Well, I heart Norweigans as much as anyone else…

{From I Heart Norweigan Wood}
I’m slipping in one last Friday post because I just liked this lady so gosh darn much! Check her out here…

for my lovelies.

Happy Friday my lovelies!
When we come back on Monday it’s going to be a new month – can you imagine? I think it is pure and utter insanity. (As opposed to what you say? Mayhap diluted and vague insanity?) This week with my sister here just flew by, now all of a sudden we’re into [...]

Thursday Evening Music

{Corey Chisel and The Wandering Sons}
I couldn’t resist another post today – this is the most fabulous song. Thanks to my sister for the intro.

Thursday’s Style

{Is so Monet..}
I did a little retail therapy with my sister on Wednesday afternoon; found this little gem at H&M. I’d looked at it a few times but was skeptical of the..ah.. colors. But I tried it on today and just fell in love with it’s odd cut and fantastic so-close-to-floral-but-not-quite print. And it was [...]

Snow Snaps

I’ve been watching the ice form and melt and feather and frost all over our living room window – and it’s been so beautiful! I took a few more pictures and thought I’d share them with you – enjoy! xoxo

Wanted Wednesday

{I feel like a knob.}
Hey folks – I’m a little bit busy today and didn’t plan very well, so I don’t have a Wanted Wednesday post for you! So.. what have you been wanting? What has caught your pretty little eyes? Leave it in the comments and we’ll all share in each others covetessness.. And [...]

slight of hand

{Christian Lyke}
Did you see it? Just there? A couple posts before? It sounds like so much fun, and everything is so well in the life of A and J, and everything so calm and ordered and there are cupcakes damn it, cupcakes. And Journey! Who doesn’t love Journey?
Did you catch it though? The sad sense [...]

give yourself a hand.

{Or borrow this one from stylist Sofia Achaval. File this under covet? Via the Selby}

do you ever feel like this?

{Katherine Squier}
Mmmm.. there are some weekends when I realise just how much I love being at home, baking and cooking and slow dancing in my living room with J, how much I love curling up in bed and reading and listening to the radio, how much I love taking long bubblebaths and reading over  scone [...]

Monday Must Have

{Reverie by Alison Woodward}
I have a tendency to layer jewellery on in a mildly talismanal way – sometimes just having a lot of shiny dangly things makes me feel stronger. Or alternately, like a crow. I do so love these bracelets by Alison Woodward, they seem to carry enough of their own weight and [...]

A Sunday Kind of Love – Guest: You Are My Fave

Hello Lovelies – As promised, a truly fabulous Sunday Kind of Love by Melanie from You Are My Fave! How awesome is this? I know. I’m aflutter. Verklempt. Goofy even. Take it away Melanie before I pass out and have bluebirds circling my head and hearts pouring out my eyes.
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I’m so happy that Andrea asked [...]

this excited.

{Ryan Schude – discovered via for me for you, one of the best blogs out there}
Gosh guys, I’m too excited. My sister gets here in less than 24 hours, and is here for 10 days! AND we have heat in our apartment! It’s like Christmas! Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend, and stay tuned [...]

Happy Friday!

{Ryan McGinly}
Happy Friday lovelies! We made it! It’s been a totally average, even pleasant week, with little to no strife (save Grey’s Anatomy, which I never watch, and by never watch I mean I haven’t missed it in the past month.. and every time it comes on I say “Oh NO!” and end up a [...]

Friday Delights!

{Have I told you how much I love Value Village lately? Because I do. I had to fight..well.. jostle an old lady for this beautiful tiered platter, and it was so worth it! The top -which you can’t see- looks like a little tulip. Wee!}
{There has been a pastry pas-de-deux at our local farmers market, [...]

The post where you think I’m a whiny, horrible person.

So I’ve been mulling this problem over in my head the past little while, and I can’t quite come up with a solution that doesn’t involve a lot of hair pulling, seething anger and vindictiveness. And maybe duct tape. *sigh* So I figure, when you have a blogger problem, you turn to bloggers right? Here [...]

this is not funny.

{herr_S’}
Titles I was trying out for this post:
It’s So Cold, I Have More Layers on than both Olsen’s!
It’s So Cold, pickpockets just want to warm their hands in my pockets!
It’s So Cold, a black man was elected president!
Then I realised none of these were funny, because in reality I had to put the chicken in [...]

Lindsay Buckingham vs. A Scorpion

Yeeps lovelies! The weather! It’s.. horrible! Our beautiful reprieve from that relentless harpy winter has ended, and she’s come back full force. I may have mentioned our oldish apartment building being a bit.. oh.. dodgy.. in the winter, the wind was so horrible this morning that I held onto J thinking “well.. he’ll weigh me [...]

