Super duper pumped for Altitude Design Summit this week! It’s my first time and I’m pretty thrilled that the conference for designer bloggers is held in little ol’ Salt Lake City! Lucky me and you too if you’ll be there. I’m most looking forward to the keynote address from Ben Silbermann, the founder of Pinterest. If you’ve noticed, my input to Little Willow has severely diminished since Pinterest entered my life. I’m hoping to discover some great ideas for combining my love of pinning with my first love, design blogging. See you soon!

Some pretty things for your Summer entertaining from Apartment 48.

Well look at you L.L. Bean, going all sophisticated on us with your L.L. Bean Signature line.

Love this pretty butterfly dress.

Cute ruffle top with white denim and tiny belt.

I would wear this entire outfit, right down to those red clogs.

The hubs and drove from SLC to San Francisco yesterday for the holiday. It’s so great to be back in the Bay Area! We’ll be having turkey with friends in Sausalito and I made them this pumpkin cheesecake, yum! Mine looks nothing like this beauty from Bon Appetit but I hope it will taste as good as this one looks! Have a fantastic Thanksgiving everyone!

Happy Monday! Look what I spotted on the Bright Side Project today, the delicate designs of Laura Su and her design biz Prismera Design.  Laura creates lovely jewelry and fun fashion illustrations.  I’m loving the splash effect of the molten metal used in her “moment” jewelry series, all for under $100.

Wow, you ladies made it really difficult to choose a winner for this weeks Dari bag giveaway. Your trips were imaginative and unique and there wasn’t one that I wouldn’t like to join you on.  The winner this week is Tia! I could taste the sangria and salty tapas of Spain in your description and I’ve been wanting to go to Morocco for years to stock up on their gorgeous pottery.

If you weren’t a winner this week have no fear Karen Park (the talent behind Dari) is offering $15 off all of her bags just for you readers! That means you can own one of her bags for $20 instead of $35.  Please enter “Little Willow” in the message to seller section for the discount.

I am visiting my sister Britt in Annapolis, MD this week so I had her pick the winner for me. Smart girl she registered for VIETRI when she got married, so she actually chose the winner out of a VIETRI bowl!  She mixed and matched colors for her dinnerware from their vibrant Cucina Fresca collection.  So without further ado the winner is:

Thank you to all who participated in this fun giveaway and congratulations to Miss Eeva Valentine (love your name too).

It’s after Mother’s Day, have you planted your veggies yet? If not, then here are some posters to inspire you from Brainstorm Print & Design. Brainstorm is fueled by New Jersey graphic designers Jason Snyder and Briana Feola and their big brains.  They produce “limited edition, handmade prints that mostly revolve around themes of nature, science, and humor.” Quantities are limited so if you like one buy it here, now!

The former editors of Domino magazine, which closed in January, are having a tag sale to sell off remnants from Domino photo shoots.  This saddens me because somehow this makes the closing of my all time favorite design magazine seem official now and I’m sad because I don’t live in NYC!!  If you are lucky enough to go, this article has all of the details.

Thankfully there is at least one independent theater in Salt Lake showing off-beat films, so yesterday the hubs and I randomly picked the movie “Gigantic” starring Zooey Deschanel and Paul Dano, and we LOVED it! Just watch the trailer and you’ll see why. Zooey absolutely shines and the styling for her character is smashing. John Goodman steals every scene he’s in and Paul Dano is perfect as the lost soul.  Go see it!

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