Happy Friday!

Happy Friday everybody!

I had a fabulous weekend last week with my college besties, a four day work week and I am already SO looking forward to starting another wonderful weekend ahead! Beau and I are driving to the Keys after work tonight to run the seven mile bridge run in Marathon Key. Seven miles of ocean on both sides of you, should be quite the morning jog! Sunday I am getting together with a new blogger friend, Laura with Make Merry Events to talk about some fun future projects. In the middle of this I'll be browsing a lot of links {as usual!}. I hope your weekend is going to be as sunny and beautiful as I'm hoping mine is!

Kate Spade is doing it again...major 25% sale!

I saw this NYC map that I want in our home and I can't stop thinking of it.

Wow, this wedding featured on Style Me Pretty was beautiful, but the welcome reception and the post party were truly a-m-a-z-i-n-g!

I need to pick up In Style's latest color issue because I was in love with the bright Eddie Ross table. Also, I wish I was still in DC because I would so want to attend the design event that Eddie will be speaking at on Tuesday, click here to register!

And last but not least, how many times can I say how much I was loving the invite that Ritzy Bee featured yesterday. They are right, it is fancy but not shmancy! I think it is delightful. How much would you love receiving this in the mail.

Happy weekend everybody!

xoxo~Becca

{Image courtesy of Etsy: 7th Avenue Art}

Happy Friday! ~ High GLOSS!

HAPPY FRIDAY! I am SO glad to see Friday here. I have had a long long week and am ready for a little R&R. So I want to introduce you to the new fabulous: High Gloss Magazine. {Check it out here.} I was already in love with the new online magazines like Lonny & Rue and here comes a new magazine created by some of my favorite bloggers!

The magazine was put together by some of my favorite bloggers!

One in particular is Erin Gates from the fabulous Elements of Style blog. LOVE!

See her High Gloss bio here.

I'm LOVING there magazine! I want to draw a big pink heart over all of the pages!

This dining room table with pink flowers is such a Becca room.

The framed map on the wall is great. How glam!

Thank you ladies for a fabulous first issue! I can't wait to indulge in this weekend.

Make yourself a nice cup of jo and find some time to enjoy High Gloss. Happy Weekend!

xoxo~Becca

Kelley Moore...fabulous

If you do not know who Kelley Moore is then go over to her site now... click here! Kelley is a lifestyle expert. Her creativity in design and entertaining is fabulous. I have been following her blog For the Love of Design and have just fallen head over heels in love with her work. She is one of those people where you can tell she absolutely loves what she does and it shows. This is what I aim for , long for and hope for and she is totally inspiring.

Her office was featured in the newest issue of RUE magazine, Um helllllo...amazing! Need I say more, see the pics below.

How cute are these Flamingos that she had at her holiday party! Check out more pics on her blog, it was a fun pink flamingo holiday soiree.

I love the easy fun table arrangement she put together at home for her New Years party. It looks so fun!

The very glamorous diner table below I heart. I love the picture table place cards, inspiring me for my 30th birthday party!

xoxo~Becca

The Curiosity Shoppe

After reading a few blog posts the other day I fell upon this cute shop, the Curiosity Shoppe. The site is really funky and well has the essentials I need: ceramic ice cream cone holders, silly note cards, ribbons, prints, a porcelain door stop. Curious? Head over http://www.curiosityshoppeonline.com/

Here are some of my favorite finds.....

A ceramic trophy for your mantle. Why not!I would use it as a vase. It makes you feel like you always win.

How cute are these little earrings.

LOVE this horseshoe. Maybe for the wall. It makes me want to have a party and put one on each chair as a little gift of luck.

OBSESSED with these ribbons. Not quite sure what I want to do with them but I have a feeling I could find a good reason to dress up the table with them.

How cute is this card? Need I say more.

