You and Me by DMB

Best performance of the Grammy's!!!:


I hope CBS posts a better quality - but the music is great - gives me goosebumps!



Here is the actual music video:




Lyrics
Wanna pack your bags, Something small
Take what you need and we disappear
Without a trace we'll be gone, gone
The moon and the stars can follow the car
and then when we get to the ocean
We gonna take a boat to the end of the world
All the way to the end of the world

Oh, and when the kids are old enough
We're gonna teach them to fly

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yes, yes (x2)

You and I, we're not tied to the ground
Not falling but rising like rolling around
Eyes closed above the rooftops
Eyes closed, we're gonna spin through the stars
Our arms wide as the sky
We gonna ride the blue all the way to the end of the world
To the end of the world

Oh, and when the kids are old enough
We're gonna teach them to fly

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yes, yes

We can always look back at what we did
All these memories of you and me baby
But right now it's you and me forever girl
And you know we could do better than anything that we did
You know that you and me, we could do anything

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yeah, yeah
Two of us together, we could do anything, baby
You and me together yeah, yeah
Two of us together yeah, yeah
Two of us together, we could do anything, baby

Michael Buble already Married?

Did anyone watch SNL last night?

Michael Buble was musical guest with Jon Hamm from Mad Men as host.

During Buble's first song, he was performing with a distinct, new-looking band on his left hand ring finger. Anyone else notice this?

Over the holiday season, Buble got engaged to his GF, so this ring left me curious...

More Lilly P love!!

I know I just did a post but I was perusing today since I was stuck in my house with 7" of snow that I had to just do something that would make me feel more warm!

Here are some more styles I just love!


For golfing, etc, I would love to have this Roslyn skirt in the Starfruit Climbing the Ladder pattern - this is just adorable, and at $118 I think I won't be able to resist!





the Sherman linen dress in Turquoise Gator Alley for $228:




the Eliot shirtdress in airy linen, pattern in Dandelion Alotta Colatta for $158:




the Bowen strapless dress in the Multi Gator Patch pattern for $178:




I still love the Adrianna dress - it is just too pretty and simple - understated for Lilly P, IMHO - with the Daiquiri Pink Wishing You Were Here for $158:







All photos and dresses linked from the Corrico website!

Song of the Moment: "Sweet Disposition"

Currently, the song of the moment in my life is "Sweet Disposition" by The Temper Trap. It's been on a few TV ads, used as promos on TV for shows, and was on the 500 Days of Summer movie soundtrack.

It's one of those songs that represents things going on in my life right now. Repetitive, sure, but I like how the music builds in the background... Reminds me of some of the earlier songs by The Killers... when they first started playing in Vegas in 2002. I saw them at a show in early '03 and I was hooked by their sound (not looks, promise).

For me, this song hits me when I sit and think about the lyrics - like it playing when I am stuck in traffic. Makes me think about how I am finishing my education, how I am likely with the guy I am marrying and spending the rest of my life with, how different things were just 2 years ago - which still feels unsettling to me on occasion - with people I was seeing, etc... moving on and being this FAR moved on feels weird because it sometimes feels like I am rushing it because I am with 'an older man'. Whatever. This post is about a song I like, so I will drop the "deep stuff".

I love it, so enjoy!


Lyrics:

sweet disposition, never too soon
oh reckless abandon, like no one's watching you

a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a kiss, a cry
our rights, our wrongs
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh

just stay there, 'cause i'll be comin over
and while our bloods still young
it's so young, it runs, and we won't stop til it's over
won't stop to surrender

songs of desperation
I played them for you
a moment, a love,
a dream, a laugh,
a kiss, a cry,
our rights, our wrongs
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh

just stay there, 'cause i'll be comin over
and while our bloods still young
it's so young, it runs, and we won't stop til it's over
won't stop to surrender

a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a kiss, a cry
our rights, our wrongs (won't stop til it's over)
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a kiss, a cry
our rights, our wrongs(won't stop til it's over)
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a kiss, a cry
our rights, our wrongs (won't stop til it's over)
a moment, a love
a dream, a laugh
a moment, a love
a moment, a love (won't stop to surrender)

Lilly Pulitzer Love!

