Desert holiday

F and I went to Palm Desert last weekend; thanks to Priceline we got a great deal at this hotel. We headed out Friday morning, drove straight to the base of San Jacinto. We bought tram tickets, wiggled into our snow clothes and rode up 8,000 feet.

aero tram up to San Jacinto

patiently waiting for our ride

a colony (is that right?) of lady bugs

Once atop San Jacinto (which had an amazing 5 feet of snow on it) we grabbed a snack and set out to stomp around in the snow until our toes froze.

After taking the tram down we headed to the hotel for some relaxation and a good dinner. We ate at a delish Italian restaurant where we had the most amazing gnochi ever.

relief candle at dinner

Sunday we hit up the spa, pool, soaked up some sun, watched a bit of 'Goodfellas' in HD and played mini golf on the hotel grounds.

resort view from the room. not to shabby.

After leaving the hotel mid afternoon, we made our quintessential road trip refuel at In n Out before heading to the outlets. And we ran into some prehistoric awesomeness...

me and T-rex

F trapped under T-rex

After sadly leaving the outlets empty handed, we waved goodbye to the desert and its snowy mountains. But we'll be back.

Monday, Monday

No Monday blues for this one. F and I had a fabulous mini holiday in Palm Springs (I think it's officially Palm Desert..but that's all a gray area for me). Photos from our weekend adventure up tomorrow.

Now, lets get down to business and start the week off right with some swoon-worthy goodness, Anthropologie style...

love these casual neutrals


must.have.this.top.

all photos via anthropologie

Friday (whoot!)

Raise your hand if you want this kind of weekend...(raises hand in empty office)

all images via style me pretty

Have a fabulous weekend everybody. (F and I are taking a mini-holiday to Palm Springs!)

It's official

I think I'm loving everything about this little dining space. Yes.

Thanks, design sponge

sweet, sweet rain

I think it's the rain. But I'm craving a little bit of this...


And a little bit of this...

top two photos via heart of light. she has AMAZING recipes!

Ahh...yeah, you got me. Some of this too...

cheese photo found here

Design sponge

I'm officially addicted to Design Sponge. I'm LOVING...

This vertical, single file book storage


This beautiful, zen bedroom (but I think I'd delete the four posters)


This backyard space. I. WANT.


These sweet hanging chairs


And this breakfast table at which to drink a cappuccino and read

all images via Design Sponge

Hump Day

It's turning into one of these weeks, and it's great. Maybe it's the rain.

photo via yesplease

Happy Wednesday, everybody.

Of extreme importance

It's very simple, really: the second most important thing about a wedding, besides the gown, is the dessert table. (This is common knowledge). So here are a few things that I know I will be needing, and the list is growing...

This cake..

photo via Rummey Bears

A cupcake table...

photo via Once Wed

An entire table dedicated to pies...

photo via Once Wed

And a table of various decadent pastries and giant-glazed-donut-cakes (and bowls of glazed donut holes)

photo via Once Wed

Weekend, at a glance

This weekend was relaxing and fun. Got some work done and was able to clean a bit..always nice.

Friday F and I rode bikes to a restaurant that turned out to be too cool for us. So instead, we gladly picked up a Bronx pizza and headed back home to eat it and almost play half a game of monopoly.

Saturday, we rode bikes all over town: first to a cafe to peruse old issues of AD, then to the nursery to check out possibilities for the big day (eek!) and to the park for some reading and frisbee.

Sunday: got some work done, cleaned the apartment a bit...and begrudgingly put away the Christmas decorations.

Eggplant and pesto pizza

reading at the park

Me making a triumphant catch

action shot

Now..I don't want to call it a resolution because that just as sure means that I won't follow through with it. So..my GOAL for the new year is to try a different recipe every week. My madre got me a couple great vegetarian cookbooks for Christmas, so my first new recipe attempt of 2010 was: Zucchini Fritters...great success!

cookbook

fritters and cucumber yogurt dipping sauce

Inspiring words

This quote is refreshing. Thoreau-I like where your head's at.

from auburn and ivory

First wedding post!

My fiance and I have started planning the big day..slowly but surely. So...for all you (fellow) closet wedding fanatics out there, here is the first (of many, to be sure) wedding posts.

I say, why not start with the most important part of the wedding? THE GOWN. Obviously.

Here is what I know: A-line, floor length, strapless (probably) and definitely, DEFINITELY not white white. It's not a good color for me.

Here are a few styles I recently came across that made me drool on my desk...

the first two are Christos, the third is Amsale

Seriously

If all food on earth was obliterated in some freak food explosion and this was all that was left to eat...I think I'd be happy.

(and this).

bread & olive oil and chocolate from Sunday suppers

Mmmm...

According to google, it's supposed to rain tomorrow. I'll be needing a few things:

photo courtesy of stephaniefayblog.com

photo via heart of light

photo found on ink and post

photo via heart of light