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Book Cub Monday

posted on : July 10, 2018 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

Here is another awesome beach read….this week’s choice is Hey Ladies, The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year and Way Too Many Emails by Michelle Markowitz, and Caroline Moss.  When I saw this book it really tugged at my heart strings.  Many of my closest friends have moved away from this area.  I really really miss them all the time, but the summers are especially tough because we spent so many together growing up and throughout our college/working years and then as newly married and eventually parents of our own children.  Soooo many great great memories!!!  I just knew I had to read this…and you know what…just seeing the cover made me smile and reminded me of my own ladies…….Here is the great summary…..ENJOY!!!:


Based on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud read that follows a fictitious group of eight 20-and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays, summer house rentals, dates, brunches, breakups, and, of course, the planning of a disastrous wedding. This instantly relatable story is told entirely through emails, texts, DMs, and every other form of communication known to man.
 
The women in the book are stand-ins for annoying friends that we all have. There’s Nicole, who’s always broke and tries to pay for things in Forever21 gift cards. There’s Katie, the self-important budding journalist, who thinks a retweet and a byline are the same thing. And there’s Jen, the DIY suburban bride-to-be. With a perfectly pitched sardonic tone, Hey Ladies! will have you cringing and laughing as you recognize your own friends, and even yourself.  – Amazon.com


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Favorite Things This Week!!!

posted on : July 7, 2018 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

By now you must realize that my family and I are HUGE Amazon fans.  We order everything for our household on that site!!  Whenever I run into my readers, they always tell me that the Amazon finds are some of their favorite posts so I thought I would try to keep them coming on a regular basis…..sooooo here are some of our weekly favs!!  Bon Weekend!!!




I just bought this for my daughter in pink and blue and it is adorable!!!!

This is called the bloggers bag…I knew I had to order it!!!!!

If you are traveling with your family this summer..this is a must have!!!!

I have been addicted to salon hair conditioning masks..I decided to try this at home one!!!!

I am obsessed with these Pajamas

I always also have this in my suitcase!!

And this tooooooo!!!

I have been burning this candle all summer!!!

I did not buy this yet but it is in my cart for some upcoming long flights!!!!!

Lastly, I have received a bunch of emails asking what luggage I use….here it is..I love it…its HUGE and so light..it has taken me through many adventures with plenty of room and pounds!!!! to spare!!!

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Cheese/Ranch Tater Tot Picnic Night Casserole

posted on : July 6, 2018 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

I just got back from picnic night with friends and everyone brought the most outrageous dishes.  My blogger friend Totally Tikaa posted this amazing Cheese/Ranch Tater Tot Casserole for the Holiday.  She says it is incredible.  I am making this for picnic night next week!!  Bon Appetit!!!!

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4th of July Party

posted on : July 5, 2018 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

Happy 4th!!!!!  Here are some of my favorite party ideas!!!  Wish we were celebrating together!!!

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Stile Armonk

posted on : July 3, 2018 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

There’s a hidden GEM in Armonk that I found last weekend, Stile.  The owner Julie is incredible and has a great eye.  She really curates the store to have a great mix of fashionable clothing, and accessories, gorgeous contemporary artwork, and chic items for the home.  Julie just stocked the shop with new summer arrivals and already started their EPIC summer sale.  Now is the time to run over for Jumpsuits, Jeans, Dresses, Gifts and so much more.  Stile also has a great user friendly website, click HERE to check it out.

I could not decide what I loved more the bag or the artwork.

How great are these silhouettes…they have a bunch of colors, patterns you can choose from.  If silhouettes are not your thing, this same artist had a bunch of great pieces in the store!!

The earring selection was so great…I love the long ball ombre earrings!

I loved this vegan leather jacket.  It was so lightweight.  I think it would look great over a dress on a cool summer night.

Julie tells me that these logo sweat pants are flying out the door. And there are a bunch of logos/patches you can choose from for your own custom design.

