Banquet Journal

the kiss

preschool guy

  the three year old started preschool this week, and on the second day, as we were leaving, he pointed out another boy: cy: that boy is my best friend in the whole wide world ever me: what's h...

the baron

Love this family... from the Sartorialist.  (If you know me and my own family, you know i have a soft spot for the beards)

marie antoinette

"Marie Antoinette, last Queen of France, is immortalized in this diminutive figurine with panniered gown and powdered pouf which, when removed, reveal her simple shift and shorn tresses. Eject h...

fashion on the brain

Found this image in a folder hidden in the darkness of my hard drive. From Alexander McQueen AW 2008. Imagine the sound it would make, twinkling around your ears.

milk maids and grace kelly

Carine Roitfeld and I are once again on the same wavelength. I thought I was the only one channeling milk maid meets Normandy nun meets Grace Kelly for autumn. I love the silhouettes, and that l...

pleated throats

Some images from Mammals, one of my beloved Golden Nature Guides.

dahlias and sweet peas

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Hazel Peckinpaugh Dunlop

 I have a few old flower arranging books that I have recently been revisiting. I'm loving the odd architecture and rigid austerity. I'm still at the point where I'm not quite sure why, but I know ...

more ice

I'm crazy for chandeliers, of all kinds. Even this strange hybrid, found in a thrift store with a brown paper bag full of extra crystal drops.