On Parties

"Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party."

-Oscar Wilde

Supposedly

Up In The Air

Thanksgiving is one of the busiest travel holidays of the year.  While you're up in the air or sitting bumper to bumper on the highway, what better way to kill time than with my patented Thanksgiving playlist.

New Uses for Old Things

I've been a subscriber to Real Simple Magazine since I moved to DC.  I love the simple but helpful tips on how to keep your house clean or how to decorate with purple.

My favorite monthly feature is the New Uses for Old Things feature.  It tells you other uses for clear nail polish (line the rim of things that rust) or old rain boots (planters), some of it is ridiculous but most of it is helpful and creative.

The November Issue had a wonderful list of uses that were Thanksgiving specific.

On Being Someone

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."

- Coco Chanel

Why Do I Like This?

It's obnoxious and a little pretentious but so was The Royal Tenenbaums, so, hmmm?

Perhaps it's the elaborate use of Vampire Weekend?  I'm a sucker for them.

Today on GILT and In My Dreams

Luxury Vintage Accessories from A Second Chance.

Yes, please! Anytime the words iconic and elegant are used in the same sentence I start to lose my senses...

SALE begins at Noon. www.gilt.com 

On Elegance

"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it."

-Diana Vreeland

A Cornucopia of Tabletop Design

It's no secret that I will not be preparing Thanksgiving dinner this year.  My contribution to the holiday include uncorking the wine and, if I'm lucky, pulling the wishbone.

This doesn't mean that I couldn't, in fact, someday (probably) Thanksgiving dinner will be up to me.  When that time comes, I'll be prepared.

Weekend Art Trip

Gene Davis (American, 1920–1985). Black Popcorn, 1965. Oil on canvas.

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. / © The Estate of Gene Davis

 

DC’s Own: Art of the Washington Color School Movement

Saturday, November 13, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Educator Workshop

Learn about and appreciate the Washington Color School Movement and style of painting through examination and discussion of works created by renowned Washington DC artists such as Alma Thomas and Sam Gilliam. This program includes a special behind-the-scenes preview of the exhibition Washington Color and Light; develop an understanding and appreciation of the Washington Color School Movement; receive lesson plans that make interdisciplinary connections between art, social studies, history, and language arts as it relates to the Corcoran’s art collection and renowned Washington, DC based artists; participate in a visual art making exercise.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchase HERE.

Members receive a 20% discount on program admission. 

 

Cute Little Gift Guide

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and with that comes Black Friday and the entire madness that is the 29 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.  If you're like me, friends are already starting to initiate gift exchanges.  Throughout the season I'll be doing a few little gift guides with adorable items anyone would love.  I'll keep all gifts under $75 and at some point I'll even do a guide for the guys. 

First up are the bundles of adorableness at Kate Spade.

Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons

Catchy and mellow. Perfect for Autumn.

On Dressing for the Occasion

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

-Mark Twain

It's Raining

When it rains, it pours and it prompts me to listen to my favorite rainy day playlist.








Backwater Blues by Dinah Washington
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Aretha Franklin
Come In with the Rain by Taylor Swift
Cry Me a River by Diana Krall
Feels Like Rain by John Hiatt
Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones
Here Comes the Flood by Peter Gabriel
In a Barrel At Sea by Hem
It Never Entered My Mind by Miles Davis
It's Raining by Irma Thomas
Over the Rainbow by Harry Nilsson
Roslyn by Bon Iver & St. Vincent
Sit & Listen to the Rain by Whiskeytown

Enjoy and stay dry!

We live in hard times, not end times.

I was there. It was an amazing afternoon and this speech was fantastic.

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