Sigh.

I went. I saw. I loved. More on Monday.

xoxo

Bilson Brings It

Love the dress. Love the shoes. Love the bag. Love everything. Seriously, this girl rocks the LBD like no one else.

The Sexy Soundtrack

Music is such a vital part of a movie. The right song paired with the right moment can heighten the movie experience and create epic moments that movie goers will always remember. The Sex And The City soundtrack has some fantastic stuff on it including this BeeGees cover of How Deep Is Your Love by The Bird and The Bee. Pop on over to iTunes to check out the rest of the soundtrack.

Get Waisted

I have started noticing belts in the stores and I don't think it is a coincidence. According to Pat Field, the renowned and fearless stylist of Sex And The City, belts are back. These two by Cynthia Rowley look totally fun, youthful and chic. I want the turnlock one in every color!

We Meet Again

Tonight, I along with many, many others will take in the SATC movie. My dear friend Kristy saw the midnight showing last night and said if you are a SATC fan, you will love the movie....she also said not to read anything about the movie in the New York Times because it gives spoilers so I am not even going to link to it!! Some things must be left for a surprise! If you saw a midnight showing last night let us know what you thought....but no spoilers please! 

Popped?

Rumors are swirling that Angie has already given birth to her twins, although nothing has been confirmed. I wonder if they are going to give them French names! 

Update: False! She's still preggs!

Cynthia Rowley Makes My Day

Forget stupid bookcases that tip over and all the other things going on in my life that are causing me to prematurely wrinkle at the ripe age of 28....Cynthia Rowley (or some fabulous employee of hers) has linked my blog to her website press page! If you go to the link and scroll to the bottom and look at the "In The Blogs" section, my post about her happy sunglasses is there! Granted, my blog name is slightly misspelled but Cynthia I forgive you, darling! It is such an honor to have my little ol' blog associated with someone as fabulous and talented as you that you can call it whatever you like! Thank you for making my day! 

Bookcase Heartbreak

Purchasing this bookcase from Wisteria was on my list of things to do today. Sadly, it has gone bye-bye without so much as a warning and I am devastated. To add insult to injury, when you look it up online, this is what you find which is just a down right lie because that mother f*cker did exist! I finally got someone on the phone at Wisteria to see if I could cry my way into them hunting down one last one for me but that didn't work...plus I learned that the item was discontinued because they were getting complaints that it had a tendency to tip over which you would think would take some of the sting out of not getting one...but it hasn't. I have even printed out a picture of it with thoughts of asking someone here in town to replicate it costing me way more than the original $799 price tag on this baby. If you have spotted a bookcase on another site or blog that rivals the awesomeness of this one, please point me in that direction. Thanks readers!!!

Put It On Your List

This past weekend we rented Lars and the Real Girl and it was really, really cute. Ryan Gosling is such an amazing actor and the story is very moving on many levels. This scene right here made me laugh out loud. I had to rewind it several times and re-watch because I couldn't stop laughing. Put it on your list to rent and watch on a rainy day.

Christmas In May

My AMAZING husband surprised me yesterday morning with pre-sale tickets to go see Madonna in concert! She is coming my way on November 16th and I can't wait! I am sure the show is going to be totally over the top with all the stops pulled out. If she performs the song in this video complete with the dance I will be thrilled...and if Justin makes a cameo I think the entire stadium will pass out.

Cabernet, Corner Pocket

Next time you crack open a bottle of your favorite vintage, preserve the rest for another night with one of these adorable vintage ball bottle stoppers. I think these would make a great gift for a "Stock The Bar" themed wedding shower or with a bottle of wine for a hostess or house warming gift. Neiman Marcus will even make the perfect pool ball selection for you leaving the purchase to be a little bit of a surprise...and who doesn't love surprises? 

A Game Of Tag

I was tagged by the lovely Michelle at Lovely Little Things, so I thought I would add a picture of Tag from Friends. Remember him? Rachel's mimbo assistant at Ralph Lauren? He was hot. Anyway, here are my answers!

What was I doing 10 years ago?
I would have just graduated from high school. I would have been filling my days working as a camp counselor, hanging out with my friends and boyfriend, driving around with the windows down blaring cool* songs like "How Bizarre, How Bizarre" and preparing to take on the country's best and largest university, UT. I think my mom and I went to The Container Store and Bed Bath & Beyond every day that summer so my dorm room would be decked out. Too bad all that thought and effort was thwarted by the most hideous crap under the sun that my roommate picked out.

