mr. & mrs. jones.

I'm pleased to announce the marriage of my best friend Chelsea Brown to the handsome Jake Jones! It's been a wild past couple of weeks of weddings & vacationing, both of which were really a blast and bittersweet. Chelly & Jake were married in the Newport Temple in California last weekend. They were glowing and Chelly really blew that Scarlett Johanson out of the water with her radient looks. The California sunshine was beaming and the wedding party was a hoot and a holler to be around. The reception was located in a beautiful backyard with bistro lights, great food and dancing. Im really in love with these two and feel so lucky that they are heading out to California too fast. I get to have them in my arms for a little while in Utah. Right down the corner she'll be living and we plan to have Saturday Spooky movie nights and game night and I really can't wait. She really is a dream. I wish you guys could be friends with her. Congrats Jake and Chelly love you two dreamboats!

mexican riviera dreaming.

Its happening. a week from today, three of my great girlfriends and I are whipping out them passports and sailing off into the deep blue sea of the mexican riviera. the smile on my face is wide and sore. I am antsy as ever to get my bags a'packin' and jump on board, grace kelly style. I can't wait to be surrounded by nothing but glassy water and the lush tropics of mexico. take me sea captain, for I am more than ready to go!

my little abode.

I love looking at interior design blogs and seeing a visual of the collaboration of rooms coming together. Dont ask me why, but visually viewing the room in a collage order is really exciting and pretty to me. Weird, I'm so well aware. Well I have to give myself a pat on the back for tiding up my room today and being really on top of it when it comes to keeping it almost clean 24/7. My room is a place that I find defines who I am and what I love and what intrigues me and makes me happy. I have to have my room pleasing to my eye or else I cannot step foot into it.

My last apartment I lived in, my room was the 'attic.' Though awesome in space since it was rather large, it just had a bunch of crap piled in there. Mostly furniture which was not mine but extra for the apartment. So I felt a little uncomfortable in my room. I'd say it wasn't me at all. BUT in this new apartment of mine, I've really gone out of my way to try and make it my own. And I must say, it has been my favorite room yet while in college.

Above shows exact pieces or pieces that resemble items in my room. The kelly green dresser with black tassels and gold chest-like accents has been one of my absolute favorite dressers surfing the web. Though that is not my exact dresser, Zekey Zoo, the handy man that he is helped me restore a DI dresser I bought for $25.00. We sprayed it a kelly green, added the gold corner plates and added something a little new.... those Anthropologie Cream Knocker Knobs you see above. I think I have fallen in love with my finished dresser.

For any of you antique hunters, I have a great place for you to explore if you're living in Utah and in the valley. Planted Earth in Orem. They have the BEST FINDS. That is where I found my vintage bed frame and headboard similar to the one pictured above. I also found my favorite find, an Old Hollywood Regency white porcelain bamboo floral pelican lamp stand imported from Paris. Yes, I died when Penny, the owner of the store informed me of the news and I was blown away when the price was revealed. Good deal, great find, we too fell in love. The Bamboo Lamp Stand shown above is not the one that I own but similar. Though, mine is thicker in size with flowers and a pelican carved out of it. (pictures to come.)

A lot of items that fill my room have been slowly collected throughout the years. I was given the bedspread for a high school graduation gift from my Dad's close friend. I guess you could say he's somewhat of a Godparent. We call him Mr. Silk. Why? Because he's always wearing silk, and truth be told... we think he's a part of the mafia. Pretty cool if you ask me. The yellow chrome vintage garden chair is not the exact one that I have but pretty similar in style. Instead of chrome, my wire chair is white with a yellow cushion but is a vintage garden chair I found at a boutique in Riverwoods a few years back.

