marais.

Our design director told us about this awesome shoe company..and I am wanting each and every one of these for spring! (especially the mulburry flat in that darling "easter" color..) and even better..they are all under $65! Too good to be true..see more here!

sweet times in texas...

I just got back from a delightful amazing weekend visiting 2 dear friends, my best friend and her husband in Houston. It felt so good to be on Texas soil again, to have the smell of fresh tortillas in the air, to see so much green!...
Here is just a taste of some favorite moments from the weekend..
-getting my first tours of houston..and katie and cullen's wonderful home! highlights: the bayou and las palmas. hee.
-Eating real mexican food for the first time in at least a year..it was so good i could barely concentrate. The quality of tortillas and salsa alone is enough reason to live in texas.
-lunch at Tiny Boxwoods, an amazingly chic little lunch spot that is connected to a nursery.
-a beautiful dinner at Pesce with wonderfully fun company and the best rasberry mojitos, what more could a girl want?
-finally being able to present K and C with their wedding present! It has been a long road to get it to them, but it was definitely a highlight for me to see it finally hanging in their home. I cross-stitched a piece for them to commemorate their anniversary, March 29th, 2008. The pattern was from a book I bought in France, modified a little bit for the text etc. Katie's mom so generously gave me a piece of lace from her wedding gown that forms the outside border. It truly made the piece!
There is nothing quite like being with a best friend..thanks for a wonderful weekend katie and cullen!

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to get your summer started..

..you might want to pop Gidget in your netflix queue...it is oh so wonderfully cheezy and cute..she had some pretty amazing outfits and bathing suits too!

easter..

sorry for the recent lack of posts..lots has been going on! I was home for a short Easter weekend..these sweet eggs were in a nest right in my mom's front baskets! They just hatched yesterday!

prom queen!

how fun! Last Saturday night Hannah, my beautiful lil sis, was crowned prom queen! Oh to be a beauty queen...congrats Hanni!

kate and i..

..just peeked in at kate spade today and saw her haig point dress and felt oh so on trend because it so reminded me of the alexander henry fabric i bought for my mary poppins skirt! how fun!

three potato four shop.

...i always pop into three potato four to see what amazing new finds they have. I love love love this ahoy there duffel and this chickadee vase.

button up...

..you can download this beautiful picture by Shanon Gass for your desktop right here...

party time...

..Ooooo how fun! I saw on ginny's blog today halli's amazing wedding invites! So beautiful..and even more beautiful is how much of a collaboration their wedding is..the graphic design was done by Meagan Bennett and the letterpress by Emily Johnson ( get their information here...also found this amazing invite idea over at Oh Happy Day!..when should my next party be?

excited about...

...heather ross's book "weekend sewing"...i would love to write a sewing book someday, and do all the beautiful technical drawings like heather has done..get one here..

mark boutavant.

I happened upon mark boutavant's illustrations at work, on one of my endless quests for cool looking characters..I love love love his use of color and imagination. His book "Le tour du monde de Mouk" is on the top of my wishlist. See more of his work here.

beach anyone?

..great picture taken by Anna over at Rifle.

hello spring.

..a few lovely pieces i would scoop up on this first day of spring..thank you j.crew...

new misha lulu.

Misha Lulu's Spring collection is now online. Oh how I would like to get that lil' pirate ship t shirt for myself...

old books are the best books...

thanks to lisa for showing me this wonderful blog full of old books! i can't get enough of old kids books..the colors and illustrations are amazing. how sweet is this one?
See more at here.