pantone

2011's colors from pantone...the color of the year is honeysuckle.  pantone's take on the color: "energizing honeysuckle lifts spirits & imparts confidence to meet life's ongoing challenges."  i'm not really a pink person, but if wearing honeysuckle is going to help me accomplish things with an upbeat attitude this coming year, let's shop!  i am just naturally drawn to silver peony, peapod & russet together.  what are your favorites?

erin featherston, rebecca minkoff, nanette lepore, ella moss

white christmas

my boyfriend's mom just sent me some photos from their little farm in michigan. i almost cried...i want a white christmas (& horses!) so badly. how gorgeous is their house?! obsessed would not be too strong a word here...

 their home is so perfect

 julie, with charlotte & a paint i haven't met yet

taffy!  i love the snow all over her face.

gold velvet

i'll be honest. i grew up always saying i was NEVER going to wear gold! (or velvet, for that matter. i had a velvet dress with a peter pan collar when i was younger...can you say alexa chung?  stylish then & i didn't even know it.) obviously a lot has changed.  for instance: this erin featherston for juicy couture velvet gold dress is nothing short of amazing.

image of the day

 decorated my tree last night. it is a sad little thing, so bare. i would love a real tree, but they dry out so fast here. one of my very favorite parts of christmas decorating is unwrapping all the ornaments & laughing at our terrible homemade ornaments (who knew pretzels could last 19 years?!), the photos of us with santa (i have an amazing one where i am just screeeaming) & the momentos that still decorate our tree after all these years. decorating the tree helps me to center myself...directing my attention away from the materialistic, consumer christmas & bringing me back to what christmas is really about.

more important

dallas clayton

my kind of party

who needs clubbing in vegas when you could have this little bachelorette party instead?!

via yes,please