Monday, November 24, 2008

Please and Thank You

I made these turkey cupcakes last year for Thanksgiving, all you need is a LOT of chocolate frosting, candy corn, chocolate sprinkles and a little white icing :) Its a good alternative for those picky eaters who don't like pumpkin pie (blasphemy, right?). Also in honor of THANKSgiving day, a playlist full of please and thank yous:

1. Please Please Please - Fiona Apple
2. You to Thank – Ben Folds
3. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
4. Thank You - Angie Mattson
5. Please Please Please - The Shout Out Louds
6. Thank You Louise – Ryan Adams
7. Please Be Patient With Me - Wilco
8. The Thanks I Get – Coconut Records
9. Please Be Kind – Ella Fitzgerald
10. Thank You Very Much – Kaiser Chiefs

I want to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving! This is a time to spend time with your friends and family, so take a break from blogging (I will!). Don't worry - we will all come back!

Be back in a week :D

Monday, November 17, 2008

Cute as a Button


I made this cake for a baby shower - button themed. I made little pastel button sugar cookies and placed them all over a cream cheese frosted yellow cake.

This weeks playlist are all songs that make me feel cute. You know those songs that just make you feel cute and wanna dance around in your room in your girliest, frilliest outfit?

1. Sometimes - The Strokes
2. Silver Lining - Rilo Kiley
3. Mariella - Kate Nash
4. Grace Kelly - Mika
5. She Moves In Her Own Way - The Kooks
6. Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
7. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend
8. I Thought I Saw Your Face Today - She & Him
9. Sex - The Pipettes
10. I Was Made For You - She & Him
Stay CUTE!

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Miss Dior Cherie


Spotted: an adorable, very French, very Marie Antoinette-esque perfume commercial premiering during Gossip Girl last Monday night. I remember watching this commercial and being very enchanted by it. After some research, I have found exactly why this commercial was so pleasing to the eye. It turns out that none other than Marie Antoinette director, Sofia Coppola, directed the advertisement for Miss Dior Cherie!

I found these ads online, which I'm sure will soon be appearing in all fashion magazines during this upcoming holiday season. I cant find the commercial on utube or anywhere, but I will be sure to post it as soon as it becomes available!

I really do not know how this smells or if I will like it, but I do know that I am a sucker for pretty packaging and presentation!

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Cupcake

I have an odd obsession with taking pictures of desserts. So I will continue to take pictures of each treat I get at Cupcake, a delicious cupcake bakery in downtown Charleston, SC. If you're ever in town be sure to stop by!

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Amy Winehouse

Because when you dress up like Amy Winehouse, you have to have the attitude of Amy Winehouse!
Halloween was so much fun dressed up like Amy, apparently she and Sarah Palin were the top 2 costumes this Halloween for women. For my look, I had my artist roommate draw her tattoos on my arms (which I all have are blurry pics of). I wore a black wife beater and skinny jeans with zippers on the ankles, as well as some UBER high f-me pumps. It took like 20 mintues, layer upon ,layer of black ink liquid eye liner (no wonder she never washes herself). And after making a hole in the ozone with all the hairspray I used and TEASING, I got the effect of a beehive (it was taller than it looks in the picture). I finished off the look with candy cigs, a Chanel-esque purse, and a British accent :)

^my shoes next to "Brawny" man

Thursday, November 6, 2008

No Words Needed

This weeks top 10 songs are all instrumental, meaning you will hear no words spoken throughout all of them. Frankly, they are so beautiful, I think lyrics would taint them!

1. I Saw the Bright Shinies - The Octopus Project
2. Pretty Good Year - Vitamin String Quartet
3. Life In Technicolor - Coldplay
4. Arrangements of Shapes and Space - Camera Obscura
5. My Family's Role In the World Revolution - Beirut
6. End of the World Party - Medeski, Martin & Wood
7. Soulful Strut - Young-Holt Unlimited
8. The Russian - The Bees
9. Grazing In The Grass - Hugh Masekela
10. You Know How I Do - Vitamin String Quartet

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Indian Princess

I saw these beautifully majestic Native American princess "crowns and tiaras" in the recent Teen Vogue and was enchanted by them.
See some more of these creations at http://littledoeislove.com/!

***Sorry I've been so slack latey on posting :( college is my excuse

***** I will also be posting my Amy Winehouse pics either this week or next, don't worry - they will be posted eventually (I'm stillnwaiting for some people to put their pictures up on facebook)

HAPPY VOTING!