Coming up!

So, I have noticed that I haven't given very many recipes for you to live by. Yes we've covered some fashion here and there and some good shows and books, but no real recipes for how to make your life more beautiful. Over the next few weeks I'm going to be gathering some projects that you can do at home, or day to day tips that will put a smile on your face and inspire some good change!

What to look forward to:

2 new books for the Book Club that I've finished
At home Spa treatment
Elegant and easy brunch menu
Rev up your work space ideas
Wow your guests entertaining ideas
Fall Fashions
Easy and delicious three ingredient dishes


Stay Tuned!

Ciao!

Blogs to Watch

Just to throw a shout out to one of my favorite shows on TV currently, Glee, someone has created a blog to showcase the fashion styling of Americas favorite Obsessive compulsive neat freak High School Counselor: Emma Pillsbury. The site highlights her preppy, or as I call it "Librarian Chic" wardrobe. The clothing on the blog is actually really great stuff, and I think everyone should check it out. It's called:
What Would Emma Pillsbury Wear

J'adore Couture!

I was watching The Devil Wears Prada last night and I realized I haven't posted about any fashion yet, aside from my side strap purse dilemma and Lilly Pulitzer Charity Shift dress. I put together some of my favorite RTW (Ready to Wear)and Couture looks.

Check out New York Magazine website to see downloadable images of the runways hottest collections.

Ellie Saab Spring Couture 2010




Chado Ralph Rucci Couture Spring 2010



















Christian Lacroix Spring Couture 2010



Givenchy Spring Couture 2010



Vivienne Westwood Spring 2010



Valentino Spring Couture 2010

Valentino BY FAR had the best Spring Couture collection that I can't even pick out my favorites. Click the link to check out the collection!

Ciao!

Book Club

One of the ingredients to Live Beautiful Recipes is having hobbies. One of the most important is READING! Screw the tv and pick up a damn book! Granted I fail at that phrase constantly, but when I have a good book to read trust me nothing on the tube is as captivating as what I've got in hard copy. So I've decided that towards the end of each month I will reveal the latest book I've read. Aprils is none other than Social Climbers, written by Beth Dunn. It is THEE guilty pleasure of the year and a must read. I had the pleasure of meeting Beth at a Bloggers Lilly Pulitzer dinner back in the winter and scored a signed copy of her book. Sadly it took me this long to get around to reading it because of the backed up books on my list, but it was well worth the wait!



Welcome to a world of designer clothes, committee meetings, glamorous events and the best gossip of the ages! This is Mean Girls grown up!



Me, Beth Dunn and Chelsey at the Blogger Lilly Event at Bahama Breeze

Carrie On!

So, it's been a few weeks since my last post but I'm getting back into the swing of things. First up, anyone who isn't living under a rock has hopefully seen the previews for the Sex and the City 2 movie, which looks BETTER than the first movie. Well I was informed that there is an extended verison of that commercial!

Sex and the City 2 Extended Commercial













More to come this week!

Spring is in the air!

It's Spring!!! So you know what that means? This is the second most exciting time for fashion aside from the fall issue of Vogue. Time to pack away our puffy coats and clunky winter boots and make room for all of the beautiful pastel and vivid hues! Today I gladly spent the first day of my spring break neatly packing everything in my Spring clothes bin plus about 12 dresses (which is about 1/5 of the amount of dresses I won) in a suit case and drove back to my apartment to switch out all of my winter clothes. No longer do I have a closet of black, charcoal, brown and plum, it has been replaced with every color of the rainbow, including my steal of a purchase my Lilly Pulitzer Charity Print Shift Dress that my wonderful sorority sister Chelsey snagged for me at the employee discount price of $100, initially around $328.

My current spring fashion mission is to find a chic cross strap purse for spring/summer. See, while I love the over sized hobo bags and the sexy clutches, neither one are always conducive to a night at the bar. So these are the ones I have found so far:

Marc Jacobs


Anthropologie Bags
Empanada Mini Bags


Just Knot my Bag


Molten Folds Bag


Small & Mighty Bag


Woven Pendulum Sling Bag


I'm still on the search for more. Any suggestions?

Study or Redecorate?

So as of today I have completed: one senior thesis paper, one group project, one final. Still to come: two finals, one online group project. My group project that I completed already was voted by my entire class to be the best Hospitality Concept Presentation which I'm SOO proud of.

During this week I've spent countless hours in the library, and decided to finish the rest of the week in my living room studying just for a change of scenery. Well in doing so I've realized how much "guy style" has taken over my apartment. Granted I moved in with a guy who had already been living there with another guy, but you would never know a girl lived there now until you saw my Cosmo's and Sex and the City DVD.

I started to browse online for living rooms that Live Beautiful Recipes would deem acceptable and they all involve BOLD color options! How could you not be happy sitting in a room that was so alive with color?



The combination between this yellow colored sofa and the purple in the floor to ceiling French memo board backgroup is very cool, and they really bring out each other. Then the balance of the colors in the frame behind the couch make the room casual and upbeat.



The turquoise corner wall is such a statement and such a beautiful color, it reminds me of Carrie Bradshaws apartment at the end of the SATC movie.



Instead of using an expensive wall paper, I love that this room just adds accents of colors on the walls so it's not overpowering with the variety of colors there.





I LOVE LOVE LOVE the idea of this really romantic and playful bench swing in the living room, because not only is it a reinvented sitting piece, but it acts as a divider between where the bedroom ends and the living room begins. Plus the graphic and colorful pattern on the seat cushion is so inviting.

Tomorrows well deserved Walnut Street shopping spree will probably inspire a fashion post. Ciao