Handful of Treasures: March 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

precious dolls!

So in my insomniatic state, I randomly clicked on etsy's "buy" tab, and found their feature called Pounce -- you can search through stores who either just made a sale, or have not made one yet (eeks! that will be me once I list something... someday!)

Anyway, how cute are these??

All from Nooshka, they are (again) out of my price range at $65-70 -- but toooo cute not to share!

Oh, internet rabbit trails

So, just to make sure I was calling my dress the right color, I googled dove gray (hee -- and did find the definition was a type of gray with either a pink or a blue cast to it -- perfect! mine's the blue-tinted kind) -- and google-imaged it, too, just to be sure.

And saw this stunner.

Kyra Sedgwick in Armani, at the 2006 Emmys.
© Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic.com
featured on about.com by Cynthia Nellis

Dress inspiration!

I stumbled across this post by The Inspired Bride -- even more motivation to alter my original wedding dress!

(Taylor by Vineyard)

Just yesterday I had expressed my hesitation to my coworker to alter the dress to tea-length, just in case (1) I ever have children, and (2) one is a girl, and (3) the girl *possibly* wants to wear my wedding dress -- but then J told me that one of *her* friends wore her mom's dress to her rehearsal dinner -- PERFECT! No more hesitation for me to preserve my dress!

But I still like the idea of handsewing the "vintage" lace from the ebay dress onto another dress I bought for just $5 from Ross for this charity event I attended (I seriously have the best luck sometimes!) -- ooh, this! Except a pale pale dove gray with the ivory sash:

(Alyn Paige, via Team Sugar)

But with this dress being $5 and the vintage dress being $26, and supplies I just bought was like $10 -- there's totally budget to still have my original dress altered!

Rock. (And bonus: for a *super* fun dress, check out A Wedding Cabaret's spotlight!)

Pretending I could afford these...

Aren't these details delightful? From Lirola, priced $67+.

sooo pretty [decor8]

These just make me sigh happy.

{Kate Holt of Flower Wild, via decor8}

i heart my co-workers

My co-workers are the bestest. I've basically called on practically every one of them to help me wade through this mucky, mucky case. The last one I roped in looked at this petitioner's 14-page hand-written brief, listed all of his claims and then compared his list to the one I made -- and then talked them over with me.

At my team-meeting, we were supposed to share what we're working on, and everyone already knew what I was going to discuss, because everyone has helped me out on this. And that's phenomenal, I can't believe I have such a supportive office. Lucky, lucky me :)

. . . which would make this heaven, if it were part of my home.

desiretoinspire, featuring photographer Nicolas Matheus

This looks like home to me. . .

desiretoinspire, featuring photographer Nicolas Matheus

Monday, March 30, 2009

Shoe wants

Man, i heart free shipping + free return shipping. i want all of these shoes for my convalidation ceremony, and am debating ordering all of them from endless.com + then returning what doesn't go with the dress...