KissMiss Time!

One of my favorite times of the year is upon us... CHRISTMAS TIME! So in the spirit of it all, all the weekly playlists in December will be a mix of classic Christmas songs, as well as some new favorites. Check my December posts from last year for more song choices :)

1. It’s Christmas! Let’s Be Glad! – Sufjan Stevens
2. No Christmas for Me – Zee Avi
3. The Christmas Song – Nat King Cole
4. I’ll Be Home For Christmas – Frank Sinatra
5. Joseph, Who Understood – The New Pornographers
6. Someday At Christmas – Jack Johnson
7. The Long Day Is Over – Norah Jones
8. Christmas – Rogue Wave
9. I Hate Christmas Parties – Relient K
10. Sleigh Ride – Diana Krall

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"Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone" - Deborah Whipp

Oui! Oui! Oui! Miss Dior Cherie

The commercial is finally on utube :D

Stars Hollow

Isn't there something just so comforting and magical about Christmas lights. The white ones are my favorite. Last year after a holiday party, 2 of my besties and I went to take pictures in the town square. All lit up with a gazebo and everything, it looked just like a Christmas episode of Gilmore Girls!

Weekly Top 10 Songs!

I put my ipod on random and here is what I got:

1. Something In The Water - The Jealous Girlfriends
2. Mind The Gap - Noisettes
3. Down - Ben Kweller
4. A Rush Of Blood to The Head - Coldplay
5. Are You Happy Now? - Michelle Branch
6. In Between Days - The Cure
7. Everything Is Average Nowadays - Kaiser Chiefs
8. There Goes The Fear - Doves
9. Bridges - Anna Ternneim
10. One Glass Of Water - The Bees

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

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!

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!

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!

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

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

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!

I Smell Sex and Candy

Happy Halloween Eve Y'all! So far we have had a childish Halloween playlist, an EXTREMELY scary one, and now is for the grown up one, complete with items and all!

What are you all being for Halloween? I have this thing about I cant be the same thing twice. This year I am going as Amy Winehouse - pictures from it may be posted - I will have to see how good the transformation comes out!

1. Halloweenhead - Ryan Adams

gloves, fredflare.com


2. Sex And Candy - Marcy Playground

shoes, modcloth.com


3. Cemeteries of London - Coldplay

ring, fredflare.com


4. Ghost - Rogue Wave

cookies, Eleni's Bakery NYC


5. Devils and Gods - Tori Amos

top, Chloe


6. What's A Girl To Do? - Bat for Lashes

hairpiece, Urban Outfitters


7. My Dear Country - Norah Jones

dress, Forever 21


8. Ghost Train - Counting Crows

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails EXTREME WEAR in Emerald City (also my current nail polish)


9. Your Lips Are Red - St. Vincent

top, lulus.com


10. Bat's Mouth - Bat for Lashes


leggings, American Apparel

Boo!

WARNING:

Upon listening to these songs, one may get an eerie, scary feeling and may be frightened:

1. The Laughing Yaks - Emily Wells
2. Calm Down - Psapp
3. Upstairs - Psapp
4. Hills of Our Home - Psapp
5. Stop Running Away - Telepopmusik
6. Where No Endings End - Keren Ann
7. End of May - Keren Ann
8. Black Wave - The Shins
9. The Wizard - Bat for Lashes

10. Between The Bars - Madeleine Peyroux

Pecan Pie Cake

I made this cake last year for Thanksgiving. Its very fallish, with the leaves and acorns made out of pie crusts and pecans. The recipe and instructions for hoe to make this cake can be found here.

Monster Mash

Snaps for Halloween!!! It it drawing closer - one of my favorite holidays :) for the next 3 weeks, the weekly top 10 songs will all be Halloween related. This week's group of songs (along with the items) have a more lighthearted Halloweeny feel to them, almost childlike:

1. Monsters - The Boy Least Likely To

cookies, Eleni's Bakery NYC

2. Skeleton Song - Kate Nash

dress, Marc by Marc Jacobs

3. Vampire - Antsy Pants

lip balm, Urban Outfitters

4. Pumpkin Soup - Kate Nash

jacket, Bamford

5. If Only I Had A Brain - The Flaming Lips

bracelets, Girlprops.com

6. Mr. Sandman - Oranger

headpiece, shopbando.com

7. Spooky - The Puppini Sisters

glasses holder, Mod Cloth

8. Could It Be Magic - The Puppini Sisters

bear, Jennifer Murphy

9. Strangers In The Night - Cake

dress, Luella

10. Neverevereverdid - Architecture In Helsinki

hot chocolate, fredflare.com