xoxo

Sorry I've been a bit delayed on postings recently. I feel like I'm going through a crazy busy time right now. However, tonight I am ready to pour some bubbly and watch season 3 of GOSSIP GIRL!!!!! 9pm, CW. Tune in! Let the fun begin:)

Also, Target has the new Anna Sui Gossip Girl clothing line. Check it out!

Can't wait to hear everybody's thoughts on tonight's show.

xoxo

sweet sites

When I'm having a blah day at the office I like to eat my lunch at my desk and browse online. Below are a few blogs and sites I have found during my search. Enjoy! xoxo

Style Carrot wrote about Erin Gates wonderful apartment! I HEART this! http://stylecarrot.com/2009/03/01/erin-gates-elements-of-style/

Paris Apartments - ooo la la! I would LOVE to rent one of these for a couple of days...or months. http://www.haveninparis.com/apartments/paris/

Blonde+Blue - This blog has pretty sites that I like to browse. http://blondeblueblog.com/

Miette Cakes - I dream of going to San Francisco. I just feel like I would LOVE it. There is this adorable patisserie there and they started blogging. Pretty sweets. Everybody in NYC, I heard they are opening in Brooklyn!

http://miettecakes.blogspot.com/

NY Magazine Fashion Week - It's fashion week in NYC! Read up! http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/

The September Issue

VOGUE! sigh. Oh I have been reading the fashion bible since I was a teenager. I love to take an entire morning to read the hundreds of pages and dream about the beautiful clothing over a cup (or a pot, depending on the size of the issue) of coffee. It always excites me to get a new months issue in my mailbox!

In college I had an internship at the Conde Naste Cafe . The cafe is located in the building where Vogue also resides. My job was not very glamorous. I would wake up really early to set up the cafe, plan menus, listening to customers comments, etc. The exciting part of the job was watching what the Vogue girls, the Lucky girls, the Glamour girls, the Vanity Fair girls ate and wore to the "scene & be scene" lunch cafeteria. I always remember watching Anna Wintour eat the same thing day after, very Atkins lunch, in a beautiful floral skirt and a simple white tshirt. I was so intrigued and wish that my internship had been upstairs in their offices:) At least I got free magazines that summer!

Last week I saw The September Issue. I thought it was a fabulous documentary. It is so interesting to see how much work it takes to put together one issue, just one, of Vogue magazine. The largest Fall fashion magazine takes hundreds of people to put it on the newsstand. Anna Wintour is an interesting business woman. I liked seeing her at home with her daughter and talk about her childhood. She does seem to be a bit of a cold person, but most everybody around her always seems to take her opinion. I mean come on, she is Anna Wintour.

The starring lady I found was not Miss Wintour but Grace Coddington, Vogue's Creative Director. Grace's story of being a model, getting in an accident and then working her way up the ladder from British Vogue to American Vogue was wonderful. Grace has quite the spirit! Her flaming red hair is always present in amazing photo shoots. I felt like she was a genuine person who puts an extremely creative mind into every single photo shoot. Like I said, amazing to see the effort behind a few pages in a magazine. However, those few pages influence millions of people and what we purchase and wear.

Go see it! I loved it. I can't say much more.

xoxo

happy labor day

HAPPY LABOR DAY! A day off of work. Relax. Enjoy! Wow, where did summer go! I am driving home from my weekend at my parents in Blacksburg VA. I wish I was at the beach sipping a cocktail but for now I am enjoying sipping a cup of coffee before I hit the road. Here is to what was a great summer! Trips to Seattle, Vermont, NY, Florida, it wasn't too bad.

Have a great relaxing day! xoxo

objects of desire

Yesterday I got home from Jury Duty and had a fabulous, wonderful, amazing Jcrew catalog in my mail. The lovely accessories catalog they sent out is absolutely fabulous. I want the whole thing. Everything this Fall from Jcrew is on my dream list! Jewelery, purses, matchstick cords, heels, sweaters....I am dreaming of all of it! Below is my wish list that I created on Polyvore (a new obsession!).

I love all of the grey with punches of pink! I can't wait to bundle up in a ruffly sweater, a skinny pink belt, dangly earrings and maybe those neon pink socks to top it off. I might be living in sunny Florida in November, still wearing flip flops and sundresses when everybody is sporting their new Fall outfits. Oh no, I better break out my Fall attire and start wearing them! hhhmmm, do they items below fit in my budget? At least I can imagine!:)

Jcrew Fall 09 Dreaming by rldamato featuring J Crew

inspire ME

Today I sat at my desk and just felt very uninspired! I don't know how else to say it, simply, not excited and not inspired. I am trying to keep my head up and put my all towards my current job. You would think working for part of the company that is owned by the celebrity chef who plans the party of the year (the Academy Awards! yes! The Oscars!) would make me inspired and get my mind going, nope. Recently I have felt not creative, meeting plannerish (the other day I revised a proposal 3 times for a meeting for 40 so they could have continental breakfast, exciting) and just blah. I stare at the window hundreds of time during the day, browsing the Internet at amazing events and sites and dreaming of being a part of them. I think that this strange place I am in now goes deeper then just my move to Florida. This move has got me thinking of a lot more then just a new job. Recently I have started thinking of what it reallllly is I want to do. Beau often asks me, "What is it you really dream of doing?". Well, I dream of planning fabulous creative events. Events that are beautiful and make my clients happy. Events that make people in awwwwwww as they walk in the door and won't let them stopping talking about it when they leave. I want to make the events in my mind actually become reality!

Here are a few of the many links that I am obsessed. If any positions open up, sign me up. I often wonder how these planners got started! Maybe I should print out my resume, wrap it up in a big pink box, Fed Ex it over and ask! Inspire me! Get my creative mind going again! These are just a few. There are SO many more I have found recently and will post soon for you to follow on their new blogs. I want to learn how they all started with client #1! xoxo

Colin Cowie

Mindy Weiss

Jung Lee

David Stark

Lisa Vorce

Pineapple Productions

Ritzy Bee Events

TWO MONTHS AWAY

This weekend I have a 20 mile training run. Oh my! My longest run this season. My left foot is starting to ache. I don't know if it was just too many miles increased at once, old shoes or what, but it must get better soon! Here I go again! Two months away, marathon #4! November 1, New York City! If you are around, come cheer me on! I LOVE THE SUPPORTERS!!!! The first pic is from my first marathon in Washington with my fabulous family as my cheerleaders and the one at the bottom is from #3 in NYC!!!!! Thank you for being supportive. I hope I will see you along the course:)

(pics: Mom Charity & Katie with the amazing posters at marathon #1, Mom running with me for support at #1, Beau & I after marathon #3, me with #3 race # so proud, Christa Brandi and Emily with their amazing Dutch/English signs!)

xoxo