Happy Weekend!

I hope you had the loveliest of weeks and are looking forward to the most fabulous of weekends! I just opened the weekend's first bottle of wine, and these cookies look like the perfect pairing...don't you agree?

via Alea Lovely Photo + Video

Tuesday Shoesday

Yep.

Wayne Yuan via Style Me Pretty 

Happy {Snowy} Weekend!

It's going to be a snowy weekend in the Super Burbs, and I am THRILLED. It's about time. So this weekend will be full of cozy fires, reading, date days and date nights with Mr. C, and lots of playing in the snow with Sir Otto. There is just something about the white stuff that turns me into a 5 year old. I woke up at 4AM today just to see it all (like I've never seen snow before) and shovel the driveway. I just LOVE how pretty it makes everything in the winter. I never said I was normal.

Emily Steffen via Style Me Pretty

Hope you have a great one! Miss y'all already!

xoxo, Abby

POC

I have a confession...Two days ago I tweeted to Brad Goreski and a little part of me was hoping for a tweet back. Now, I'm not normally a person that tweets people who have NO idea who I am, but I think he is a doll. We would for sure be BFF. I mean he just styled the Kate Spade spring collection - and Kate is my other imaginary BFF. Anyway his love for POC (that's Pop of Color, mom) is definitely contagious. And I'm starting to notice it EVERYWHERE. And I like it.  

What do you think of a little POC? 

Tuesday Shoesday

White hunter boots. In a closet of blush and beige? Well, I do believe I found my dream closet.

via 

Baby It's Cold Outside

Call me crazy - but I like the cold weather these days. Houses feel cozier, fires feel warmer and hibernating is totally acceptable. Now all we need is a big blizzard...yes I am one of those weirdo that LOVES them with all my being...

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I never thought I would say it - but boy do I love winter these days...

Why hello there...

This week I was basically useless. I did my duties for Style Me Pretty and that was all the energy I could possibly muster. There were days when I didn't really get out of bed, and let me just say - I've had better weeks. BUT (there is always a but) through all of this not-so-ideal-sick-week, I often realized I was the luckiest girl ever, and fell in love with my boys even more (if that's even possible). Mr. C would come home early (this never happens) to tuck me into the bed I had already been in all day, or make me a cup of tea, or just talk to me while I fell into a nyquil-induced coma. Otto acted like it was his #1 job to rush to my side at every cough, sneeze or groan. That dog has never been so concerned about ANYTHING. And although the week wasn't ideal, so to say, it made me realize our little family here in the Super Burbs is pretty darn fabulous.

This isn't us obviously, but it could have been. via

Sorry I was a complete slacker this week - I hope it was so fabulous for you!

Happy Weekend!

Mr. C and I hit the ground running (sprinting even) since 2012 showed its pretty little face. It's been one of those weeks where we have been working so much we haven't really even seen each other yet (does that happen to anyone else? It's bad), so to say we are looking forward to the weekend is the understatement of the year (even though there hasn't been much time in this new year for understatements). Basically what I am saying is that this weekend has been like the carrot at the end of the holiday season stick. We have our entire calendar blocked off for NOTHING. The calendar actually reads "ABBY DO NOT BOOK ANYTHING EVEN IF IT IS FUN" - sometimes I have to yell at myself because if I didn't schedule downtime it just wouldn't happen. It's one of our biggest resolutions for the new year, so let's see how it all pans out. I hope you all have a great weekend, and whatever you do - do not invite me to do something...I hate saying no...

By one of my favs Caitlin McGauley 

SMP Best of 2011 Digital Magazine

It's here! And boy is it pretty. You'll want to block off a few good hours to devour this pretty puppy! 

SEE IT ALL HERE

Welcome 2012!

Potter and Butler on Etsy

Did you have a great holiday? How did you ring in the New Year? We spent it laughing so hard our abs hurt the next morning with some of our great friends, and if that's not a great way to welcome 2012 I don't know what is.  It's kind of nice to be in a new year - full of new, fabulous things on the horizon. Do you have any resolutions or goals? I don't typically set resolutions, but Mr. C and I made some fun ones that I think we will actually keep this year. What are yours?