friday favorites

I love this photo from Polly's blog! (Also: the pink coat!!! eep!)



I think this is one of the most clever ideas ever! An astroturf purse! I would love to get this and wear it with my sunny day outfit. It also reminds me of this picnic basket idea!



Pink polka dotted cat shoes. Need I say more?!



Speaking of shoes, BAIT Footwear is releasing their spring line this week and to say I'm in love would be the understatement of the year. So far the only ones I see up on the site are the pink ones, but I'm dying to get my hands on the mint and cornflower blue ones too!!



Did you see Helen Mirren dyed her hair pink? Coolest thing ever! I hope so badly that my hair turns white (or at least light grey) when I'm older so that I can dye it fun colors without all the hassle of bleach. My genetics seem to point towards having dark hair FOREVER though, darn it!



Anthropologie has a grapefruit sweater!! A grapefruit sweater! It's a little (okay, a lot!) out of my price range though so I might DIY it. I think I owe it to my undying love of grapefruit juice to own at least one piece of grapefruit clothing.



I love this print of foods from The Office! I definitely need one for my bedroom.. it would be a much subtler (and cuter!) way of paying tribute to my favorite tv show than the poster I currently have hanging up (you can see it creeping in the background of the close-up in this outfit post.) And the mixed berry yogurt will always make me smile :)



Speaking of The Office, did you see the Dunder Mifflin products at Quill? They started selling Dunder Mifflin paper last year (of course I bought a whole box!) but this year they added legal pads, post-its, markers and legal boxes! I'm so excited!!



A Ross Gellar brooch! I love it! I wish Friends would start streaming somewhere so I could watch it constantly like I do The Office and The X-Files. I have the whole series on DVD but I've gotten so spoiled by netflix instant that I hardly ever pull out my discs anymore.



Speaking of instant streaming, from Feb. 14th to Feb. 18th all of the Criterion movies on hulu are free for everyone! If you have some free time I highly recommend checking some of them out! Some of my personal favorites that they're streaming are Jules et Jim, Daisies, Elevator to the Gallows, The Seventh Seal, Stagecoach, Monsieur Verdoux, Vivre Sa Vie, La Strada, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Earrings of Madame De... and Orpheus.



This service is so cool! You upload your photographs and they turn them into a viewfinder slide, plus you get a viewfinder to.. well.. view them! I'm thinking of getting one of these made for my dad's 60th birthday in April!



My dream home would definitely have a spiral staircase, extra points if it's pink (who am I kidding, if it wasn't pink to begin with I'd probably paint it!) Honestly I think if my future home doesn't come with one of these, I'm installing one... even if it's a one story flat and the staircase is purely decorative. It just needs to be there.

sunday funnies

We had to get rid of our newspaper subscription last year thanks to a tighter family budget, and although I liked reading the whole thing, I'll admit the part I missed the most was the Sunday Funnies. So ever since then I've tried to make it a little tradition to find something funny each Sunday morning to start my day off on a happy, silly note. And I thought, as long as I'm doing that already, why not share it here?!

I wanted my first Sunday Funnies feature to be a clip from Friends where they play a new game show called "Bamboozled!" but unfortunately it seems like every. single. Friends clip on youtube has embedding disabled. Because of course, that would only increase views and possibly gain the show more fans.. why would you want that? (ERGH.) Anyway, you can view the clip here. I'd say it's probably my favorite scene from the show, and that's saying something because I have about 8,000 favorite scenes (low ballpark estimate.)

While on the subject of funny scenes from my favorite shows, here's a clip I uploaded this week from The Golden Girls. Blanche is upset because she has to have surgery, so Rose recounts that as a child whenever she was scared or nervous, her mom would sing a lullaby to her that would always make her feel better .. the WWI battle song "Over There." As usual everyone looks at her like she's nuts, but when Blanche is being wheeled into surgery, they all burst out in song. It's hilarious!



And Sunday wouldn't be Sunday without my favorite newspaper comic, Monty!

A recap of this week's online antics:

- I made this video tribute to Dana Andrews

- I re-opened my Flapper Doodle etsy shop

- I bought this amazing black vintage coat

- One of my tumblr photos got 40 reblogs! This is a first.

- I made my first hair tutorial

- I lost quite a few followers on every blog I have, and didn't freak out.

- I discovered lots of Dirk Bogarde films on Netflix instant watch.

- I posted a LOT of unnecessary mustaches on Silents and Talkies.

- I decided my next video tribute will be Gary Cooper.

- I got the nicest comment ever on formspring.

- I discovered the Rock Hudson blog.

- Casey got me hooked on White Collar.

- Got the sweetest comments on one of my posts. You guys ROCK!

impromptu trip to new york

I'm petrified of elevators, especially ones that go up 80+ floors, so I gave my brother my camera and asked him to snap some photos for me when he got up to the top of the Empire State Building. Isn't the view breathtaking?!


Close up of the purple M&Ms in the huge candy department in the NBC store. My mom's favorite candy :)


The Empire State Building at night. There was a really bizarre sky that night... it seemed as if there were black clouds floating above.


I take one of these every time I go into the city, don't I? Oh well, it's one of my favorite places to go, I think it's so lovely!


Friends section of the NBC store. Love this shirt! My brother wants the "How You Doin?" shirt, and I also saw one with the infamous "pivot" sequence. If I was a t-shirt kinda gal, these would have been coming home with me ;-)


My view from our seat at Olive Garden in Times Square. It was so much fun to look out the window while we were eating!


Scrumptious chocolate mousse for dessert! I don't care if it's not real Italian food, a commercialized chain, blah blah blah... in a family where even Chinese takeout is a rare treat, eating at Olive Garden is a huge privilege and a delicious one at that!