loving simple patterned shorts right now, especially in black and white. What's not to love about black and white? You can pretty much grab anything from your closet blindly & it will go! Effortless style is the best in my book. Also black attracts the sun and white makes you look darker. Win, win!

BLOWING UP

I have seen these little deflated balloons on Tumblr roughly a thousand times (I don't exaggerate!) and NOW i know where they came from. To the moon Tumblr, you make things very difficult. You can buy prints of these balloons with clever little sayings and feelings on them from Inflated Deflated. Case=cracked. Pretty cool idea started by a group of ladies that wanted to share with the world, now they've blown up. Pun intended.