A college classmate/photographer, Greg, is in France at the moment. Beautiful photos. photos: Greg Strock

  photo:  sunnygirlwi Merry Christmas!  Just finished wrapping these gifts in a cute paper from Target and am heading north to a family dinner (full turkey dinner!), gifts in hand. Hope you have time to spend with your family, friends and other loved ones!

My nephew Caleb turned 11 on Friday and spent Sunday afternoon with about 10 friends – playing laser tag and video games.  Here are a few photos from the afternoon.    I imagined Mimo thinking, "I'm on the correct square, little brother, are you??" On a side note, went to my aqua challenge class this…

Friends Annelies and Katy hosted a party called Project Cupcake in San Francisco (*sob* where I no longer live).  To live vicariously through them, I'm posting these photos of Project Cupcake.  Enjoy.     The George Bush cupcake     Some of the creations.   The creators of the event:  Katy and Annelies! 

   garance dore featured this photo of clemence poesy.  I'm all for black, and I love her mix of black, white and those boots!  The look is intentional, effortless-looking chic.  LOVE IT!  Can't stop looking at it.   

A brand new favorite blog of mine, This Time Now: Design Where You Are, is authored by Felicia Shelton who has lived in Sweden, France and currently resides in South Korea. She is writing a style book with a foreward written by Tom Dixon.  I cannot wait to read the book nor catch up on…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Holidays at Chao Camp, originally uploaded by abchao. Quite festive, this photo by ABCHAO on flickr.

 I waited too long today to eat something (breakfast should probably be earlier than mid-afternoon!) so I had one of those headaches that had me pinching the bridge of my nose/pressing on the sides of my nose/holding the base of my head – desperately trying to ease the pain of a headache.  Ended up trying…

MOM EMAIL CONVERSATION #1 MOM: "I thought my head was going to explode before I made a decision." ME: " I'm Twittering this." sunnygirlsf Another case of Glad THAT Didn't Happen: MOM: "I thought my brain was going to explode before I made a decision!" Cleanup on Aisle 5? 9 minutes ago from web MOM…

  Started reading Snoop this morning and was captivated by one paragraph in particular: Personality: An individual's unique pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is consistent over time.  If you alphabetize your book collection just once, that does not make you an organized person.  If you try a new dish on a menu once,…