Slice of Pink

Me and Martha and My Friends

A couple of my favorite-ever blog friends have joined me in the Me and Martha Project, so we are all trying out recipes, crafts, and other goodies from the pages of Martha Stewart Living.

Rachael prepared Chicken Pot Pies and Chocolate Creme Brulee {February Issue}.

Jennie tried Martha-recommended Essie Topless & Barefoot Nail Polish, made Cork Stamped Greeting Cards, and whipped up a batch of Lemon Salt Scrub {March Issue}.

And, just in case you missed my projects, I made Chewy Chocolate Chunk-Cherry Cookies, hosted a Valentine Crafternoon, drank some Fantastic Fizz, and made Clementines in Cinnamon Syrup {February Issue}.

Care to join us in feeling fabulously and stylishly domestic?

My Desk

Do you guys like the My Desk feature in Vanity Fair? I find it fascinating!

{Click over to see eight desks, including the desks of Martha Stewart and Oprah.}

Someday I'll take a photo of my desk for you, but I can assure you it is not nearly as interesting.

I have: a jar of multivitamins, a globe pencil sharpener, a cup of coffee, a Rolodex, legal pads, a stapler, clementines, a Mason jar filled with pens, a California Code book, a rootbeer scented pencil, and a big stack of legal files.

Catalog Living

Have you guys been reading Catalog Living? It's a funny site chronicling the lives of the fictional characters that live in our catalogs. The main characters are Gary and Elaine, an imaginary couple who reside and entertain in the interiors from retail catalogs.

A couple of examples:

Elaine was reminded once again that she needed to be more specific when giving Gary instructions like “put napkins on the table and beer in the glasses.”

Oh dear, our Q-Tip decanter is almost 1/5th depleted.

Gary’s eyesight has gotten so bad he can’t even read an atlas with binoculars anymore.

{P.S. That is actually my couch! For those of you who helped me decide not to buy the Costco sofa that I was lukewarm about--thank you! It's never good to settle and you gently reminded me of that fact!}

So Punny

Oh, you all KNOW how I love a good Valentine pun and I'm absolutely beside myself over these free fruit pun stickers from Twig & Thistle. There are stickers for apples, pears, oranges, bananas, passion fruit, berries and even a general sticker for everything else! So cute!

P.S. Here's the giant list of puns my high schoolers and I put together a few years ago. There's more pun talk over at Style Lush, too.

Bicycle Round Up XXII

+ Vintage Love photo shoot

+ Jessica Alba on a bike

+ Super cute bicycle messenger bags

+ Bamboo bikes that help working families in developing countries

+ An interesting photo

+ Some advice: don't get in a fight with your bicycle

+ Bicycle horsey

Bicycle Round Up XXI

+ A fox on a bike shirt (and a badger on a penny farthing)

+ I think I can ride to work {hooray!}

+ Super cool bike crates

+ This is why biking is good for your legs

+ Out for a Cruise Necklace {thanks Jill!}

+ Keep Calm and Ride On Print {thanks Allyson!}

Bicycle Round Up XX

+ Cute bicycle-themed wedding invites from Bird & Banner

+ There are some super cute bicycle related details at Melissa and Walter's wedding

+ A whimsical bicycle clock necklace {thanks Tootie!}

+ A wicker basket for a small dog or cat (my cat would NEVER go for this)

+ A how-to bicycle guide from Martha Stewart's Whole Living

+ A vintage bike camper!

Bicycle Round Up XIX

+ A sweet print by Claire Owen

+ Is it hot in here?

+ Bicycle Tea Towels

+ Julia Roberts riding an Electra in Eat, Pray Love

+ Super cute hand-painted bicycle notecards

Bicycle Round Up XVIII

+ Why We Ride

+ A super sweet print by Allan Peters

+ Love these Linus Bikes

+ The Sweetness of Riding a Bike

+ A bike-powered cell phone charger!

+ Diner's Journal: A Coffee Bar for Cyclists

+ Check out this super-unique science-themed wedding {with a bicycle}

Bicycle Round Up XVII

+ Love this Martha Stewart dressed bicycle

+ The Tour de France kicked off!

+ An earthy vintage wedding {scroll down to see the cute bride and groom on a tandem!}

+ This bicycle commuter smiled the whole way home {and she rides in a skirt}

Bicycle Round Up XVI

+ Love this summer bicycle inspired wedding

+ A minimal stylish bike basket

+ Lovely bicycle, lovely world

+ Santa Barbara bike fashion

Bicycle Round Up XV

+ Girly bicycle goodness

+ A cute print

+ A bicycle-powered mobile phone charger! {thanks Nicole}

+ Celebrity parents and kids on bikes

+ Bike wardrobe remix

Bicycle Round Up XIV

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. --H.G. Wells

+ A cute bike print with that great H.G. Well quote

Bride, groom and 50 friends ride bikes to wedding reception from Mike McKisson on Vimeo.

