seven spring samplers #4: garden of paper delights

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Inside the Preppy Wedding Style File

Hola Amigos. So things are a little stressful in Mrs. Preppy Wedding's life these days. And by stressful, I mean I have awful allergies (which would be fine except that I have a man sneeze, not a pretty little dainty achoo like most gals), a major conference to plan (it's next Monday and my brain might just explode by then), over 150 e-mails in my inbox (I like less than 20) and I have a major teenage like breakout (I had to spackle my face in MAC green tinted concealer this morning).

I hope to seek some solace in you all understanding that life is a little out of control these days. And so I didn't have to think, I am going to share some of the photos I have been saving in my "idea file." Please excuse the fact that they don't fit a certain theme, just think of this as a foray into my style diary!

Via Martha's Furniture line by Bernhardt. I want this room. Mr. Preppy Wedding will just have to embrace the pink. LOVE the ceramic trophy vase.

From Cottage Living. The exact shape of my cottage kitchen. Want the chairs and the floor. See there's even a water bowl for LuLu. Just like she likes it - pushed into the middle of the kitchen, since she can't seem to keep things on her doggie placemat.

Wheat grass placecard display. Love this. And you enrich your smoothies with the grass after the wedding.

Seriously, not sure about the colors, but I love this whimsy look.

Ok, that's it for today. I will be back tomorrow with some of the new things I am loving for spring.

Caplan is coming to Harvard

Tomorrow, May 1, the Harvard Libertarian Forum will host a panel discussion of Bryan Caplan's "The Myth of the Rational Voter." Guests include Professor Caplan and his colleague Robin Hanson (economist-bloggers at GMU), David Estlund (professor of philosophy at Brown), and Jeffrey Miron (economist at Harvard).

The panel is at 4:30 in Emerson 105.

Pigs fly!

Not quite, but Paul Krugman and I agree.

Recession? What recession?

Real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 0.6 percent in the first quarter of 2008.

Over at intrade, the probability of a recession in 2008 has fallen to 25 percent in the latest trade.

LONDON - on the street, marylebone+ soho + west end, 04/29/08

tinarie21 (aka sweet b papers): boutonnieres plus

{ red seersucker pillow }

{ vintage pink and cream boutonniere }

lovely and original style: sweet, unusual combinations of flowers, ribbons, charms, and buttons make up delightful boutonnieres for the gentlemen, and there are a selection of feminine and frilly garters and ring-bearer pillows as well as some other treats for you. contact sweet b to request your custom items -- colors, flowers, etc. -- so very ladylike, so *not* stuffy.




more at tinarie21.etsy.com

#285: i am not an island.

what makes this blog work.........

........is (are?) other blogs.

if you don't believe me, take a gander at my profile. i compile my ideas from blogs i visit daily. i really do.

and i found another one to add to my blogroll. meg is the funky fresh over at a practical wedding. plus, she's TEAM $10,000 as can be verified by her budget friendly (and quite practical, i must admit) posts here and here.

LONDON - on the street, soho & west end + exhibition opening, istituto marangoni, 04/28/08

Score one for Obama

The NY Times reports:

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton lined up with Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, in endorsing a plan to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for the summer travel season. But Senator Barack Obama, Mrs. Clinton�s Democratic rival, spoke out firmly against the proposal, saying it would save consumers little and do nothing to curtail oil consumption and imports.

I don't know any prominent economist who favors this McCain-Clinton proposal. More common is the reaction of a friend of mine (a veteran of the Clinton administration) who calls the idea "ludicrous."

seven spring samplers #3: april showers

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p.s. it's my sister's birthday! hooray!

Vince makes Ben wince

The WSJ reports:

The Federal Reserve's moves to prop up Bear Stearns Cos. will come to be seen as "the worst policy mistake in a generation," [said] the former head of monetary affairs at the Fed. The action is comparable to "the great contraction" of the 1930s and "the great inflation" of the 1970s, said Vincent Reinhart, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, who retired from the Fed last fall.

LONDON - brick lane market, 04/27/08