Wanted Wednesday

{Essimar}
1) I’m absolutely loving these fantastic prints from Essimar. Their papercuts are really popular, but there is something so soothingly geometric and organic about the prints that I just can’t shake and have to show here. Peruse at leisure at the link above.
2) What I really want folks? Some breakfast. I may have mentioned it [...]

in the air

{Calie Shell}
I might miss Sociology for this.

Marry Me Penelope Tree

I’m so so loving Penelope Tree right now. She inspires me to wear well tailored black pants and immaculate bangs. How does she do that. Mine would be sticking out at 90 degree angles and I would permanently look like I was pitching forward. Which isn’t too far off from what I’m usually doing.. but [...]

3 Conversations

1.
A: I’ve written the start of Obama’s inauguration speech.
J: Really? Lets hear it.
A: Gimme a beat!
J: *complies*
A : Now this is the story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down, I’d like to take a minute just sit right there, I’ll tell you all about how I’m going to save this country [...]

Signs of Spring

{That would be my fantastic new cloche hat..and.. if you look very closely readers.. the first pictures of my new nose piercing. Yay! (By new I mean 3 weeks or so..)}
{The beautiful tulips I bought on Saturday}

Monday Must Have: Go Team Monday!

{Ryan McGinly for Vice}
I’m not going to lie guys, if Sunday night were a stock market indicator for the health of this week.. I think it would probably be Citibank. This is how it went:
J – Do you sometimes forget their are other people in the world A? Other people with eyes? We’re in a [...]

Art: Won..Evil: Zero

{One of the main reasons this is good news: This lady will continue to dazzle the world}
Omg guys. Look at this. Thanks P for being the messenger of good things today, and not just resuscitating my fear of opaque shower curtains and getting old. (Are you seriously too lazy to click? THEY SAVED POLAROID!)

A Sunday Kind of Love – Be Mine Valentine

Happy Sunday Everyone! It is a balmy 13 degrees here today (I know. So thrilled!) which is really helping with the fact that I took the phrase “You’re not driving tonight anyways, so go ahead!” to heart at the pub yesterday evening. (Hint guys: what am I going to do if I was the designated [...]

All things awesome and fabulous.

I’m fully aware that I totally skipped out on all scheduled posting this week. I suck. So I thought I’d make Friday a mish mash of awesome. Because awesome is the direction I’m hoping we head in this weekend! xo
{I’m on the hunt for a new tote, and this beautiful bag from Jill Bent is [...]

A metaphorical bleeding ear of a week.

First – I’d really like to thank all of you for your kind e-mails, your kind words, your coffees, your hugs, your nods.. Thank you. I don’t know what to say, other than never, ever pat yourself on the back. Because when you do, your metaphorical sweater gets stuck in your metaphorical earring and you [...]

Ta-Da! Betterish!

{Kari Herer}
Hey all – it’s been crazy, and we’re not out of the woods yet.. But I thought I’d pop in for a second to show you this fabulous artist that’s been perking me up. Check her out at the above link. I’ll be back soon, miss you all! xoxo (that was double love right [...]

break(ing)

{here}
I’ll be back in a few days – thank you all for being so kind and sweet. Life is kicking my proverbial, and real, ass.
**addendum: Because I am loath to leave you without a laugh, at the end of my horrible day yesterday, I stood beside a 300lb black man who asked me if I [...]

The New Shoes

{yes. just yes.}

Monday Must Have

{P is for Panty. As somebody wiser than me once said, I have the humour of a 6 year old. It was the first thing I looked up. Fine. Second. They don’t have a picture for Sex.}
Another week. Wow. Yeah. I’m not sure how this is happening, but it just keeps going forward, and nobody [...]

A Sunday Kind of Love – fishing for beautiful edition

Hello lovely miel et cannelle readers – it’s nice to meet you. A. kindly asked me over here to do this Sunday’s love. So I invited her right back… if you’re missing her pop over to fishing for beautiful, my usual blogging home, where she’ll be posting today!
But in the meantime I’m here for this [...]

Notice

Kissing Curtis Yahoo

 Hello all! 20SB is having a January Blog Carnival, and the topic is First Kisses – so I thought I’d participate (since you don’t know enough embarrassing things about me. *smile* ) Here we go…
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I’m not sure if it’s a characteristic of youth, or if memories of summers themselves have a quality that allows them [...]

A little fantasy..

