A very short week in review

It's been a busy week--a few meetings with clients, putting together a new class that I'm teaching, preparing for a gorgeous deep lapiz and mango wedding this weekend, and full planning mode for that Alabama wedding. (I can't wait Katie and Grant!) Not much reading time, but I did notice that:

Sweet Paul loves passionfruit (though probably not as much as I do. It is my VERY favorite food on earth. #1! If you are San Francisco, go immediately to Tartine for their Passionfruit Bavarian. Life changing I tell ya)

J.Crew released a new bridesmaid dress style. Gorgeous.

Kathryn has been taking her Snippet & Ink readers on a tour of the US. My favorite boards so far are this pale sagey desert board and the rustic bluegrass wedding.

I'm off to put finishing touches on the flowers for today! Next week I promise to get a real wedding up (I've got several I just need to pull pictures for), and find something yummy for you to bake. Have a great weekend!

Martha & Charles

Today is Martha Stewart's spring WEDDING special, so set your Tivo's and DVRs accordingly. She has some really great guests lined up and some great topics...Vera Wang, Frederic Fekkai, an eyelash guru (I can't wait to hear about this...if it looks easy, I'm going for it when I have to walk down the aisle as a bridesmaid in a few weeks), what guests should wear...

And, "Charles Darwin" garden roses with heuchera leaves and soft green ladies mantle.

The real reason you probably come here

A bride's bouquet with soft pink peonies and stephanotis with topaz crystal centers. Bridesmaids bouquets inlude lisianthus, gooseneck, and fiddleheads.

Flower sculpture

Eloise Corr Danch's beautiful paper flower sculptures are currently gracing the windows of Macy's in NYC at Herald Square. The display includes elaborate floral "hats" and garlands of thousands of paper flowers. They are magical!

Via decor8 and Eloise Corr Danch

Spring 2010

A few favorites from the 2010 lines that are starting to come out. (I'm still waiting for Spring 2009 to arrive myself).

Oscar de la Renta...usually my very fave dress designer, but not necessarily so with the new collection. I really do love the giant "quilled" blooms on this one though.

Carolina Herrera...always so ladylike. The black lace is a little reminiscent of a Spanish mantilla, and the other? That dress is it's own ticker tape parade. So gorgeous!

I just can't get enough...

anemones this year.

I can't help but think...

that it would be fun to feel like I was the center of a blooming rose! And this silk and wool scarf from Radici would just about do it. (They also offer a lovely creamy ivory version that would be a beautiful winter wedding neck warmer).


Via Peonies and Polaroids.

Be The Change

Spring eco-fashion for you and your home from BTC Elements...

Windows

Beautiful windows have been springing up all over Seattle...and after today's snowstorm, it seems they might be the only spring we're going to get! Pardon the pathetic photography--worse than usual because snapped with my phone.

From my very favorite store in Seattle...Watson Kennedy Fine Living at First and Madison.

Bee hives under construction today at Anthropologie in University Village. Each little honey comb was made of scored cardboard with a yellow tissue paper backing. And most of them aren't even up in the window yet. I've always thought it would be so fun to be their display coordinator there, but maybe not...

And the always gorgeous Tiffany's...

I'm sad I didn't get a shot of the sweetest little tiny window of a little boutique in Ballard today. A single birch branch with little white doves and brown kraft paper flowers. I might recreate if for my dining room next week...

"We do not see things as they are;

we see them as we are."

--anais nin