Today is grey and overcast. Living in LA, I love these days, as they alleviate the near constant guilt I feel when now outside and enjoying the sunshine. You see, I grew up in the midwest, where sunny, warm, perfect, days were few and treasured. Here in Southern California it is beautiful nearly every day. So when I see that it is sunny outside, I feel as though I am wasting a huge opportunity to be wearing NorthFace and doing something rugged.
Conversely, grey, drizzly, overcast, days are harder to come by out here and when they do occur I suddenly feel at home. So if I don't happen to have work or class or anything constructive on my agenda, I feel perfectly fine about curling up with a completely escapist book, or playing video games or otherwise just enjoying the great indoors. There is usually a lot of tea involved.
Today there was some serious catching up to do on my design blogs and as I surfed the waves of information and images of the internet, I washed up on the shores of this store.
Dar Gitane, loosely means "home of the wanderer" and is run by a woman in New York who is so stylish it makes me want to punch something. Unfortunately it makes me want to buy something too, a lot of somethings.
Most of all I was captivated by the above indian incense burner.
It's lines gracefully defy gravity, it's purpose hints at the terribly exotic and sublime, and worst of all, it's price ($26.00) is tantalizingly close to something I could actually afford.
I almost like it better when gorgeous objects are priced way out of my range. They remain dreamy fantasies like shirtless Hugh Jackman, or living in a Case Study home. Affordable objects tempt me sorely to blow my money on another decorative thingy which I do not need so much as gas or say, school supplies.