Gold ornate mirror was a find off of craigslist in Park City, cheap as can be, and the Yellow flower vase was a recent birthday gift from my parents. I am a sucker for table books, especially books of people I admire, get inspiration from and flat out adore, such as Frank Sinatra, Vera Neumann, and Alfred Hitchcock to name a few. The Grace Kelly drawing is actually one of my own that I drew within the past year for my Drawing II class. This drawing I will be selling on my upcoming website that will launch within the next month or so. And you can't go wrong with this floral wire table, which is also a recent birthday gift. It totally has that Old Hollywood Regency feel and the color in person is a true Kelly Green, don't be dismayed. Just like collecting my table books, I too collect vintage travel posters and this right here is the latest and by far the greatest one. Matches the exact colors of my bedspread.

Anyhoo, I'll post pictures soon of my dresser and what not to show the before and after of the remodeling. I think Zekey Zoo had a blast working on it as he is quite the handy man. To view or purchase items, list is below.

1. Anthropologie Ripe Melon Pull 2. Anthropologie Pretty Pansy Vase 3. Anthropologie Capri Blue Jar Candle, Indigo (Volcano) 4. Gold Carved Giltwood Mirror 5. Yellow Incised Iron Three-Leg Side Chair After Mathieu Mategot 6. Sinatra : Frank and Friendly Book 7. Vera: The Art and Life of an Icon 8. Alfred Hitchcock : The Complete Films 9. Grace Kelly Drawing : email to order Robbins757@gmail.com 10. Flourish Storage Side Table 11. Royal Mail, West Indies Giclee Print

23 never looked so good.

Like I blogged about before... I did eat wings for my birthday dinner, I did pull through with my traditional birthday cake, "The Stella Cake." which, I do believe was the best part of the night. We did go to the park and I did last minute use my white urchin, as I like to call it, garland for the trees. We didn't play monopoly and we did resort to card games, which we did not play due to how chilly it got that night. BUT that's okay, because everything else fell into it's place. I had small, but great company, wonderful gifts and the best of all was Zekey Zoos'. He took the time to buy me my replacement bike of penny lane, who was stolen earlier in the year, and painted my new almond butter cruiser who I shall call, Minnie Jackson. Minnie and I are in love and I can't wait to ride her around town. Though she is still in the works and looking forward to her new brown leather handle bars and seat, Minnie and I can't help but love to ring our new vintage golden bell. She's a dream. RIP Penny Lane, I'm still on the lookout for you and when I find you I will fight for you back, even if that involves my fist.

23 has never looked so good. Now, I just dread turning 24...

birthday preview.

just a sneak peak of my 23rd birthday. and yes, thats my traditional "stella birthday cake" in all its glory. she turned out rather nicely and oh so tasty. stella circa 2012.

united we stand : vogue style.

school is out, which means i get a free out of jail card and can finally paint whatever the heck i want. this vintage cover of vogue has been on my list for a good while now. it feels so american to me and there is something about it that i drool over every time i look at it. maybe its her dress and the fact that i have to have it. either way, im starting today and making it extra large on a canvas. and i can hardly wait for the end results! wish me luck!

jcrew spring jams.

I love following JCrew's blog for the pure joy of their awesome seasonal playlists. They just came out with their VOL. 1 for spring and I love it. I will say i did tweak a few songs here and there. Kept songs on that suit me most and knocked off some that weren't really my style, and substituted them with jams I really did that fit the category of spring.  Take a gander, open your ear and enjoy the sweet sounds of spring, brought to you by jcrew and i .

Crystal Fighters - 'At Home' 

Elvis Presley - 'Bossa Nova Baby'

Plastic Bertrand - 'Ca Plane Pour Moi' 

Robyn - 'Call Your Girlfriend' 

Gotye - 'I Feel Better' 

Lana Del Rey - 'National Anthem'

Diane Birch - 'Speak A Little Louder'

Lana Del Rey - 'Summertime Sadness'

birthday wishes to my two pretties.

happy birthday to my dear cousin estelle who is no longer this little toe head of mine but instead a full blown firecracker of a teenager! i love seeing her grow up. she gets cooler by the day, more beautiful and so much more fun! i can never get enough of this bombshell. and a very special happy birthday to my grandma jean, who is no longer here with me. i miss her all of the time but i am so very grateful for the scent of cigarette smoke i smell on occasion while at home or in my car, and i know that it is her by my side. she was so beautiful and full of life and wisdom. happy birthday to my two pretties who will always hold a dear place in my heart!