+ So pretty (unlike my bike basket which is full of books)

+ A gentleman bicyclist in Milan

Joy St.Claire

The work of Joy St.Claire makes me smile.

Bicycle Round Up XIII

Loving this vintage Coca-Cola bike, parked right around the corner from my apartment!

Awesome folding bicycles {thanks Tracy!}

OMG! The World Naked Bike Ride is in NYC this weekend

A cute bicycle print

Cycle Chic Sunday in Santa Monica {oooh! And check out the Flickr Pool}

Also, a message from Schwinn:

Macarons

One of Will's co-workers just returned from a weekend in Paris and brought back macarons. Three of these macarons ended up in front of me last night and I was immediately transported back to Paris, circa 2003.

I don't have any plans to visit Paris soon, so I am living vicariously through Michelle, who is visiting in August (lucky girl!). I've suggested Ladurée and Fauchon as two lovely shops for macaron tasting, but if you have more suggestions, please leave a comment!

For those of us staying in the States, here's a roundup of macaron shops and recipes. If we can't go to Paris, at least we can pretend to be in Paris.

Order some from:
MadMac
Paulette
MacarOn Café

Or make your own (and send me some, please!):
Basic Macaron
Violet Macarons With Violet And Vanilla Bean Buttercream
Cherry Blossom Macarons {thanks Megan}
Espresso-Blackberry Macarons
Cracked Pepper, Mint and Strawberry Macarons
Rose White Chocolate Macaroons
Hibiscus Macarons

In case that's not enough to get you started, a macaron cookbook

Did you hear? The macaron in the new cupcake!

Pink Goes {Mint}

Details are here!

I've also gone {yellow} {coral} {green} {orange} and {gray}.

Bicycle Round Up XII

+ Best City Bikes & Easy Rides 2010 {thanks Nicole!}

+ A vintage tandem on State Street

+ This vintage bicycle dress is so cute

+ New Yorkers! The Museum of Art and Design has a bicycle exhibition, Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle

+ Green gifts and awards made from recycled bike parts {thanks Nicole!}

Hearts, Revisited

Remember when we knit hearts to celebrate Sarah's birthday? Her very lovely birthday affair was featured on the Outdoor Knits blog!

Bicycle Round Up XI

+ I am IN LOVE with this print by Blanca Gomez {thanks Sarah!}

+ Ride Slowly, Don't Sweat (and enjoy the scenery!)

+ An incredibly adorable kitties in a bike basket print

+ Bike rush hour in the Netherlands

+ A pretty bicyclist on the street in Soho...and in the West Village...and another in Soho

Bicycle Round Up X

+ Santa Barbara Tweed Ride

+ Bike by the Sea. Yes, I think I will!

+ Recycled bike gear bottle openers

+ An interview with Joanna Goddard, too-cute biking mama-to-be

+ Bike storage solutions at Apartment Therapy {thanks Nicole!}

Bicycle Round Up IX

+ A cute bicycle doormat

+ Mia + Johnny’s Vintage Outdoor Wedding

+ LOVE this Matte Stephens print of a fox on a bicycle

+ 1950s Bicycle Safety Video

The Marshmallow Test

Have you seen The Marshmallow Test?

I watched the adorable video some time ago, but today, on my long drive to Santa Barbara, I learned some interesting stuff about the test--and what it means--from the awesome Radiolab team.

Watch the video, then listen to Mischel’s Marshmallows!

Bicycle Round Up VIII

+ San Francisco-Friendly Bikes Roll into Town {thanks Janet!}

+ Pushing Pedals, Not Budgets

+ Photos from the Glendowie Tweed Run

+ A free, downloadable bicycle invitation

+ Love this Bicycle Portraits Project

+ Bicyclist Stephanie Baker is 82 and three quarters!

Bicycle Round Up VII

+ Max and Molly bicycle tee at J. Crew {thanks Jill!}

+ Have you seen the gorgeous Electra Peacock 3i Cruiser?

+ Love this adorable photo from Jak and Jill Blog

+ Serie Stoccolma bikes from Note + Abici

+ I like bicycles as decor

+ So sweet wedding photo on a red tandem {photo by Our Labor of Love}

Warning: This Post Contains Nudity

I have been hearting things on We Heart It, a site that is chock full of overly sweet and adorable photographs (here's My Heart if you'd like to see the items I've hearted so far). The premise is simple: if you find something you love on the Internet, you click a little button and heart it. All your hearted items are then saved in one place.

One of my hearted items was marked as "unsafe" recently, meaning that I had to go in and change my settings to allow me to view such items. Why was my image unsafe? Nudity.

WARNING: I'm about to show you the unsafe image. The image which contains NUDITY.