5 things on my to-do list today:
1. Laundry (this one seems like a constant)
2. Go to the gym (odds of this happening are not good)
3. Order pictures from Kodak (done!)
4. Burn CDs for my brother
5. Make an eyebrow threading appointment. I'm starting to look like Lourdes Leon.

Snacks I enjoy:
Pirate's Booty, Fage & Honey yogurt, Chips & Love Dip, French Fries and Blue Bell Ice Cream cups with Honey Chex cereal.

Things I would do if I was a billionaire:
Travel, buy all my friends and family houses and cars, hire a daily personal pilates trainer & chef, give to PANCAN, volunteer at the SPCA, go to Fashion Week, have fresh flowers in every room in my house at all times and buy a womb chair.

Places I have lived:
Houston, Texas and Austin, Texas – Austin is the most glorious city on Earth!

People I want to know more about:
Jennifer from Made By Girl and Sarah from Sarah's Fab Day.

This was fun, Michelle! Thanks for the tag!

* insert sarcasm here

Ladies Who Lunch

I'm so glad my little 2 1/2 year old diva niece was able to pencil me in for lunch today between shopping trips to Baby Gap and Gymboree. Her new shades are so cutting edge. I'm sure all the girls in playgroup are running out right now to get a pair just like them. Sigh, the perils of being a trendsetter, I suppose.

Hot Pink Premiere

Check out these delicious photos hot off the press from last night's SATC movie premiere. I think all four of the girls look divine and that SJP's gown needs to be replicated for the masses (i.e. me!) right now!

Sarah Jessica Parker

Kim Cattrall

Cynthia Nixon

Kristin Davis

Chris Noth

Candace Bushnell

Jason Lewis

Jennifer Hudson

Patricia Field

Willie Garson

Anna Wintour

Christian Siriano

Fergie

I Am So Into This

The Bradshaw

In honor of Sarah Jessica Parker and her beloved character, Carrie Bradshaw, a new drink debuted at last night's NYC SATC movie premiere post party, The Bradshaw. I suspect it might be the 2008 answer to the 2002 Cosmo. I may have to sneak a thermos of Bradshaws in to the movie on Friday night with some little plastic martini glasses.

The Bradshaw
2 oz. Don Julio Blanco Tequila
1/2 oz. X Rated Passion Fruit Liquor
3/4 oz. Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
3/4 oz. Cane Sugar Simple Syrup

Shaken, serve straight up in a martini glass rimmed in hot pink sugar, garnished with a lime wedge.

Music Monday

Who doesn't remember and love this lovely French song from the final episode of Sex and The City by MC Solaar? I have no idea what any of it means other than the title, but it gives me chills every time I hear based on the context in which it was first presented to me.

Whitney Gets Social

Whitney Port, our favorite gal from The Hills, vamps it up at the party honoring her cover for Social Life Magazine in the Hamptons. Whitney opened up in the interview that she doesn't feel that the continued strained relationship between Lauren and Audrina is beyond fixable and shares why she doesn't get that much screen time.

Happy Birthday Mom

Some girls dread turning into their mothers. Some even work extra hard to become the exact opposite of their mothers. Not me. If I were lucky enough to ever become half the woman my mom is then I would consider myself very fortunate.

Let me tell you a little bit about her. She is the most magnetic person on earth. People are just attracted to her smile, attitude and outgoing personality. Everyone from the UPS guy to the barista at her local Starbucks to waiters at frequented restaurants are people she considers friends. My mom is fantastically creative, imaginative and resourceful and the rightful owner to many of my Girl Scout badges, science fair trophies and A+ projects, yet she would never claim an ounce of credit. She is a fashonista with fantastic taste in just about everything under the sun and earned the name Rikki Fabulous from all of my friends. She has the biggest heart and is generous with her friends and family as well as total strangers. My mom is my best friend. The person who I can tell anything to who listens without judgement and offers good and sound advice at every turn, who has bailed me out of a problem on more than one occasion, who is my partner in crime when it comes to shopping, Chinese food and chick flicks, the person who makes me laugh at the simplest things and the person who always fights for the happiness and success of others...especially me. And did I mention she is also drop dead gorgeous? She is amazing from every facet and because of her I know what kind of mom I want to be one day.

