i need a break...

i am in the last 2 weeks of pre-production heyday for my show that i'm directing and need a break until the first week of May.
see you then!

photo by Miles Aldridge

happy easter weekend...

i'm not one to post recipes but this is the coolest easter recipe. it's beautiful, presentable and i'm guessing seriously tasty.

this Bouchon Bakery recipe comes in Chocolate, Strawberry and Peanut Butter. i wish i had time to make these! get the recipe here.

via Apartment Therapy

i know, random...

but i love this picture of Manny Jr. (left) and D'Angelo Ortiz-

last night...

i am loving Old Orchard...

oh, now you've done it po-po...

i lived in New Hampshire for 6 years and loved the small personal freedoms that it used to carry as opposed to other states. first, i loved that you could smoke in bars. this is a glorious freedom for smokers, and people who were bothered by it didn't go to the bar. enough said. in Maine, they want you 50 feet (or something ridiculous) away from the DOOR. but now, of course, that law in NH has been passed. no more smoking cloves at the house of pizza.

i heard on NPR this morning that NH finally passed the seat belt law. the last state in the US to pass it. please, someone, explain to me why this was allowed to happen. personal safety is a choice, no? what happened to "Live Free or Die"? what the hell, NH.

and what happened on my way to work? i got pulled over for going 10 over the speed limit and got a ticket for $70 because i wasn't wearing my seat belt.

life is cruel.

pretty much...

the weirdest/goofiest/cutest basset

a thought...

mmkay, this is my current bathrobe from LL Bean:

here's the dilemma: it's ultrasoft, super-thick fleece. i have a love/hate relationship with this thing.

i love it because it keeps me crazy warm in the winter.

i hate it because:

1) it's too warm for 5 of the 12 months out of the year.

2) it's a dog hair magnet.

3) it's too thick and the texture makes me cringe if my skin is dry, which is 10 of the 12 months out of the year .

i wish i could find something like this:

but not have to pay $150 million.

where do i get a comfortable, clean, simple bathrobe for under $50 that doesn't have Hello Kitty, Tweety, "Sexypants" or hearts all over it?

a little glamour...

cause sometimes you just need a bit...

via Le Smoking, Le Fashion & Vain and Vapid

how i spent my night...

watching Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading, laughing out loud.

pattern and color...

...love-
via The Style Files, i suwanee & Design*Sponge

i can't wait...

via for me, for you

ow...

my soul...
via The Sartorialist

yayyyyy...

slowly but surely...

i can't wait for the kitchen cupboards to be DONE.

do you want to know why? over the sink window- finally done!

i've gone in a totally different direction for living/dining paint colors. thanks to Manda, who bought this glorious Yosemite print, i've decided to do a light gray/blue. buuut... which one? p.s. $10 print. gahd i love thrift stores in Maine! i think i'm leaning towards "Rhino".
tried a swatch of blue in the guest bedroom-a little shelf over the stove-drawing and painting again-and finally, the most exciting slowly-but-surely moment-YYYESSSSS

oh, um...wow

i checked out another fun House Tour on Apartment Therapy and lo and behold:this chick and i have picked the same exact kitchen colors on the walls and cabinets. wow. i think she picked a beautiful green. i thought my RL "Lafayette" wall color was going to look like that but it's kind of irritating me. maybe when i put up my cupboard doors it will be different. i freakin hope so. sometimes it annoys me.
i had no idea what kind of hardware i wanted, though i was leaning towards brushed gold, and now she's inspired me to use silver. i believe i told Manda that i was worried my kitchen felt like a "womb" so silver will cool it down a bit.

stellar DIY projects...

...of course, when i'm done painting the cottage.

NO...

NO NO NO

Pandora...

every streetstyle photographers dream...