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October 2011
2 posts
BOOK CLUB
A food based book club with the beloved Katherine Sacks of La Vita Cucinare will commence in the coming months.
For now take a step back into the psyche of Amory Blaine in
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first published Novel.
A troubled soul.
“simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
– leonardo da vinci
September 2011
4 posts
PROSE
Salt
We all need a little salt
Need a little light
Need a hopeful word
Shining bright
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INSPIRATION
Obsessed.
I am absolutely smitten.
THIS to me is comfortable luxury. Just fancy enough to not be kitchy.
Luxurious chocolate souffles in this -real gold- porcelain “crumpled” cup.
Thank you Revol
Fun Fancy and I wish it were Free
INSPIRATION
What do you do with a birdcage in your room?
Stay tuned.
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DIRT-CAKE
Sexy Bread
Desserts over a candlelit dinner at the sexiest place in town versus dessert over your Le Labo scented candles in your own abode, these I would say are two different ballgames. Bridging the gap is this slightly messy and indulgent treat known as sexy bread. A tongue in cheek creation that I found amusing, so it stuck. Sexy bread is something that I love to whip up for...
August 2011
18 posts
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FINERY
confusion regarding this falls approach to draping oneself in insulating yet chic garmets?
In this bevy of words I hope one finds the light..
Fill in your details to this Fall Cheat Sheet:
darker colors richer fabrics (splurge.) …silk tops….wool… a nod to luxury nice jeans nice boots/ shoes #nopatent slouchy sweaters a nice bag (solid investment) monotone with different...
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KGH PICKS
Soft Hands Get You Further
Feel free to contradict my statement, but it is true. Being a Pastry Chef, I have spent many days burning, washing, kneading and frankly downright beating up my paws. This has resulted in some lovely worker’s hands that are not silky smooth like a delicate flower perched atop her chair in court heels and the perfect blowout. Years of hand holding with boys...
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PROSE
Concrete trajectorys will not necessarily get you where you want to be. Where does one want to be? Well that is ever changing as well. Every conversation and situation slightly (or greatly) alters one’s path to fufillment. And while we are on the topic isn’t the only goal happiness. The recipe for happiness is quite different for everyone creating varied trajectories, and a...
“Letting go of the heat of ambition. The paradox is that it has all come my way.”
– Anthony Hopkins
CLOSE-UP →
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FEAST
Corn, Kale and Caper Papardelle
The dog days of summer are fleeting. Lately, there is an occasional turn of the winds that whisper fall is soon to be upon us. The brilliance of autumn, where our appetites shift yet again and start longing for glossy ribbons of papardelle with a rustic warm embrace of a ragu, is a time I look forward to. This is all well and good, but it is not fall. August is...
PRESS →
“I just want people to smile. To sit together and smile, pound the table with...”
– KGH
PEOPLE I BELIEVE IN
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KGH PICKS
Since when do fine writing tools and makeup unite?
Montblanc…the people behind some of the best pens around have a little something to do with the best eyeliner a girl could get her hands on.
Sure drugstore finds fills my purse, by my essentials sometimes get a little more particular than what I can pick up at 2am at the local 24H Duane Reade.
Le Metier De Beaute have created in my...
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PROSE
TOP 5
1. Phonecalls. Bring them back.
2. Concrete plans in Real Time.
3. Creating an awareness of the correlation between what you want and what you need.
4. Approaching everything with integrity. No games.
5. Smile. Let it go.
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CONTRIBUTE
The Mission of the century old Catholic Big Sisters and Big Brothers is to strengthen low income families and help them recognize, reach for and achieve their full potential regardless of religious affiliation. (CBSBB) provides gender specific services designed for girls and boys to promote mutual respect between the sexes and comprehensive family based services, including one-to-one mentoring,...
BOOK CLUB
“You Learn by Living”
Eleven Keys for a more fulfilling life.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
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Klein
My pastry tool bag, my weekend getaway bag, my purse, my EVERYTHING bag.
If I were an engineer, it would be my engineering tool bag as it was originally intended, but alas I’m just an everything girl with an everything-it-bag to boot.
The Klein tool bag has my heart. A true must-have. Affordable and chic when the Goyard is just a little out of reach. Industrial for all of your...
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DIRT-CAKE
This Cake is Perfect
To be so brazen, this is my perfect chocolate birthday cake. I am talking straightforward, decadent, yet fluffy chocolate birthday cake with creamy lucious chocolate frosting. Not for the faint at heart. Growing up I didn’t care for chocolate cake in the slightest, preferring angel food cake with strawberries (programmed to love a dieter’s delight I suppose!) ...
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PROSE
Forward Motion
Everything in moderation but a constant foward movement is what I channel. Actively making an effort for your life, an ownership and tenacity is the key to fulfillment. I have been talking about building my being for years, slowly plugging along to cultivate something special, something dynamic and something very much my own. With every accomplishment, big or small…and most...
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FRESH
Post Tennis Fuel
Routines make it happen. Especially in the world of a city paced wanna-be Wimbledon star with a voracious sweet tooth and appetite for life. Monday through Friday I aim to focus before 8am, specifically through some sweat inducing Tennis. Tennis wakes me up, gets me moving, and most importantly gets me smiling, laughing and focused (albeit on tennis balls) before the clock...
July 2011
2 posts
PROSE
Girlfriends.
They are so utterly important. As a Woman with a pack of wolves for guy friends, I have learned to cherish the wolves while holding my friendships with my best ladies to the highest place in my life. My family is another group of seriously engaging individuals, however they are a little further than down the street. The hilarious conversations over coffee, late at night, first...
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...”
– Albert Camus