 I could not resist this cute Hampton Sweatshirt.
There were a bunch of really pretty feminine blouses to choose from.  

 I love this dress…Its really hard to find a good white dress!!
These candles would really stand out anywhere in your home.  I love the super tall ones.  

These bracelets made from repurposed channel buttons were really incredible.

The jeans selection went on and on!!

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Book Club Monday

posted on : July 3, 2018 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

This week’s book choice is for all you fashion lovers!!!  Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de la Falaise and the House of St Laurent is a must read for anyone who follows haute fashion.  Here is the wonderful untold story:

Dauntless,“in the bone” style made Loulou de La Falaise one of the great fashion firebrands of the twentieth century. Descending in a direct line from Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, she was celebrated at her death in 2011, aged just sixty-four, as the “highest of haute bohemia,” a feckless adventuress in the art of living―and the one person Yves Saint Laurent could not live without.
Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008) was the most influential designer of his times; possibly also the most neurasthenic. In an exquisitely intimate, sometimes painful personal and professional relationship, Loulou de La Falaise was his creative right hand, muse, alter ego and the virtuoso behind all the devastatingly flamboyant accessories that were a crucial component of the YSL “look.” For thirty years, until his retirement in 2002, Yves relied on Loulou to inspire him with the tilt of her hat, make him laugh and talk him off the ledge―the enchanted formula that brought him from one historic collection to the next.
“Her presence at my side is a dream,” Yves declares in Loulou & Yves. “I trust her reactions. Sometimes they are violent but always positive… I bounce ideas off her and they come back clearer and things begin to happen.”
Yves’s many tributes shape Loulou’s memory, as if everything there was to know about this fugitive, Giacometti-like figure could be told by her clanking bronze cuffs, towering fur toques, the turquoise boulders on her fingers and her working friendship with the man who put women in pants. But parallel to this storyline runs another, darker one, lifting the veil on Loulou, a classic “number two” with a contempt for convention, and exposing the underbelly of fashion at its highest level. Behind Yves’s encomiums are a pair of aristocrat parents―Loulou’s shiftless French father and menacingly chic English mother―who abandoned her to a childhood of foster care and sexual abuse straight out of “Les Misérables”; Loulou’s recurring desperation to leave Yves and go out on her own; and the grandiose myths surrounding her family. Loulou felt that her life had been kidnapped by the operatic workings of the House of Saint Laurent, and in her last years danced with financial ruin. Delving beyond the “official” version of her life, Loulou & Yves unspools an elusive fashion idol―nymphomaniacal, heedless and up to her bracelets in coke and Boizel champagne―at the core of what used to be called “le beau monde.”
On the theory that everyone loves a cocktail party, Loulou & Yvestraces her life chronologically through the charming literary device of oral biography, in which the spoken memories of more than two hundred “voices”―husbands, lovers, extended family, friends, enemies, slightly less bitter detractors, colleagues, groupies, pundits, and hangers-on―are seamlessly interwoven with those of Yves and Loulou themselves. Readers mingle at the party as invited guests, listening in on Andy Warhol and Karl Lagerfeld and collecting clues from Mick Jagger and Tom Ford as the narrative unfolds. Topping the A-list of figures who tell Loulou’s story in their own words, uncensored, are Cecil Beaton, Diana Vreeland, Thadée Klossowski, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Hubert de Givenchy, Manolo Blahnik, Diane von Furstenberg, Elsa Peretti, Betty Catroux, John Richardson, Alber Elbaz, Christian Louboutin, Grace Coddington, Ben Brantley, Bruce Chatwin, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, André Leon Talley, and Pierre Bergé. In a fluent round of sparkling conversation, author Christopher Petkanas brings them all together for a party that swirls around one of the most scintillating women the fashion world has ever known. 
“She’s the sounding board,” Yves rhapsodizes of his second self in Loulou & Yves, a sweeping, waspish work of fashion and social history. “She’s never wrong.” – AMazon.com
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