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“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, became a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

-Nora Ephron

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the beaton track

While picking up an iced latte at King’s Road Café (who, by the way, serves the strongest coffee in LA!), I stopped to peruse the amazing magazine stand located just around the corner. A headline on the February issue of World of Interiors stopped me dead in my tracks: “The Glamour Gang’s Getaway: Jackie Kennedy’s Secret Holiday Hangout." I picked it up and promptly devoured. The said cover story highlights a rather remote estancia located in the provence of Córdoba, Argentina. The estate, dubbed San Miguel de Cárcano, has been visited by the likes of Jackie and Cecil Beaton (he wrote about it in detail in his diary, which was later published as The Parting Years) and at one point was only accessible by mule. Love. As expected with anything that runs in World of Interiors, it's a wonderful piece. My one complaint? I would have died to know the details of Jackie's visit - what did she do? wear? eat?! But I guess that's what made this destination so attractive to someone of her caliber... what happens in San Miguel de Cárcano, says in San Miguel de Cárcano :)

(photos by Ricardo Labougle)

closet confidential

When I moved to Los Angeles, I seriously downsized my wardrobe as I no longer had use for my cold weather clothing (don’t worry - I didn’t give them away... my little sister was more than happy to “keep an eye” on everything for me :). Though I’m only dealing with half of what my closet used to be, I’m still having trouble keeping my clothes in order! Desperate for some new storage solutions, I compiled these images as a bit of inspiration to get my closet back on track (It’s important to note that on my early-twenty-something budget, most of these photos are aspirational!). Who's closet/wardrobe/dressing room do you most identify with?

1. Scanned from Domino, December 2005 2. Zach Molt's lifesaving IKEA Sultan Alsarp box spring 3. Adir Abergel's overflowing wardrobe 4. The Duchess of Windsor's dressing room 5. Kate Spade's closet, scanned from InStyle, October 2004 6. Manolo Blahnik's shoes at home (photo by Ivan Terestchenko) 7. Lauren Vinroot Poole's dressing room, scanned from Domino, February 2007 8. Chloë Sevigny's closet, as featured in Apartamento 9. Jackie Kennedy's White House dressing room 10. Designer David Kaihoi's closet, scanned from House Beautiful, August 2010 11. Audrey Hepburn in her on-set dressing room for Sabrina. 

the real world.

Ohmygoodness! Who would have thought that the transition into the real world would be difficult? Certainly not me! I’m seriously missing sleeping in. But I shouldn’t be complaining—life is fantastic :)
The real point of this post is to share this wonderful photo with all of you. Any photos taken in office settings seem catch my eye nowadays (I can't get my mind off work!). Do you think it was staged? I like to hope that it wasn’t because it’s so sweet. I guess all’s fair in love and politics, right? 

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maggie and milly and molly and may

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea

e.e. cummings

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