Movie of the Moment: Sabrina

I have a slight Audrey Hepburn obsession and owning the complete collection of her work has me watching endless Audrey. Latley Sabrina has been in my rotation. It's a movie about young women going to France to attend culinary school and she returns home with style and sophistication. Does it get any dreamier then that? Well Audrey's wardrobe may, perhaps.
I just love the Turban!

Classic style.

Good posture is always sometimes I notice in old movies, and good manners!

Setting the trends not even knowing she was.
Can we say little black dress?

If Audrey Blogged...

Old movies are my Ambien.
What movie have you been loving lately?

Flowers of the Week: Fall-La-La-La, La-La-La

I love sprinkling my house with flowers of the season. And I am currently loving up my fall blooms while they last. Because in about 17 or so days my halls will be decked and the stockings will be hung. Yup I'm on those people who gets their Christmas tree as soon as Thanksgiving is over.
Although I can't believe how fast that is going to come! Until then I am enjoying my sunflowers and squashes.

The pumpkin "vase" a Martha idea -- obviously!

Party Prep: It's My Party And I Can Cry If I Want To

Ya'll know I love parties so when it came time to celebrate Vanessa's birthday I went ahead and took care of the decorations. Because a party is never complete without decorations!

The party came together very nicely and I think it's because we all brought something to the table -- or in this case party. I brought the decor, Vanessa brought the food, Betsy brought the specialty deserts, Annie brought the wine and Jen did our hair!

I personalized water bottles and champagne coupes with all the girls' initials.

And I added Drink me labels to the water bottles.
Available here for printing.

I put stickers on the caps so people could differentiate their bottles.

I used Martha Stewart for Micheal's stickers to personalize the coupes.
The coupes were from the Dollar Tree.

Vanessa brought hummus, dips and crackers from Trader Joes to nibble on when we were getting ready.

Betsy brought yummy Pastries from Masse's Pastries in Berkley


And of course the fabulous Jen set up shop and gave us all party do's!

Happy birthday V!
I hope you had a great time celebrating!!

Look of the Day: Honey, Put On Your Party Dress

This weekend we celebrated Vanessa's birthday. We had a girls night celebration complete with a hotel stay and we attended a food and wine event. It was a great excuse to put on a party dress, eat yummy food and dance the night away.

After much debate, I decided on a H&M party dress that I bought about a month ago. It ended up being a rainy evening so I added some tights to keep warm and a J Crew necklace to accessorize.

It was a very fun dress to wear, I kind of felt like a doll in it.

H&M Dress, J Crew Necklace (similar), Forever 21 Tights.

I'll be back soon with some of the party details!

Look of the Day: The Dog Days Are Over

As much as I love baseball I have a love affair with fashion too. And I am more then happy to be back in non-sports clothes.

My November is filled with birthday events, an engagement party, a possible trip to LA and if they're lucky -- a high school reunion. Oh and not to mention Thanksgiving festivities!

And I am more then excited to dress the part!

So that's exactly what I did yesterday. Bring on the sweaters, boots and jackets!!

Oh wait...it's 80' degrees out?

Is it the dog days of summer??

Forever 21 hat, Forever 21 Blouse, Forever 21 Jewelry,
H&M pants, Jeffrey Campbell Heels.

Nope just November in California!

Things I Love: The Off Season

In October the Giants may have won the World Series but...
Magazines went unread

Vases were flowerless.

Clothes and shoes that weren't orange and black went unworn:

But that's all changing now.

Thanks for bearing with me and all my baseball related posts!
YAY FOR REGULAR CLOTHES!
I missed them!
Look of the Day, Flower of the week and non Baseball related Things I Love posts coming soon.

My Last Baseball Post of 2011: Championship Parade

Yesterday I attended the Giants World Series Championship Parade and ceremony. It was one of the craziest things I have ever experienced. The only thing that comes close to what I experienced was when we were in Germany this past summer and they won one of their world cup games.

I got on BART at 7:30 and headed out to the madness. I had to choose between watching the Parade or watching the ceremonies at the Civic Center and I choose the ceremony, it was awesome and it brought tears to my eyes. But I have to admit I kind of regret not being on the Parade root. Either way I was there for History and it was an amazing day!

I am so lucky to have attended the Giants last regular season home game when they cliched heir playoff spot in the NCLS. I also was at Game 2 of the 2010 World Series, the last winning home game of the Championship win. And lastly I celebrated at the Parade.
A fabulous way to end the season!

The energy was amazing, and smiles were everywhere.

The crowd there was HUGE!

And the City was bumping!

It was one heck of a day that I'll never forget.

Things I Love: There's nothing else I can say...Eh eh eh

THE GIANTS WON!!
So that means Three Things:

#1 I'm FREAKING OUT!!

#2 In a Couple Days I will be back in normal clothes
(You know after Wednesday when I attend the parade!)
Thank you all for dealing with my momentary baseball break and for any converted Giants fans.
AND SORRY FOR MY LACK OF COMMENTS!!!

Oh and #3 I have a Texas package coming my way!!
FREAKING OUT!!!

Woo HOO! Me and my orange hair!!!

San Francisco... WE GOT GIANTS!!

Things I Love: Winner Takes All

First of all Thank you for al the Halloween Costume Comments and Compliments.
I just love making costumes!
Last week I recieved my Guerlain Gift prize basket that I won from Styleite Style Sheets Guerlain Giveaway Winner. Remember the one that was picked by Rachel Zoe!?
Even though I recieved it last week I have been too caught up in Baseball to check the products out, today I gave them a look.

I am not a beauty girl and have never owned such luxurious and expensive products before. Honestly I am a little afraid to take them out of their boxes! But I wanted to share with you the products and ask if anyone knows anything about them.

I need to go check the reviews. The packaging is super cool, very James Bond-ish.

Check out this super crazy Lipstick case.
I would feel very fancy or under cover spy busting this out.

It has it's own built in mirror, it's super cool!

And I still have one more product being shipped to me! I can't believe it!
And speaking of winning...LET's GO GIANTS!

DIY: I Should Have left My Phone at Home, Cuz This is a Diaster! {Lady Gaga DIY Costume}

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I love a holiday that requires costumes and who doesn't love the candy? Plus the Giants are on so it's a win/win situation all the way around. When I saw this outfit in the Lady Gaga/Beyonce Telephone video I had to recreate. And I think I did pretty good job. Did I mention I only spent about $15?

Inspiration:
Lady Gaga Telephone Headpiece

Lady AmAm


$1.00 Gloves

Wax Paper and Contact Paper for the Dress.

$2 Salvation Army Phone wrapped and Glue Gunned with a $4 Halloween store wig.

Ta da!
My Lady Gaga Telephone hat costume

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!