Oh Happy Day

Photo by Elizabeth Messina

Friends, I've been gone for a while; I've missed you all. I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday. Some happy news:

WE'RE ENGAGED!

Thanksgiving was a good one this year. :)

Welcome back!

Photo from Martha Stewart

Hello there! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with family, friends, or wherever you were. I'm bafter a whirlwind few days on the Cape and some lovely airport travel time (ha), but I promise I'll have fresh new posts up today. Good to see you again and welcome back!

Off to turkey day...Happy Thanksgiving!

Image from (the now defunct) Domino

I’m heading up to New England to spend Thanksgiving weekend with my family, so I'm officially turning off the laptop this afternoon to clean up the house and pack before I hop on a plane tomorrow.

I'll be back on Monday with regular posts, but in the meantime, I hope that you all have a wonderful holiday with friends and family. I'm thankful for both my family and friends, for B, and for this blog! And thank you - all (six?) of you who continue to come back and read my ramblings. :)

Happy Turkey Day and see you Monday!

xoxo, r.

Travel bright spot: Amy Butler bags

Just as I'm mentally preparing myself for what will inevitably be a nightmarish trek up to Cape Cod for the Thanksgiving holiday, I came across these new travel bags from fabric designer extraordinaire Amy Butler.

She's known for her brilliant use of colors and patterns, and these bags certainly follow suit on both those fronts. The bags are supposedly very hearty and well-constructed - perfect for when the Southwest guys are drop-kicking my bag into stowage. At least I'd have something cheery to look forward to while trudging through security lines. Here are some of my favorites:





Originally seen on decor8.

"Dennis Quaid is here!"

I think I may be turning into some kind of old biddy because this clip from Ellen that I saw online (not actually on TV) seems absolutely hilarious to me. Ellen rigs up Dennis Quaid with an earpiece to prompt him with lines and then sends him into Starbucks. I seriously laughed out loud while watching this. Check it out:

Come on, that was funny, right? I was impressed that Dennis Quaid was such a good sport. Wouldn't you die if you were standing in that Starbucks?

Ridiculous or not, I hope you enjoyed that bit of humor on a Monday afternoon. And just think to yourself: only 2.5 more days to Thanksgiving!

Cake love

Poster by Erin Jang, as seen on happy lady eats

Happy Monday morning, everyone! For most of you, there are only two or three days of work this week (hurrah!), and really, who doesn't love a short work-week? .... Kinda like how a fat kid loves cake. (So wrong, I know...but this poster is really cute!)

I'm excited for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, though I'll be part of the dreaded travel rush. Fingers crossed it's not too insane.

I'm off to run some errands, but be back later this morning with some more posts. See you soon!

Flavored water

Cucumber water from Martha Stewart


Mint water from Sunday Suppers; photo by Karen Mordechai

I saw a post about making mint water on A Cup of Jo and it reminded me of the time my domestic-diva friend Sarah made refreshing cucumber water for us to drink after our private yoga session. Wow, that last statement sounded so yuppie-ish that I almost had to go throw out all the polo shirts in my closet. Sheesh.

Anyway, Sarah is the fab kind of girl who knows how to throw together hors d'oeuvres and have them seem fancy and classy even if they're nuked, who bakes her own bread and tells you it was "totally simple" and that she'll share the recipe with you (right, as if I'm making my own bread any time soon), and who makes flavored water - I'd have thought I was being super ambitious because I remembered to refill the Brita ahead of time. :)

But she's right that making flavored water is extremely easy, and that it's a nice break from plain water sometimes. It's also very chi-chi spa, no? Sarah made cucumber water, but I like the idea of mint water, and I'm sure you could throw pretty much anything in there and it would taste very fresh. Maybe I'll give it a go for Thanksgiving dinner...