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THE FINEST… in Dining.

I’ve been wanting to share with you some of the fabulous food and dining experiences I had the pleasure of enjoying in New Zealand. I went to so many incredible eating establishments… but here are a few of my favorites. THE SUGAR CLUB The Sugar Club is part of the amazing SkyCity Hotel Complex. It’s fancy, […]

Magnifique

“Coussins” Pillows         Gustav Klimt   MÄDCHEN MIT GENEIGTEM KOPF (GIRL WITH BOWED HEAD), 1901   ink and pencil on paper       via:frosya     frosya   via:parisianclass     via:la-la-la-bonne-vi     Hayley Paige S/S13 Bridal     via::designbb     via::romantique-rose     via::freestylehippi     via::mercurieux   […]

pleasure

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice       Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain 1952       Chardonnay           “Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”    ― Neil Gaiman, The […]

just like that

    just like that         I think autumn is my favorite season… and September my favorite month.       Stéphane Martello       “Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for […]

English Country Decor

THE DRAWING ROOM: English Country House Decoration by British historian and writer, Jeremy Musson     via: Jennifer Boles, The Peak of Chic   “As the title of Musson’s book implies, The Drawing Room explores “one of the defining spaces of the English country house.” The author’s introduction gives a concise history of this room, which […]

yours, yours, in everything and always

  “Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your fingers.”   — Iain S. Thomas     Thimble Hall, Derbyshire, England     Henri Matisse’s illustration for Baudelaire’s poetry collection, Les Fleurs du Mal. via:openculture     via:domus-aurea2         “It is so much safer not to feel, […]

Sexy, Glam, yes.

Margot Robbie for Elle July 2015   via:hethirddeadlysin     via:thethirddeadlysin     Margot Robbie for Elle July 2015     via:hethirddeadlysin     Margot Robbie for Elle July 2015     via:hethirddeadlysin     Margot Robbie for Elle July 2015     via:hethirddeadlysin   *

It’s all GLAM

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”   – Amanda Cross   CHANEL Ann Street Studio     via:cardashians         “My grandfather,  Frank Lloyd Wright,  wore a red sash on his wedding night.  That is glamour!”   – Anne Baxter   *   so […]