Lovely

This woman's house is lovely. She is one of Cookie Magazine's best house tours of the year.

See the full Flickr Slide show here.
See the Cookie Magazine Countdown here. (Nie Nie is number one!)
See Joslyn's blog, Simple Lovely, here.

Unacceptable

Is this some sort of sick joke? And the worst part is, the meteorologists are dirty, filthy liars. It's like 8 degrees outside. And this darling little graphic doesn't show the ten inch snow drifts, or the brown slush on the roads, or the numb feet, or the snow-matted hair, or the impossibilities of driving up hills, or the absolute TORTURE that is Utah winters.

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This morning I realized that my 9:00 class was on the other side of campus. So, I dropped it. I straight up dropped a class because I didn't want to walk down four flights of stairs in the snow. Clearly, my productivity as an adult would be in serious jeopardy if I were to live in a cold climate after school..ain't happenin.

I'm whining, I recognize this. But this is truly foul. Did I mention that our heat and hot water aren't turned on yet? Oh, and I officially eat my words.

British Holiday

Whit and I got Adele and Duffy CDs for Christmas. Fabulous young soulful singers under 25 from England and Wales. But it's all just one big island..right Rie?

Duffy is already doing pretty well for herself, with over four million albums sold, but miss Adele is a little less known.

Buy 19 IMMEDIATELY. She is nominated for four grammies, and mark my words, after February 9th, this girl is going to completely take over. I could listen to either of these girls sing the phone book...

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Listen to Adele here. A personal favorite is Hometown Glory.

Listen to Duffy here. A personal favorite is Stepping Stone.

Did I mention that Adele will be in SLC on January 23rd? You're all coming with me.

ho ho ho

We had a Nielson/Christensen Austin outing last night. We hit up Hut's for some greasy burger goodness and to 37th St. to take in some quality Austin Christmas lights.

Your standard Christmas preying mantis.

Welcome to Austin.

There was also a nativity with LBJ as a wiseman and Obama as the baby Jesus.

Merry Christmas from ( a very warm) Austin!

Two things..

1. I'm back from the depths of educational hell

2. Why don't we dress like this anymore?

Probably my favorite iconic costume from a movie..Grace Kelly in Rear Window, created by Edith Head

Apparently Hollywood is obsessed with this dress as well....

Mark Shaw photographed an imitation during a fashion show in the '50s..I'll take a few ribs out and squeeze right into this little number

Vanity Fair did a Hitchcock tribute a few years ago...

..And Carolina Herrera created her own interpretation for a benefit last year...somehow my people didn't get the memo to purchase...

Serenity Now

Apparently, higher education dictates that I can't get into the Christmas spirit until December 18 at 10:30 AM.

I'll be back when I can come up for air. I promise.

I give thanks...

..that Thanksgiving was so late this year..I go back in two weeks

In the meantime, could someone please give me a reason to wear this:

(minus the tights and witch shoes)


plus this:Did I mention that the shirt is cashmere and costs more than the skirt?...You can't have too many $120 cashmere t-shirts

Banana's models are especially wonky these days, however. This should be remedied.