A new beginning...

While I am a fairly cynical person, I am hoping that 2013 will be better than 2012. 

Looking back on 2012, these are the great times that we did have:  

Looking forward, I'm hoping to not only have some big experiences, but celebrate each day with small wonderful ones:

(Like riding bike to the Minneapolis Park Movies- http://www.mplsmusicandmovies.com)

 (c) Todd Buchanan via MinnesotaMonthly.com

A (Happy) New Year!

2012 has been one for the books, and for the majority of it not in an especially good way.  Bring on 2013!  However, it's worth celebrating just getting through it.
Happy New Year!
(And for the love of gawd please no resolutions; just shoot for the moon! Life is short.)

I'm going to wear this & the bottoms while eating ice cream and sipping champagne in bed tonight.

For the bedside champagne, this will pull up nicely

Credits: catchmyparty.com/ afieldjournal.blogspot.com/ thoushallcovert via a glamorous little side project via tumblr/ allthingsgorgeous via tumblr/ maisonsblanches via tumblr/ pinterest

Mid-winter beach house fantasies

 Vicarious living: good friends are looking to buy a house on* a lake.  Their tastes run decidedly "beachy". This is what I'd do:

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A great reading nook for the bookworms.  Note the whitewashed walls, floors.

 

Living Rooms! Mash them styles together...

  

Blue furniture sounds like a must for multiple reasons.

With 2 boys & a GIANT dog, this would make a great option to keep grubby hands/ feet outside!

Photo Credits: a)crushculdesac.tumblr.com,

 b)decoristasdeals.com, c)realestate.msn.com, d)Home Bunch.com, e)Elle Decor, f) House Beautiful

*ok just very very NEAR a large body of water

Santa Baby

Getting warm fuzzies about the holidays, just in time for... the holidays.

 

(The tree a rockstar squirrel would live in) 

 

Photo credits: a) Traditional Home, b) Keep.com, c) jpmdesign.blogspot.com, d)  tartanscot.blogspot.com, e)  elizabethannedesigns.com, f) tartanscot.blogspot.com, g)marthastewart.com, h) ahoratambienmama.blogspot.com, i) outdoorsanctuaries.tumblr.com, j) img-fotki.yandex.ru, k) etsy.com, l)DropitModern Schaap

Friends

...are important.  Like you need me to remind you.

 

(images courtesy cuteoverload, pinterest & youtube)

A Material Girls Birthday Wishes

Since this birthday girl is pretty much stuck home with little to do, day dreaming about things I'd love for a birthday outing must suffice.  This is what I'd wear out for a chilly Feb celebration:

This dress

With these boots

 & this bag...

As it is, we'll have to wait for next year to let it all out.  Cheers!

 (Images courtesy: asos, revolve, & jcrew)

Somewhere, something incredible...

... is waiting to be known. (Carl Sagan)

...and to kick off a celestially inspired post: Carl Sagan to music.  If it doesn't make you smile... you might have a problem.

...and the most perfect dress: "Some celestial event. No - no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should've sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful... " (from the movie Contact)

...and a fine runner-up

(Get it? There's a celestial map in there...)

So cute!



...listening to Carl Sagan, watching the stars.  In a purdy dress.  In this solarium, naturally.

(Images courtesy pinterest, Christopher Kane, Thomas O'brien, etc.)