Dearest Sweet Tooth, While some say a love like ours shouldn’t last… I say let’s ignore our naysayers and runaway together.  I found us a perfect little home where we can live out the rest of our lives in sugary bliss.  It is nestled under under the Manhattan Bridge in a magical land called Brooklyn. [...]

What do you think the chances are that I will convince my husband that we should teeter on a rickety ladder and paint the ceiling?  Now what do you think the chances are that I convince him we need to paint stripes on the ceiling?  Ohhhh Honey…. how much do you love me?!!!! Write more… [...]

What do you get when you combine my beautiful sunshine yellow Calypso dress and a delicious grape jelly sandwich on rye.  The answer is simple actually… a fashion disaster and a trip to the cleaners!   Yet, somehow I’m still feeling this fabulous color combination. Write more… Type less, Lauren Printed Paulina Cardigan, Purple Console [...]

Darn you Martha… You have done it again!  One more thing you have created that I will spend money on.  First it was your cute kitchen accessories and now your pet products. Don’t you have enough money – aren’t you successful enough?!  You know there are suckers in this world like myself who so willingly [...]

Dear Lucite, We can all learn some very important life’s lessons from you.  Ever sturdy… you hold no secrets, for we can see right through you.  You can work a room no matter what the crowd… traditional stuffed shirts or punky trend setters.  You epitomize the strength of a strong woman with the sophistication and [...]

I have long been a fan of Holly Farrell and her realist paintings.  One glance, and I’m instantly transported back to Fort Lee, New Jersey.  Here I sit in my grandmother’s kitchen, watching her stir and season her Sunday sauce… enjoying I Love Lucy reruns with my grandfather in the den and listening to the [...]

When I design invitations for clients, sometimes I have the entire soiree planned in my head before they even tell me the date (may I remind you they didn’t ask my opinion). So, recently when a customer came to me with a movie themed birthday bash, my head started to spin with ideas… oddly enough, [...]

Once again, there is another fabulous invitation and not a wedding for my friends in sight.  Looks like I’m just going to have to throw my own summer bash, just so I can send this happy snappy invitation by Dabney Lee out!  The things I’ll do for paper! Write more… Type less, Lauren Dabney Lee [...]

I want to be fun and fearless in design… to dress classic and quirky all at the same time…  embrace bohemian glam… not be scared of the bold and commit to color…  I want to be just like Kelly Wearstler! P.S.  It certainly wouldn’t hurt to look like her either! Write more… Type less, Lauren [...]

Ok everyone… we have a very important job to do.  Dabney Lee has designed a plethora of new patterns for her 2010 fall collection.  Each of the new style swatches is pulling her heart strings in different ways, so the process of elimination has been style torture.  Here’s where we come in… Since our readers [...]