I always like to peek in on what my friend James Leland Day is up to on his website. He has a few new style stories on his site that inspired me today to take a country drive. James is an American professional Style Director and Interior Designer who lived in Paris for years and who now is based in Berlin and has quite an extraordinary eye and vision and is a really lovely person to boot.

If you were at my book launch in London at Anthropologie on Regents Street awhile back, you will remember meeting him - he was one of my special guests who spoke about decorating. Here are some inspirations from his portfolio to inspire your weekend. I'm feeling Fall-ish after seeing these images and then spending the afternoon in the German countryside picking flowers, pumpkins, squash, sunflowers... So I'm ready to work on preparing the house for more of a Fall mood this weekend to welcome in September. What about you, what will you do? For my friends stateside, have a lovely Labor Day weekend.

  Are you feeling Fall-ish too? (images: james leland day)