Weekend Outfit: Lilly of the Islands

Lilly Pulitzer can sometimes read a little young, but choose a floor length dress with an interesting neckline and you won't feel like a 19 year old sorority girl at the Carolina Cup. (No offense...I am just wayyy out of college!) 

This bright neon dress with pretty lace detailing and keyhole neckline feels sophisticated and playful, like it's made for Palm Beach, the tropics, cocktail hours, dinner party hostessing, and general frolic. And I love that it was pulled from Lilly's vintage design vault and Palm Beach in the 50s. I was so inspired by that era when designing my bar carts and hostess gowns. Retro-chic!

Crispy Polenta Bites and Cheeky Peach Lemonade

Every time I get an email from the Society Social entertaining expert, Your Southern Peach, I always want to pack my bags and head to Georgia to Amy's house! She creates the most delicious recipes, and aside from this particular shoot, photographs her work herself.

She brought her sweet southern charm and not to miss recipes (perfect for any summer soiree!) to the latest Manifesto Magalog (page 58!) and I'm so excited to share another installment of her column, The Social Bite + Bev. You'll need this sip and app for the weekend :) We're almost there, my loves! 

{Special Thanks to Rustic White Photography}

How Your Favorite Hue Colors Your Home

The bedroom makeover and debated upon mural is taking another direction. I'm thinking it might be too much trouble to plan out and execute a hand-painted citrus grove. Ya, think? :) Sometimes I just get carried away in my design endeavors! My room has such beautiful whitewashed molding that I think picking a fresh paint color would better serve the architecture already in place. I'm currently smitten with an inviting coral but am so tempted to do a calming, serene blue since it is a bedroom, after all.

Do you base the colors you put in your home on how they make you feel? I would love to know! You can see the full "The Color Cue" story in the latest Manifesto Magalog and a sneaky peeky of my custom headboard (more on that later) that went in this morning, here!

{Photography by Lawrence Te, Graphic Design by Colleen Nathanson}

Monday Motivation

Ella is giving out Monday motivation-- Go forth and Get It Girl!

{Society Social Sofa and Pillows in the last Manifesto Magalog shot by Lawrence Te, Ella's modeling debut thanks to Lindsay!}

Weekend Outfit: Zara Color Block Dress

Over the weekend, finally reunited with my dad and brother, San, after the better part of a year, the family went out on the town for dinner, drinks, and ballroom dancing! I wore this easy silk-like Zara color block dress (so breezy and perfect for the steamy tropical temps) and barely there nude sandals (that make me less self-conscious about my athletic legs) and topped it all of with my favorite Loren Hope necklace.

I slightly murdered the samba. Okay... totally. And Mom took Dad and San for a spin to the tune of cha-cha, salsa, and fox trot. It was so great seeing everyone together and happy!  I can't wait for Alan and the rest of the fam to join us. Hope y'all had a great weekend, too :)

p.s. If you want, I'll be updating Instagram with all my summer adventures. You can follow here! And, can you Samba? Teach me!

2 Days, 4 Planes, and What to Carry-On

Thank goodness for the kindness of strangers. I pleaded with the man across the aisle as I hyperventilated and sobbed uncontrollably,

Pillow Talk

A few perfect sofa recipes in the latest Manifesto Magalog. You can view the whole story and all the colorful pillow pick-me-ups in the latest issue here! 

{Photography by Lawrence Te // By Colleen}