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Hey kids, I went and did something really annoying: I moved to wordpress. It's the same exact blog, just with its own URL and all that jazz. If you'd like to continue following along, please update your readers to this:


www.therecomesayes.com

Thanks and I hope you make the switch!

crazy awesome adler lamp

I want this. You probably want it too. That's one giant floor lamp.

Jonathan Adler Buenos Aires lamp - $1950

hi, i got married last month

You can see more over on Heidi's blog.

doors of orange

I was going through my honeymoon pictures again tonight and noticed a recurring theme in entrances of hotels in Palm Springs.

Why hello, glossy orange! I think it means something.

P.S. I want all of that hardware.

just in time: orange

A coral-neon-orange is my proposed accent color for the living room and apparently, I'm so very on trend. It's nice when the world manages to recognize my creative genius.

West Elm Side Tables via Apartment Therapy

Also, that chrome stool is awesome.

charade color board

I'm a pretty lousy blogger -- I don't plan out my posts like I should, so when I promise something like showing pictures of my living room and then we go and buy a car and get fined a boatload of money for having an illegal cat in our apartment, I can't actually provide said pictures of my living room.

So instead I have a color board based on the movie Charade. We watched last night as part of date night and I couldn't help but be completely in love with Audrey Hepburn and her Givenchy wardrobe. All of her jewel tone coats were amazing, as were the elbow length gloves and that impossible chignon of hers.

Clockwise from top left: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

le pretenders

Ever since creating a wedding registry, I have had an inexplicable and impulsive desire for Le Creuset products. I don't really cook - my husband does that - but I'm so taken in by the brightly colored enamel, the divine promises of cast iron, and admittedly the cache of owning one of those dutch ovens.

Apparently I'm not alone. A friend sent me an Amazon listing for Le Creuset replacement knobs. Let's take a closer look at it:

We've found the culinary equivalent of putting a Mercedes badge on your Honda Civic.