I think my dad said it best at my wedding rehearsal dinner when he stood behind her chair and said to our 55 guests, "You might not be able to tell because her sweater is covering up her wings and she checked her halo at the door, but this woman is an angel."

You are an angel, Mom. I love you so much. Happy Birthday.

Pretty Bird

Spotted in Lucky and then sleuthed online, I discovered Bird Handbags. Inspired by "rich hippies" and created by Liz Carey, a former model turned rock-n-roll wife turned designer, the bag line is named Bird for the British slang term for "girl." The bags are incredibly unique and can be customized upon request. The rocker chick snakeskin is pretty bad ass and the ostrich is very lux, but I love the ones made from vintage Guatemalan wedding shirts.

Happy Long Weekend!

This weekend I am looking forward to:
– Eating more sushi. Can't get enough.
– Hitting up all the Memorial Day sales
– Sleeping in
– Relaxing with loved ones
– Watching Season 6 again just to refresh my memory (as if I could forget)

If My Soul Were A Shoe

It would look like this. I peeped these in apple green last night at Nordstrom and fell in love. Aren't they just amazing?

The Cannes Red Carpet

The Cannes International Film Festival always brings out the Hollywood heavy hitters and lots-o-fashion. Here is just a sneak and some of the movie stars in their gorgeous gowns who galavanted down the red carpet over the past few weeks.

Natalie Portman

Salma Hayek

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt

Cate Blanchett

Gwyneth Paltrow

Madonna

Penelope Cruz

Michelle Williams

SJP On Letterman

Sarah Jessica Parker recently made a trip to the David Letterman Show. It is quite an appearance. She is escorted in by service men, performs bird calls and receives an offer from Dave to give her son a sibling. Of course in her natural charm, she rolls with all of it. Check it out and watch part two here.

Going, Going, Almost Gone

I just got my tickets! Get yours before they sell out! T-8 days ladies!

Ain't That The Truth

Again, totally hypnotized by something over on Just Putting It Out There...but this time by one of Noelle's readers named Mike. This list of universal movie truths was beyond brilliant.

44 things we wouldn’t know if it weren’t for the movies

1. The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there, and you can travel to any other part of the building you want without difficulty.
2. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home,
3. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it is not necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.
4. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
5. If staying in a haunted house, women must investigate any strange noises in their most diaphanous underwear, which is just what they happened to be carrying with them at the time the car broke down.
6. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.
7. If someone says, "I'll be right back", they won't.
8. Computer monitors never display a cursor on screen but always say:
Enter Password Now.
9. It is not necessary to say hello or goodbye when beginning or ending phone conversations. And none of your friends have to knock when they come for a visit.
10. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
11. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.
12. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
13. If you decide to start dancing in the street everyone around you will automatically be able to mirror all the steps you come up with and hear the music in your head.
14. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.
15. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
16. No matter the injury you can still fight on.
17. You don’t have to worry about your hair when your car crashes or you dive away from a bomb. It will always remain perfect and beautiful (when you're a women that is).
18. When a large explosion occurs, your can run away from it till the blast stops or you find a hole to cover in, or will be delayed until you dive.
19. When gun fighting the enemy, don’t worry about getting hit. They will either miss everything or you’ll get hit in such a way that you can still do everything,
20 Whenever you hear bad news, stare at each other for 5-10 seconds.
21. You don’t have to go to the toilet.
22. One can magically store infinite number of bullets in a standard magazine
23. When one fights bare handed - a throng of enemies will attack him by one at a time.
24. When one presents far-eastern appearance - he always knows martial arts.
25. All telephone numbers in the world start with 555.
26. One to three gunshots make every car explode.
27. Thousands of cars explode everyday and everywhere.
28. There are only one or two good cops in every city - the rest are either stupid, clumsy or corrupted.
29. A policeman will wait a whole day behind a lonely billboard by an empty desert highway to catch that one guy speeding.
30. The only thing ever breaking in any car is cooling.
31. Computers never crash.
32. When one escapes - he always must encounter two guys carrying a glass plane.
33. If you ever sit down to play scrabble with your friends and one manages to write words like "horror, terror, murder, killer, blood, etc", you better keep away from the opposite sex. Someone will die that night, and usually the couples in action are preferred the first.
34. Little blonde girls, swinging or jumping ropes are almost always a sign that someone will die. If they are in white dresses, this chance is even higher.
35. If you're a child or a teenager willing to play with a ball, you have to do this somewhere near the stairs heading to the basement. Because that ball has to end up going down the stairs no matter what you do, and it is your duty to follow the ball and go down. There's always a surprise waiting for you there..
36. Should a very large meteor hit the Earth, it will only hit the US. There's no need to worry though, as there's always someone there that will sacrifice himself to destroy the meteor and save the world.
37. If someone starts fighting with another in a bar, the entire crowd in the bar will accompany as soon as possible as they're always waiting for this opportunity, and no glass material or chairs will ever survive the catastrophe.
38. Cars are dangerous. Be sure that the car never bounces up or anything, because that will result in the car exploding.
39. The shower curtain is not a protective shield/good-hiding place and neither is a toilet stall (even if you pull your feet up.)
40. When a couple is fighting, one of them shall always make the decision that makes them fight longer, even though every normal human would have made the other choice.
41. If you’re African/ African American and there is a killer on the loose, don’t expect to live long.
42. If you're a virgin and there’s a psycho-killer on the loose in your town. a) he will be after you and b) retain your virginity if you want to live.
43. Any foreigner will have an English/ British accent, even if they are French.
44. After sex, the sheets will fall to a man's waist but never below a woman's breasts.

Would It Be So Wrong?

The cupcake shop down the street from my office opens in 10 minutes. Would it be so wrong to forgo my soy yogurt/organic granola breakfast and replace it with a big honkin' red velvet cupcake? The frosting....oh my god the frosting!

Little Blue Boxes

I ordered a pair of engraved cuff links from Tiffany's for my husband for our first wedding anniversary. Now I am on their email list for life and this little image pops up in my inbox almost daily. I love seeing it. It is like I personally am getting a little blue box everyday. I love the signature shade of blue and the perfect white satin bows that sit on top are almost too pretty to pull. Swoon. Sigh.

For The Working Women

I am loving The Sartorialist's new kick of showcasing career women on their way to work in cute, unfussy yet put together looks. These women look great and so effortlessly cool. This classic look with infused innate personal style is how I aspire to dress for work everyday...at least until I can become a full-time blogger and work from the comfortableness of my couch in cute Sartorialist worthy jammies.

Please Tell Me These Are Not Making A Comeback

While I can stomach the return of leggings, Wayfarers and the crimping iron, I am not at all prepared for skorts* to be alive and well in 2008. I was driving somewhere the other day and nearly crashed my car as I completely turned around in my seat to make 100% sure my eyes did not deceive me and that a woman standing in her driveway was in fact wearing a skort. She was...and I nearly fainted and was pretty much in shock the rest of the day. Skorts should have been squeezed out of the fashion market over a decade ago! What are they still doing here and who wears them? Wearing a skort is basically saying to the world "I cared enough to almost not wear shorts." Let's face it, skorts are the mullet of the shorts world: fancy business skirt in the front and psych party shorts in the back. And again like their sister mullet, they belong on no self-respecting individual. I mean, this woman was youngish. An inner-looper. She was getting out of a friggin' BMW. She should know better and yet, skort. If I see another skort I really don't know what I am going to do. Perhaps I should start driving around with a trunk full of real skirts or something to pass out to these clearly clueless women. I could be like the guy by my office building who gives out sandwiches to the homeless, but you know, slightly less humanitarian. Slightly.
You heard it here first, but if Keds and scrunch socks turn up at Fashion Week as the perfect way to accessorize your new DFV skort, I am seriously going to kill someone.

*I've learned that by writing this post that I hate the word skort. Say it out loud. Isn't it hideous??

Political Perfection

Noelle over at Just Putting It Out There... has broken down the current political state of the world in an US Weekly way that even Miss South Carolina would understand. It is pretty genius (she went to Yale after all) and I wanted to share.

Inspirational

If you live in the San Francisco area you may have caught this on the news. The story is about a recent graduate from UCSF medical school who is legally blind. His disability has not stopped him from following the same rigorous coursework that every medical student faces and he deals with patients, some who never know he is disabled. Admired and respected, he received the graduating classes highest honor, an award for the doctor who best exemplifies the qualities of a true physician. Oh, and he is also a member of my family. In the video as he excepts this honor, his wife and my cousin, Ann, joins him on stage with their two precious boys, Max and Ben. He is the sweetest guy and we are so proud of him!