Are these not the bluest widest sweetest eyes you've ever seen? And that hat?
Oomph! (That was my heart bursting from these soulful little peepers)
Photo from Party Perfect via frolic!
Showing newest 28 of 69 posts from October 2008. Show older posts
Showing newest 28 of 69 posts from October 2008. Show older posts
October 31, 2008
Spotted
Golf cart carrying four adults and pulling a trailer carrying fifteen children. Decorated with flickering orange lights and playing music. Six parents walking alongside with adult beverages in red cups.
Welcome to Halloween in Central Jersey, where houses are much too far apart (and people are much too lazy) to trick-or-treat on foot.
What Absolutely Wonderful News
Nie Nie is out of the woods.
Now there is something to be truly happy about.
But there are still a lot of expenses - please consider donating.
Boo
I may be the biggest most boring Halloween grinch ever, but even my cold cold heart couldn't deny the simultaneous cuteness and pure creepiness of these doggie costumes via NY Magazine....
October 30, 2008
Another White Kitchen
I especially love the big chalkboard in the midst of the cabinets (and the wooden ladder!).
October 29, 2008
Warm and Cozy
This room looks so happy and inviting, and seems to be the antithesis of the windy chill that is currently sweeping through NJ. The chalkboard walls, rustic table and basic circular clock remind me of an old-fashioned schoolhouse.
Photo via Desire to Inspire
October 28, 2008
Wishlist
Because it's snowing I can't help but dream about warm and cuddly and snow-resistant apparel.
I am particularly considering how much I am in need of a new pair of rainboots (since my old pair is ravaged and full of heel-sinking holes that hurt my feet after too many years of good old wear and tear). I love love love (did I say love?) Tory Burch rainboots but don't think I could justify spending $250 to stylishly splash around in puddles.
I also want to frolic in the snow in this purty checkered coat by Hilary Radley (though not sure if I could pull it off without looking like a wannabe lumberjack).
And while I'm on this selfish materialistic online browsing binge, I might as well point out these perfect-looking Cynthia Vincent boots, which are exactly what I'm looking for, except I very much doubt they would fit, since I apparently have abnormally large calves that no boot deems itself worthy of fitting around.
And because I'm on a roll, I'm smitten with this clever BCBG dress that actually looks like a shirt/skirt combo.
So Maybe the Snow Isn't So Bad Afterall
I just confiscated chocolate ganache from Mama's current baking escapade and have transformed it into a mighty tasty mug of hot chocolate.
This may be why Mama is walking around the house singing "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire"
Still Snowing...
And it is STICKING.
Like, to the ground, which is becoming WHITE. In October.
Just saying.
Huh
It is snowing.
It is rain/sleet/snowing in Central New Jersey as we speak. Mainly snowing. It is October.
No one has trick-or-treated. Turkeys are momentarily safe in their pens or their forests or their farms or wherever turkeys live. Presents have not been wrapped.
But oh yes, it is snowing.
This does not bode well for the coming months.
October 27, 2008
Loving...
The thing that first caught my eye were the extraordinarily cozy-looking living room chairs... then the cozy-looking kitchen chairs ... then the white white cabinet-free kitchen...
All photos from House Beautiful
Page 56
"They have done this so often in the last few hours that it is hard to tell the difference between outside and inside. Also the difference between the covers and the air of the room, between their clothes and their hands: everything seems to stroke them. They are a bundle of nerves, frayed at the ends. They are wearing each other away; both of them amazed by the thinness of skin that happens just there; how close they can be, blood to blood, so that the ticking, afterwards, of one inside the other, might be a joke, or a pulse - the beating in your veins of someone else's heart."
- The Gathering, Anne Enright
October 23, 2008
October 22, 2008
Wishlist
Tonight I felt the need to revisit the Lorick New York Web site for a torturous reminder of things I cannot even consider purchasing until I have a job some eye candy and ladylike fashion inspiration, and was once again reminded of why I fell in love with her classy designs (via Gossip Girl... most specifically, these dresses).
Aren't these pieces just perfect?
Spring 2009
Spring 2008
Ballet Photos To Blow Your Mind
October 21, 2008
Page 14
"She was wearing blue, or so I imagine it. Her blue self settled in the grey folds of his brain, and it stayed there for the rest of his life."
- The Gathering, Anne Enright
Page 13
"And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head."
- The Gathering, Anne Enright
Page 4
"I am not a visitor. This is my house too. I was inside it, as it grew; as the dining room was knocked into the kitchen, as the kitchen swallowed the back garden. It is the place where my dreams still happen."
- The Gathering, Anne Enright
Page 2
"I wait for the kind of sense that dawn makes, when you have not slept. I stay downstairs while the family breathes above me and I write it down. I lay them out in nice sentences, all my clean, white bones."
- The Gathering, Anne Enright
A Presidential Playdate
This blog post from Alpha Mom, written by the author of Breed Em and Weep just cracked me up. The premise? A playdate between Johnny and Barack. It is definitely worth reading the whole thing, but here's a little snippet just to whet your whistle...
Me: John, stop making smarmy monkey faces at Barack.
McCain: I was not!
Obama: He was too!
Me: Barack, you haven’t answered my question. Who’s going to bail me out if a tree falls on my head?
Obama: First, we need to make sure this rescue package works properly. We need to crack down on CEOs and make sure they are not getting golden parachutes.
McCain: MY FRIEND, THAT ONE THERE HAS NEVER TOUCHED A PARACHUTE. I CRASHED NUMEROUS PLANES. I KNOW REAL PARACHUTES. AND I KNOW HOW TO GET THIS COUNTRY WORKING AGAIN. BECAUSE I AM A MAVERICK.
Obama: You voted 45 times against the super green plan! And the purple zippy pow plan!
McCain: Well, YOU voted 28 times against the sparkleberry zap plan! And you voted 96 times for AN OVERHEAD PROJECTOR! I’m not afraid to take on my party.
Obama: [smiles] I had a birthday party. I had cupcakes. And you didn’t. Ha ha. And it was NOT an overhead projector. That’s, like, totally from the Dark Ages.
Me: Obama, don’t you DARE stick your tongue out like that. If you have something to say, say it without the faces.
Obama: Ma’am, Senator McCain is a poopyhead.
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