Travel :: Colorfully

{Saguaro Hotel}

Inspired by Kate Spade's "Live Colorfully" campaign, and the fact that we all need a little bit of color to brighten up a cold winter, this week will be filled with inspiration of the most colorful sort.  So first things first, travel.  Whenever I am traveling I feel like my senses are heightened and I find inspiration nearly everywhere I look.  I would love to visit any {or all} of these beautifully colorful places, especially the striped beach houses of Costa Nova do Prado and the rolling fields of lavender in the South of France.  Heading out for a colorful holiday?  Some of my favorite travel picks are below!

{Hearst Castle Roman Pool}

{Costa Nova do Prado, Portugal}

{Lavender Fields in Provence, France}

{Cinque Terre, Italy}

{Moroccan Bazaar}

{San Fransisco}

{Santorini, Greece}

{Burano, Italy} 

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Inspiring Interiors :: Yves Saint Laurent's Morocco

Happy Friday dears!  What are you up to this weekend?  My friends and I are going to be doing The Handlebar Pedal Pub tour on Saturday morning...it should be interesting to say the least!  Have any of you done one of these?  I know they have gotten really popular lately, so I'm curious to hear what you think!

I have been listening to Grace Coddington's self-titled memoir, "Grace," on tape this past week and I absolutely love her dry-wit and fascinating insight into the fashion industry of the 20th and 21st century.  A lot of the book is name dropping {this designer, that photographer, this model, etc.} and she mentions over and over that one of her favorite designers from the 60's-70's was most certainly Yves Saint Laurent {she used to faint at many of his shows}.  In addition to loving his clothes, she also visited his home in Morocco which she described as absolutely magical.  I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, and after doing a little research have to agree with her - YSL's Morocco is absolutely fantastic.  Yves and his partner, Piere Berge, actually owned three homes in Morocco: Dar es Saada, Villa Oasis {with the famous Jardin Majorelle that is open to the public}, and Villa Marouka.  The colors, the textures, the architecture, the prints, the textiles...I am absolutely smitten and dying to visit the beautiful country of Morocco!

Images via Eleanor Busing