june, johnny & jackson

"im going to jackson, and that's a fact. im going to jackson, ain't comin' back."

so i do this thing, where I am just like my mom. my mom, in her spare time, when no one is around or home, practices her dance moves, in all seriousness, and I do the exact same thing. sometimes, I get a little frustrated with my lack of being able to pick up the charleston right on que, or im unable to figure out the whole dance to beyonce's music video so i decide to spend my spare time on what i know i can handle. BELTING. now, im not boasting at all, because who knows what i sound like to the ears of others. all i know is that im secretly a performer. and i so badly, want that fame of standing on a stage and belting my vocals with a large audience applauding, or starring in an oscar winning film and having an audience crying at my work. how pathetic am i? for real though, i dream of this kind of thing.

so when i say im just like my mom, i mean, i spend my spare time in front of my mirror, in the bathroom, since the echo is pretty unreal in there, and i put on my go-to diva songs one of which is tina turners, "proud mary" or celine dions version of "river deep, mountain high." and i jam. on repeat for a good two hours. i tend to really do this in the shower, but i hit a major jackpot when my roommates are out of the house and i have the place to myself to really pump  up the volume, grab my mic and perform the crap out of those songs. lately, my main song is johnny cash and june carters "jackson." i really can't stop. i like to pretend that i am reese witherspoon in 'walk the line' and that im pulling off a heck of a better job than she did. though that's completely impossible, while im dreaming, i can totally beat her to the task.

my roommate niki caught me today, and since the secret of the new song of the week was out, i was able to get my roommates boyfriend to become johnny for me. i really needed a male to finish my duo, and i hate to say it, but we were jammin a good tune. im now really wanting to be june carter for halloween, and im trying to convince the zoo to be my johnny cash. i tossed the idea out to him today, and luckily his response was, "maybe." that's a really good response. this means a possibility. what he doesn't know is that if we do dress up as johnny and june, he has to learn the part, and sing a duet with me. im making him. and maybe we'll just make a music video out of it..... whoops!

im out of control. i just want to entertain. that's all.

oscar de la renta coral necklace

pretty pumped over this one. on the left shows oscar de la rentas coral necklace from seasons seasons ago. i, however, have been drooling since the end of time over this one. too bad its about $1,000 something bucks. one can dream, right?

years and years later, i take a trip to michaels craft store and low and behold, in a hidden corner, on clearance lies these large coral pieces. what did these remind me of? OH MY GOSH, OSCAR! so guess what I did? I bought ALL OF THEM. every single one that was left, i took them all. Not knowing, how i'd turn it into a necklace, seeing as how i know nothing on making jewelry, i kept them stashed in a bowl on my desk. It's been months now, and finally on a rainy day, i decided to put my oscar coral to the test. I went straight back to that craft store, got crafty and did as best as I could to put together my own take of oscar de la renta's coral necklace. And this is what I got, and surprisingly, i am very pleased. Now, I know it's not the real thing, and I so wish I could have found some orange coral, but it's the best I could do and i'll take it. pat on  the back for me! now lets hope the gold chain doesn't croak on the first use of it. it's pretty dang heavy, and yeah, i'd call it a statement piece for sure.

happy thursday.

happy thursday everyone! this picture is one of my many favorite photos of grace, for very many reasons. ive spent my late wednesday night collecting for photos of her again and i still can't get over this one. thought i'd share!

for sale.

                          1. ANTHROPOLOGIE edme' & esyllte blouse : 2 : $15.00

                          2. JCREW cardigan : XS : $20.00

                          3. ANTHROPOLOGIE fei blouse : 0 : $20.00

                          4. ANTHROPOLOGIE maeve dress : 2 : $15.00

                     email me for questions or orders at : robbins757@gmail.com 

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