Quickie Update!
I am too busy falling in love with my Sweetie all over again to post too much, but I am having a BLAST at the coast!!! Thought I would just wish you all a FABULOUS weekend!!! 😉
Month: May 2010
Weekend Getaway!!
I am taking a mini-vacation from my life, so I will not be posting anything for the next 3 days! I can’t wait to tell you how everything goes! and I am taking my camera with me, so I will have a ton of new …
Wrinkled Ladies!
My day wouild not have been complete, if I didn’t share this with you!!!
Is this what I have to look forward to??? Well, let’s just hope that I can move like that when I am finally all wrinkled!! 😉
Have a FABULOUS evening!
Outdoor Dream Spaces!
Living in Oregon, you get pretty used to a lack of sunshine and an abundance of rainy days. It is the end of May and according to the newsman last night that this may be the coldest May we have had in recorded history. How …
The Lost Art of Letter Writing!
Did you know that the US post office processed over 177 Billion pieces of mail in 2009. WOW! I know we are all getting a ton of junk mail every day, but this little fact caused me to start to wonder how much of this …
Monday Night Book Night!
Tonight is book review night, and the book that I chose to review is called, Nesting it’s a Chick Thing. This book is such a fun read, and I highly recommend it anyone who wants to laugh, cry, and just learn more about living a FABULOUS life! Trust me on this, pick this book up!! It is like reading a creatively chic blog in paperback!!! FUN! FUN! FUN!!!
But why listen to me? Here is an editorial review from Publishers Weekly:
While Beanland and Terry do care about having a nice home, throwing fantastic parties and whipping up fabulous dinners, they have better things to do than polish the silver. The coauthors of It’s a Chick Thing: Celebrating the Wild Side of Women’s Friendships throw Martha Stewart-esque caution to the wind in this lifestyle guide with attitude, irreverently addressing the “four pillars of nesting”: decorating, entertaining, cooking and gardening. In each section, they give a basic overview of how to approach the task at hand, and then delve into the nitty-gritty, with sidebars, lists, pull-out quotes from celebrities and quirky clip art, all with a can-do, girl power mind-set, evident in the inclusion of such lines as “I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house” (from Zsa Zsa Gabor). Among other tidbits, readers will find cocktail recipes, flea market shopping tips, party invitation ideas, suggestions for creating a garden that suits their personality and reasons to give Martha some credit (“the chick can carve a pumpkin 200 ways and make 65 recipes from the seeds alone!”).
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Have a FABULOUS evening!
Books! Books! and More Books!
Ok, so I may have gone a little crazy today doing some book shopping!!! Have I mentioned I really love to read!! I know, I am coming to terms and embracing my inner book worm!!! Sex and The City Kiss and Tell, by Amy Sohn …
Hanging with my posse, my peeps, my girls!
I just got home from a late, and extremely fun night hanging out with my girlfriends!! All 6 of us got together; Nette, Alex, Rachel, Andrea, Jennifer, and myself, for a night of fun, laughter and a yummy ice cream sundae bar. We played a …
Friday Night Movie Night!
It is Friday night movie night, and I just enjoyed a most enchanting movie, Coco Before Chanel, starring Audrey Tautou. This is a French movie subtitled in English, so there will be no multi-tasking during this movie, which I am prone to do.
The movie opens in 1893 where little Gabrielle, aka Coco, is dropped off by her father at an Orphanage; and we proceed to watch Coco’s life before she actually becomes the fashion extraordinaire that we all know and love, Coco Chanel.
Coco Chanel was a woman who although from a distance seemed to have everything; she was a woman who lived a hard life, went against the grain during an age when women did what was expected of them, and she fought and labored to acquire all that she had. The most tragic part of her life is that what she most desired was unavailable to her – her one true love.
Watching this movie, one can’t resist falling in love with all things French. French fashion, French architecture, French interior design, and the French landscape, etc. What I wouldn’t do to be able to walk into the movie screen and just take it all in for a day. Hmmm…Sounds scrumptious! This movie truly is a feast for the senses.
There was a quote that seemed to resonate with me that was spoken during this movie, so much so that I had to replay the section in the film just to make sure I wrote it down correctly. This line is spoken to Coco by the love of her life, Boy:
“An exceptional future awaits you. You’re like no one else. You have to trust yourself”
Isn’t that a message that we could all benefit by taking away with us?
Coco Before Chanel is simply charming, and will be a movie that I add to my video library to watch again and again for all things inspirational. Click here to watch the movie’s trailer.
Have a FABULOUS evening!
My Top 10 Wardrobe Essentials for Spring
Although Oregon’s weather apparently doesn’t realize that it is Spring yet, I thought it I would share with you my top 10 wardrobe essentials for Spring. A day dress in a solid color Denim jacket Tank tops – in oodles of colors A perfectly fitting …