Birthday Countdown Wish List | A Stylist for my Life

{Mrs. Lilien, stylist extraordinaire! Gumdrops, cloves, pills, and bedazzled bushes never looked so lovely!}

I may not have it in spades, but I think I'm self aware enough to state that as far as personal style, I'm not doing terribly bad. I believe that classics with a twist are usually the way to go. I believe that vintage is at its best flanked with modern panache. I believe in fresh cut flowers and handwritten letters. I believe in library cards and real books that you can touch and smell- not those silly new whatchamacallits. I believe in creating a life you adore and if it were in my budget that hiring Mrs. Lilien, stylist extraordinaire, would not be a bad move to make. After all, someone who can make fire engine red and school bus yellow look chic all at the same time has got it going on in my book! Here's what a life would look like styled by the Mrs. herself...

Isn't she so crazy chic? What do you believe in loves? Happy Hump Day!

{Via Mrs.Lilien}

Birthday Countdown Wish List | Cheeky Cocktails

How necessary is this pair of highballs?  They would be a clever, not to mention wildly fun, addition to our bar cart whose last purchase of pink and orange leather coasters was far too long ago! If I happen to find them sitting under my birthday tree, you can bet they will be put to good use without a second's wait.  I think I'd shake it up like Don or Betty Draper and pour a good ol' fashioned gimlet.  What about you darlings?

p.s. Speaking of shaking it up, how's this for a cheeky hostess gift? Cheers!

{via Erin Ever After & Mrs. Lilien}

Birthday Countdown Wish List | A House in the City

{A traipse around the West Village on a day I was sure winter had broken and spring had waltzed in, Nat and I discovered the most lovely, and I must say intriguing front door with the most delightful address- 875 1/2 Bank Street.  Whimsy in the West Village- enough to deem love at first sight and then and there it was decided...one day I shall live here}

I'm not quite wishing for a house in the city, well yes one day, but mainly just the book titled Restoring a House in the City to prepare for that, dare I say, said "one day." Some people dream of a sprawling multi-acre farm or prime waterfront property, but I dream of...

...nostalgic, tree-lined cobblestone streets and quiet neighborhoods secretly tucked away in the biggest cities on earth. I dream of renovated Brooklyn brownstones the perfect mix of neo and "trad..."

and pre-war treasures overflowing with character from ceiling medallions to chandeliers in the heart of Greenwich Village. If only my feet would one day find those antique wood floors, I promise I would never hear the creaking and squeaking. 

I'm certainly aware that all of the above comes with "unless I win the lottery price tags" so I will settle for the book since it is after all chock full of my hopes and dreams :)

{Images Via Restoring a House in the City}

Birthday Countdown Wish List | A Quote close to my Heart. Literally.

{What quote would you have stamped? See Etsy Shop}

 There are moments

that I know I will long for

even as I live them. 

Wouldn’t this be lovely hanging daintily around your neck? Do you ever have moments like these?  Moments bursting to the brim with life, love, joy? Moments so precious and ethereal that the tighter you try to hold on to them the quicker they slip through your fingers like a dream? Life is fleeting and such is the beauty- to have many of these moments and to remind yourself to be terribly happy at all times.

{Quote by Judith Katzir via}

Birthday Countdown Wish List | Macaroon Cakes and Sparklers!

Hello, birthday week!!! I know I must make it to the end of the week, but I'm becoming exceedingly excited for the festivities to begin! There's no denying that I'm officially in my late twenties as I decided "mid" ended at 26, but no worries, getting older is just another reason to celebrate with a little more panache than that of my early twenties drunken debaucheries! Wouldn't a cake made of dainty macaroons from famous French Bakery Laduree be perfectly fabulous? Of course there must be champagne, and I'm thinking sparklers would be utterly splendid!

On an unrelated note, how was your weekend luvies? Mine was filled with dear friends, mani and wine dates alfresco (we had the most delicious torrentes!), a soda shop brunch (alfresco of course!), pretty cupcakes, a stylish arrival from Temperley London, a jaunt to the library, a mini Sunday night dinner date (you guessed it, alfresco!), and a fall afternoon walkabout in which we encountered a grandstand street performing band! I couldn't have asked for anything more! Cheers to another week!

 

{My selections from the dessert bar at brunch! Don't you love when you don't have to choose between one or the other?}

{Via AmourAmour, Fime, and Green Wedding Shoes}

Happy Friday!

Hooray, it's Friday! I've finally gotten into the routine of waking up at such an ungodly hour as 5:15 AM. It feels great to have already worked out to my heart's content by the time the sun is just peaking over the horizon, which trust me the heart is not hard to please while it's chasing the treadmill clock whilst beating a thousand times a minute, but I'm so looking forward to waking up whenever I please and slowly, very slowly. What are you looking forward to the next few days? Just a few more hours, so until then here are a few posts that are definitely My Cup of Te. Happy Weekend loves!

I made this for dinner last night, but with peppery arugula and roasted artichokes

I believe I've found my christmas cards

Does the term "go for it" apply here? I think I'd look quite ludicrous

Did their parents really dress them up like this?

A pumpkin makeover you'll need for all those crazy family get togethers coming up

Hello, lipstick

I love anything vintage, including cocktails

A Wu Wedding

MK or A with or without the eyeliner?

Marc Jacobs gets silly with it

Toasted marshmallows reinvented

A dead ringer for the blue on my living room walls

She gave him her username and pass, and he wrote the cutest post for their anni

Ray Ban's new releases for Spring '11

Light blogging...butterflies taste with their feet?

Today I went on a day trip with dad to see a big account. The account is a homegrown, southern family business like ours, but 3rd generation with 5th generation customers! Well I'll be damned, right? Whoever hears of such these days? On top of that, they hand out Coca-Cola classics in glass bottles to everyone customer that walks in- for FREE!  So vintage right now. It was great to be around such incredibly genuine, motivated people (J.M. shut it down!), my dad, and to see history at work...thus, I am all tuckered out and am sharing only this lovely little saying above. Light blogging and bedtime it is!