Gardening

My boyfriend got me some plants while I was out in New York during Easter weekend. I was so pleasantly surprised when I got home and found that we had more living things sharing our space. After a few struggles our basil is thriving and I am so proud of it!

Biting more than I can chew…

It is Sunday night and I am having quite an emotional evening. Clips from the Manning brothers’ childhood (Colts vs. Giants game is on), great great movie – The lives of Others and an emotional ending to Cupcake Wars. Now watching The Great Food Truck Race. Yes, yes, I am a Food Network junkie.

Anyway, so we had Emma’s first birthday party this weekend, and however I have a few complaints (about my lack of planning), everybody seemed to have had a great time. I will post some pictures after I get them from my friend Joel who was kind enough to be our photographer.

A few notes to anybody wanting to throw a party:

1. do your planning well ahead of time.

2. don’t assume you are going to have time to do anything on the day of the event – on the day of the event you should be only setting up and the extra time should just be used for incidentals aka things your forget. I repeat, don’t leave anything for the last day.

3. if you can afford to hire help (for cleaning up, help keeping things running smoothly, DO IT!

Anyway, let’s see who wins the $50k prize on the NFTR. Sleep tight and have an awesome week!! <

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Party Planning

Time has passed so fast and this past year has really flown by. It is impossible to say this and it not sounding cliché, but the day my baby was born feels like yesterday. Emma is turning ONE, everybody! Before Emma was born I had thought about all these things. Her first this, her first that, etc. and i had planned not to throw a big party for her first birthday. Well, after a year of sleep deprivation and all else deprivation I feel we all deserve to celebrate we’ve made it to one year :) Meeting my daughter and spending with her this last year has been beautiful, rewarding, tiring, amazing, everything to me in everyway. That’s just one reason. The other is that I love to entertain and to throw parties. I love the process… the invitations, the menu planning, choosing the cake, buying decorations, etc. I LOVE that. I will you posted. The party is next Saturday and I still have a lot of things to do. I gotta run now. xoxo

In Pittsburgh...!!

I am in Pittsburgh, PA this weekend visiting family. I love it here. In Pittsburgh I feel my energy replenishes. I feel inspired here... relaxed. I will get into the reasons of why I love this city later. Right now I just wanted to let you know, before I forget, that I LOVED the Warhol Museum. I had never been a Warhol girl myself, nor do I think I converted after my visit, but I definitely enjoyed it very much. I think it is very well curated, designed, and I think the people taking care of it really want the visitors to have a great idea. It is well organized in a way that everything makes the most sense. It is the ways things should be, but it doesn't fall short of expectations... I learned about things I didn't think I would, like when were video cameras available to consumers and the revolution this caused. I learned about unconventional media, unconventional subjects. I stole an idea for my daughter's second birthday party and an idea for my next (hopefully) halloween costume. In other words, it was inspiring in ways I didn't expect it to be.

I got Emma a great book. It is a about colors, not primary colors. Think your regular book about colors, but on crack. I hope she enjoys it.

Well, I gotta get some work done tonight so I can enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Going to the Zoo tomorrow, more museums on Sunday and Monday... a little more exploring and probably some ladies time with my mom (getting a mani, pedi and some make-up shopping and hopefully some shoe shopping too :))

Arcade Fire is one of my favorite bands of all time. Please enjoy their new album, The Suburbs, courtesy of NPR.

Let me know what do you think. <3

Smallbone of Devizes - Bedrooms and Dressing Rooms

Smallbone of Devizes - Bedrooms and Dressing Rooms

I had to fall in love with something that's physically out of reach, off course. The Shagreen collection is just dreamy! Although, I think I need not 'dream' about convincing Charlie about that one. I am sure he'd lean more towards the Alchemy collection... Please, give me ideas on how to convince my guy not only to like what I like but to LOVE it. hmmm

Planning our apartment.

I have a new goal: have a beautifully furnished apartment by the end of the year. That might not seem like an aggressive goal for the average person, but it is for me (I have many other goals that share this due date).

I am very jealous (good jealous, if there is such a thing) of all my friends who have beautifully arranged living spaces. I have to admit - I don't know how they do it. Everybody seem to be as busy as I am, yet I don't seem to find time to browse for 'perfect' furniture pieces as they do, and let alone keeping everything clean and organized.

Earlier today I paid my hairdresser a well overdue visit. This guy works everyday except Mondays (when he seldom works from home) from around 10am until around 8:30-9:00pm, yet surprisingly (to me) he finds time to have an apartment decorated so thoughtfully as to be one of the coziest places I have in a long time. He is a 30 year single male, Ladies.

Anyway, although, I have yet to define the style I'd like for my home ('home' came way before I every planned it to), I am already looking at design blogs, magazines, tv shows, etc. I am going to look everywhere until I get the 'right' inspiration. I think, however, that I should start by speaking with Charles about what approach he'd like (me, us) to take; at the end of the day this is our home we are talking about here. First things first, though. we will have to agree on style and everything else will flow. flow, flow, flow...