Sheena Easton
Mirrors reflect light and make rooms look bigger and better. I read an article on the Elle Decor site about Decorating with Mirrors. They really are the best things to use when you’re not sure what to put somewhere. Here are a few of my favorites:
Your local flea markets and garage sales often have mirrors just begging to be shined up and placed in your home. Ebay has a great selection of antique mirrors.
Remember, anyone can decorate with mirrors.
PS: Here is what I’m listening to
Melissa Etheridge, I’m the only one
Again with the daily distraction from my baby Birdie who is not in recovery mode yet…
I got to thinking about lighting. Literally and metaphorically, light is integral to our lives. Sunlight, light conversation, candle light, light that enables us to see, lighting in our favorite rooms…which is what I’m focused on today. I’m enchanted by chandeliers. All kinds and in every room. My ultimate obsession right now is an artichoke chandelier, which I happened upon while perusing the new Elle Decor site (love!). Below it’s hanging in a gorgeous white Boston kitchen.
This one is only $609! 
Anyway, chandeliers don’t have to be fancy or even expensive. Overstock shows us gorgeous chandeliers for around $100.
This one could go anywhere
This one would be perfect over a vanity
I like this one on either side of the bed in a modern bedroom?
I adore this one over a dining room table, second entrance or bed?
How cool is this one? It could be in an office, kid’s bedroom or what about front porch?
I like this one over a claw-foot bathtub.
This one is so interesting. I see it in a lounge or men’s bath.
This one is probably my favorite. I can’t wait to find a house with the right room for this chandelier….probably a sun-room, don’t you think?
My friends, I am trying to take my mind off my sick puppy for the time being with something so utterly distracting such as swimsuits. While I’ve promised to go on a many a diet/health kick/work0ut in preparation for Spring, really…I’m the same. And..I still plan on plunging into almost any pool I see (as long as I haven’t washed/curled my hair that day).
Readers, I am compelled to send you to your local TJ Maxx. That is where I’ve found my one and only beloved swimsuit of the summer. I tried it on for my boyfriend last weekend (just to get reviews) and I think he almost salivated! That has not happened. In. Forever. I tell you, it was not me! It was the magical swim suit. It’s a one piece but it is practically backless and completely suctioned. It is practically a piece of machinery in that it makes my boobs hit my clavical, my waist shrink 3″ and my back look as though there were nary a roll. BUT…(how can it get better you ask?) it doesn’t push the fat down to my legs!!! So they look normal, pretty good even (with a wedge added). What I can tell you about this glorious suit is that it’s Nine West or Calvin Klein, $19 and at TJ Maxx. It looks a lot like this but this isn’t it.
UPDATE: I found the swimsuit! It’s Calvin Klein 2009. It was featured last year on refinery29. And this is it!
It has changed my summer 2010 – ALREADY.
While we’re on the subject…I don’t think you will be able to pry me out of one-pieces this season. So, here are a few more I like.
From Victoria’s Secret:
From Newport News:
From Urban Outfitters:
From Asos:
Also check out NY mag’s shop-o-matic here.
My new baby puppy is sick and I’m sick with worry over her. It’s been one of those days and I just want to crawl in bed and lay there forever.
Images via {this is glamorous}
If you see this. Please think happy thoughts for my baby Birdie, who is only 10 weeks into life and has already captured my heart.
Hello Gorgeous! 
My bf and I have gotten a puppy together. We’ve wanted to take the dive for quite some time but have never actually come close. I have a bi-polar dachshund and he wanted a great dane, so we were having a hard time compromising. Then it all happened so fast! We met her sister (my bestie – Lo’s sister had adopted her). Robert got an email the next day and we went to visit her, the next day (yesterday) we brought her home!
She’s adorable, I know. Her name is Miss Roberta Roux Bridewell, Bertie for short. She’s just a delicious dessert dog! So precocious and affectionate. I’ve never had a puppy! Wiggles was 2+ years old when I adopted him. I just want to do everything right so she turns into the type of dog you can take anywhere and that everyone wants to be around! I’m so nervous! I bought Puppies for dummies yesterday! I also don’t want my already sour wiener feel left out.
Robert seems confident that we’ll figure everyone out. But, I don’t want to miss that small window where they’re so impressionable and learn with ease (not to nip, not to pee in the house, not to jump, not to beg, tricks). Who knows what will happen? All I know right now is I am in love with this beautiful creature and even more charmed by my beau when I see how sweet he is with her…
Did you melt?
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Sometimes even the least self-serving girl makes demands about engagement rings that she would in no other instance. Small house, old car, discount shoes, thrift-shop duds, forever21 baubles…None of these matter as long as the sparkle on our left ring finger results in the periodic blindness of those around us.
