I think this photo illustrates love quite well for this week’s Love Thursday. Ollie loves to lie on my chest this way and often falls asleep. He is so cute like this and he curls his little legs right up and wraps his arms around you in a big hug. I love him lying this [...]
Things I Love Thursday, in pictures:These,*and these,and also THESE (which i am soon receiving in the mail! three cheers for impulsive late-night shopping! you guys, they started off at $298 but they were on sale for $68 because there was only one size left and it was MY SIZE! FATE!!).Yes, I know it's not even Thursday anymore in some states, but I needed an excuse to post my footwear crushes. Yo
I always love my bad, bad black cat.I also love:Coffee - My coworkers and I are on a constant coffee see-saw. Some days we are virtuous and drink none and talk about how it's really So Much Better to Not Drink Coffee, and how we feel so very much better without that nasty caffeine. Other days (ahem, today), high-mindedness goes out the window and we suck down our coffees with a mixture of guilt an
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This week I had a baby. For this Love Thursday I’m posting the picture I took of my husband soon after I gave birth. We both thought it was incredible how soon after a baby is born that a bond is formed with them. Neither of us can quite [...]
[thanks gala!]Having TiLT and Chester French collide - I'm going to see Chester French tonight in West Hollywood, and what do I see when I open up Gala Darling's Things I Love Thursday (the O.G.) but Chester French topping her list! Cosmic, absolutely cosmic. I do so love when my world gets scarily small. Chester French, btw, is a band made up of two Harvard boys who "write Beach Boys-esque pop so
Was going through some old photos and came across these that Mr. Ferrero Rocher took when Special Dark was still a newborn. Obviously Mr. FR hadn't learned how to focus with the new camera yet, but I love it anyway.
The thing that most makes me aware of how fast time is scooting by is writing Things I Love Thursday. Every single week, it seems like less and less time has passed since the last one. Just now I actually looked at my calendar to verify that it was, truly, Thursday, since it seemed like mere minutes ago that I wrote last week's. God I sound like an ancient person. But enough about me, let's talk a
My husband and I went to Cuba for our honeymoon and this is what we saw as soon as we went into our room. Our maid had arranged our towels into the shape of a heart knowing that we were a honeymoon couple. This didn’t happen on just the first day. Every [...]
Oh lordy, y'all, I have been SO BUSY recently that I've just been saving up things in my head for a monster of a Things I Love post. People think that because I work on a computer all day, I should have time for these things...except, um, I don't. But I'm-a keep trying.My new job. That sounds supremely dorky, but it's TRUE. This is the first time in my life that I've had a job that isn't just a go
Happy May Day, kids! While you're taking a break from twirling around under a Maypole (don't knock it 'til you try it), check out this edition of Thursday love [sorry it's late; arrghh, stupid Blogger]:[From left: Thierry Mugler, fa/wi 1996–1997; Dolce & Gabbana, sp/su 2007; Thierry Mugler, sp/su 1992.]The Costume Institute's superhero exhibit - I think it is so very cool that the Met is acknowledging the very real connection between fantasy costume and runway fashion. And, by extension, between fantasy and clothing in general. Like, how totally true. I'll write more later when I get to review the exhibit (or maybe go! maybe!), but for now, here's The Cut's preview of the exhibit (see photo above), with more photos. Keep in mind that all of the looks are REALLY from runway shows! [Th
Things I Love Thursday.A List.[bougainvillea]Springtime weather in L.A.! It's been sunny and dry and hot here for the past few days, and while I know it's an early reminder that we have baking-hot summer ahead, I love sitting outside on my back porch looking at the riot of fuschia bougainvilleas above the railing, soaking up the sun and pretending sweaters don't exist. Aww, a monarch butterfly just flew over my head. All that's left is for a trio of chipmunks to pop up and start singing Disney songs.[transitional floral, paris. from the sartorialist.]Spring clothes! As I girly-shrieked about yesterday, something in me demanded a closet makeover, and I think one of the culprits was the sunny weather demanding appropriate gear. I had a delicious time last night trying on things that an ex
[obviously, I love headless Siamese twin ballerinas.]Thursday again already? Holy moly, Charlie Brown. I recently started a new job and the days have been FLYING by. Which is good, I suppose--absolutely a relief after the days at my old job in the big design department, in which I'd start counting the hours remaining until 5:00 after about, oh, 30 minutes of being there. This wasn't helped by the fact that I was literally on my feet all day; I didn't have a desk, or even a chair. I stood at a high table, hunched over my designs--or else stood, aching, in line for the color photocopier--for eight hours straight. AWESOME.In any case, though, things are looking way up and the fashion world, as always, has provided me with more solid gold nuggets of joy for y'all:The way guys are dressing thes
Things I dig this week:
* Dinner with my dad, who was in town earlier this week! Hamburgers . . . yum.
* Sunshine. There hasn’t really been any this week :(. But I still love it and can’t wait for it to return.
