For Tony's Valentine's Day gift this year, I decorated his "School of Rock" trailer and stocked it with his favorite things. I had so much fun putting it all together. Stepford Wife adrenaline was coursing through my veins. I was channeling Martha Stewart as my spirit animal. I even thought about cleaning the house when I got home (thank god that madness passed!) Here is the little home away from home I put together for Tony on the Paramount lot...View Article
I'm hopelessly behind on my one-woman internet book club. So, this month I'm taking a page out of one of my favorite writer's book (blog) and declaring this month an Articles Club! I first read about the idea on A Cup of Jo. Her manifesto: "An articles club would be just like a book club, but we'll read articles. We'd all read the same story--from, say, The New Yorker or Elle--and chat over wine and snacks. It would be fascinating, timely and a much easier commitment than a book club (because, honestly, who ever finishes the book on time?)" I know I certainly don't.View Article
Coachella is coming up next weekend and, while Tony and I aren't going (too much money, dirt, heat, sun and people), I'm all about dressing like I'm going. Our friend Justin is much cooler than we are and invited us to Topshop's Stillhouse Original Moonshine Coachella event at the Grove last night, where I had the luxury of sipping some sort of peach tea liquor combo (it was so good I don't even remember what, exactly, it was) while a fabulous personal shopper named Gio told me I was pretty and picked out things for me to wear. I felt like a hipster Cinderella, only instead of a glass slipper, I was trying on cut-off shorts and crop tops. (Also, the glass slipper fit Cinderella. The cut-off shorts did not fit me. Cursing all the frosting I've been eating lately. Ate cheese fries after anyway because I have no willpower. The wedding is less than four months away.) And at the end of the night, my personal Prince Charming Tony surprised me by buying my favorite outfits... My kind of night! Here's my favorite look for Coachella, featuring a crop top (with convenient fringe to hide my jelly belly) I got last night. JUST PLEASE COMMENT BELOW & TELL ME I'M ON FLEEK, GUYS.View Article
Legend (truth) has it that the one and only time my parents took me camping as a kid, I asked the park ranger where the room service menu was. I was 7 or 8, I think. My parents realized it was too late. They’d raised a spoiled diva princess. (They were right.) My idea of “camping” is staying at a hotel that doesn’t have a bathtub or turn-down service. I don’t do well without a place to plug my phone and curling iron into. I want a complimentary bathrobe and someone in a tuxedo bringing me food in bed.View Article
Tony’s stepsister Steph and her husband Steve are both beautiful humans and musicians, and they have generously offered to share their talents for our wedding. I am so excited, especially because we had such an amazing time at their perfect wedding in Idaho this summer. They’ll be playing for the 30 minutes of guest arrivals, as well as the processional, and bride’s entrance. They can play pretty much anything, but Steve suggested we narrow things down to the acoustic guitar and, possibly, the banjo. To say my dad is thrilled is an understatement. He’s obsessed with the banjo. He’ll tell you he can even play it, but I haven’t seen evidence of that... Although he says he played for me when I was a kid, I must have been too young to remember. But anything with the banjo really touches his soul.View Article
This past Saturday, I got to be Tony’s date to Nickelodeon’s 2015 Kids' Choice Awards. The inner 12-year-old in me was freaking out. If you’d told that chubby girl with a bad perm and a love for denim skorts, feverishly dialing to vote for "Kenan & Kel," that she would one day be the arm candy of a Nickelodeon star on the orange carpet, she would have lost her mind.View Article
It's been a while since I've posted in the j'adorable things series, so here is a month's worth of happiness! Tony and I are looking forward to a weekend packed with exciting work events (he'll be live Tweeting the Hart of Dixie finale tonight, and keep an eye on Instagram tomorrow!) And, I will be going on my first camping trip as an adult. Stay tuned to hear how that pans out... Have the happiest weekend!View Article