Curious for what other little treasures they offer. Head on over to their site.

xoxo~Becca

Mrs. Lilien - Holiday Shop

I am totally in LOVE with Mrs. Lilien Blog! {I have posted about it before, LOVE!} Well, she is fabulous and has put together a Holiday Shoppe with a few of her favorite gift ideas....it's brilliant!

Shoe Bling from Ban.do ~ As if I wasn't already in love with their headbands enough! Now they create shoe bling!

I am going to a wedding in two weeks and this bottle of "Mazel Tov" wine is a MUST!

I love, LOVE these glasses!

What a great Hostess gift these coasters are!

Thank you Mrs. Lilien for always been just so amazing!

xoxo~ Becca

Happy Friday

Yay! It's FRIDAY!!!!

I did something crazy to my back this week and I'm in a bit of pain. I can't wait this weekend to stretch and relax and do a little yoga like my little friend above {Wish I would find him under the tree at Christmas!?!?!}

Here are a few of links that I will be enjoying this weekend. Enjoy the beautiful Fall weekend! {I wish I could report to you that I've accepted this Summer weather during Fall! ...I haven't}

*Gwyneth Paltrow's newest post on GOOP about her friend Jessica Seinfeld's new cookbook "Double Delicious" has me itching to make Gnocchi this weekend!

*RUE magazine - the inspirational online decor magazine is posting their second issue on Sunday. If you haven't checked it out you MUST check out the 1st before issue 2 is posted Sunday.

* The Rustic Glam wedding on Style Me Pretty was amazingly beautiful. I so loved the mix of the rustic tables and clear lucite chairs. It is a beautiful, beautiful shoot!

*Planning my Thanksgiving Day table with the inspiration of the wonderful Ritzy Bee in Southern Living my domestic goddess Miss Martha Stewart glimmer pumpkins or a little inspiration from the amazing Eddie Ross .

Enjoy your weekend!

xoxo~Becca

wear your passion

I saw this quote on the wonderful La Dolce Vita blog on Monday and thought....ooo, I love this! I should print it and frame it! Last night as I was still icing cookies for a work event today and still had numbers of things to cross off my list I begin thinking, "Why do I do this to myself?". Beau said it before me, "Next time just buy them. You love it but do people appreciate it?". Well this quote got me to think, maybe that's why I do it, because I think people do appreciate and I love it! I love creating the event that people leave and talk about and get excited about. I guess it is my passion. Life is short, wear your passion. Today I am...I have pink icing still in my nails:) hee hee.

xoxo~Becca

RUE

I'm having one of those mornings where I'm having a hard time accepting that I have to go back to work. Can't 3 day weekends exist every weekend, I would be way more productive! So to get me excited for the day I wanted to share...RUE, the new online magazine!

I know that we are all in love with LONNY magazine, so here is a new one to get excited about as well....RUE. Rue mag is only available online but the sneak peeks look so wonderful to browse through and get inspired by! The bloggers behind Plush Pallette and the City Sage have come together to create this wonderful Emagazine full of inspiration!

Inspiration for home decor, fashion, entertaining, parties, oooo I can't wait! The ladies had a photo shoot at the AMAZING ban.do offices (check out this post if you haven't! I die!). The magazine looks like I am going to be in LOVE with it! How fun is the party above???

I'm a HUGE magazine subscriber. I get wayyyy to many subscriptions and I think beau may think that between Vogue, Martha, US Weekly, Self, Glamour and oh the many others... our house is being taken over by magazines! That being said, I love the concept of the online magazines. They really get my creative mind moving. Right now with all of the decorating to be done at our house and the new life, job, etc. in Florida, I feel I need a little extra kick of creativity to get me going. Enjoy Rue, it comes out soon! ...(maybe the birthday fairy would bring me a fabulous Ipad gadget to read it on. hee hee. A girl can dream)

xoxo~becca

art comes to life....on a dessert table

I have forever LOVED this painting by Thiebaud. When I saw this amazing dessert table posted on the adorable Green Wedding Shoes Blog I had to share. I mean really, how amazing! It is beautiful, adorable, sweet and identical to the picture. What a great idea!!!!

oooo, I love, maybe I can make a table for a birthday party...mine is September 23rd.

