Happy Memorial Day! Wishing everyone a safe, enjoyable and sun filled holiday...
Since I got the email alert Tuesday night, as I was headed to bed to watch Glee, I tossed Hilbils my camera and told her to get busy with Emma and their friends who where all getting ready for a girl's night out...
Unfortunately, I had to edit out most those shots the following morn cuz it looked like a girl bomb had gone off in the background of their room with Longchamp, flatirons and Jack Rogers shrapnel everywhere... 
So, when at first you don't succeed, catch them on their way out to J. Crew and dinner the next night and try, try again...
My sister Julie, a recent inductee into the Sea Candy dangles club, did not want to be left out and threw her ear lobes into the ring...
Kindness of Meg Carter for such a generous thank you. Standby for eleventh hour entries from the bff and I this weekend. And, also to Samie Danaher and Sally Atwater for being so gracious about being hounded by the paparazzi. You can pay thank me when you win...XXOO
January - Wolf Moon
February - Snow Moon
March - Worm Moon
April - Pink Moon
May - Flower Moon
June - Strawberry Moon
July - Buck Moon
August - Sturgeon Moon
September - Harvest Moon
October - Hunter's Moon
November - Beaver Moon
December - Cold Moon
And, every 2-3 years there's an extra full moon in a single month referred to as a Blue Moon. The term "blue moon" is also used metaphorically to describe a rare event. As in, "once in a blue moon Allie thinks of things other than shopping and chocolate". Did I mention it only comes around every 2-3 years?
Kindness of Kate Spade and her penchant for adding trivia to her yearly refills. This is the kind of abstract information that keeps me afloat during games of Trivial Pursuit with Babe and his smartypants friends...XXOO
Enter one very talented, slightly orange striped squirrel who began appearing at these windows and putting on one helluva cabaret act to cheer up our boy. He tapped...he sang...he did comedy...I once even spied a top hat and cane.
Pretty soon Pilgie was looking out the window for a different reason each morning...
And, pretty soon we found the way to, our new friend, Tigger's heart...
It's a pretty inexpensive ticket for such a fine act...
And, Pilgie feels so proud to be able to give something in return...
I suspect though, peanuts and Tony Award winning acts aside, these two are really in it for the friendship...
Cuz the matinee that's performed each afternoon in the trees is gratis. Our peanuts are no good at this show...
Noticing Amy's brand new Louis Vuitton Bandeau scarf still in it's bag I gathered my good guest wits about me and whipped out my "party piece" for the evening; an Hermes Twilly scarf wrist tying trick...
After folding your Twilly in half, lay your arm across the center and then bring the closed side across the underside of your wrist...
Thread the tail ends through the loop of the closed end...
Pull each tail end in opposite directions thus cinching your Twilly or Bandeau...
Flip your arm over, kindly turning a blind eye to my just completed gazillion and one push ups and pull ups bulging veins...
Cross one tail end over the other...
Tie once...
Then twice...
And, voila!
Now you can swank up everything from a Lacoste polo shirt to a linen dress to a jean jacket. Orrr, what you can't see in the above pics, my post P90Xhaustion and 3 miler Nike shorts, Under Armour top and a boatload of sweat...
Taking it easy cuz come Monday morning we've got Demi Moore one armed push-ups, dive bombs and detox city on the books. But for now, we're lazin about in our weekend food coma, missing Babe and counting down the days til Memorial Weekend, the bff's arrival at the beach and the official start to summer...
Kindness of Pilgie, who happens to be going by Pippinz and Pipples these days, for always throwing Mama a photo op bone when she needs one...XXOO
Yesterday I did a minor thinning out of my closet and this is the pile of unworn Calypso, Lilly and CK Bradley that was absconded by a niece that shall remain nameless (drops chin like Brick from The Middle) emmaaaa...
The only two items that survived the pilfering are this brand spankin new, never seen the light of day, size 44/8 Melissa Odabash Fiji bikini...SOLD!
And, this size 8 Lilly Pulitzer Jubilee shift that I love but, is too big for me. Also, holding an empty dance card. If any one's interested in either for the bargain basement price of $75 per please email too lazy for eBay me. Free shipping to a good home...SOLD!
Instead of hassling with updating my eBay sellers account I hope to be trotting up to the beach for some PTH's with my new VC&A and Dara Torres books... 
For those of you in G'town, still counting down the days til the hood pool opens, be sure to swing by Sherman Pickey for the Jack Rogers trunk show and a chance to meet theee Steven Stoleman of Palm Beach fame. Almost as good as getting your tan on...Kindness of one track mind ADG for not emailing me to ask if the bikini model is included in the price. I think there's a pony tailed bathing beauty ripe for the pickin over at K.S. Anthony's pool. And, the bff Kimba for my much appreciated VC&A prezzie...XXOO
Right outta the gate Emma and I are slinging the big guns with a two day fast to get us in the right frame of mind and start the ole stomach shrink...
I've also ordered a months worth of Shakeology shakes to replace my midday empty calories meal of pretzels and Diet Coke. Okay, okay...maybe just the pretzels. I haven't gone completely nutz here...
Lastly, two fab finds from my friend Amy, Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice herbal chai like tea...
And, Mighty Leaf Chocolate Mint Truffle tea...
Add a smidge of skim milk to either and you've got yourself a lil dessert. At least until the weekend when aaanything goes. Diet rule #1 according to Allie and Emma...
I finally got to meet the gorgeous Jules Reid at her Sherman Pickey trunk show this past weekend...
I hope Jules forgives me if I seemed hasty with my greeting but, do you see all those racks of frocks?
I needed to get myself into the dressing room pronto!
After about an hour of trying on just about everything, Babe voted for the très Jackie O Peony dress in Blue Dots...
While he generously handled my purchase I stayed in the dressing room scheming...
Scheming and plotting how to eventually get my greedy paws on the Flowing Kimono in Elephant Love Blue...
Annnd the Montauk in Light Blue Ikat. Never quite satisfied. Beginning to understand my parents years of frustration... 
If any of you lucky ducky New Yorkers make it to CK Bradley's Cocktails & Trunk Show report back in with your field notes please!
We're real tuckered out here after a long weekend at our home away from home, the Fairfax in DC. We dined out, dined in, swung by the Jules Reid trunk show, caught up with good friends, hit up our old cupcake haunts, tortured Babe with endless Glee videos at Amy's and had multiple celeb sightings including John Walsh, Adam Duritz, Emmy Rossum and Dhani Jones...
So, excuse us while we get our P90X groove back on, hang our new Jules Reid Peony dress in our closet and do our penance for all the naughty eating and shopping we did the past several days...
So, I will thank you, ADG, to not wave your Belgian wearing foot in my weak in the knees for Belgians face...
Orrr, pics of your Belgian wearing friend's feet...
Cuz, if I break down and order myself these coveted babies...
And, throw in this pair too because, if I'm in I'm all in. I mean, if I'm gonna have to pay the piper I'm gonna make it well worth the grief...
Unless...do you think Babe would fall for this exhumed $25 a pair advertisement you also felt obliged to send my way?