Oh dears. I’ve been playing out this little fantasy today where I’m not living in this horrible cold, but instead in some beautiful warm little seaside town where I can walk about barefeet all day and make ceviche and stick flowers in my hair, and I only ever wear beautiful long skirts, sell pies for [...]

Thursday’s Style – Geeks n’ Wolves.

{Sorry babe. I couldn’t resist.}

It Was A Bingo Card. Shame.

Seriously lovers and lovettes, if you took Elizabeth Taylor off her medication and gave her a lot of gin and some stilts… that would have been my day. Not all White Diamonds and violet eyes, but up and down and up and down until I was all Malice in Wonderland.
I’m still not over my cold, [...]

Make More, Want Not

{This is so lovely, so beautiful. Don’t you wish sometimes that at the end of these beautiful ads… that they weren’t selling anything? That they just put beautiful things on television to make us all happier, inspired, in awe? Yeah, me too. The song is ‘ ‘To Build a Home’ by [...]

Wanted Wednesday

I’m feeling a little bit better today, so much better in fact that I couldn’t narrow it down to just one item for Wanted Wednesday, I’ve got three! I know! I do this shopping for you guys, you know that right? xo

{vintage ribbon bracelet from drawing room}

{bud vase from stepanka}

{Cerulean Rabbit from Daskaninchen}

An Open Letter to the Ladies at School

Hi there – yeah.. you. No, I understand that you can see your reflection in your blackberry/computer screen/cellphone, but I need you to look at me, just for a brief moment. Ok.. annnnd focus.
I know that you’re new to higher education, I know that with all your friends here, that this just feels like a [...]

Jumpin’ Jehosaphat

{Bat for Lashes}
Some Tuesday Tunes for you my dearests, while I wallow in bed with a recommended French Vogue. (KB – I don’t know if this is working. I just feel less glamorous and more pitiful than everyone in there.. though the French American Apparel ads are just so much better…)

Party Inspiration…Bribe. It’s a Bribe.

Oh my lovelies.. I am sick. I’m all hot, then I’m cold, and I’m achy and I sort of smell like Greek Pizza. Staying healthy between the school, work and this god-forsaken cold (my eyelashes froze to my toque. Froze to my toque) is sort of like thumb wrestling a friggin’ starfish. Hopeless, and you smell [...]

Monday Must Have

{Made By Elves. Literally. }
Yes my lovelies, it is Monday. Which means a) massive worldwide groan as we attempt to put on our post-holiday pants b) the resumption of post-work Happy Hour c) Monday Must Have returns from a holiday hiatus! I didn’t tell you I was going on hiatus? I’m tricky like that. So I’m [...]

Oddity.

Today has been a little bit of an odd day, involving a conversation that went like this -
Me – “I’m afraid of getting married. No. I’m afraid of getting divorced. It seems like an awful lot to go through to not be married anymore.”         
J-  “Don’t worry, we’ll just be together.”                                                                    
Me – “That’s what I was [...]

Sunday Kind of Love – The Boy Edition. Man. Sorry.

Hello All! Sorry for the late post today, we’ve been a little lazy. So without further adieu, here’s M&C’s first male guest blogger.. J! Check out his musical stylings here while you peruse his post, and don’t ask me how a man who can identify a Georgia O’Keefe a mile away finds sarcastic Marmaduke comics [...]

Belated.

In the hurry and scurry of things at the end of the year something slipped by without me noticing.. I have been blogging in some form or another for four years. I don’t think there’s much else that I’ve done consistently for four years, save maybe keep breathing and disliking tomatoes. I’ve travelled, loved, lived, [...]

Interview for You!

Hello all! Since I’ve been so lucky to catch a few new eyes out there lately, I thought it may be worthwhile to take part in this darling little interview meme that is going about, let you know a little bit more about me.  Kyla Bea was an incredible and interesting read, and sent me equally as [...]

Whereby I am very productive, then not at all.

{The new kitchen curtains. They sorta hurt my eyes.}
So, thanks to Joy and her fabulous loan of a sewing machine, we now have curtains in our kitchen, and J. is afraid that if he stops moving for too long I’m going to sew him into a couch cushion or new bed cover. Not to bad [...]

An Ice Cream Headache. Seriously. That’s it.

So, I’m going to go out on a limb here and wager that all my lovelies are spending the day relaxing, recouperating and gently reminiscing about 2008? You know, those of you who weren’t gallavanting across a metropolis, breaking in martini sets or remodelling your bathrooms last night. I rang in the new year with [...]

Because today, we’ve got time.

{Grandfather clock with functioning clock face printed on canvas from Rockette St. George}