Petit wedding cakes. Cute. Sweet.

xoxo~Becca

behind the scenes at Emersonmade

I saw this post on the fabulous Brooklyn Bride blog. OH I just want to run to Emerson's studio and play with all of her flowers! I love her thoughts on being creative and looking at the things around you to create new ideas. Emerson has certainly made a line of flowers and now clothes that we all love and her love for what she does shows through. Check out the interview!

A rainbow of little dandy flowers. hhmm, maybe I need one for my birthday coming up! ;)

xoxo~ Becca

new notes

You know my love for personalized stationary.

Well, I saw this line featured on the Creature Comforts blog and I love it!!!! I would love some new stationary to write letters from my new Florida home. I think my name on the little black dress card would be perfect. Explore the GADABOUT site and see what you would pick out. Drop me a line! xoxo~ Becca

redecorating

I saw this post a few weeks on Elements of Style Blog. Blogger Erin is fabulously talented. I LOVE the rooms she designs and have been following her for quite some time now. It is RARE that I do not like a thing she does, she is kind of.....well..fabulous!

Last week as I was sitting at the dining room table looking at my piles of stuff and dreaming of the day that beau's and my house is put together, I fell upon this recent posts of Erin. How pretty, sweet and glam is this project Erin is working on going to be? I dream of pink

chairs! Oooooo, it is nice to dream. I can not wait to see the finished project. Maybe it will inspire me to put all of my stuff away:) Cohabition is not easy. I want pink chairs, white furniture, zebra rugs and he wants dark woods and old museum posters. I know we will come to happy medium, it will only take time.

xoxo

Happy Birthday Urban Flip Flops!

I started my blog last week... one year ago! It has been one year since I started posting on Urban Flip Flops and wow, what a year it has been!!! I started blogging about my move to be with my beau. I thought blogging would be a fun way to write about things in the big city and things by the beach. I wrote about work, Washington DC, girlfriends, bars, Florida, parties, cocktails, clothes, movies, my big move. For awhile I thought, well maybe its not time to move and started thinking about other options, and then come Spring and I decided..... here I go! Why wait?

Here I am now in sunny Fort Lauderdale. Living with beau, I started working at a new job, there HAVE been a lot of flip flops along the way! I look forward to sharing more and moving to a public site! I feel like opening my blog will be a great way for my friends to share my ideas with their friends. Enjoy:)

Happy 1st birthday Urban Flip Flops!

I heart Blogs

Pink Lemonade. Cute Name. Cute Blog. Pink Lemonade is a cute blog written about fashion, decor and books. I love a blog that makes me smile as I browse through it.

{Favorite Books are always posted. Audrey, Sigh....}

{I love beautiful bookshelves. I have a thing for them with color coordinate books. I long for a large wall of built in bookshelves.}

{The blog writer has her first book coming out this Fall. J'adore New York. I do J'adore chick lit.}

{Pretty flowered shirt with pretty flowered necklaces.}

{The author is always writing about books she loves. Books to read. I can not wait for the Sex and the City prequel to come out by Candice Bushnell. I think it will be a fun look into what Carrie's life was Pre Mr. Big, Pre Vogue, Pre fabulousness. The Carrie Diaries.}

Keep blogging! xoxo~Becca

I Heart Blogs

With all the snow we have received in DC these past few weeks,

I have spent a lot of time inside browsing the Internet.

I love the new blogs I have been discovering.

I thought that I woulds start sharing my favorites with you each week.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

{Little Brown Pen}

I fell in love with the blogs color palettes of Paris. The blogs photos around Paris are so beautiful arranged by color or groupings of certain items (chairs, hearts, flowers,etc). The posts are so simple but the way she groups them together are so pretty. Her recent post about Red Velvet Whoopie Pies made me happy. Enjoy!

xoxo~Becca