Happy New Year

To all of my amazing friends in the blogging world, thank you for your friendship and camaraderie in 2011. 

Cheers to a New Year

I look forward to another great year of friendship, fun posts and learning new things.  Hope you and your families have wonderful happy & healthy New Year.  


Linking up to Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound.

Simply Divine...Simply Pink

I have a confession - one of my guilty pleasures is watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.  And my favorite "housewife" is Lisa Vanderpump...and of course my favorite "housedog" is her little pom Giggy. She is an accomplished business woman, restauranteur and designer.     I love her directness & sense of humor and most importantly, her fashion style and how she treats her dogs.   

So it goes without saying, I had to buy her book on entertaining that was recently published called Simply Divine. This is a wonderful book with lots of tips on entertaining, styling and cooking.  I will definitely try out some of the recipes Lisa shares.   

As you can see from the cover, Lisa loves the color pink.  As a matter of fact, her website states that those closest to her call her Pinky.  So in celebration of Pink Saturday, I thought I'd post some of my favorite photographs of Lisa's Beverly Hills home that she recently sold.  

This bathroom is amazing.  I love the cabinetry.

It looks like that is a mini pink velvet couch for her dogs.  Love it. 

Here is the adorable Giggy.

So clean and crisp.  

Another view of the pinkalicious bathroom.

Love how she organizes her clothing by color.  I do the same thing.

Even a pink Birkin.  This shoe area is a WOW.

Who would want to leave this closet?  

Even her husband Ken wears pink.  

I think my favorite room is her pink bathroom.  It is so pretty & feminine and really celebrates her love of everything pink.  If you would like to learn more about Lisa...here is a link to her website and you can follow her on twitter here.


Hope you enjoy these photographs of Lisa's fabulous home and have a Happy Pink Saturday!  Linking up to Beverly's Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound. 

Olive & Cocoa...

Simply unique giving...textures of imagination.  That pretty much sums up Olive & Cocoa, an amazing online gift shop that has such a wonderful array of offerings.  In honor of Pink Saturday, I selected my favorite items from their site. 

Hope you enjoy!

Olive & Cocoa

Linking up with Beverly at How Sweet the Sound 

for Pink Saturday.

Relaxation is in the air....

The sun is shining....the water is sparkling....
time to regroup and relax.  

Happy to be home in time for Pink Saturday!
Have a wonderful weekend.

Joining up with Beverly at How Sweet the Sound

Pink Peonies...the delicious looking flower

If flowers were edible...(and I know that some are)...there would be no more delicious flower than peonies.  They look like a cross between cotton candy and swirly pink ice cream.  I just can't get enough of these gorgeous flowers.  

They remind me of going to my grandmothers house when I was a little girl...she had an amazing garden and whenever the peonies were in bloom, I would stare at them transfixed, wanting to pick them and bring them inside, but never daring to because I was afraid that my grandmother would get mad at me.

They are not that easy to find where I live so when they are available, I happily over pay to get them.  I was so obsessed with this little bunch of five that I was able to get at Fresh Market...that I had a little photo shoot to capture their essence. My husband was looking at me like I was crazy - but in the end, he had to admit..these were beauties.  

Hope you enjoy these precious flowers...

These are just so yummy & fluffy looking.....

Aren't these fabulous....

What's your favorite flower?

Linking up with:

Show & Tell Friday at My Romantic Home

Inspiration Friday at At the Picket Fence

Home Sweet Home at The Charm of Home

Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound

Loving the look of Coastal Pink..

So I've been away from the computer for most of these past ten days.  I'm glad it's now the weekend and I can catch up with some things around the house and of course, reading all of my favorite blogs.  I feel like I missed so much....and  what better way to celebrate the weekend than Pink Saturday.  


I just love pink.  And try to incorporate it into my home decor wherever I can....sometimes I have to catch myself because too much pink makes things look too feminine.  So here are some of my favorite pink rooms.... 

Do you think these rooms are too pink?

Linking up to Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound....

Tickled Pink....

I've really been enjoying playing with flowers lately.  I've been practicing on how to make different arrangements with some of my favorite spring flowers.  While I have always loved roses, it seems all of a sudden, every where I turn...I'm either seeing them somewhere...or buying them for my home. 

This was really quite simple to make.  I soaked some floral foam in water...making sure that it was really moist.  I put it in the bottom of this pretty green glass pedestal bowl and randomly inserted the pink roses.  From there I dropped in some white flowers & greenery to break up the pink...and then draped moss around the inside of the bowl to hide the floral foam.

  

I'm really pleased with how this came out...and the flowers really lasted a long time.  I think my next creation will be with daisies.  They are perfect to ring in Spring.  

Happy Pink Saturday!

Joining up with How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday.