Apr 4, 2012

If I Had Won The Lottery…

Tory Burch ballerina flat $195 – cusp.com Kate spade handbag $298 – katespade.com Kate Spade embossed handbag $278 – katespade.com Marc by Marc Jacobs genuine leather handbag $275 – mytheresa.com Tiffany Co chain jewelry $7,200 – tiffany.com Kate spade bangle $148 – katespade.com Kate Spade dangle earrings $68 – katespade.com Kate spade sunglasses $128 – bloomingdales.com Chanel nail polish $26 – nordstrom.com Tennis Ball Coin Purse $50 – katespade.com Clinique Happy in Bloom 50mL $46 – bloomingdales.com Oh well.    🙂… [Read More]

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Feb 17, 2012

Cocktails With The Congressman

It’s what on the Congressional agenda for tonight.  Tonight we’re taking the Congressman and his lovely wife (my BFF since college and my matron of honor) to our favorite restaurant in our area.  It’s always a very fun evening when the four of us get together for dinner and I’m looking forward to it since we haven’t been able to get together since before the holidays. Recently,  I asked Cathy at Stitchfork Designs to put on her creative thinking cap… [Read More]

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Feb 4, 2012

Your First Kiss … do ‘kiss and tell’!

I have a love affair with Valentine’s Day. It’s when I received my first kiss from a boy named Kenny Watkins. In second grade, while we were passing out Valentine’s among the decorated shoe boxes adorned with paper doilies and hearts, Kenny puckered up and planted one on my right cheek. Totally surprised but secretly pleased due to my reciprocal crush, I did what any self–respecting seven year-old girl would have done – I promptly walked up to my teacher,… [Read More]

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Feb 2, 2012

Confessions of a …

That’s been me this past week. I confess to falling in love with Kate Spade’s “Bow Valley” bag when we first locked eyes this past Sunday in Fashion Island in Newport. Nordstrom’s being my first stop, I obsessed the rest of the day over this soft, buttery leather bag with a shiny patent half bow. The one thing I was obsessing about was the cost. Ugh. This is when I became a stalker. I saw the black version was on… [Read More]

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Jan 14, 2012

Thank You, My Sweet Blogging Buddies!

I wanted to check in to say thank you so much for your well wish comments for Mr. PM’s surgery.  I had good intentions to comment in return to each of your kind thoughts but to tell the truth, I didn’t have it in me this week to be at the computer. To give you a quick update, the surgery wasn’t as successful as we had wished and expected. I think one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to… [Read More]

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Dec 29, 2011

Christmas Recap

Basking. Recovering. Recharging. Putting away the silver, crystal and china. A MacFamily breakfast tradition. I can’t believe I forgot the Christmas crackers! So much fun to have received photos on Christmas morning of reader’s cinnamon rolls they made from The Best Giant Make-Ahead Cinnamon Roll Ever. Thank you so much for sharing! I’d love to see more so please send me your photos and I’ll post them. Here are two – from Lauren in Pasadena and Nancy in Seattle. And… [Read More]

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Dec 13, 2011

The Best Giant Make-Ahead Cinnamon Roll Ever!

This spectacular cinnamon roll is the centerpiece of our Christmas morning breakfast and is greeted with the same anticipation at our holiday table as the Cratchit’s plum pudding is at theirs. The recipe relies on using store-bought frozen bread dough, thawed, and an overnight rise in the fridge while Santa makes his rounds. Pop it in the oven while opening presents and the scent of warm cinnamon throughout the house is what a holiday morning is all about. Of course,… [Read More]

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Dec 7, 2011

Party at The White House

l’m sharing some photos my friend sent from the party she and her husband attended at the White House. Everything looked beautiful. Thank you, Lady Kate for sharing them with us! So fun to see how others entertain “at home.” The prettiest room, don’t you think? Simply decorated cookies and a nice presentation of the strawberries and blackberries. Very interesting arrangement. Love this! I bet the stars were heavenly! Using the fuzzy back of magnolia leaves on the garland. “Santa”… [Read More]

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Dec 5, 2011

Monday Perspective

As I’m taking a moment to think out my schedule this week which will include a cupcake tower with a snowflake theme and snowflake cookies, I’m also thinking of two strangely polar dining events that are taking place today. My brother and his wife are on day 4 without electricity from the Santa Ana winds that blew through Pasadena last week. They are eating of out an ice chest where there’s going to be a curbside drop off lane for… [Read More]

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Nov 30, 2011

The Pippa Bag – Part Duex

“Oh no I did-n’t!” I did. I loved my first Modalu Medium Pippa bag in shark so much that when I saw the croc version in the dark taupe color called oyster… well, we all have our weaknesses. (Pippa’s backside. Sorry. Couldn’t resist.) I did resist the first two availabilities of the bag last spring and summer before it sold out both times (self pat on the back) but when it came back again in September I heard that little… [Read More]

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