On the the other hand, the poor blokes who love and adore us and want to please us to the point of ecstasy don’t necessarily have $30k set aside, and if they do, it’s probably not filed under “the love of my life’s engagement ring fund” (we can only dream) and say they do have a nest egg already, wouldn’t we rather it go toward our dream house?
Case in point. This is one of my (Fayetteville) dream homes, I qualify because I have many around town (the country…the world!)
And this is my dream ring:
Both make me swoon. Why would a besotted young lady in love want to sacrifice one for the other? My answer is two-fold. We should and yet we don’t have to. We forgo blinding everyone in our office/circle of friends/random party for now. Let me explain! The ring above is and will always be my dream. Must I realize my most precious of dreams NOW at 24? I think not.
A while back I posted here about beautiful dream rings but ladies, I have other ideas. Women seem to be marrying younger and younger and the state of our U.S. economy is getting scarier and scarier. Why don’t we wait on our dream ring? Instead of our beaus taking 10 years to save for what “we” want or taking out a loan he doesn’t need, let’s compromise.
My proposal: Find a gorgeous cocktail ring you know you’ll love forever and wear that until you (or hubby) strike it rich and can provide you with what your heart desires. Keep pictures, most jewelers worth their snuff can re-create for you.
Here are some of my faves under $5K
$4500
$4600
$3500
$4500
$2600
$2400 
$4800
$1900
$3900
$5000
All of the above found at FayCullen
$795 $895
$895$1250
$1450 $1650
$1750 $1750
$1750$2250
$2250 $2450
$2650 $2650
$2700 $2750
$2750 I LOVE this one $2750
$2850 – I die $3250
I <3 $3250 $3350
$3350 $3450
I do – $3850 I do – $3950
$4250 I do $4750
And these below are the winners! All $750
Above images from Lang Antiques
I hope the next two days and nights are filled fun for you! Here’s what I’m hoping for me.
A little lovin’
Some rest 
Spring Flowers 
Dinner with friends (al fresco- natch) including a champagne toast 
I’d like for boyfriend and I to talk wiggles on a long walk. (This is them – below) Aren’t they adorable? I am lucky!
In this park. Perhaps he’ll bring along delicious drinks for us to share?
I’ll swing and he’ll push. Then he may or may not have a picnic put together for us EXACTLY like the one below.
Sunday will bring peonies and coffee and lazing.
Wishing you the same and much more. xx
As you can tell from this post, I love hair accessories. Hats, headbands, pins, wraps and especially flowers. I continue to wear them less than I intend to but I’ve vowed to change that this summer. Elements of Style posted yesterday about EmersonMade – They’re an adorable young couple that fled Manhattan for the most adorable farm, complete with geese. He helps her (Emerson) handcraft beautiful blossoms that can be pinned on labels, belts, in hair, placed in bouquets, arranged on the table or hung for a party. There is a wide variety of colors/sizes available and they are reasonably priced when you keep in mind they literally have each petal pieced together by hand. Here are some of their floral creations in their home.
If you weren’t already wanting to trade your husband in for hers, you’ll die when you see that they both model their creations. And he still looks manly and adorable while doing so. I tend to think my bf would look just as romantic with a flower on his label…but we’ve still got to work on that.
I have to interrupt because this is my favorite flower –The big poppy (I WANT IT)
And this is so so so so adorable. It’s obvious that he supports her ambition…and looks good while doing it!
Here are a few more of them. 
Check out emersonmade if for nothing else but to GUSH!.
I was so excited yesterday after reading about this gorgeous family and business and flowers I went out and bought these from Forever21. They were $6.80!
I instantly felt better and am planning to gently inspire Robert to rock a look like this
Or this
I’ll let you know how it goes.
I recently discovered Lonny Magazine, it’s an online-only home decor magazine with amazing finds and a keen eye for style. My favorite part is the instant click of images leading you directly to a site to where you can buy!
Vanity Fair did a piece on this lovely digi-mag in the December 2009 issue:
Here are some photos from the Oh Joy! Blog
One of my favorite articles comes from issue 3 and features a computer table fashioned into a lucite vanity. Sara Gilbane has her perfume/jewelry a top the clear table and her favorite shoes stored below. The whole thing is like a gorgeous work of art. What tops it off is the vintage-ish, oversize square mirror with personal photographs tucked in.
See what this simple (drab) computer table can turn into! The Lucite vanity is gorgeous but the magazine as a whole is SO worth a look :)
Literally… you can click on all the things you like and will be directed to where you can purchase them. SUCH AN AMAZING IDEA!
I also found this gorgeous mirror for $99 from novica.com that would be perfect atop the vanity, don’t you think? 
The Window Shopper 