freshly squeezed.

This is one year where the no-white-after-Labor Day rule has been thrown away. I love cold weather more than most, so this season has been slightly depressing for me, considering the fact that it's been hot for the majority of it. Come September, I think in nothing but tweed, tartan, sweaters, and changing leaves. However, like a light switch, the day after Christmas I'm geared up and ready to go for spring and summer. Usually brought about by the new Lilly catalog in the mail, I dream of punchy colors, shifts, sandals, and Essie. This season is no exception, as you can see from my new blog design. A few Christmas additions, including Essie "clambake," my amazing Lilly wristlet, and my new straw tote, have really put me in the mood for color & warmer climes (though, I'm typing this in 70 degree weather, so I'm pretty ok with it staying this temperature). Thanks to the cheery thoughts of pinks, oranges, cocktails, and the beach, I'm coming out of my lack-of-winter funk. Here are some of the bright and beautiful things that have been inspiring me of late.

via Unabashedly Prep.

via Unabashedly Prep.

via Unabashedly Prep.

decision points.

"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are, can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino!"

-You've Got Mail 

tomorrow is another day.

"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles."

-Audrey Hepburn

Wilde philosophy.

 "You can never be overdressed or overeducated."   

                                                                    -Oscar Wilde

*Case in point: Roger Federer.  Wimbledon is underway, and here's hoping for a Federer victory this year.   

either | or

i and love and you.

take the road less traveled by.

This quote popped up today, and it couldn't have been at a more perfect time.  After all, timing is everything. 

words to live by.

the pursuit of happiness.

via Bippity Boppity Boo.

l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

courtesy of bippity boppity boo.

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

-St. Augustine

as if I needed another reason...

...reason number one million why I love the South.  

"And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."

 -Colossians 3:17

a way with words.

cutie.

"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

risky business.

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”

-John F. Kennedy

*photo courtesy of Bippity Boppity Boo. 

so romantic.

photo courtesy of we heart it.

“I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

-F. Scott Fitzgerald 

I believe..

Photo courtesy of We Heart It.

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” 

-C. S. Lewis

keep me in your heart.

“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.” –Winnie the Pooh

take courage

What a cutie, huh?

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” -Winston Churchill 

just remember...

This brilliant First Lady loved her bows and feathers, too.  Smart lady!

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

take that to the Bank(head).

Love my Montgomery belles (even if she wasn't technically born here..) .

“Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”

 -Tallulah Bankhead*

*This particular belle holds a special place in my heart thanks to her silver coffee service that sits in our kitchen.  In addition to being quippy, she also had pretty darn good taste. :)

flower power

Photo courtesy of tumblr.

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson