A little ruffle makes a lot of pretty...

     I'm not particularly a frilly person in my decorating or in my styling, but sometimes a little bit of ruffle turns something fairly ordinary into something extra special...


In a bedroom...this is from Full Bloom Cottage



In the bathroom in blue...

And in white...
Source: westelm.com via Lia on Pinterest

On a table inside...

 On beautiful linen pillows...

These are from Cottage and Cabin
In a closet...

Or on you...



February head colds, chicken soup, and some giggles...

     I have a cold people.  Now this isn't headline news by any means, but I pride myself in being just enough of a germaphobe that I rarely get sick.  In fact, just a couple of weeks ago my entire house was sick and I was all, "you sad little inferior sick people...I am ten steps ahead of you with my excessive hand washing that has left me impervious to your germ wielding powers...muhahahaha...MUAHAHAHAHA!"
Now am stuck eating chicken soup and hot tea with honey...and WAY too much time on my hands.  So boredom set in and I started taking pics of the pup...and found the funniest thing ever from the funniest blog ever...

Go check out The Bloggess...you will not stop laughing...

This is Juanita, a good friend of The Bloggess...she's havin a bit of a bad day...

Now pics of the pup,
cuz that's all I got people...that and dish pan hands with nothing to show for it...
Little Blue is sleeping...

Now setting the scene...Mom is being played by me...Mom, and Blue will be played by himself, yet with an English accent...go ahead trust me, it works...

Mom: Whatcha doin Blue?
Blue:  Well, I was chasing a rather quick-footed squirrel in my sleep, but now that's clearly been ruined...
Blue:  Stop with the incessant picture taking woman..



A perfect day for pink...

     If you can't do pink on Valentines Day, when can you?  Doesn't everyone love pink?  I think they do, and the ones who don't?  Well, as they say in the south...bless their hearts!  So let's all take a moment to get our proverbial pink on...

The perfect pink parcel...
I hope one of those has chocolate in it!

The perfect pink bath...

With the perfect pink tub...

The perfect pink dressing room...

The perfect place to grab something tasty...

The perfect pink Jimmy Choo purse...

To match the perfect pink shoe...

And there's nothing quite like the perfect pink cupcake...

Happy Valentines Day!


It's raining hearts...

     It's almost here.  Just another day away....Valentines Day.  Do you remember second grade?  Taking an old shoe box and covering it with white construction paper, and spending hours designing just the right combination of pink and red to adorn your elaborate Valentine's box to catch all those cards from every kid in your class?  Sticky glue laden fingers splattered with mounds of glitter, because there's no such thing as too much glitter.

That is a perfect memory.
  
     Flash forward to the multiple February fourteenths Bridgette Jones style wallowing in your own depression of a day without a boy.  The day without a boy.  The day without roses, carnations or even a couple of wilted daisies...cue Adele to start singing.  Right. About. Now...

Source: google.com via Laurie on Pinterest

Thank God for Ben and Jerry's people...because a pint of this, and all is right with the world...

Ha!  This is a flavor I have yet to try, not sure how I feel about about this one...


Or this one...those crazy kids over at Ben and Jerry's...

Here's to a little pink and red to get us in the mood
with or without a delivery of roses on its way...

Sarah Jessica in a crazy kind of combo...

Bold and bright bedroom...


For the office...
Source: google.com via Erica on Pinterest

With the Queen...

And know that everything is made better with ice cream...Oh yeah and wine...
with or without someone to share it...


Getting fit in February...

     So here's the thing, I go to the gym on a regular basis doing the usual running on the treadmill, stair master, and weight circuit.  But just as soon as you get used to not hating it so very much, it doesn't work as well as it used to.  I thought...somethings gotta change here, because your bum looks no better than it does from sitting around on the couch snuggling with the pups.  So I forced myself to go do a 75 minute Total Conditioning class to switch it up a bit.  By minute 5, I was checking the clock, by minute 25, I was sweating buckets of flop sweat...


It went down hill from there, not a pretty sight to behold.  But I did it people!  And now I can barely crawl out of bed or hobble across the room without looking like an 80 year old feeble person.  Because getting fit in February is hard!  I'd rather put on a toasty sweater and cute boots and go for a mocha already. Here's to keeping me going back to that God forsaken torture chamber called the gym...

Maybe to wear this? Suit by Seafolly...

Or this...Vix Swimwear

So I can go here...like yesterday...
Source: google.com via Tonya on Pinterest

OK it's going to take a whole lot more than a Total Conditioning torture class to get me looking remotely like that...why wasn't I born with a naturally/artificially via invasive surgery flat stomach?  
Curse my Irish heritage and fear of medical procedures!

So maybe I'll just go have my mocha and put on this...

That should just about do it  





Queen of your canopy bed...

     Don't you think there is something in all of us from the time we were a wee little nugget of a thing, that was dying to feel like royalty in our very own canopy bed?  I remember thinking that my sad little hand me down twin bed that was in a room shared with another equally unattractive twin bed with my sister, just wouldn't do, wouldn't do by a long shot.  Where were the matching pillow cases, blankets, fluffy little accent pillows or ruffly bedskirts?  Where was the giant bed with gorgeous flowing pink drapes and fluffy satin slippers at my bedside that would be the perfect princess accessory...Where?   What we did have was a 70's extravaganza of disturbing orange wallpaper with giant flowers paired with orange curtains topped off with chartreuse pom pom fringe, because apparently we didn't have enough goin on in there already...this did not fit into my idea of what a bedroom should be...what my imaginary princess bedroom should be.  Because yes people, I was designing imaginary rooms way back in the day too.  After Big D and I bought our very first home, I sadly painted our bedroom pink...and he let me!  My princess dreams were going to be fulfilled one way or the other!  Here's to the wee little princess and future queen in all of us...

Now this is what I'm talking about people...

This is positively dreamy!  Love those murano glass lamps too...

Now this should have been my little princess room...

Or this...

Grown up to look like this...

Sign me up for this please!

So very pretty...

Love...

Real Housewives...and other fabulous things and new obsessions...

   First things first, Real Housewives of Orange County is back on people, and the collagen, filler, silicone and botox is flyin all over the place!  

Think I'm kidding?

And let's not forget Beverly Hills...

And New YAWWKKKK...

OK, people...it is my one guilty pleasure, as long as we're not counting chocolate, wine, mojitos, Pringles, way too expensive purses and the occasional glazed donut...or two...

So now for the other fabulous things and new obsessions...

Nerd glasses, get a pair, they're pretty great...and yes everything looks good on Jen, I say Jen like we're actually friends, like I'm talking to her on a regular basis and all "Jen, what's goin on?  Let's do lunch...call me"  I heart her...

YSL Mascara Volume Effet Faux Cils mascara color...noir radical...this people, is false eye lashes on a stick, I kid you not.  Run right now to your nearest whatever, and buy it...cuz I said so...

Christian Dior Addict Lipstick #454 (It's more of a gloss)

It's just the right amount of barely there color...



Almay Oil Free Eye Make-up Remover pads...They are the best and they're cheap!  You can get them anywhere...


And these Target Microplush Blankets, I walk around with them like Linus with his blanket, they are the  most snuggly warm things EVAH!