When I Grow Up...

I want to plan these kind of parties as a living...

I MUST be an intern at Amy Atlas Events!

Butterfly Nest

Remember those butterfly hair clips we all wore in elementary school? Consider these a chic more grown up (and more realistic) version. Go to your local craft store and buy faux butterflies (in the silk flowers section usually) and just hot glue onto large bobby pins. I made the gold ones below to go with my graduation dress last year. They are definitely a conversation piece and are a prefect way to welcome spring. Butterfly you coif today, you know Marie Antoinette would...

Eye of the Beholder

Sorry, I thought I would post more this week because I am on spring break at home, but I have actually been tres busy. I guess I should have taken the week off from blogging - I think we all need that sometimes, don't you think? Well I guess I am going to take the weekend off hehe...

Here is the week's playlist, all songs concerning eyes. When I doodle on the margins in my notebooks, its always eyes. Creepy, if a stranger saw my notebook with eyeballs all over it.... Click here to see what your doodles mean. I will have to scan in my eye drawings sometime...

1. Open Your Eyes – Snow Patrol
2. Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color For Your Eyes – Kristin Andreassen
3. Behind Your Eyes – Jon Foreman
4. Sad Eyes – Bat For Lashes
5. In My Own Eyes – Brandi Carlile
6. Mind’s Eye – Josh Ritter
7. Dirty Eyes – The Raveonettes
8. Shut Your Eyes – Shout Out Louds
9. Sad Eyes – Josh Rouse
10. Shut Your Eyes – Snow Patrol

Teeny Bop

I am always in love with the beauty and hair editorials in Teen Vogue. This collection of pictures are from the March 2009 issue. The bright colors, Luella, Marc - its just all so fun and scrumptious eye candy :)

Eleanor Waldorf

By now the word is out about the "ghost designer" behind Gossip Girl Blair's mom Eleanor Waldorf's fabulous clothing line. Abigail Lorick's brand, Lorick, is actually the line you are seeing on our beloved show each Monday night. For the designer's Spring 2009 show, she skipped the usual runway show for a real model display living an indulgent lifestyle we all envy: eating cake with your hands while wearing pretty 50's housewife frocks, lounging around the garden, all while using chandeliers as your lighting.... it is a dream!

see the full collection here!

Road Trip

Today is the official start of my spring break! I am flying home for the week to summer job hunt and catch up with friends - but I know many people (like my college friends) are taking a road trip. Here are some tunes that I like to drive to:

1. Beautiful Calm Driving - Sia
2. No One Gets Left Behind - Devotchka
3. Winding Road – Bonnie Somerville
4. Standing Still - Jewel
5. Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
6. Along The Way - Devotchka
7. Hotel Paper – Michelle Branch
8. Be Here Now – Ray LaMontagne
9. The Last Beat Of My Heart - Devotchka
10. We Went For A Ride – Fefe Dobson

**no more midterms = more time to blog this week :)

Time Is On Our Side

Watches, fredflare.com

Weekley Top 10 songs: music that has to do with time, watches, and clocks.

1. Clocks - Coldplay
2. Time Flies – Lykke Li
3. Lost Watch - Seabear
4. Tick of Time – The Kooks
5. The Clockwise Witness - Devotchka
6. Everytime – Glen Hansard
7. Timeless – Kate Havnevik
8. Revenge Wears No Wristwatch – The Walkmen
9. In Time – Zero 7
10. Time To Pretend – MGMT

Commercial Club

Commercials are the new Myspace when finding new bands, Apple started it all with their cute fun song choices that introduced the country to their favorite new song by a new artist (to us indie music people, we already knew these bands hehe). Some songs are especially made for commercials (like that adorable 100 Calorie Oreo Candy Bites commercial - look it up on youtube) and can never be bought on itunes :( How do we fix this commercial jingle problem? SLOW CLUB!

This British boy and girl duo are the voices behind the newest and cutest Lay and Ritz Cracker Ads.

Cute, childish, playful, and summery is their sound, and ironically its not too "commercial" sounding. They haven't released their full CD yet, rather just little singles from their commercials and EPs. Check them out on itunes now and listen with a bag of Lays or some Ritz Crackers.

JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON!

500 Days of Summer

Ignore the annoying voice of the narrator and fall in love with the song and imagery. I cant wait to see this movie this summer. I'm craving warm weather and no school already! It seems like its 500 days till summer...

The song is Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap, its my new favorite song :)

Happy Valentine's Day <3

Cookies from Eleni's Bakery NYC

Sweethearts

Even though I have always been single on Valentines day, for some reason I still love the novelty of the made up greeting card holiday. Maybe its the chocolate and pink...

Here is the week's playlist, all LOVE songs:

1. First Love - Adele
2. Sea of Love – Cat Power
3. Big Love – Leona Naess
4. Publish My Love – Rogue Wave
5. My Love – Lykke Li
6. The Man I Love – Ella Fitzgerald
7. Real Love – Regina Spektor
8. I Love You For Sentimental Reasons – Linda Ronstdat
9. Trying My Best To Love You – Jenny Lewis
10. My Love Goes Free – Jon Foreman

Premiere

Here are some songs from artists and bands who have never been posted about on my blog before. Consider this their debut into Modern Marie:

1. Xavia – The Submarines
2. Go On, Say It – Blind Pilot
3. Rain – Bishop Allen
4. GfC – Albert Hammond Jr.
5. Islands on the Coast – Band of Horses
6. By Your Side - CocoRosie
7. Can’t Stop - MoZella
8. Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes
9. You Don’t Need This Song - Fields
10. On This Side – Tiny Vipers

LoveSongs

Albums made for Valentines Day - for girls in a relationship and for all the Single Ladies! Love, Lust, Heatbreak, and Lonliness, they tap into all your emotions:

• Paris, Je T'aime Soundtrack
• Feist Let It Die
• Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat
• All of the Slow Club EPs
• Norah Jones Not Too Late
• Sweetheart, Indie Artists remaking old and recent love songs, found at Starbucks and itunes only
• Moulin Rouge Soundtrack
• Adele 19
• The Bird and The Bee One Too Many Hearts EP
• Amy Winehouse Frank
• Leona Naess Leona Naess
• anything by Ella Fitzgerald

Can you think of any "Valentine's Day" Albums?

Sing this Lullaby to Yourself

Translation: something like "It's a Girl" in Italian.

I made this cake ans matching cupcakes for a surprise baby shower party last year during dance team practice for one of my coaches. she loves anything to do with Italy.

At the party we all drew on onsies and little bibs with fabric markers.

Speaking of babies, here are some lullabies that will coo you to sleep, no matter what your age:

1. Lullaby - Sia
2. I Need Some Sleep - Eels
3. Sleep – Juno Soundtrack
4. Daydreamer - Adele
5. Sweet Dream – Greg Laswell
6. From a Shell – Lisa Germano
7. 03.45: No Sleep – The Cardigans
8. Lullaby – Priscilla Ahn
9. We’ll Never Sleep – Rilo Kiley
10. Russian Lullaby – Ella Fitzgerald

**HAPPY WEEKEND!