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Friday, February 17, 2012

I'd love to be wearing this....

to a Friday night cocktail party.

From Ralph Lauren's Fall/Winter 2012 collection:

or this silver dress from Michael Kors Fall/Winter 2012 collection:

(above images thanks to www.thesartorialist.com)

Or this... this coat...

Source: emersonmade.com >

My weekend style...

I'm crazy for- Loving Atlantic Pacific

Her look is PERFECT! I had to force myself to resist purchasing this Kate Spade pullover fur when I saw it on sale here last week. Not very practical for the office...

Best I can do is probably this:

with sunglasses (from Target since my favorite Coach ones now live at the bottom of the ocean), Hudson jeans, and cowboy boots, toting around my Valentine's present to myself: My new Kate Spade Windsor Square Angeline in Palomino.

and inside my lovely palomino (thats what I'M callin' it!), is this, my most favorite book that I'm reading again.

PS Garance Doré posted some hospital shirt thing from Proenza Schuoler's show, but all I could see was Anna Wintour sitting on the sideline in her leopard skin coat. *sigh*

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Tuesday Obsession- Quotes

I really, really love quotes. I am obsessed. I'm not a writer and words don't always come easy to me. I can always find a quote that says exactly what I mean. One of my favorite reference books is Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves
-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
--Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

I love her and that's the beginning and the end of everything.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

Love is something like clouds that were in the sky before the sun came out, you cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the glowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.
--Miss Anne Sullivan to Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

Make me immortal with a kiss!
--Christopher Marlowe

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
--James M. Barrie

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Tuesday Obsession- Laundry

I'm sure this is not at the top of everyone's list, but I have always loved the chore of doing laundry. I love that I am doing it for the ones I love. I love washing, drying, folding and ironing. There are few smells that "get me" like the smell of freshly washed clothes (in TIDE). Only the smell of Coppertone suntan lotion (my mama) and Shalimar (my grandmother) hit me like newly washed clothes. The one thing that tops them all is the smell of clean sheets dried by the sunshine on a hot summer day in the sun. Pure sunshine to sleep with. The best.

Not ever having had my own washer and dryer has affected me in a big way. I feel so deprived, I crave them. I haunt the appliance stores like a 20 year old scouts out engagement rings....I have an entire category on Pinterest called "Laundry Room Envy"!

I can't even imagine what it would be like to be able to do laundry whenever I felt like it...I still get great pleasure from hanging clothes out to dry in the sunshine.

Don't we all have a chore that really should be on the simple pleasures list? Mine is laundry. For sure.

Monday, February 6, 2012

3 little things.

1. Nice men don’t like to see women cry. It’s the mean ones who like to see us cry.

2. If you Google someone and you can’t find a single speck of anything about them, they are not trustworthy and probably doing something wrong.

un·trust·wor·thy/ˌənˈtrəstˌwərT͟Hē/

Adjective:

Not able to be relied on as honest or truthful.

Synonyms:

unreliable - unsafe - trustless - uncertain - insecure

* I have heard, if you Google someone and come up with nothing, you should not hire them- because they are most likely hiding something.

3. A hot bath can cure almost anything. At least temporarily.