While exploring the internet, we stumbled across the website of Halsea, a California-based luggage and handbag company. With a subtle beach theme, vibrant colors, and bold patterns, Halsea's products exude California fun while maintaining casual sophistication. A nice array of products--weekend bags, clutch wallets, lunch totes, sunglass cases, totes and more--allows anyone to incorporate that casual sophistication into everyday life.  While picking a favorite product is not easy, we found two that we were drawn to:

The China Cove Weekend Bag, shown in Sunset Pink, is the perfect size for a weekend getaway; it is durable (canvas bag with leather trim and metal feet) as well as adaptable (there is a detachable shoulder strap in addition to the handles shown).  Best of all, though, are the subtle  shell pattern and fun colors.

  

We also could not resist the clutch wallets, available in all four Halsea patterns and shown above in Little Harbor Kelp and Coffee.  These can work as traditional wallets, holding all the essentials... plus a pen! Moreover, their stylish and fun exteriors enable them to stand alone as a clutch.  Our favorite Halsea pattern, Little Harbor, reminds us of some of our own products: the pattern of our Tahiti products is similar, while the colors in our Patio Trellis Green and Brown products parallel Halsea's Kelp and Coffee colors.  

We can't resist Halsea's love of pattern and color, and we love their concept of casual sophistication.  We hope that you are as inspired by their products as we are! 

Wouldn't this be a neat sofa for a loft in some urban district? A little bit of exposed brick, and some bright, airy, seemingly stark white walls would be instantly warmed with this whimsical, sittable, work of art from Squint in London.

Also inspiring: the aviary background pattern on Squint's site.

Images courtesy of Squint.

We found these darling personalized wall art prints at Fawn & Forest and had to share. The patterns on the children's clothing initially caught our eye--the contrast of the print with their blank faces is unique; the technique allows the element that adds personality to be the pattern.