Best not move forward if you find Internet nudity distasteful.

Seriously.

Okay, then. Here goes...

Ooh la la.

Happy Easter

It's a perfect day to check out the amazing work of Sharon Montrose {and this fabulous video, too}.

I'm spending today driving 400 miles, from Ventura to Davis. Hopefully the bunny didn't forget about me and a basket of chocolates awaits me back home!

Bicycle Round Up V

+ A cute bicycle scoop tee

+ Gorgeous Liberty of London bicycles at Target {and not expensive!}

+ Alyson at Unruly Things got a sweet Linus Mixte

+ How-to: Tandem Bike Basics

+ I pretty much need this Two-Wheeler Shirt Dress, right?

Ingenuitea

Enjoy Your Damn Sandwich

I'm actively trying to reduce my Internet dependency, so I absolutely adore this poster by Quail Creative.

{You can also find some sweet prints and cards at Rachel's Etsy shop.}

You So Crazy

There's an application on Facebook, whereby people are asked questions about their friends. A question pops up, along with a friend's photo, and the user answers the question in a sentence or two.

I don't participate in the application, but when somebody answers a question about me, it pops up on my page and I am able to see the answer that my friend provided. Most recently, one of my former students got this question:

If Janet had to run naked around time square for 1 million dollars, would she do so?

And this was the student's answer:

when she was my teacher she was crazy so yes i think she would

Crazy? Really? Theatrical, maybe. Over-the-top, sure. But crazy?

Sure, things like this and this and this and this and this don't help my case. Oh, yes, and there was the party where I invented the Otter Shots concept. And, this demonstration of me "teaching" is not exactly first-rate.

Oh.

Well.

This is not where I thought this post was going--my initial reaction was to beg to differ--but now that I've reviewed all THAT business (and that's just the tip of the iceberg), I'm thinking maybe crazy is possibly an apt description. I'm also thinking that law school is making me lose my edge. This dull old law building has sucked out some of my crazy, but, people, I'm DETERMINED TO GET IT BACK. All the best memories have a little crazy in the mix.

Anthropologie Window 2010

I adore Anthropologie's windowscapes. Of course, I do. But I particularly adore them when they do something meaningful. Remember the bee windows?

Now, Anthropologie is teaching us about recycling plastic. Did you know that fifty million plastic bottles were consumed in the U.S. alone last year--38 billion of which ended up in landfills? Yup, and science tells us that these bottles will not biodegrade until the next millennium.

Anthropologie's spring windows are all done up in an ever-so-lovely used plastic bottles. And, they have provided instructions for making your own plastic bottle bouquets.

The full set of Spring 2010 Window photos is here.

Valentine Recipe Roundup

+ Love Potion No. 50
+ Bitter Heiress
+ Burning Love
+ Venus Blush Cocktail

+ Chocolate Ganache Tartlets
+ Pear Raspberry Heart Pie
+ Meringue Message Cones
+ Fourteen Layer Cake

+ Valentine Savory Handpie
+ Heart-shaped Egg in Nest
+ Beet Goat Cheese Pasta

Take Tieks

A lovely friend told me about Tieks, these so-fabulous ballet flats that fold up and fit into a small purse. How sweet are these ballerina pink ones? And, the black ones? So versatile!

Alas, they are outside my current student budget (sigh), but if you want a pair I happen to know a top-secret code for 30% off {email me!}.

I hear that the packaging itself is absolutely delightful, so if you do order please report back.

The Greatest Place

I adore this quote from the wedding section of the N.Y. Times. I want to be the type of person that thinks everyplace is the greatest place.

It's Not Too Late!

How are your resolutions coming along? It's not too late to revive a dying resolution or renew a forgotten one! For a little extra help, print out this wonderful, free resolution record.

And, then, for every thirty consecutive days that you keep your resolution, buy yourself a treat to celebrate! Keeping goals should be honored!

{My resolution--no Internet after 8 PM--is working out quite spectacularly! I've almost finished a non-law book and I'm spending more time drinking tea, cuddling, chatting, and sleeping.}

Model Ballerina

Ever so lovely.

Holiday Gift Guide :: By the Sea Edition

Whale Chalkboard {Three Potato Four}

We Dream In Colour Sea Life Earrings {Urban Outfitters}

De Vincennes Dinner Plate, Octopus {Anthropologie}

One Special Summer {Amazon}

Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle {Amazon}

Holiday Gift Guide :: Five Lovely Books

On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa {Nick Brandt}

The Gift of Nothing {Patrick McDonnell}

The Elegance of the Hedgehog {Muriel Barbery}

Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey {Jill O'Connor}

Taschen's Paris {Angelika Taschen}

Bicycle Roundup III

The DC Tweed Ride: Bringing Dapper Back to the Bike Lane

More fabulous photos of the Tweed Ride here, here, and here!

