Hello hello! some bits & pieces I’ve been meaning to share on a rainy day, and it is indeed a rainy day! Magpie palette moodboard from recent thrift finds & various bits. Click to enlarge. Bow chain handbag, YSL belt, string of pearls, Maggy London dress: destined for the shop. Wallet, for me. Hand me [...]

Oh, did I say I wasn’t going to write about the wedding for weeks? Well, ok. I lied. Slogging through the madness that is Google search results for wedding questions, I found eastsidebride pretty early in this crazy process, and was like “Great! I’ll just read this! It’s sane!” You have to understand that I [...]

I’ve been drawn to spring things, pinks and blues, strange for me! all photos in moodboard mine except nest, ceiling, & screenshot from Bolshoi Ballet ’67. Click to enlarge! Recent finds: Royal Staffordshire teapot, pink milk glass cake stand, gold and pink dish, green creamer, embossed glass goblet/vase. and 25 of these glasses, for very [...]

So I’ve decided to make my own dress, but have come across so many amazing options online as well. The handful of wedding magazines I’ve flipped through, I’m shocked at how similar all the dresses are. There’s a world of possibilities, ladies! Shake it up! I do have some limitations: I’m definitely not a strapless [...]

We’ve been spending every weekend in the courtyard garden, sprawled out on quilts in the patches of sun that last from early morning to late afternoon. There’s a routine, lazy mornings making coffee, walking in a loop around the neighborhood procuring breakfast, stopping at the used book shop, poking around one of the many nurseries [...]

I worked from home today, and while cleaning up my desk area, noticed a card for the weekly fabric sale at Erica Tanov, which is just down the street. I’d been wanting to go for months and months but am never on home on Thursday. So today at lunch, I ran over! Eeeek! This is [...]

Oooohhhhhh, niblets, I need guidance. This wedding stuff is over my head. According to some wedding checklist, I am 100% behind and totally fail at being a bride-to-be! Oops! Should I be reading blogs? Should I not? I need a girly girly helper planner to come sit and drink tea and help me pick out [...]