a request

Ahem, Francis? Build me this bathtub please, view included.

{via desire to inspire}

Thank you, C

birthday part I

Last Thursday was my actual birthday. Here's how we celebrated:

-late afternoon tennis
-Thai dinner downtown
-a glass of wine with friends
-a very decadent chocolate strudel and coffee for dessert

{Buddha}

{honestly the only usable photo of me from dinner. I look like Forrest Gump in all the others}

{not what we got, but decadent looking}

{tea leaves 1}

{tea leaves 2}

{a wee bit of party prep - glass jars on the backyard steps}

*not pictured: my AWESOME new and beautiful road bike from fiance. He did good.

time flies.

I'm 25 today, people. Wowzers.

{flickr}

vices.

I love sweets. Don't judge me if my party food is 89% dessert.

{smitten kitchen - why do you taunt me so?}

Everybody have a fabulous weekend.

neglect.

Yipes. I've been slacking a bit on the blerg. I've been wrapped up in birthday party prep (pun?) and basking in the new evening sun thanks to DST. Here are some things I've been up to...

{someone's Saturday sky writing}

{farmer's market spider mums}

{farmer's market lillies}

{chocolate chip and walnut scone}

{7th St and dirty windshield}

{sister riding shotgun}

{long beach sunset}

{vintage store where I tried an awesome body suit}

{sister perusing vintage wear}

{theater in downtown LB}

{glass jar cleaning for said party}

{lots, and lots of mason jars for tealights. I don't mess around.}

*Not pictured:

-Saturday boardwalk bike ride and drinks in PB with friends

-a Lebanese dinner in Belmont Shore

-ping pong

-me + a giant mug of coffee + Julie and Julia

**Did I mention my birthday party is next week? And did I mention the theme is Time Warp? Psyched.

rainy monday.

Ok, people, this house (recently seen here) has a few things that I'll be needing in my own home...

{a bridge-hallway}

{some awesome stairs and Mondrian-esque stained glass}

{a kitchen big enough to dance in}

{oh, and a swing}

weekend.

Dinner and lots of sangria with friends Friday night (here). A rainy walk to the farmers' market Saturday morning was followed by raspberry-cream-cheese-coffee-cake eating and catching up on ma' current events (also known as fashion magazines). Saturday night we endured more rain and stopped by a birthday gathering in Encinitas, complete with Catchphrase and rats. Yes, rats. Sunday we rode bikes around town hitting Cafe Bassam and the zoo.

{coffee cake entrails, Vanity Fair}

{collected drift wood}

{libation at Bassam}

{a very regal looking lioness}

{one month old baby hippo}

{an irritated Christina refusing to remove her bike lock because she hates it and wants a new one. Good thing her birthday is this month. HINT. I hate the kind that self-curl}