Memorial getaway...

Woooonderful long weekend. Hope yours was filled with yummy people & treats. Mine was mostly sunny, drenched in lattes, involved a bear sighting (YES), reaching the top of a snowy summit (by car) ... (brrr), staying at a clean motel, attending a wedding (where my Jets loving husband donned my Turkish pashmina bc he was cold), yes, that's a highlight, eating a mushroom and sherry omelet three times, cheering on my amiga's mad shopping frenzy of re-purposed-cashmere-stuffed animals-for-a- good-cause, drinking the best hot chocolate of mi vida and wearing lots of perfume & pink shoes.  Oh yeah... and drinking wine in a un scuzzy hot tub.  whooop.

Friday Love.

National Geographic "bag members"
wazari via flickr

french food, pink flowering bush & a new blouse...

I like being a lady who lunches.  and a lady who admires Seattle's bloomy trees.  and a lady who thrifts a new blouse.  (and not on the weekend. )

chardonnay in the afternoon?  heaven.

pork & chicken liver pate with traditional garnishes

mustard in chippy brown cutey pie 

big ol' flowering tree.  pink!

up close with my new blouse.  the smocking is super flattering and i'm already having visions of strutting it with lots of gold blings & peacock blue pumps

i guess i just like taking pictures of my sister rachael because she's the best.

  

in parrot news

doesn't the parrot just perfectly belong on the wall?  it's like he always had a place here.

...welcome to the family, little (big headed) parrot. he's my newly thrifted wonder and i'm deeply feeling the peculiar detail work and the ball point pen usage. yes, you heard correctly.  the artist, "Eddie", filled some of his feathers in with a ball point pen.  and somehow, i just don't mind it. at least not for $3.99.

the big headed parrot.

saying nice things.

Compliments are wonderful. When I'm most generous with them, my day gets a little closer to resembling a sprinkly pink heart shaped cookie.   I like it when people notice my fragrance, boots and / or improved method for something.  I like complimenting people's up-to-date understanding of world news and pop cultural events, their blouse, their manicured nails, their kids' manners or their boots, just to name a few.

via gala darling

via olly moss

there is only one Bill Cunningham

Photo by Max Cook

and I'm going to see his movie tonight!  here is the trailer for the film.  hooray!!!  hooray for really great outfits & NYC & Cunningham's work for the New York Times. HOORAY for street style.

 ...4 ever.  

it's an "updo" sort of wknd

obsessed with the hair, stripes & earring /necklace combo

again, wonderful stripes & necklace.  + neckline?!
both pics from this is glamorous

day four of my face peel.  it's pretty intense, but i'm feeling less icky than i anticipated today.  i've pulled all my hair way up to get it out of the way and just trying to embrace the insanity of having a peel y & buttered up (cetaphil coated!!) face as i go around town.  here is a yummier updo lady to inspire our Saturday evening plans & striped thoughts...  xo

Friday love.

wednesday wrapping

hi sweet reader. i'm still in a white peony coma of happiness if anyone is curious.  they are astounding and if you spend nine dollars on anything extra this week, i would encourage it to be on a happy bunch of creamy wonderful P E O NI eees.  they're only around for another week or so, (if we're lucky), so walk quickly over to your local grocer.  i actually am just guessing the price, because i got my lovelies for my birthday.  speaking of that, i feel very excited to be twenty nine and have a heavy / happy sense that this should be a "bigger" year than even my 30th ... to start this year off with a bang, my friend joanne gave me a refreshing chemical peel last night.  she believes women should have at least two a year for prevention.  (and she is 40 going on 25 in the skin department, FOR Real.)  this is my second peel ever, and though i know there will be a couple painful days to come, i am THRILLED to be a preventative kinda chica.  typically, peels can be expensive but keep close watch of the daily deals on "groupon" or "living social" and you will find something discounted, i'm sure.

other bits:  

Fox in Spain, 1947.

one of my sweetie pie writers, Paula Fox has an astute and timely review of her work and life in the latest New Yorker.  (btw, she's probably not at all a sweetie, and her work certainly isn't, but i really do like her, mostly because she is surprising and an unlikely talent and her work has limits that she doesn't seem to mind.) anyways, she writes with lots of flint & smarts & I admire her. You could begin to read the article here, or just read Fox.  Start with Desperate Characters.  the pic to the left is featured in the New Yorker article and it was a treat to see.  I never really pictured what she looked like, and it was sort of a thrill to see her look so happy and fresh.

Lulu, age 4, in a Derek Lim piece.  Spotted on hanneli.    Just lovely.

I started swimming again & I really really love it.  Completely random form of exercise for a sweat-focused person like me,  but using a kickboard and making my legs splash and thump around is awesome.  I did not wear this darling suit, but it's sure cute.