Hollaaaa!

Look what I found on Cup of Jo!

Do you recognize the fifth ring??? It's the one I have! This is a huge style moment for me! Also, good thing I wear the ring on my middle finger now. Wouldn't want to confuse the masses.... Har. Har.

PS. I also love the first and sixth rings as everyday rings. Not really on the look-out for any wedding bands yet...

PW's Iced Coffee

There have been many times when I wish I could handle drinking coffee (and perhaps many more coming soon). Unfortunately, the caffeine is too fast, too furious for me, and the crash that always comes a few hours later is terrible. The only times I will risk a cup is when it's creamy and white, laden with creams and sugars, tasting like coffee ice cream.

This iced coffee looks like it might make a believer out of me. And Pioneer Woman hardly ever gets it wrong.

(Photos from the Pioneer Woman)

Folksy Favorites

Oh, bearded song men, what is it about you that makes me love you so? Is it your banjos? Is it your comically endearing "hillbilly mountain man of the early 20th century" aesthetic? Or is it your furrowed brows and half-lidded eyes that float closed when you sing all high and quiet?

Here are just three songs from three artists whom I have been listening to and loving for a long time.

see also: this and that

PS. I hope everyone had a summer-y Memorial Weekend!

Someone Like You by Adele

I'm just absolutely in love with this. Adele's voice is so raw and perfect. Happy Weekend!



(via theneotraditionalist)

Kate and Andy at Home

I don't have much knowledge or appreciation for interior design, but Andy and Kate Spade's apartment featured by the art, illustration, and design powerhouse, The Selby, makes me wish I had an eye for it. Not surprisingly, Andy and Kate Spade (an extra 25% off all sales! You're welcome.) look so comfortable and effortless amid all of their lavish home styling. I love that they look like they actually use and live in their apartment. Certainly, the abundance of framed artwork also doesn't hurt...

(Photos from The Selby)

Vintage Gold Details

Be still my fluttering heart.

A few of you may recall my arguably intense penchant for all things wedding from the summer of 2009 (Thanks, Mrs. Finley!). It's lessened considerably and I only regularly check my favorite wedding blog, Once Wed. There I stumbled on this wedding and fell in love with the dress which the bride purchased off the rack and then added these vintage gold details herself! I am such a fan of her vision and talent! Isn't this absolutely gorgeous? I also love weddings that use fun fabric held up by a clothesline as a backdrop for photos.

(photos via Once Wed)

I am a girl with glasses!

I love every. single. thing. about this video.

Swoon. My "freedom summer" project is to become these women with a slight mix of Zooey Deschanel's character from 500 Days of Summer (in an aesthetic way, not a personality way). I'm seriously considering getting her bangs but I don't want them to turn out like this. Yeesh. Thoughts?

PS. Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

Hometown Pride

Well, this is technically the county, but I think I'm going to buy this bag. It's not that often I find my tiny New England, upper Appalachian, artsy mountain town on many maps. This store, Maptotes, is the brainchild of a fashion designer and a cartographer. How could their goods not be perfect? They have international megacities, mainstream Americana, and quaint little towns from all over the world. And they're all environmentally friendly to boot!

This little thing might also be another purchase for a new city-dweller nephew set to arrive this month...

Fashionable Friends

Here is some lust-worthy photography by the fashion genius Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist. Maybe it's because I was just snowed in by the Snowpocalypse, but I think that the winter is always a little bit warmer with great clothes and great friends. And this is so fortuitously perfect with one of my own fashionable (and witty, and hilarious, and so, so talented) friends starting her new blog!

PS. These two boys' picture is part of Schuman's work for Burberry's Art of the Trench Campaign. And since adulthood, I always knew my first big-time purchase would be a Burberry trench...