Prada toppers

My friend Olivia was wearing the cutest silk headband at school today. It was wrapped up and tied in a knot on top of her head. It struck me as very familiar....

Prada perhaps? Then i got to thinking, whatever happened to those turbans? Does anyone wear them still, or are they lame?

Future apartment

For my future apartment/home Im thinking a close replica of the stairwell of the Tenenbaum house, as well as clean, bright colors(think nik-l-nip green) in the bedrooms. A collection of quirky trinkets and prints. It will a paradise. Actually, any house with a room for a library, or better yet, a sun room, would be my paradise. And of course my husband's old surfboard will be transformed into a coffee table.

Great expectations...NOT

I've signed up for art next year and I am pretty darn excited. Check out this sketch by Cathy Bird titled"young african girl" and the medium is wax crayon.

lurvve it.

Fun in the SUN!!

So I realize that not everyone has super cool summer ideas for those beautiful yet boring days of summer, so I'm compiling a list of my best ideas. Let me know if you've got some yourself!
1.Take underwater pictures! I've done this on two occasions, once with my bestie girlfriend Weens, and we pretended to be mermaids. I did it just yesterday with the BF and we just goofed around. The results are always really tight, and if you take some pictures above the water, they turn out really bright and saturated with color. Its great!
2. Kool-aid Popsicles
3. Picnic!
4. Fly kites
5. Throw a summer cocktail party, or a pool party if you have one (a pool that is). Just throw together a play-list, make some finger sandwiches, smoothies, and some potato wedges and you're in business. Try some non-alcoholic cocktails to spruce things up.
6. Re-create top chef with your fellow cook-savy friends
7. Plant a herb garden- so when you make your top-chef dishes, you'll have some fresh rosemary, mint, or oregano to use.
8. Watch season 1 of gossip girls! Thats what I'll be doing, i can assure you.
9. Go get a snowball and chill out on the hood of a friends car enjoying then summer sun
10. Swim! If you don't have a pool, then pool-hop at nearby apartment complexes. Just make sure you can peace-out of there really quick if a tenant gets pissed.

I want to Marry Mark Twain

I want to marry Mark Twain. His sense of adventure, wry humour, funny accent. But, since he's dead, I guess I'll have to get with Bear Grillz. The next best thing.

Im such a martha

So my boyfriend told me i should learn to cook, and so like a good little homemaker, I've attempted. I can make fudge, cupcakes, cake, cookies, but not so much on the whole meatloaf front. Much to my parents delight, I decided to take dinner into my own hands Tuesday night and whipped up a mean spaghetti wtih olive oil, garlic, and red pepper flakes. I jacked the recipe from the food network's "Everyday Italian." and tweaked it a little bit. Enjoy!

1 pound dried spaghetti
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes, plus more if desired
1/4 cup chopped Italian flat-leaf parsley
1 tablespoon chopped oregano leaves
In a large pot, bring to a boil 6 quarts of salted water. Add pasta and cook until al dente, about 6 to 8 minutes. Drain pasta in a colander, reserving 2 tablespoons of the pasta water. The reserved pasta water will help create the sauce. Do not rinse pasta with water- (ok you can if you dont want your pasta in a congealed mass when it comes time for the mixing)

In a large saute pan, heat olive oil over medium heat. (DON'T PREHEAT THE PAN OR ELSE YOU'LL GET SCORCHED BY POPPING OIL!) Add the garlic and saute until light brown and fragrant. It's important not too burn the garlic or else it will become bitter. Add the red pepper flakes and saute for 1 minute. Carefully add the reserved pasta water and stir to combine. Place the spaghetti into the pan and mix well for 1 minute.