December 2010
19 posts
Fit for a New Years Baby
This Capricorn has grown to adore sharing her birthday with the most celebrated day in the entire year - New Years Day.
Champagne, sparkles, sequins, cheers, friends, good music - being a New Years baby definitely has it’s perks.
And if there ever was a home created for a New Years birthday girl, this one is it:
Spring bedroom.
Fall bedroom.
The wintry whites cast the glow of...
tolivesimply asked: Goodness gracious. How has it taken me THIS long to discover your beautiful blog. I knew I would love it as soon as I saw your adorable photo at the top. Don't leave Athens too soon if you don't have to. I would love a coffee date or a walk with you. You are an inspiration to me. Love.
Rejoice O World.
Take a deep breath in. Can you feel it?
Christmas is circling the neighborhood and will grace us in mere hours. The excitement and joy in our house echos off the walls. Having an 8 year old around changes the dynamic of Christmas. I find myself staring at him frequently to see his reaction to the crackling fire, dad’s stories of Santa or the church congregation singing Silent Night in...
Anonymous asked: HELLO MCK!!! I think you're great!
tell your baby, spin me around.
Dancing could be my favorite pastime.
And while I’ve grown-up cutting a rug to ol’ Van Morrison and spent half of my college days shimmying at Dave Barnes shows, I found my concert dancing match in the Dirty Guv’nahs.
So when I heard they would be in my new town on January 15th, I immediately started my stretching exercises.
Mark your calendar ATL (and Athens) friends:...
just wonderful
As the clock ticks and calendar pages flip rapidly towards (now past) graduation, my anxiety level is reaching knew and uncharted levels and degrees. I’m on a constant rollercoaster ride of excitement on one loop and a sadness on the other, a craving for adventure and then a decent into the desire for comfort. Pretty crazy times.
I’ve found myself wishing I was 7, 17 and 37 all in...
And Just Like That.
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She Can Wear The Pants.
These pants are from the heavens sent to me by way of J.Crew:
If someone asked me to live in them forever, I’d gladly begin sewing them onto my body. They’re perfect. They are every long-legged girl’s dream, every short-legged girl’s answer to prayer and every leg inbetween’s favorite pant.
In fact, I’m wearing them to an interview today!
Clearly this is...
typical girl.
As finals quickly wrap up and my time is shockingly free and without prior obligation, my old love of blogging is back on in full-force and with that I’ve been catching up with What White Chicks Cherish.
Laughing out loud at how spot on the man is. He’s got us girls down to a science. We are quite the strange breed, yet he knows us down to the tragedy that occurs when we have to...
Say Hello
When I started my little blog wayyy back in 2008, there were only a few Tumblr themes and none included the wonderful “Ask Me Anything” feature.
Today, we parted ways with my old theme and are now vamped up a bit (just a little heads up: there will be more additions and updates soon- pardon the construction.)
So, I’ll draw your attention to the Say Hello button to the left...
When Heaven feels close.
That phone call in the middle of the night, the unexpected text that just reads “Call me”, the friend walking in your room with wide, teary eyes. Losing someone is quite possibly one of the hardest life moments that we have to learn to swim through.
There are more questions, emotions, anger, rejoicing and heartbreak surrounding death than any other experience. Death turns our...
morgangster asked: Hey! I don't know why I never acknowledged this but... a million years ago you gave my bloggy blog a shout-out (holllla~) 1. thankyah. 2. we're neighbors?!?! where do you live?! 3. don't ask me how this popped into my head and made me realize i never responded. THE MIND WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS.
Annie the Author.
If a firecracker could be sticky as honey and sweet as icecream in the summertime, you would have the beginnings of Annie Downs.
Although I first met Annie in person this summer when I worked at Mocha Club with her, I’ve long been a fan of her blog, Annie Blogs. Thankfully, she seems relatively unfazed by my ever-growing obsession.
And today, sweet Annie released her very first book, From...
Dear John
At a pretty 4:27am, my rabbit trail of stalking while on a study break led me to this jewel:
John Clayton Mayer’s LA loft is for sale for a sweet 1.3 mil. My longtime love for JM (seeds planted in 7th grade, now we’re in full-blossoming romance) is enticing me to hop a flight to LA with a mission for a house tour and perhaps a meet-and-greet-and-marry.
The home, although quite...
this & that
This Michael Kors watch for $250:
That Target watch for 12.99
What Am I Doing Tonight?
By some work of the magical Athens fairies, we got reservations with The FourCoursemen, Athens’ very own legendary secret supper club.
Read about them here in Garden & Gun and here in Food & Wine. Watch them here on The Cooking Channel.
Imagine me right here: absolutely giddy.
The chefs are from Athens’ best restaurants (Farm 255, The National, 5&10), the location...
you are wonderful.
Lately, I’ve needed a heaping dose of good encouragement and the Lord has written this verse and truth on my heart in a mighty way.
Be encouraged today. You are wonderful, magic, smarter than you think and tightly held in the unchanging hands of the One who created that heart of yours.
So run, don’t tiptoe, towards the future with faith and courage because the lines for you...
Paradise's Christmas Theme Song.
You know my long-term relationship, my sweet and abiding obsession, my tendencies for and biases to, my utter weakness for absolutely anything
cheetah.
So when my dearest friend Libby, who understands my love affair, started singing a few lines of a previously unearthed Christmas song:
Cheetah-licious Christmas We just wanna wish you A Cheetah-licious Christmas now
I think my heart...