chevrons & florals livin' together in perfect harmony

last night i did one of my favorite things - fabric shopping in the fashion district with my badass crate & barrel window designer of a brother. that guy oozes creativity. but as i was picking out fabrics, i see that i'm instinctively drawn to nostalgic things that remind me of someone i love or a part of the past that i relish in. i just bought fabric to make drapes for my kitchen that remind me so much of my mom's youth, that i kept opening the bag to see if it would smell like my grandma's house in there. (it didn't)

as some of you (i'm sure) know, i'm codependent on things being the same. which is hilarious because i've never been privy to such a thing. maybe that's why i am so weird about it. but even as i'm typing this, i'm thinking of all the things i like change in - like rearranging furniture and clothes. anyways, i've been using the same towels for years. i wash them, don't worry. there are two that i particularly love for their thin nature and the other night i looked at one and thought - did i ever even know what the heck was on this towel? i've been using it for like five years, and was just then noticing that it even said anything and had a pattern on it. let's just say attention to meaningless detail wouldn't be on my resume.

that's when i thought - patterns, aesthetically and in your life, are hard to notice sometimes. or rather, they're easy to ignore/mull over. there are so many things that i do that i don't even realize i do until someone i love says, "hey when you do ________ it bothers me/i like it." 

i'm a bit obsessed with patterns (fabrics). as you can see in my living room pictured above. i like them criss-crossing and living together in harmony. i think my family is a breathing example of my living room. loud patterns and solid patterns and thin fabrics and thick (in relation to personality, not weight) fabrics all doing life together and trying to figure out how to do it well.

i thrive in an environment of general routine. that's the pattern that looks best on me. what patterns are you ignoring? what patterns should you be pursuing?