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Pink of Perfection
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A thrifty girl's guide to la dolce vita! Weekly videos and articles featuring food, crafts, style.
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Spotted: The First Peonies of the Year

I took this picture two weeks ago and have been waiting for the right time to bust it out here. Maybe when I didn’t have anything to say I could just plop this in, or when I’d taken a tru...

18 may 12

Bits and Bobs

1. This quote really makes me want to read a novel by Anne Michaels (a new discovery for me). (via) 2. In my bright fantasy kitchen with white subway tile and tons of sunlight, this country farmhouse...

11 may 12

Template Cooking

Things in the kitchen have been going uncharacteristically well. In the past, I’ve put a lot of pressure on dinner to transform my days and have stood in deli sections of grocery stores having ...

07 may 12

Currently Obsessed: The House of Eliott

It couldn’t have come at a more perfect time. Imagine a free, rainy afternoon brightened by a red envelope appearing in the mailbox, The House of Eliott tucked inside. This show, set in 1920s L...

02 may 12

Amy Gerstler

“In Perpetual Spring” Gardens are also good places to sulk. You pass beds of spiky voodoo lilies and trip over the roots of a sweet gum tree, in search of medieval plants whose leaves, wh...

30 apr 12

Giveaway: At Home on the Range

This cookbook, originally published in 1947, is so delightful that its origin story is a mere cherry on top. Elizabeth Gilbert was up in her attic, finally unpacking boxes in a new home, when she une...

27 apr 12

On Turning 30

I turned thirty last week, which felt like a very big deal in the months leading up to it, and then just like a wonderful thing that happened as soon as it happened. Any big life events–wedding...

23 apr 12

Spring Uniform: Work and Play

I think my style is progressing backwards. Right after college, one of my dear friends got a job at American Apparel. I remember sitting on my stoop talking to him on the phone about our low-paying j...

13 apr 12

Run On Playlist

Discovering I liked hip hop was like tasting ice cream for the first time. It came during a stretch of time where I was dipping my toe into all kids of newness (swimming lessons, playing guitar) that...

06 apr 12

Spring Air, and Blossoms

photo: raceytay The spring air has been like a character in my life this week, like a messenger. It started to follow me first on Monday, a bright, cold, wind-whipping day. I trudged up a long tunnel...

30 mar 12

What Are Your Favorite Books for Spring?

I spent the better part of a lazy weekend in bed reading Come to the Edge. It was one of those rare I-can’t-put-it-down books with the added appeal of being about first love, complete with ridi...

26 mar 12

Valerie Worth

Peas While the world Spins on Through seas Of perilous stars, Someone is shelling Green peas Into a cracked White bowl. — Valerie Worth

20 mar 12

Not Next But Now

Last Friday afternoon I was poised as if on a diving board: I wanted to plunge headlong into the weekend and land in a feather bed. The antidote to a bearish week was a bit of a pleasurefest. I had d...

16 mar 12

I Want to Dress Like Isabelle in Hugo

Four very good reasons to see Hugo: Paris… …in the 1930s (The dresses! The hats! The little ladylike shoes!) It’s an enchanting movie with a big, inspiring, I-got-my-cry-on heart. T...

05 mar 12 1 person likes this

Bits and Bobs

1. I’ve become a two-coffee-a-day woman, and I don’t know why I resisted so long. In addition to getting to drink a delicious cortado, it’s also a chance to breathe some life into t...

02 mar 12

Making Time

Random question: How much non-work stuff do you guys get done at home at night? My commute sucks, yes, but I just have a hard time doing anything beyond eating and watching tv most nights. Every once...

29 feb 12

Hervé This’ Chocolate Mousse

The trouble with having a real-life blog as opposed to a slick, editorial calendar, planning-ahead blog, is that here it is on February 22nd, and I’d like to tell you about a perfect Valentine&...

22 feb 12

POP Profile: Sarah of Yes and Yes

Tell us about your blog, Yes and Yes. I started writing my blog after reading blogs for years and years. There was a pretty specific type of blog that I was always looking for – something funny...

17 feb 12 2 people like this

On Style and Systems

I used to read (and never comment) on a blog by a woman in Boston who took a picture of her outfit everyday in her full-length mirror. I felt creepy about my silent spying, but I couldn’t stop....

14 feb 12

Wintery Mix

Yesterday, my doctor told me winter’s almost over, but I feel a little dubious about that. I never even got my winter look down (unless you count wearing the same J. Crew outlet striped tunic t...

10 feb 12

Winter Wellness Guide

I think a lot about the creative process: how there are sparks of ideas and bursts of activity followed by periods of inaction. That period of inertia is what always drove me mad. What are we doing i...

01 feb 12 1 person likes this

Winter Budget Meals (Is It Payday Yet?)

27 jan 12

Winter Quiet

Photos: 1. Nordic trees linen napkins, 2. cabin in the snow, 3. soup, 4. fireplace in the bedroom, 5. how to do a self-portrait, 6. candles, 7. birch logs, 8. felt coffee cozies, 9. tea Words have fe...

25 jan 12

French Friday Giveaway: The Bonne Femme Cookbook

As soon as I read the subtitle I knew it was for us: Simple, Splendid Food that French Women Cook Every Day. Yes, please! This is a cookbook that eschews grand to-dos and difficult preparations in fa...

20 jan 12

Bits and Bobs

One of my projects for the new year is to give my cubicle a makeover. If I can’t manage to get together all the ingredients myself, I’m loving these terrarium kits on Etsy. Have you tried...

18 jan 12

Detox Recipes That Taste Really Good

After my usual holiday over-doing it, It feels good to board the healthy eating bandwagon. And while it’s probably not the best habit to bounce from extremes (steak, bourbon, gravy to kale, gre...

11 jan 12

Back to Basics

It is hard to come back after vacation, isn’t it? To see those free, expansive days end is a kind of cruelty. But I came back to our little apartment after a holiday break, happy to be home. Ev...

05 jan 12

What Are Your Most Treasured Holiday Traditions?

Happy Christmas Eve eve, friends! Are you up to your neck in wrapping and bows? Are you buried under sacks of sugar and flour? Well, as long as you’re captive, I’ve got a little holiday t...

23 dec 11

Weeknight Solution: Pork Chops with Spanish Rice

One January, before I was to move into my first apartment, my mom sat me down in the kitchen and showed me how to plan a week’s worth of meals on a budget. She took an inventory of what I liked...

13 dec 11

How Do You Deal With Stress?

You know when you’re cruising along, feeling holiday, slicing through life like that proverbial knife through the butter, and then wham-o: Stress City? I knew the other shoe had to drop: the su...

09 dec 11

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