welcome to my blissful inspiration post for today. my name is mrs. french. lately most of my thursday posts have had a definite theme. this morning I chose them simply because I find them just so ...
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Sfgirlbybay has up and moved to a brand new home.Please find me at my new locationand bookmark the new page here athttp://www.sfgirlbybay.com/. NOTE: Please do not subscribe until next weekwhen work o...
Okay kids...it's finally launch time! If you haven't heard, sfgirlbybay is getting a brand new look and feel! I do hope you like it! We've worked long and hard on it, and it should make browsing the ...
I've decided I really like posting my set of Flickr Favorites on Fridays, so I'm going to post them each week. A little bit of inspiration going into the weekend, with my camera aimed and ready to sh...
Fellow blogger Jordan Ferney of Oh Happy Day, alerted me to some new summer letterpress classes she's teaching here in San Francisco. This sounds like great fun! Students send in a design themselves ...
I recently went strawberry picking and came home with an ungodly number of the bright red fruits. I saw my neighbor - who has done a lot to make our little San Francisco street a better place to live...
That wonderful Mrs. French has gotten me all bicycle crazy, and now Jessica Hall Burns of Minneapolis-based design group Red Black Brown goes and taunts me with some more bike-love. It's a poster com...
I love Erin Loechner of Design for Mankind's Dialogue series, perhaps because as a blogger it touches on many day to day issues I confront working from home. And guess what? Today’s episode of Dialog...
I seem to be on a vintage tangent these days...well, maybe most days. But, I feel like I need to refresh things around here. Out with the old, and in with some brand new "old". I'd like to replace so...
I stumbled upon these great looking pillows whilst perusing Etsy today, and yum! I love the really stylish designs, utilizing simple linen and mattress ticking fabrics. Trés chic, no? Karen at White ...
I have no idea how to sew. I remember practicing as a child with the shoelaces and cardboard tools [you know the kind, right?], but nonetheless, I still couldn't wrap my head [or nimble fingers] arou...
Lori Andrews is a Calgary-based interior designer, and a favorite photographer of mine. Also known on Flicker as The 10 Cent Designer, Lori's beautiful, and often humorous, photography is admired by ...
The home I stayed at in Glen Ellen this weekend had a lovely collection of pale aqua pottery and white ceramic dinnerware and serving pieces, and it got me to thinking I needed a few more to add to m...
I received an email from a new blogger, Erin Boyle of Reading My Tea Leaves about an idea she had for a series called My Downtown. The idea being that beauty can be found in little details, even in a...
vee*.I've been feeling the need to for some new inspiration lately, and one of the ways I re-juice is to revamp my inspiration board and freshen it up a bit with a whole new look. So I checked out on...
I left the big city this weekend and headed an hour and a half north of San Francisco to the beautiful town of Glen Ellen, in Sonoma County. Beautiful wine country. It's one of the the things I most ...
It's cherry season! Yippee!Have a cherry-filled, happy weekend!
I love my set of Flickr Favorites this week! Can you tell I had a bit of sub-theme going on? To see the original photograph, click here, and then click on the individual images for a better view, and...
I shared with you a few weeks ago my visit to Liberty, the beautiful department store in London. Liberty is known for their incredible fabrics, but I wanted to also share these photographs I took of ...
I love love love morel mushrooms. They are one of the many mushroom varieties that had, so far, resisted cultivation. They must be foraged in the wild. There haven't been a lot of them about this spr...
good morning! it's me, mrs. french....it is hot and humid in Portland. Honestly days like these the only thing I want to wear is cool cotton dresses. Yesterday I stopped by my favorite Portland dr...
I really love these new thermal mugs from Sthlm, the home of independent Swedish design. These mugs are from designer Lovisa Wattman and are modeled on the shape of a wine glass and are made to be he...
It would appear that there's a whole lot going on in the arts & crafts center of the world this weekend, and not just here in San Francisco! And I don't know about the rest of you, but here in Sa...
xJavierx.Okay, as much as I love living in San Francisco, I do not so much enjoy the June Gloom. It arrived early this year, and has been lingering in the city since Memorial Day weekend. The Norther...
Just about everyone I know loves a good Paumes book, but sometimes you're not fortunate enough to have a bookstore (like San Francisco's Kinokuniya) that carries the Paumes books. Pames are Japanese ...
I still have that itch to move into a loft space. Especially after looking at some very tiny apartment spaces over the weekend. Every so often, I head over to LoftLife Magazine a drool a little bit, ...
One of my favorite photographers, Alicia Bock recently took a birthday trip to Paris. A very happy birthday (albeit a bit belated) to Alicia, and very happy indeed for us, as well! Because Alicia's p...
One of my favorite local artists, Michael Wertz dropped me a note about his new book, Zoodiac. Zoodiac is a handmade book by Michael Wertz and Carolee Wheeler of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals. Each b...
I was recently seeking out inspiration for the blog redesign (it is coming soon, I swear! Perhaps another couple of weeks and we'll be launching!) so I headed over to the Kinokuniya Bookstore in Japa...
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