* Plans for the future, like going back to school.
* Anime, especially The Wallflower. [...]
[thanks gala!]My new shoes - I finally acquired those Nine West patent heels, and they are SUPER fierce. Love love love. Sadly, I can't find my digital camera USB cable--arghh--so revelatory photos will have to wait.Design*Sponge - This all-around fabulous design blog combines the author's personal design life with contributions from readers. The site is pretty and I like to live vicariously through the amazing things on the site, imagining that someday I, too, will lacquer an old cabinet into something hyper-mod-chic.Bernard Rudofsky - One of my favorite people. Not that I know him, but he was a writer, architect, collector, teacher, designer, and social historian--okay, AWESOME--who did things like give a lecture entitled "How Can People Expect to Have Good Architecture When They Wear S
IT'S THINGS I LOOOVVVVVE THURSDAY.GET PUMPED.Prada fall collection, why'd you have to go?This week, it's:Fall/Winter '07 fashion. Oh, Fall '07 runways, I loved you so! The wonderful nipped waists and trench dresses, those footless socks at Prada, the ombre patent leather bags and shoes at Prada (see photo above [nannies crochet]; obviously, I'm still in love), the dark colors and inspired elegance overall... swoon, swoon, swoon. In contrast, I have to say, I'm so not feeling many of the Spring '08 trends right now. Floral watercolor chiffon stuff? Meh. Balenciaga tribal gladiator sandal stilettos? Interesting, but not actually attractive. Weirdo Prada candlestick heels? Horrid. Wedges? They're always in in warm weather, and I always hate 'em. The only trend I'm really liking is the "neogo
Where to start this Thursday?
How about here:
Heh. It’s like a way more awesome version of those dioramas I had to make back in third grade.
* Diets That Time Forgot. It’s a British Channel 4 program that puts nine people on diets that were popular in the Edwardian, Victorian, and Flapper eras. I can’t stop looking [...]
Tonight's will be a tad rough, since I'm sitting with my computer balanced on my lap in a room at the La Quinta outside Austin and my signal is barely there. But I persevere, in the name of this highly essential blog post. Other than sleep, which I would dearly love to have more of, here are some highlights/good things for the day:This video about Coco Rocha--model of the minute--and all the mechanics and assistance behind the scenes that allow her to be a jet-setting working woman yet retain that I-just-love-to-hang-out-with-my-fab-friends-and-trot-around-in-delightful-headbands carefree charm. I haven't seen the whole video yet (thanks, La Quinta crap internet) but I think it's very cool to highlight all the work that goes into stardom (and all the people other than the star who do it).
It’s Things I Love Thursday again and these are the things that make me glow right now:
* Above all, special props go out to MC this Thursday because as of tomorrow we will officially have been together for a year! We had our very first date on March 14, 2007, and tonight MC and I [...]
[thanks Gala!]Sorry for the delay on this one, kids; technical difficulties are, like, so lame. Anyway, this week all the sun and beach-going has made me gung-ho for new spring color and art. Out with the old, in with the new....Spring trends that AREN'T floral - I know every designer and their mothers are doing florals this spring, and at first I thought the return of garden romance was rather charming...but by now, after seventeen flower-dripping fashion spreads in each of the seventeen or so fashion magazines I read, I want nothing more than to run away to a cold, snowy country where flowers don't exist. Therefore, I'm madly grateful for trends that make me feel safely protected against the rose parade: especially the cool, saturated colors of the new neo-mod look. The techno-esque sha
I’m taking up Gala Darling’s challenge to compile a weekly list of things that make me happy or that I’m obsessed with at the moment, so here goes:
* First and foremost, Gala Darling’s site! Gala is whimsical, aesthetically-gifted, and most important of all, entirely herself. This is one lady who marches to the beat of [...]
Following in the footsteps of the lovely Gala at iCing, I'll be posting a little link collage each Thursday of fashion gems and related fabulosities. Sometimes I don't want to fill up all your feed readers with 17,000,000 little posts about this and that...so here you go, no installments, just one lump sum of style joy.Lane Crawford - This Chinese luxury boutique has, for the first time that I've noticed, started advertising in Vogue. Their advertisement spreads are works of art themselves; it took me a minute of revelling in the awesome photos to realize it wasn't a Vogue fashion spread! Their combinations of words and images is light years beyond most Western retailers'.Haruki Murakami - I've finally read Norwegian Wood, and it might be my favorite of his books (though The Wind-Up Bird
This Love Thursday post is actually inspired by the post on the official Love Is All Around Site.When I looked at these artwork that my kids did in school, I realized that their drawing depicts a happy family - holding hands or holding each other close... oh, love!G drew his family portrait when the was in Grade 2, using KidPix software in their class computer, while N drew hers when she was in kindergarten, using color marker..and their teacher sent it to company that made it into a plate (that was her mother's day gift to me that year.)Kids art are wonderful...and so precious because it comes from the heart.
