There is something about a great office space that really makes me happy, motivated, and inspired.

It's your space and it is where your ideas come to life. Right now I'm working on the Vika Amon solid white desk from Ikea and I've got my sleek Mac. It is great canvas to begin with and I'm starting to pull inspiration from other beautiful decorated offices. Here are some of my favorites...

I would take any one of these but you have to make the space your own. I'm searching for art and prints to bring together for a collage effect like in the first picture for my inspiration wall. So far I'm loving this and this. 

One-Two-Three-Four

xoxo,

Debra

Edgy, Elegant, Raw

I started making jewelry over a year ago now and it's been a wonderful learning experience. I'm self taught in all designs that I make and some have been successful and others....well not so much but it's all part of the process, right? Starting out I had no idea what style of jewelry I wanted to make other than using gemstones and quality gold filled and sterling silver metals. I just wanted to create! One of my first designs were these beauties. I loved the juxtaposition of the elegant quartz and pyrite against the heavy metal and thicker gold chains. I decided to experiment with sterling silver and gold chains to recreate the design. These have easily become one of my favorite designs and inspiration for future designs. Edgy, elegant, and raw, I feel this combination reflects my personal style more so than anything. 

Have a wonderful day!

xoxo,

Debra

http://www.etsy.com/shop/SummerBucket

Tumblr.

So, I made a Tumblr account.

But I don't really know what that means.

Kidding. 

Actually, with all of todays social media platforms I'm finding it difficult to keep up with them all. So far and from what I can tell it is like a photo blog site. Which is pretty cool because I've linked it to my Instagram account so everything is fed directly to my Tumblr site. I dunno. I think I'll give it a little before I decide if it's worth it?

If you'd like to follow me or have any more insight on this whole Tumblr thing feel free to tell me!

xoxo,

Debra

Oh ya....

http://honestlydebra.tumblr.com/

Hospitality.

Moving into a new home has me itching to do a nice dinner for friends this holiday season. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving which means I'll have to start thinking about planning this dinner party soon!

I've never held one before but gathering our friends around a pretty table with awesome food and refreshing drinks appeals to me very much. 

It would be a challenge in itself and for those who know me well know the truth in this. I'm going to have to call on my inner Martha Stewart for this but I think I can do it.

Elle Decor had an interesting article on hosting parties featuring Danny Meyer, a well known restaurateur in the New York area. It gives some great pointers for the host and/or hostess. 

I also collected some of my favorite table settings for inspiration. 

Enjoy!

xoxo,

Debra

Image source 1,2,3,4

Trenched

Happy Monday!

It is Thanksgiving week and I'm pretty excited to get these holidays going but I'm not looking forward to the 10+ pounds of weight from the over indulgence I'm about to endure. 

The weather has been quite perfect and I hope it continues throughout the rest of the week.

It's been just cool enough to break out the new trench coat and I can't say enough how much to love wearing this thing. It looks great on, it goes with everything, and keeps me just the right amount of warm in this 65-70 degree Texas weather. On this particular day I wore it with an above the knee dress and some slouchy brown boots. The dress is black so I wanted to tie in something else with the same color so I stole my boyfriends black trouser socks. They worked perfect! My boot socks never seem to want to stay up around my calves but these did and the simplicity of the black socks looked great with the slouchy leather boots. Last year I stole his Gap sweaters and wore them with tights which worked great and his flannels are always a great winter pj choice. I bet he never suspected he had a closet gnome on his hands....

Trench coat: Banana Republic, similar

Dress: Forever21(no longer available)

Scarf: Houston Nutcracker market find

"Boot socks" : stolen from boyfriend

Boots: Frye

Sequins and Blazers.

A pretty combination.

I love the look of a light blazer with skinny jeans but for this combo I went with a sheer sequin top and teal suede heels with a messy bun which actually looked rather cute from the top. I wasn't convinced I did the messy bun justice when I stepped out of the house but seeing it in the picture gave me hope I didn't do a botched up job. Cheers!

Happy Saturday to you all!

xoxo,

Debra

Blouse: a hand-me down

Blazer: gift, similar

Jeans: Forever 21

Earrinngs: Summerbucket

Shoes: Nine West

Back to Black

Getting dressed this morning was a thoughtless task.

It's amazing how simple this outfit is yet I feel great in it every time I wear it.

Black cowl neck tunic, grey skinny jeans, black faux suede slouch boots and I'm done. Oh, throw in some earrings and then I'm done. See? Easy. 

Forgive the sad, sad photography. 

Actually, I'm using my new iPhone 5. My first iPhone ever thanks to my wonderful boyfriend!

It's going to change the way I blog in that I won't have to use the big expensive camera for every photo post I want to make. Whew! For those of you that have blogs you'll understand what a hassle that can be if you don't have someone to take your photos for you.

I'd also like to note this combo makes me feel tall! I guess wearing black not only slims you out but can lengthen you? Who knows.

xoxo,

Debra