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I was kind of hoping that looking at these delicate photographs would help me balance out how heavy and weighted down I still feel from yesterday's feast, but alas, no luck so far.

Have a good weekend, everybody!

Feasting!

Originally uploaded by djola_has_seen. BTW, the set this photo belongs to is GORGEOUS.

For all those in the US, Happy Thanksgiving! As a vegetarian, I'll be stuffing myself with everything but the turkey today, though what I'm really excited about is that by the end of the feast this evening my self-imposed restriction will be lifted and I can officially begin listening to Christmas music. Bing Crosby, here I come!

Pretty as a Painting

Painterly cocktail dresses in a painterly lookbook for Olivia Rubin, Spring/Summer 2010, photographed by Alistair Guy. Love it.

Cupcakes from Cupcake Royale, my one true love.

I'm celebrating my birthday today, so here's a cupcake for me and another for you! :)

Fact & Fiction

You know what these tights are? These are fairy tights. Paired with a little fluttery dress (black, maybe?) I'd feel like quite the woodland nymph. Wouldn't it be fun to dance about at wintry holiday parties in these lovelies?

Weekend Pairing - Fun to cook, fun to eat

The boy and I threw a little pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Feast this weekend, and the absolutely fantastic food blog Smitten Kitchen was a large part of it--I get so many of my recipes from Deb! Sunday evening we enjoyed salmon and wild rice with creamy lemon-dill sauce, rosemary roasted potatoes, cauliflower and brussels sprouts in caper-butter (definitely going to have to make this again), winter fruit salad, and a Dorie Greenspan cranberry upsidedown cake for dessert. Success!

Jon Klassen

I'm completely in love with the illustration work of Jon Klassen, whose recent work includes visual development for the movie Coraline (haven't seen it yet, but the more I hear about it the more I really want to--the list of talented artists involved in it continues to amaze me!). Prints of the above image are available here, and I just might have to get one myself.

F I C T I O N Sale

Four Autumnal prints are on sale in the shop! Clad in scarves or carrying umbrellas, the little monsters on these prints are quite a bit cuter than the rainy, cold, and blustery weather outside my window right now, so pick one of these guys up at their discounted price and bring home something cheery to combat the November wet and dark.
Sale prints will be available until November 30.

Slice

Jaq Belcher's paper works--delicate and beautiful.

I Heart You, Streethearts

In the spite of the fact (or perhaps because of it) that I have almost zero fashion "daring" and wear jeans, a simple top, and a cardi just about every day, I love looking at fashion street-style blogs, and the most recent one that's caught my eye is the cutely named Streethearts.

Cedric Bihr

I'm loving Cedric Bihr's dreamy, hazy photographs. His landscapes, portraits, fashion photography: all fantastic.

Weekend Pairing - When will it stop raining?

Tried some delicious fish fritters and (strong) mojitos.
Devoured yet another good book--I've been the biggest bookworm ever this Fall!
Saw a fantastically terrible movie--Roland Emmerich, your films are always good for a laugh.
Started planning the menu for a little pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner--can't wait!

Classic Class

Another gorgeous Sartorialist lady. She looks just perfect.

The September Issue

Question: How awesome is this documentary?
Answer: Pretty darn awesome.
I finally got to see it, and though it may be focused on Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, senior stylist Grace Coddington steals the show. I hope I'm that feisty and creative and amazing when I'm almost 70.

Sophie Blackall - Phoenix with Crutches

I first heard about Sophie Blackall's adorably quirky Missed Connection series from Mallory on Where the Lovely Things Are, and I just had to pass it along here as well. It's such a great idea--as Sophie says of the project on her blog, "Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I'm trying to pin a few of them down." They're also now for sale! This one's my favorite: it's kind of mysterious, and I don't quite get it, but the illustration is just so gorgeous.

Mid-Week Break

Yesterday was a nice day off (thank you Veterans!). My diet, in celebration of Fall, sleeping in, and not having to go to work, was comprised entirely of delicious baked goods: scones made by my mother and dropped off the day before for brunch (served with this unbelievably delicious creamed honey), a cranberry-orange cupcake from Cupcake Royale (should I be proud or embarrassed that I've now tried all the flavors from their Cupcake Harvest Festival?), homemade spinach and mushroom calzones from one of the Moosewood cookbooks, and cranberry-pecan tart for dessert. It's cold outside, so I suppose this is my attempt to put on some extra pounds before I go into winter hibernation, black bear style.