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The Food & Wine Lover’s Giveaway (You’ve GOT To See This One)

For the next few months I’m going to be working closely with Ecco Domani, and to kick off the collaboration I put together a (pretty phenomenal, I think) giveaway consisting of a few of my very favorite things in the whole wide world.

If you’re the (very) lucky winner, you’ll be going home with a special curated package consisting of everything you need for a perfect evening of wine, cheese and music at home. The prize includes:

  • A SONOS Wireless Streaming Speaker that lets you stream your entire music library (as well as Pandora, Internet radio stations, etc) from an app on your phone (I have this and could not possibly love it more);
  • A Williams-Sonoma Slate Cheese Board;
  • A gold West Elm cheese knives set;
  • A gold Jayson Home Key Bottle Opener;
  • A set of gold-tinged Anthropologie Trellis glasses (perfect for use as wine glasses; they look almost exactly like the vintage set I found at a flea market and use every day);
  • An Uncommon Goods Succulent Wall Planter, which makes such a fun date night activity, and looks gorgeous hanging on the wall;
  • And more!

(Total retail value $500.)

Style

The Urban Uniform

 

Oh my god, this outfit is perfection.

Here is the problem with hosting fashion events: doing so involves hanging out in stores that you really, really like for a protracted period of time, during which you are doing a lot of looking at various pieces and discussing their wonderfulness.

Lifestyle

It’s Springtime, Baby

This photo has nothing to do with anything other than that it's baby-related, and the easiest DIY in the world (just a dreamcatcher, basically, except turned on its side), and I totally wish I had made one for our daughter's crib (not making one at this particular point in time; I have the feeling that delicate webs dripping with feathers might not travel especially well, and we have some serious traveling happening this summer).

Anyway, babies.

Spring!

Lifestyle

Links & Love & Stuff

david kind glasses

 Currently test-running David Kind's new personalized eyeglasses styling service - you choose three pairs, a personal stylist chooses three more that he or she thinks will suit you, and then all six are delivered to your door in a pretty little mirrored box so you can choose your favorite (and then you ship 'em all back and they fill your prescription in the frame of your choice).

 This Spanish actress photoshopped her entire existence, thereby proving definitively that everything you see on the Internet is a lie. (via Styleite)

Lifestyle

Shame On You

yujiro tada

Yesterday I got a call from a friend - let's call her "A" - that made me angrier than I've been in a long time.

A is dating a new guy, and this new guy might be the guy; as in, the guy she wants to be with forever. (Let's call him "TG.") And yesterday she called me crying, because she found out that on the night before her first date with TG a mutual "friend" of theirs - a man whom she'd dated years and years ago - took it upon himself to tell TG not only about their past, but about all her past. In exhaustive, disgusting, disrespectful detail, with the express purpose of making her sound like she'd done nothing for the past decade except jump from man to man. He told stories about her that made her sound careless; not like the "kind of woman" TG should date. And so I suppose he had another purpose, as well: to use this "information" to shame her, and to make TG see her - a potential long-term partner - as something less than what she is.

To make her sound worthless.

Let's talk about the world "slut" for a second.

Eat

Fettuccine with Shrimp, Peas and Spinach

I'm over winter.

I'm over the snow. Over the heating bill. Over the fact that my car's steering wheel apparently stops moving when it drops below twenty degrees.

I'm even over the stews and soups, and as much as I adore my slow-cooker, I'm ready to retire it in favor of all things springy and light. Mostly, I'm ready for seafood and white wine and fresh vegetables.

DIARY

FINE I’M UP

You know how I (by which I mean "parents") can't really handle staying awake past…oh, I don't know, like three seconds after The Bachelor ends? Because there is a one hundred percent chance that very small people will be all MOM I WANT A MUFFIN at the butt crack of dawn?

Well, even when those small people aren't technically there - and thus will not be waking you up - your body apparently can't handle the idea of awakeness post-ten P.M. Or at least mine can't. Very, very rarely (like on Valentine's Day, for example) I will drag this ancient carcass of mine out until midnight, but let me promise you: I am not happy about it.

But I figured Miami would be a little different. Because, you know…it's Miami. Miami is for staying awake. Dad and I spent one night at my friends Jeremy and Eric's place before heading home, and my plan was to be a functional human being who could hang like an actual person and speak in actual sentences for the duration of the party they were throwing, and then ten o'clock rolled around and I fell asleep while sitting fully upright at the table. In front of people. So I went into the bedroom "just to lie down just for a second," and:


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