March 2011
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Packing for vacay- doesn't have to be so bad
You’re going on a trip and you wait to the last minute to pack. Everyone does it (well everyone except for my mom.) Anyway, the only thing I hate about vacay is the living out of the suitcase. Hate it. So to remedy the whole discombobulated feeling you get when you can’t find what you packed, I take pics of each outfit on my iPhone so it’s right there when I need it. This...
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WatchBrilliant, not necessarily because of the singing, but because I love finding these little lost bits and pieces of favorite movies. Edelweiss is my favorite musical theatre song, mainly because it was the last song Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote together. At the time, Hammerstein was suffering terribly from stomach cancer. He would write in his office overlooking his garden. He wrote this song...
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A Yummy Summer Salad
Like I’ve said before- I don’t cook. But I can “prepare” really well. I stole this recipe from a great little bistro on Bleeker and Broadway. It’s called Corner Shop Cafe. It’s very French, very intimate, and just looking at the online menu is making me miss NYC. (That and Baked by Melissa cupcakes- but that’s a post for another day).
This...
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Today's Look- 03.25
vest: H&M (it took me awhile to figure out what I wanted to wear this with), white tank: H&M, pixie pants: J.Crew Outlet (I would live in these pants if I could), jewelry: The Limited, shoes: Belk (On sale $23!)
Detail of necklace and vest.
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“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty...”
– Elizabeth Taylor
“I’ve always admitted that I’m ruled by my passions.”
– Elizabeth Taylor
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A Must Read!
“The Intent to Live,” by Larry Moss
I highly recommend this book to actors, directors, movie fans, shy people, people looking for a good read, anyone who wants to be inspired, public speakers, writers, people with an imagination and really anybody else I haven’t mentioned. And I haven’t even finished reading the book. There’s a lot of info and there’s a...
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My New Favorite Thing- Secrets from a Stylist
I want everything in this pic!
Right now I’m OBSESSED with Secrets from a Stylist on HGTV. The “stylist”/ designer is Emily Henderson who won the last season of Design Star. Her aesthtic is basically everything I love and am- pinks, Tiffany blue, with accents of black, gold, and white; an emphasis on the quirky and kooky.
I watch HGTV in waves. I’ll watch it a...
“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
– Mark Twain
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You've got to try this!
The Best Nail Polish… that isn’t even nail polish
So I’m kind of obsessed with this stuff. It’s called Salon Effects by Sally Hansen. You can find it at Walgreens, Walmart, probably most drug stores. Sephora has this type of thing but it’s about double the price. At Walgreens it was $9.99 which I thought was way too expensive but I thought I’d give it a...
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Follow this photographer!
Valerie Chiang
Don’t have much time to blog today but I wanted to send you all a link to this incredible artist. I like looking at pretty things and these photos are definitely beautifully composed. Her name is Valerie Chiang and she’s only 19 years old.
Short-Winded Elations(self-portrait) Here are three examples of her seascapes. Links below for her website and blog. A Day...
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Amazing cupcakes
Bananas Foster Cupcakes
I would just like to preface this entry with a disclaimer that I have yet to turn the stove or oven on in my apartment and I am AWFUL at cooking. But baking… baking I’m good at and I can decorate a mean looking cake. I don’t do it often and I only bake when I’m at my parent’s house, but I know my sweets so any recipe I give, I know it’s good!
Firstly, I love mini...
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The lookbook
So, you know when you’re just too lazy to figure out what the hell to wear. And then you do laundry and you realize you’re washing the same stuff over and over when you have a closet full of rarely worn clothes. And then you know those days when you want to look cute but you’re totally uninspired. Well, thanks to my addiction to fashion magazines I’ve kind of figured...
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“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
– Jane Austen 