Cake Love

I'm making a Cinnamon Red Velvet Cake for Peter tonight. Because I love him and we're cold and tired and cake is good.

Papa Noel

I would love to go to Petit Déjeuner avec Papa Noel a l'Alliance Française! All the giddy french children make me giddy thinking about it!

Photo via Alliance Française

So In Love

The First Couple is kind of adorable.

Photos via Huffington Post: Here, Here, and Here.

Happy Thanksgiving

I love this print and think it's especially suitable for the holidays. This Thanksgiving I am thankful for the opportunity to study what I love, in a city I love, with the man I love.

Photo via Hijirik, via Etsy

Gnome Children

I am very serious when I say I'm rather disappointed at the supreme lack of gnome dress up that occured during my childhood.

Also, I can't believe that I haven't posted anything child-related yet. How un-me-like.

Photos via The Radical Thread Co., via Etsy; via Kiss the Prince, via Etsy

The Weekend

This weekend was one of those weekends that makes you feel like anything is possible and like you never want to be anywhere else but right where you are. 

Discovering new things in your new city, Day-long walks, Seeing and listening to one of your heroes and living geniuses speak three feet in front of you, Sunday morning runs to Whole Foods for eggs and bread, Running into friends while picking up eggs and bread at Whole Foods, Feeling the fall in the air, Collective cooking with perfect boyfriend, Laughing, Laughing, Laughing, Watching good movies...

...these are the things I loved about this weekend and it makes me excited for the many more good weekends to come.

Photos via OvationTV, TCM, Martha Stewart, , USA Election Atlas, Getty Images

My motto right now

Photo source unknown.

Flowers

I love flowers and would love a million of them around at all times.


Photo via floresdelsol, via Etsy

Sad to see you go

Thank you, Oprah.


(Don't leave!!)

Photo via Oprah

Most Beautiful Book

This is one of the greatest, most beautiful books I have ever read. It is hopeful, inspiring, achingly elegant and a delight to read. Don't just take my word for it- Oprah loves it too, as does Diane Rehm, AND it just won the National Book Award. I think it makes for a lovely gift, too!

Congratulations Mr. McCann, for a beautiful book and for the much-deserved recognition.

PS: Listen to the Diane Rehm interview- it is thought-provoking, wise, and uplifting.

The Time for Gift Hunting Has Arrived

I am always on the lookout for the perfect gift for the perfect someone, and if I had a million and one dollars I would buy all kinds of gifts for everyone I could think of! It's especially nice to look for gifts around the holidays and imagining what I'll give to people "someday when I'm rich and famous." I'll share the loveliest finds with you. Etsy has the gift guides to end all gift guides, and they are updated frequently.