join me on the avenues! (and thank you, elle decor!)

part une: join me on the avenues!

who's gonna be in LA for westweek? if you are, m21 hopes you'll stay through friday for the avenues west hollywood "a day for the trade", part of their annual art + design walk celebrating the avenues of art, fashion and design in west hollywood. it's going to be a fabulous day of panel discussions, open houses, and cocktails, and all are invited! maison21 is especially pleased to have been asked to participate in a panel discussion on design blogging: LA style, along with ashlina kaposta of the decorista, gregory han of apartment therapy unplggd,  megan arquette of beach bungalow 8, and laura pardini of my LA lifestyle. the panel will be moderated by social media guru, scott kramer of multibrain, so it is sure to be interesting and informative. we hope you'll join our discussion on friday, march 25th from 3 to 4 at the cassina showroom on beverly, and be sure to stick around for the disco-licious "back to retro" afterparty in the cassina showroom at 7!

to rsvp for the panel, and the rest of the day's fab events, click here! m21 hopes to see you on the avenues!

part deux- thank you elle decor!

we'd also like to invite you to hop on over to the fabulous new and improved elle decor.com- they were nice enough to include m21 in this weeks "design insider's weekly finds", so please click here to find out what caught m21's eye this week in the wide world of the internets! here's a visual hint of my pick (and oddly enough, it doesn't involve my two favorite blogging subjects, me or my kids!)

hoping your weekend is as lovely as the above photo!
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ted, triumphant.

happy trails...

a few posts back, we told y'all about ted's reluctance to join us on our walks up and down the trails at runyon canyon park, our preferred urban hiking terrain in the heart of hollywood. today, we are pleased to update you that with the encouragement of much praise, and countless treats, ted has decided he likes our treks very much, thank you.

that's a good boy!

of course, this is helped by the fact that seemingly every girl on the trail stops to pet him and oooh and ahhhh over his cuteness, so realizing that he's going to get both treats and random affection, he has finally overcome his fears, and embraced our crowded urban hike. (note to self- next time adopt a more macho pet in the hopes that *men* will stop to pet him ;-).

he *is* pretty damn cute- no wonder he's a chick magnet!

just thought y'all would like to updated on the good news- ted and i are off for our sunset stroll now!

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the wish list: fred brouard abstract bronze dining table

m21 had never even heard of french artist, fred brouard, before this incredible abstract gilded bronze dining table base from craig van den brulle popped up on his facebook page yesterday, but now he feels like he might die if he can't own at least ONE of brouard's 1970's limited edition of 8 table bases. two would be better.

incroyable!

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and the winner is...

first, thank you to all who entered our "the irish country house" book giveaway! the last time we had a giveaway on our blog, a couple years ago, we only had a couple dozen entries, so we were positively shocked to get 134 entries for this beautiful book! and we truly wish we had a copy to give to each and every one of you for coming here and to participating in the silliness of our blog! (we also wish we had whole libraries to give to those of you who said the sweetest things along with your entries- you may not have won a book, but you sure won my heart- thank you!)

last time we had a giveaway, we printed out each email address, then cut them into strips and crumpled them into little balls, which we threw in front of richard in the hopes he'd single one out to play with... unfortunately, we just scared the bejesus out of him, so this time we used the random number generator at random.org, which spat out lucky number #3- fellow blogger and dog-lover, nita, from mod vintage life!

congrats nita- your book will be on it's way to you soonish- we love you, truly we do, but we hate the post office, so it will have to wait for a trip in which we can combine mailing a couple of things. ;-)

and again, to the rest of you who played along, and who visit this ridiculous little blog of ours regularly, we sincerely thank you, and invite you to come back for another giveaway soon- this one was so much fun, we've decided we need to do more!
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crack that whip!

my boss is such a slave driver!  he's always spying on me to make sure i'm really working, not goofing off on facebook, playing farmville or sumpthin'.

spyware!

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