Unless you know me personally, I don’t think there is any possible way you can understand the magnitude of my obsession with the Target Liberty of London Collection. Several coworkers have comm...
I find my homemade stirfrys, and especially my homemade fried rice deeply disappointing. It seems the reason is an absence of wok hei (or wok hay or wok hai). While some websites provide definitions ...
#1: Lipstick Queen Medieval Sheer Red Lipstick (everyday) #2: Lipstick Queen Red Sinner (vamp red) #3: Mac Creme d’Nude (nude to wear with smoky eyes) #4 Benefit Benetint Lip Stain (another goo...
This week has been especially good for discovering new blogs (well new-to-me blogs). My best blog find this week is probably shitmystudentswrite.tumblr.com . Here is a little sample: “The rebel ...
One of my friends shared a post today in Google reader entitled “What Your American Girl Doll Says About the Rest of Your Life” over at hairpin, stirring up a whole bunch of repressed chi...
As the wise Blair Waldorf once said, incredulously to a minion: You didn’t realize that tights are not pants? If you too have trouble telling the difference, this handy-dandy chart might just b...
Dear interwebs users, I read this really interesting piece on fashionista about how Kate Middleton’s tiara was secured to her head by actually sewing the tiara itself into a mini-braid of her h...
Today was day one of my training in preparation for a half marathon to be run in November. Since I’m still questioning my own commitment to actually running this race and because I’m poor...
A few things I’m dying to buy (clockwise from top left): Rainbow Keyboard Decal for MacBook from decal360 on etsy We’re All Mad Here Print from flowersinmay on etsy Parisian Chic: A Styl...
Happy Cinco de Mayo lovelies! Tonight after work I’ll be chilling on my back porch with a jalapeno margarita and a yummy steak fajita salad. Jalapeno margaritas are one of my go to drinks for e...
Vaginator (noun): A fascinator* that looks like a vagina Example 1: Tara Palmer-Tomkinson wears a blue vaginator Example 2: Princess Eugenie (left) wears a blue and purple vaginator *Fascinator (noun...
First, I wanted to let you know that I do plan to eventually make my way back to regular posting on C&C, but it may still be a few months before I can really get back into a blogging routine. In ...
I had to write this post if for no other reason than to use that title. All of you know that I have a total girl crush on Christina Hendricks, so it shouldn’t surprise you that I am picking up ...
I’d love to say it was love at first sight, but it really wasn’t. How can you fall in love from just a few pictures on the internet? Unlike other profiles, W’s contained the merest ...
Leighton Meester looks smoking hot in this Thom Browne suit. She somehow manages to pull it off without looking costume-y, which is pretty difficult, especially with the tie. via Coco’s Tea Par...
Etsy is a fabulous source for art posters and prints covering just about every style imaginable…from nerdy to girly. Yee-haw industrial letterpress posters produces a variety of eclectic and am...
I adore hats, but it is kind of difficult to find cute, unique hats as they are not especially popular. Etsy is a great resource, and two of my latest discoveries are Janine Basil and Hapitat. Janine...
Every year I put together an etsy holiday shopping guide, but this year I’m going to expand my scope a bit and pull from all over the internet. Not to worry, etsy will still be recieving consid...
I am quite obsessed with the very idea of these perfumed scent bombs from Cire Trudon. How fabulous! Little vials of concentrated perfume that you smash on the floor to release a beautiful scent. I a...
Yesterday started out fantastically. I woke up bright and early and made my way to my girlfriend’s house in Rosslyn for brunch, where I sipped mimosas and ate homemade sticky buns and chattered...
I adore the Penguin Classics Clothbound editions, and it is one of the great tragedies of my life (obviously I lead a very hard life) that I have been unable to complete my collection. I’ve sea...
I adore Sublime Stitching, a cross stitch pattern company which produces fabulous, unique patterns. My favorites at the moment are the Pinups by Gil Elvgen set and the Molly Crabapple set. I’d ...
As you know I love Mad Men, I also love fashion illustration, so, big surprise, I am totally obsessed with this new Mad Men: The Illustrated World book. The book look to have an additional healthy do...
Everyone in the design world is in a tizzy over the heinous new GAP logo, and I feel no need to add to the universal outrage. Instead, I want to reminisce about the old logo. When I was in middle sch...
I was finally invited to test “New Twitter” and while the jury is still out on twitter’s redesign effort, it became immediately apparent that I was going to need my own redesign eff...
Speaking of food porn, Ikea has released a cookbook: Hembakat är Bäst (Homemade Is Best). The photography and food styling are amazing! The ingredients of each food are artistically assembled and pho...
*Lust* La Tartine Gourmande *Lust* Go check out my new favorite mostly food blog, complete with recipes and stunning photography. Image from La Tartine Gourmande
Testing to see if I got full length feeds to work…so I figured I’d at least give you a fabulous picture to look at! You may get a few more of these, sorry! Image from marilynmonroecollect...
Given that so many of you loved the Ruelala invite, I thought I should share a Gilt invite as well! Gilt Groupe, like Ruelala in an online sample sell website, offering time-limited deals on everythi...
This weekend hubby and I galavanted about the the region, checking out many cute local towns in Maryland and Virginia. In one particularly cute town, in one particularly cute store, we ran across a s...
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