Lassie, come home

KLP Designs moves AGAIN for the third and final time in a year. And while one could ask if I'm really picky about office space or whether I enjoy having life in varying degrees of chaos, I'm going to plead the fifth. Especially if the question relates to the new pajama-friendly business environment of my newest office space.

Throw in a donut, and it pretty much sums me up.

Thank you, Mike, for my birthday goodies and for not only loving my quirks but finding birthday presents that support them.

Day 4: Lassie, please save the day and unpack so I don't have to.

P as in Perfect

Christmas wrap-up. Literally and figuratively.

This year I had a new hand-made project in the works that I would have photographed step-by-step except that it would have ruined the surprise. So now that the holidays are over, I am posting the after (and before) of the 2010 version of my custom dog pillows.

I love supporting my local vendors

Especially ones who share my taste in seafood.

KLP Designs Headquarters

I swear it looks less creepy in person.

Thanksgiving just got a whole lot Juicier

Delray Beach, Florida: Juicy Couture's new bakery dedicated to cupcakes... and a soon-to be rebuttal to their "everyone looks good in terry cloth sweatpants" mantra.

Love is...

...having someone who will go along with your sometimes crazy interior design ideas.

A decade of "maybe"

I just got my anniversary issue of Lucky magazine and boy I feel old. Like, I remember that I was already OUT OF COLLEGE marking interview outfits with those little tabs.

OK who am I kidding, I never did that because (duh) I chose advertising as a career specifically so that I wouldn't HAVE to ever wear an interview outfit. Like my great mentor Angela Bower, who proved that client presentations were just as effective in sequined prom dresses, I was left to putting Lucky's intriguing new sticky tabs on high heels I'd never be able to buy, let alone manage in on the streets of NY, and shopping streets of cities I'd only dream to walk.

But ten years later and living in a car culture that allows me to finally wear heels (occasionally), I'm happy to see that I've achieved something that your editors deem Lucky-worthy.

Drumroll please for #90, #91, #93, & #95. Sigh, macaroons and (literally) stuffed animals, Who's the Boss? For today, I'd like to say that I am.

Unlike Bright Eyes, I will never have any Land Locked Blues

Water or no water nearby, I can now get my fix whenever I need it...

Sssssssssssnap bracelet love

On a recent trip to a tourist shop in the Outer Banks, I fondly recalled my love of snap bracelets. What I'm curious about, though, is whether snap bracelets are back in fashion or whether the store's inventory is actually from the 1980s (along with the shark teeth, hermit crabs and tie-dyed visors I also saw).

He knows me, he really knows me!

My fiancé Mike went to Chicago for the weekend and came back with gifts that were SO me, that I can't help but smile.

Montauk love, part 2

Lobster girl lives on.

It looks like someone had too much to drink

A swan song for my days of inanimate creatures

Had I not just moved into a new place with my fiancé, one of these swan planters would probably be in my woodland-themed apartment by now. But since I think I reached my max quota of animals during the unpacking this week, I'll just have to love these feathered creatures from afar.

On the up-side, I'm $8 richer.

Pooh la la!

My miniature-loving brain went into overdrive this weekend thanks to Dana's amazing Winnie-the-Pooh collection. Seriously, how avant-garde is Grape Pooh!?

Beached whale alert!

Lemons most certainly become lemonade

Thanks to my new birdy lemon squeezer I got for my birthday. Thank you, Jen–you know my decorating scheme so well!

3 is a collection... $3 is a steal

I so wanted to introduce him to some long-lost brothers at home... but I withheld. 

For now.