Calgary by Bon Iver

I can't stop listening to this album! So emo, right? Anyway, I think this song is so beautiful and different and it just sounds like Fall, amirite? Enjoy and download the album - it's so worth it. Every track is wonderful!

Sale Watch

They're just so FESTIVE!

You guys, it's almost November! Can you believe that?  I mean, I can - I've been seeing Christmas decorations set up next to the Back to School stuff for months at this point!  Surprise, surprise, I love the holidays. 

I love parties and wine and hors d'oeuvres are my favorite food!  I love gathering with friends and love ones and presents aren't bad either.  My favorite part of the holidays are getting to dress up.  I always find that you can go a little bit overboard with the outfits during the holidays.  Red, green, lots of gold and pearls.  I especially love a tartan print! 

And I LOVE IT in these shoes!

Aren't they darling?  All glitz and bows and slingbacks!


Let's have a closer look shall we?

Family Matters

I was so fortunate to have my wonderful family come into town last weekend.  I was visited by my mother, grandmother, Aunt Pam, Aunt Sharon, Aunt Melanie and my little sister Shannon.  We had such a wonderful weekend and it went by way too fast.  We started out Friday night at District of Pi, the fabulous new pizza bistro downtown.  Then we went to Harry's (what?) at the Hotel Harrington which is just so delightfully shabby and suspicious!  We walked around to see the monuments at night and went home to rest up for the rest of our weekend!

Style Icon: Faye Dunaway

You know who was really making a look work for in the '70s?  Faye Dunaway in Bonnie & Clyde.  I'm pretty much obsessed with the sleekness of the whole ensemble.

I've never seen the movie so let's assume she's wearing a fabulous tweed pencil skirt, agree? (Okay, and actually - I just googled it and I was right.)

I really have to give it to the costume dresser on this one, check out the real Bonnie.  Yikes! I love when people take liberties in movies, like not committing to an accent or dressing actors in period appropriate clothing.  Click below to mimic this awesome look.

Fall Cleaning

Just doing a little cleaning up on the old blog.  Don't mind the mess while everything is put in place.

Sale Watch

It's just so pretty.

I tend to online shop but I rarely check out.  I put all the items that I would totally buy if I had the money in my cart and then anxiously await the day they go on sale.  In the good old days of the early recession this was always, but now I have to wait longer and longer for things to magically mark themselves down. 

Apple Picking Adventure

As if I couldn't see the trees (okay, I couldn't)

A few weeks ago, my girlfriends and I went apple picking at Homestead Farms.  We desperately tried to make it feel like fall but September tends to still be a bit muggy around DC so instead, I worked up quite a sweat since I insisted on wearing wool.

On Following Your Heart

"There is no reason not to follow your heart.  Stay hungry, stay foolish."

- Steve Jobs

1955 - 2011

Yoü And I by Lady Gaga

I dunno about this video Gaga but I can't get the song outta my head and I sort of love that it's for your boyfriend. Can you date someone from Ohio next and write a song that we can sing loudly in bars about Ohio? That would be great! Thanks! XO!

I Think I'll Go To Boston

I went to Boston this past weekend and all I did was take picture of graves.  Macabre but unfortunately true.

To be fair 1.) There are a lot of famous people buried in Boston 2.) I'm a history geek, I couldn't even live with myself if I didn't take a picture of Paul Revere's grave! I just couldn't and 3.) Duh, it's October.  Halloween is right around the corner. 

You would think that with allllll the pictures I took in graveyards I would have captured at least ONE stinking historic ghost but I didn't even capture non-historic ghosts which is pretty disappointing.  Not even an orb! I'm starting to doubt the accuracy of these burial grounds.

On Diets

"Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you."

- Joan Rivers

Supercalifragi-awesome

So, my friend Rachel from Black is the New Black is always rocking a fierce lip.  I've never seen someone pull off red lipstick so well, and you guys, I'm jealous!

So, I went to Boston (more on that later) and decided that I needed red lipstick to go with my very inspired Katharine Hepburn outfit - that I never actually ended up wearing but still. 

So I ordered the Poppy King for Kate Spade in Adventurous Red and I'm pretty much obsessed.  My teeth look brighter and whiter and I just always feel like smiling when I wear it.  A nice coral of the Chanel variety will always be my lip color of choice.  However, it's nice to have a new shade in my arsenal. It's fun, the tube is gold, pretty, and it pops (Poppy? Pops? Heh...)

The best part? It tells me to "pucker up" in case I forget!  No, it doesn't talk, it says it on the tube.  Look at the picture, guys! As far as spending $24 goes, this is a pretty good, well priced pick-me-up. 

P.S. Do you remember when all we wore was lip gloss and all anyone ever did was reference lip gloss, lip gloss, lip gloss?  Well, I do and I am soooo glad that's over.  Lipstick is much more glamorous and far less sticky!