Day at the Museum

Mr C and I went to MOCA yesterday for the exhibit Transmission LA: AV CLUB.

We double dated with these fabulous folks and took lots and lots of photos of this eye candy art show.

I highly recommend a trip to the museum to see this. The show is free Thursday - Saturday and there's outdoor entertainment, cocktails and food trucks for a full on get-ready-for-summer art party.

April Showers

I'm loving this Spring weather we've been having. It's wild and unpredictable—one minute hot with sunshine and the next minute dark with clouds and windy rain. And you know what they say about April showers...

Home is Where the Garden Is

I'm missing Istanbul like crazy. But my antique bungalow home and my little garden oasis make me happy. The blossoms and birds are lovely this time of year.

On Holiday

We're off to Istanbul! It's a place I've never been before and I am so so excited. Will you be going anywhere for Spring break? Where would you go if you could go anyplace?

I had all these aspirations of scheduling posts and making sure there was something wonderful here for you to see all the days that I am gone. Alas, it just didn't happen. And without a laptop, it's unlikely that I'll be blogging much while on holiday. I will most certainly be posting photos on Instagram though. My handle is moody_is_my_cowgirl_name. Come and find me and I'll take you traveling through Turkey!

goodbye gray days

The Weather Channel kept promising a giant rain storm. 

And there were some showers on St. Paddy's Day. But the gray is all but gone now. Which is a little sad, because Ventura really does look lovely in the gloom.

Not that I'm complaining. I love sunshine too.

green is the thing

I've been loving chartreuse flowers lately. I've even planted some in my front garden. Here are some perfectly green mums in honor of St. Patrick's Day. I picked them just for you.

home body

Life has been so busy lately that some of the things I love have been sorely neglected. This weekend will be the first in a long time that there's some breathing room and I'm excited to get back to fix in' up our bungalow. My goals are set for making our new Little City Designs office (pictured above) more cozy and inspiring.

What does your weekend have in store?

tea time

It seems to be a tradition to have high tea with my mom sometime during the winter.

Oten we go with a group of ladies and sometimes it's just us two. There are almost always Kir Royals involved.

This year, for the first time ever, we went with our sweet heats. The four of us dressed up and lifted our pinkies while we sipped Earl Grey at the Biltmore in Montecito.

The Biltmore is so fancy that's it's definitely just for special occasions. But oh boy do they make tastey treats. This year they added macaroons to menu.

That's my dad asleep behind the strawberries. He's more of a coffee guy.

Leap Year (post dated)

It will take a full 366 calendar days for the Earth to travel around the Sun this year. I love that.


I read some funny old notions about Leap Day on Sailing Over a Cardboard Sea, a cutie little blog I follow. I had no idea that my red petticoats had such a practical purpose.