So, I was in the Lilly Pulitzer store in Williamsburg last weekend with PBF. He had never been down there and naturally was captivated by this great shopping scene:



This shopping scene is called Merchant's Square and it uses similar architecture to fit in with the historic Colonial Williamsburg which it is adjacent to. If you go at the right time of year, the place is not busy and you can even get parking behind some of the shops as we did, which was a treat. The Lilly Pulitzer store is called Ocean Palm, and it is a Lilly Pulitzer VIA store (http://www.oceanpalm.net/).

At the Lilly P shop, we purchased this adorable leash, in Sunshine Yellow Lobster Pot, for my puppy, Lily [note 1 'L'](ASPCA named her that, not us, I swear!!). PBF got it for her as he wanted her to have something "preppy" so when she is at games with Mommy she will be WASP-y to match! Cute, huh? : ) And before anyone flips out, we did not spend the $54 retail the leash was listed as on the Lilly Pulitzer site - we were able to get ours for $36 at the store:



Sadly, while many of my blogging buddies were able to buy Murfee's for 30-40% off retail, this store did not have them on sale. Then again, I have about 4-5 pashminas in fun colors, so I won't have a cow about that!! This Murfee, in Lilly's Pink Checking In, is the one I love the most:



I asked for this for Christmas but did not recieve it... however, I will not be too upset. It is fun, and random, just like me! Plus, the NAME. How could I not be destined to purchase it?? I must buy it before it disappears... I could sooo work it at a couple of the horse races this Spring!! Here is the WORTH shift in "Not So Crabby":



Another piece I love is the Roslyn skirt. Perfect to go with basically all of my polo shirts and cardigan sets, this skirt length makes it Jack Rogers, Rainbows, ballet flats (Tory, Kate or JCrew), driving moccasin, and Sperrys (the non-metallic sort, of course). Isn't it just perfect for Spring?




I know a lot of you have already posted your favorites... months ago... but I want to hear about Spring more!

It is 63 degrees here today. Insane. But very nice. It isn't 100% Spring weather though as there is a COLD wind making it's way through. It is supposed to drop another 30 degrees soon... thankfully!!

goodbye, Conan (go Team Coco!!)

Did anyone else watch the end of Conan O'Brien on the Tonight Show last night?
I thought it was funny, bittersweet, and just a good example of Conan as a person.

I don't know him personally, but one of my Macon prof was a roommate of his at Harvard and has never had anything negative to say about him and I think when you live with someone you get to actually know them, not stupid "media impressions".

For the record while I love Jay Leno's taste in cars - I have never, ever found him to be funny... Not one bit.

This quote was a great one by Conan, who periodically got choked up last night but remained on-task... He did have fun playing Free Bird with Will Ferrell, Bill Gibbons, Ben Harper and Beck - along with his band... A great TV moment!

Here is his quote:

"All I ask of you, especially young people...is one thing. Please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen. I'm telling you, amazing things will happen."

Dining Room... wallpaper?

Inspiration: The Greenbrier, my Grandmama, myself, and the http://thediyshowoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/handpainted-wallpaper-gorgeous-dining.html.

I do not know about y'all, but my Grandmama is a big fan of Wallpaper. She isn't a huge damask person, so much as some chintz here and there as well as birds and florals. She has immaculate taste, so I look up to her when I think of putting my first home together.

I recently was looking at the Carleton Varney wallpaper website [http://www.carletonvltd.com/] and saw some gorgeous damask pieces. I then realized I could possibly do the dining room in grey ABOVE the chair rail, and grey damask below the chair rail and above the crown molding, or vice-versa. What do y'all think?

This is the Carleton Varney Raj Damask in white-blue:



This is the Cole & Son Ilena Damask:



Would LOVE input!