Scandinavian Lover

There are probably a million reasons why I would never move to Denmark/Sweden but oh my god these below photos are giving me about 15 reasons why I should absolutely move there now. like pronto.

Oh I dunno, are there any patterns you see here?  Floating stairs/open airy loft space, the color white?  I love white more than I can even explain yet somehow there is basically none of it in my current home.  I guess we will throw that little set of thoughts on the back burner until the next home!

20X200

I was just scooting my way around the internet when i clicked a gift guide link and ended up on this site.  Instant love.  I have been looking for a website that sold interesting yet not overly popular paintings and prints for a while now and this is the holy grail.  20 x 200 is chock full of some pretty cool stuff- great for gifts and my dining room, which is exactly where two of the below prints will be hanging in about a week. Straight out of New York and for such low prices!

I wish my plates were white

So that I could display them like this in my kitchen/dining room.  Add it to the list my friends.

Birthday Weekend Recap

It came and went like a firestorm my 29th birthday did.  Good food, good cocktails and some amazing friends helped make it a great one.  Friday night we waited (impatiently) for Jenn and Adam to arrive and after fighting NJ traffic for an hour, they finally made it and drinks were immediately on order.  Our friends Krissy and Justin arrived soon after and we all headed out to Jenn's recommendation for dinner, Cuban Petes for a tapas and sangria infused meal.  What an amazing place!  From the outside it appears to be a tiny little restaurant- that is until you walk through the palm tree lined path (complete with real coconuts) and into this little gem of a location.  We waited in line for a table (they told us it would be an hour and no, they didnt take reservations).  So we all popped open a beer (yes thats right, Cuban Pete's is BYOB) and passed around the can of Whipahol or "Whipped Lightning" as the in crowd calls it.  We ended up being seated fairly quickly and ordered up pitchers of Sangria and Mojitos and ate some of the most delicious food I have encountered in a long time.  Cut to 1 hour later and the husband has stolen a coconut and has given it to Jenn, who takes one look and smashes it onto the ground in the parking lot.  Sadly, we have still not grown up and it is quite obvious.  We come back to our home and play some fun games (Im sure our neighbors LOVED our renditions of "I Fought the law and the law won" at 230am courtesy of Rock Band for Xbox360).

We woke up the next morning and since the hubby was playing softball, Jenn, Adam and I wandered over to the classy establishment known as International House of Pancakes, which happens to be across the street from my house and indulged in some hangover suppressant food.  Back to the house to lounge around and then a quick ride over for some margaritas and a picture of the NY skyline.  How lovely.  And this was all before 3pm!  Then over came our other friends, Becky and Rick and their new pup Zeke to drink and eat and enjoy my actual bday.  Zeke harassed Barkley and they both barked for 2 hours straight.  After regaining our hearing, we headed out to Hoboken to see a live band and obviously drink some more (note- drinking as much as you can in a 48 hour period is a prerequisite for amazing things to happen at 3am, trust me).  We drank, we danced, we tried to pay with credit card at a cash only bar, and we made a fantastic late night visit to Johnny Rockets for a cheeseburger and fries.  We also took a 1 hour ride home in a cab who got lost and gave us a tour of the ghetto known as Newark.  Thanks cabby, thanks a lot.  But we did make it home in once piece with all our belongings and some fun yet blurry memories.  Big shout out to Jenn and the husband for making some great plans to help ring in 29.  The countdown to 30 started yesterday and there were no cocktails involved.

Elle Decor -December in the mountains

Below photos from Elle Decor...I'll take a little trip to these homes any day please and thank you.

Its my birthday and I'll Party like a rockstar

I turn the dreaded age of 29 years old tomorrow.  Quite depressing, being my last year in my 20's before i hit the forbidden (gasp) number 30.  When I was younger, I assumed that by now I would be married, with children, and a stay at home mom, cooking nice dinners and cleaning as I sang the lyrics to musicals around the house.  Things didnt quite turn out that way though and for that I am thankful.  I do have a wonderful husband, a man who is truly the best thing to ever happen to me.  We have our small, kidney-stoneless pup who brings joy to our life every day of the week.  I also have a group of amazing friends that I am so grateful for, who would do anything for me in a snap and that I have grown more mature with (sort of, if you dont count how we act in public).  This weekend, my best friend Jenn and some others are coming to visit and we are going out for two nights on the town.  Nothing "crazy" like years past, or at least that is what we are telling ourselves :)

perhaps I buy myself a little birthday gift- any of the below would work out just fine:

 A skirt like Miraslava's

 Fur coat as seen on Bleeker St

 Skull necklace for my hard-ass side

Or a sweet lace dress to be worn with black tights and gray heels

Trendsetter

Where Did You Get That is one of the 10 or so blogs I read every single morning when I wake up.  Karen Blanchard, the Brit behind this blog, shows off some amazing and fashion forward looks and shows off the trends before they are trends.  Her Balmain-like capes and thrift-store finds from old doc martens and fedoras to long gowns always pop up on a variety of sites and after following her consistently for almost 2 years, I can absolutely vouch that her blog is the place to be if you are looking to find out what will be hot in 6 months.

Nobody Does It Better

We Made It!

We made it out alive, barely.  After cooking Thanksgiving dinner for 15 and 4 days of house guests, the husband and I were elated to spend last night on our respective couches watching football and drinking wine.  Overall, the dinner went off without a hitch (minus the ridiculous amount of family members who thought it was a good idea to just stand in the middle of our small kitchen while we were trying to cook).  I had to instill a one in- one out policy to control the madness.  In other unrelated news, the pup has gained 2 lbs since his surgery and is having a bitch of a time trying to hop up onto anything because he doesnt realize how fat he is all of a sudden.  The chunkster cant even make it up the stairs without falling and stopping for a rest halfway up.  So pupster and I will be sweating it to the 80s tonight, to work off the pumpkin pie we stuffed ourselves with this weekend. 

Trukey Day and a slight update on where I have been

Hi All- its been a while and to be honest, I sort of forgot about this blog for a little bit because my head was full of other random things like the house, the pup and his kidney stones, my big 29th birthday that is coming up and the stressful situation that is 13 people coming to our home for Thanksgiving and the scary realization that I have never cooked a 26lb turkey before, or even a whole chicken for that matter.  We have been busy over here, raking leaves into piles that get blown around 3 minutes later, ponying up some hard earned money to take the enormous kidney stones out of our tiny pup and rearranging furniture until I am happy.  The house is finally coming along and the decor is all starting to make sense.  The husband and the pup are both growing into their "man stages" which basically means they are gaining weight at incredible rates of speed. I will post soon after the holiday with the success of my first hosting gig, but in the meantime i leave you with this to ponder- is it "high chair" or "height chair"????