A roundup of bicycle wedding ideas

Judge O.K.’s Some Parts of S.F. Bike Plan

Bicycle Mustache {via Swiss Miss}

Too much turkey? Time for a ride!

Camera Collection

Loving this collection of camera photos at Milk {and this collection of bicycle photos, too!}

VF: A Decade in Covers

Have you been voting for the Vanity Fair covers of the decade?

Not to taint your ballot, but I've voted as follows:

2000: Gwyneth Paltwow
2001: Brad Pitt

2002: Kirsten Dunst
2003: George Clooney

2004: Jackie Kennedy
2005: Nicole Kidman

2006: Geroge Clooney, again! I had no idea that I was such a Clooney kind of gal.

2007: The Africa Issue

2008: The Hollywood Issue

2009: Tina Fey (I usually toss the magazine after I read it or drop a stack off at the local coffee shop, but I still have this issue floating around. What a great cover!)

Go vote!

A.K. Damn

How marvelous are these advertisements for French beer by Natasha Lawes? {via Sweet Station}

Proust Questionnaire, Your Answers

Here's a roundup of readers who answered the Proust Questionnaire (with a teeny preview of what you'll find if you click over to read their full post)!

Jennifer:

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Love all around. All you need is love.

Kori:

What are your favorite names?
laila, riley, lucca

Heather:

When and where were you happiest?
I am happiest now!

Kaleigh:

On what occasion do you lie?
When it makes for a better story.

Ally:

Where would you most like to live?
Anywhere where the weather's warm and there's a beach nearby.

Jen:

What is your motto?
Whatever you are, be a good one.

Rae:

When and where were you happiest?
My first year in New York. Everything was just so good.

My answers, if you missed them, are here!

My method of collecting the links was entirely unorderly, so if I missed you, please let me know in the comments or by email and I'll make sure to update the list right away!

Sugary Sweet

The fabulous Appetite for Conversation and I traveled to San Francisco to celebrate viv&ingrid's 10th birthday in style at Miette.

Happiness is sparkling champagne + sugary candies + handmade cracker jack + lavender cotton candy + chocolate cupcakes with marshmallow icing! Delicious!

We had the loveliest of times, sipping sparkling sodas through striped paper straws, admiring all the ladies' chic dresses, and chatting with charming new friends.

Simply marvelous!

Thanks to the lovely Melissa at Ruby Press for the invitation and Appetite for Conversation for snapping these fabulous photographs.

Learning Something New

Being a student, I learn something new everyday (and many new things, in fact) but none of it is nearly this fun and colorful!

{via Gen Pink}

The Land of Phantoms (also, sailors, peacocks, and chickens)

We spent Halloween night watching the spooky 1922 silent film, Nosferatu, with live accompaniment, at the San Francisco Symphony.

We dressed in the usual symphony-going cocktail attire, as did a majority of folks, but there was a fair share of costumed symphony-goers as well, including two sailor girls, sitting directly behind us, and a man in a full-on chicken costume. As might be expected, there were plenty of people dressed in nearly nothing running around the city and a few of them even made it to the symphony.

The best costume, perhaps, was a girl dressed as a peacock. She had arranged 10 or 12 real peacock feathers in her ponytail, so that they fanned out a foot above her head. I appreciated her costume, although I suspect the symphony-goers in the five rows directly behind her did not.

My exquisite headband, by the way, was a gift from a dear Slice of Pink friend who now has an Etsy shop full of pretty headbands and other goodies. Isn't it lovely? It arrived in the mail on Friday and I was suddenly all about purple, even convincing Will to wear a lilac shirt so that he would complement my eggplant headband and tights.

A handsome man and a hand-crafted headband: life's two best accessories.

Grace in Small Things: 39/365

1. The Accidental Wine Company

A bottle breaks and stains its neighbors, a new label design replaces an old established one, or a winery just closes its doors. A soiled, retired, or discontinued label is suddenly and simply less valuable. Ah, but the contents remain perfect. Whether it is ruby or straw colored, it still has its legs, and its fruit and perfume. The character and charm remain in tact and by golly, it still commands passion and presence. And, wow, what wonderful taste.

2. The Sharpie Pen
3. Archie Grand Notebooks
4. Perfect fall weather
5. Getting the answer right on a radio quiz (even if I didn't win the prize)

Umbrellas

A broken umbrella that I snapped a photo of last week is featured on the broken umbrella blog today!

Have a broken umbrella? Or, like me, a half dozen cheap black umbrellas from CVS? Check out these lovelies:

1. Color Spectrum Umbrella from MOMA

2. Dotted Bubble Umbrella from Totes

3. Pagoda Umbrella from Bella Umbrella

4. Marimekko Unikko Umbrella

My Etsy Favorites

What's more fun than studying trademark law?
Finding favorites on Etsy!

There's more here!