3g White iPhone

3g White iPhone, originally uploaded by A Bella Life.

Here's the new white iphone. It's HOT! Wade got his Friday but I am not into the line thing this year so I am waiting til there is no line. The new 2.0 software is rad though. I got it for my oldie phone and it works fantastically! The app store is the best, so far I've gotten scrabble, bejeweled, tetris, aol im, facebook, ipint, sketches, mobile flickr, twitterrific, pandora and weatherbug. Are you getting an iPhone 3g or have you gotten one yet? What have you downloaded in the app store?

Jen Huang Photography

These images are so warm & pretty!! Right now Jen and I are in talks about getting her for the wedding. Visit her blog, Jen Huang Photography, for more eye candy!

Blue Room Decorating

Update on the blue room!

The lamp is the big dipper lamp from CB2 and fortunately I got it while it was on sale! I used to stare at it for long periods of time when it was full price but knew I'd never buy it - and then all of a sudden like it was meant to be, the price dropped right before my birthday! Woo hoo!

What else.... I added the white frame on the wall - that I got from one of my favorite shops in town Jolie Zoe Deux. It was just hanging out on the floor of the shop and I asked if it was for sale. It was already wired to hang and everything. Jan Marie (the shop owner) gave it to me for $10. I love it, its one of my favorite things in the room. The last thing I got was a pillow cover for the pillow sitting on my mid century chair - that was $3.99 on sale from West Elm.

Yesterday I stopped by my favorite antique store, Rutherford Antiques, where Coby (the store owner) hooked me up with some cool looking driftwood that he got at a recent estate sale. He had a few different pieces including a really cool looking twisty one that was a little too large for the space I had in mind. Fortunately I got an equally cool looking smaller one. Wade looked at me like I had seven heads when I showed it to him. He asked me why I was trying to build a forest, ha! The truth is, though, that I started to see driftwood in a lot of home decorating magazines and pictured in blogs a while back and I really like that look! I sort of gave up on it because people were trying to sell this sort of thing for a lot of $$$ and I wasn't into that. Glad I held out! Anyway I took some pictures of the shelf I put it on, but I didn't like the way they came out - I'll wait for some better light and post one soon.

In the meantime, I am still looking for a coffee table! What do you think about the two I posted earlier? Do you think one will look better in this room than the other? Have you seen another coffee table you think will be cool? E-mail or post your thoughts!

Coffee Tables

So far to the blue room, I've added a lamp from CB2, and a white frame from Jolie Zoe Deux (in Rutherford, NJ). The lighting was pretty whack this weekend but I'm hoping for a nice evening tomorrow to take a pic or two. I'll post updated pics of the blue room soon!

Now I'm looking for a coffee table for that room. I stumbled on the OFFI Scando Table at Design Public, but too bad its $600. But how great is it? Also ... i like the 'feel' of this setup, ya know?


Another coffee table I like, and half the price (literally), is the bridge table from West Elm.

As you can see I'm looking for something very low, the sofa I'm pairing it with is only about 13" off the ground. I've been looking for a while, but I don't mind searching longer for the perfect table with the perfect price tag :)

Wedding Dresses

I've also been spending some online time looking at wedding dresses... its really annoying because I don't find many that I like (that are also within the budget, hehe). But here are some of the ones I was drawn to, for some reason or the other.

The first one, I found on Martha Stewart Weddings. It's by Romona Keveza. I think when I do go try on dresses, I want to try one on like this. I like the cut, color... everything. The only thing I don't like is the bouquet they paired with it.


This one is from Nordstrom, it's BCBG Max Azria.
This one is also Max Azria from Nordstrom.

Back from the break

Oops! So I took an unexpected break recently. It's been busy around these parts!

Lately I've been trying to keep up with work but also keep an eye on wedding stuff. I have been looking for a photographer, which I found very frustrating because of the whole "digital negatives" and copyright issue. I took a break from it as a result. An unexpected product of this whole thing is that I would like to try photography myself! Wade got me a really nice lens for my birthday, and since that I've been staring at gear online and at B&H. There are two more things I'd like to get to be 'set up' to do some serious photography! I'm pretty psyched. I found a great class to take at the International Center of Photography but I'll probably have to take it after the wedding (funds and all).

Anyway, here are some new pictures I took with the lens. They are also on my flickr page (I think).

Batty facing the camera, Bella looking away.

Pete & Phil's Dierdra

Wade!