Oh my goodness, I had so much fun hosting the White House Black Market holiday collection party with Marie Claire last week (above, I'm with my cohosts Christine and Julie). I started by getting to catch up with old friends (including some college buddies I haven't seen in ages), met a bunch of new ones...and then ended with Shake Shack on the Metronorth back home, and that is a fantastic night if I've ever heard of one.
Thank you to everyone who came out - you totally made my night!
I’ve always loved the idea of a charm bracelet, but I’ve yet to own one. Or rather I did own one, but only for about a week: Kendrick bought me a vintage chain link bracelet and a small bird charm as a wedding gift, but it slipped off my wrist somewhere in Bangkok.
No time like the present to start over, right?
The fall is all about new beginnings, and nothing is more fun than heading to the salon for a big hairstyle change once the weather begins to turn (lowlights! a pixie cut! bangs! layers!)…but this year, I have something slightly less dramatic (in an immediate sense, anyway) in mind.
I’m growing it out.
I miss my long hair, and I think I’d like to go even longer than it was before.
Years ago, I owned a necklace with huge ceramic flower beads on it that was so unique and drop-dead gorgeous that I literally didn't wear it on days when I was feeling antisocial or grumpy, because so many people would stop me to ask where I'd found it. That necklace was part of the bounty that a thief made off with when our apartment was broken into a few years back, and I only have one picture of it; it's a fairly hideously lit and blurry shot, but Stephen Baldwin happens to be in it too, which automatically makes it one of my favorite photos ever.
Anyway, I have a very soft spot for wildly ornate necklaces with enormous flowers on them.
Like this one.
If I were a pair of gloves, I would be these. (Juicy Couture, $98)
Even better: these gloves are part of a collection curated by Lydia Hearst for Juicy Couture in support of Operation Smile, a children's medical charity that provides free healthcare evaluations and surgeries to children and young adults in developing countries.
