Marc Jacobs Daisy Note Card Set

Here's a set of 10 Marc Jacobs Daisy perfume bottle flat note cards for all the swanky holiday parties that are coming up!  You can use them as invitations, thank you cards, or gifts.  Available here.

Pink Chanel Purse Print

Several of you have expressed a wish for a print of my pink Chanel handbag without the Classy & Fabulous quote.  Your wish is my command!  This 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. Pink Chanel Purse Print is now available in my Etsy shop.

More Fall Fashion

More things I want for my Fall wardrobe!  I'm sure I can make room in my closet for a couple of new pieces!  Well, maybe... if I get rid of some things.

route 66 by debralynn5 featuring sheer shirts

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays.  I think my daughter is following in my footsteps.

Here we are at her school's Fall Festival, having lots of fun with her school buddies and getting lots of treats!

My daughter loves this werewolf costume so much, she has been sleeping in it!

Unfortunately it sheds.

Breakfast at Tiffany's Print

For any lesson on style, I just look to Audrey Hepburn.  She has an enduring quality that is as relevant today as it ever was.

The Patron Saint of the Little Black Dress
"She raised the little black dress to an art form.  She taught us how to wear it once and for all, not with fussy fuchsia print scarves, but with simple pearls, a black hat, and - did we dare - a long, black cigarette holder."   - Ellen Melinkoff (about Audrey Hepburn), What We Wore

My new Breakfast at Tiffany's print available here.

"The Legendary qualities of the little black dress have been distilled over the years into one enduring image, that of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's.  The film opens with the actress strolling down Fifth Avenue at dawn.  Her column of black silk skims the impossibly litterless New York sidewalk; above-the-elbow gloves are worn with heaps of pearls and large black sunglasses.  Cut to Hepburn's apartment, where, roused from her bed wearing a rumpled man's tuxedo shirt, she emerges three minutes later in a Givenchy-designed sleeveless shift with a self-tie sash, a flounce of feathers skimming her knees.  Worn in almost every scene, the dress takes Hepburn from cocktails to Sing Sing to dinner at '21', with merely a change of accessories.  The dress, and Hepburn, manage to look different in every frame - yet these images, and this little black dress, have synthesized into the ultimate symbol of inestimable style and chic."

The Little Black Dress - Amy Holman Edelman

One year, after a dinner out for my boyfriend's birthday, we invited friends back to my place for dessert.  I didn't think that everyone would come.  21 people squeezed into my one bedroom apartment, and although I wasn't wearing pearls and a little black  dress,  I did feel like Holly Golightly in the party scene from Breakfast at Tiffany's. 

Retro Pencil Dresses

I love the look of the retro pencil or wiggle dresses they have on
Mad Men.

Here are a couple of wiggle dresses that can be made to order to your specification in a number of different fabrics from a wonderful Etsy shop, heartmycloset.

Katy wiggle pencil dress

Headmistress pencil shape dress

Galaxy fishtail pencil dress

Dylan pencil celeb dress

New look pencil dress

I think these dresses can transition well from office to party very well, depending on accessories.

Black Devil Martini and Other Spooky Cocktails

Is this not the coolest drink for a "grown-up" Halloween party?

Black Devil Martini Recipe

Dark rum and a black olive garnish give this martini its midnight hue. Rim the glass with coarse orange sugar to dress it up for a Halloween party.

Ingredients:

2 oz. dark rum 
1/2 oz. dry vermouth 
black olive
orange sugar 

Preparation:

Stir and strain into chilled martini glass that has been rimmed with orange sugar, then garnish with black olives.

Zombie Cocktail Recipe

Like the walking dead, this cocktail packs a powerful punch thanks to apricot brandy and three types of rum: light, dark and high-proof Bacardi 151. Grenadine and orange juice give the drink its lovely pumpkin hue

Ingredients:

1 oz. apricot brandy 
1 oz. light rum 
1 oz. dark or Jamaican rum 
1 oz. lime juice 
2 dashes grenadine 
orange juice 
1 oz. Bacardi 151 rum

Preparation:

Mix light and dark rum and brandy in a cocktail shaker, add lime juice and grenadine. Shake well and strain into a highball glass filled with cracked ice.

Fill glass with orange juice, but leave enough room to float the Bacardi 151 rum on top. Garnish with a cherry and an orange slice.

Liquefied Ghost Cocktail Recipe

This ghostly white drink tastes like a grown-up version of a milkshake — with a kick. Mix vanilla simple syrup, cream, vodka and soda together, then serve in a martini glass.

Ingredients:

2 oz. vodka 
1 oz. vanilla simple syrup 
1 oz. cream 
2 oz. soda

Preparation:

Mix vanilla simple syrup, cream, vodka and soda together in a cocktail shaker, then serve in a chilled martini glass.

All of these cocktails and more are found here.