We’ve been town & country, carting food & wine here, there, and everywhere.
salmon on cabbage
a flat of homegrown strawberries = 14 jars of jam
Life is moving fast, definitely some big bumps, yet we’re celebrating the simple.
yes, please, homegrown peas
everyone in the kitchen now
Breaking bread, always a party to go. When we started this site 5+ years ago we were all about making your bed, protein at breakfast, walk the dogs, get out of the yoga clothes, put on some makeup (yay, kind of slacking on that one, it’s summer…), make some dinner, spend time with those you love, enjoy a glass of wine. Still the same.
major mac & cheese prep, notice the rose gold Birkenstocks and the white polish
unplanned family supper
flower prep, check out the sleeping dog 🙂
blanched hericots verts and chorizo bread waiting to be cubed
the sky is falling
double denim, double wooden salad bowls, toss with your hands
gorgeous roasted miniature San Marizona tomatoes
homegrown for the table times twelve
the gangs all here
knot those cloth napkins if no time to iron
Every day dress. xoxo
back in town, champagne and cell phone never far behind….
Haven’t forgotten our sartorial sense, it’s just that we’re sliding into the home stretch of a six-month professional cook certification course, yikes. Total new-found respect for anyone that cooks for others, not always easy.
favorite chocolate chip, Furman University cut-outs, lemon bars, and white Sangria
EJ, wearing Worth New York, and Lizzie, wearing her ivy crown,
and Furman University hoodie
We’ve got a July 12th drop date, and still have things to do. Here’s a quick look at what’s been going on, while we haven’t been regularly updating the blog:
prepping an Alsatian onion tart, super delicious
Caldo Verdi soup stuff
nice little healthy lunch
We love food, we love good clothes, we love working with women and feeding others, now we need to finish and graduate. 🙂
wearing two pieces from a new line I picked up: W by Worth,
and absolutely no make-up, it’s been that crazy good 🙂
we still get to the office, really need to finish this cooking school…
get ready Fall 2017, see you soon,
Every day dress, we’ve gone cooking for a little. xoxo
When you’ve been away from something for a while, its way more challenging to jump back in. After the long holiday weekend decided today was the day, so here we go with some new regulars:
Last week Monday hosted a small little brunch. Served up avocado toast, individual frittatas, kale salad with fried garbanzo beans, and a blueberry granola yogurt parfait. Soon to be graduate Lizzie liked the effort, so we’re making these all again for her upcoming celebratory lunch. We’ll add some more sides, as we’ll be lunching, maybe a few or our old regulars, things like lobster mac & cheese, open-faced mini beef tenderloin sandwiches with horseradish cream sauce, and definitely mimosa’s, bloody’s, sangria and a cookie platter.
Like our wardrobe, we like to refresh and update our food things too, really just basics with a small twist.
We’ve been out for a little, cooking, gardening, parenting, and forever working on good habits. We’ve been at our studio as well, helping women put together looks for spring and summer events, professional and celebratory. One thing we’ve added to our personal shopping cart is a new mid-year agenda, to help us stay on track, especially those daily habit kind of things.
Last year for the 51st birthday bought the desk size, this year we’re sizing down. Streamlining has been kind of our thing, with the wardrobe edit, now the agenda, and even the wallet. We’ve switched to carrying a little silver card case, with two cards, one for personal, one for business, and our drivers license. All those fancy store credit cards, gone. Card case slips into our bag, or a jacket pocket, or the back of our jeans. Easy.
We love anything Smythson, friend and colleague gifted us with these amazing notebooks, one personalized SCRAPPY, and the other, CLASSY. Pretty much sums us up. Thank you, dear friend.
Every day dress, some new habits, and a new mid-year agenda.
Conversation with 5th child, 3rd daughter, before dinner: me: ‘really kind of liking these un-ironed linen napkins of late’, her: ‘yeah, I get it, me too’.
We’re all for a little pomp and circumstance, especially when the occasion calls for it, yet on a weeknight family kitchen dinner, we can go with the un-ironed.
Like everyone out there, we’ve been busy (prom season et al), and wondering where the days go.
sliced leg of lamb, roasted potato, sautéed spinach
all hands on deck, fish tacos
we always love a little wine
As crazy as it gets, the glue that keeps us together is breaking bread, whatever that may be. Peanut butter and jelly, fish tacos, roasted leg of lamb, doesn’t really matter.
a rail for a client
Every day dress, linen, un-ironed. xoxo
all photos from the iPhone, we got a new laptop and it doesn’t have a memory card drive, not that it makes a big difference, LOL, figuring it out, stay tuned.
Fourth daughter, sixth child, receives her high school ring in a few hours. For this, we’ll wear a dress, and a little cropped cashmere cardigan pulled from the wardrobe archives.
Went to a lovely poetry reading yesterday at a women’s club, and wore this outfit there too. You know we love a little outfit repeat, makes things easy.
Today while running around wore black leather pants, and we most often happily spend our days in denim. For spring events, like ring day and poetry readings, we go for a soft colored dress, pastel cashmere cardigan, a pretty little bag, and a kind of funky shoe boot. To keep things fun its light blue on the toes. And, that little cashmere cardigan doesn’t match the dress one bit, we like to wear things a little imperfectly.
Every day dress, ring day and poetry reading, in a dress, of course. xoxo
Worth New York friends and clients, spring summer 17 trunk starts this weekend. Special occasion or every day? We can help.
Oh, and since it’s raining cats and dogs we’re making split pea soup for simple dinner with this past weekends ham archive.
Spring 2017 and we’ve got a couple of milestones to mention: 5 years here at the blog, every day dress, and 10 years at the company, Worth New York.
Love both, although we’d be kidding ourselves if we didn’t recognize the changes:
oldest and youngest
Blog started as a result of really not finding many women of age out there writing about style, and what they might be wearing. Now, and even then, there are many good sites, and as a way to introduce myself to others when working in sales as a stylist, recruiter and trainer, for the above said company.
Blog has evolved to more of a lifestyle place, and to less of wearing and showing what’s new. We still love new clothes, and all the accessories that go with them, it’s just that we’re more into less now, yet better, and probably wearing things more often.
The professional piece, with Worth New York, we wouldn’t trade for a minute. Perhaps we’ve hit pause for a little, to fast forward, or not. 5 of those 10 years we spent building a team, and now we’re more about sharing our knowledge, and inspiring others. Working with women, a beautiful product, and the support, training, and inventory of an ever evolving national luxury fashion company, irresistible. We’ll be working a spring summer trunk at the end of the month, launching into our 11th year of dressing gorgeous and talented women.
all food above, prepped and cooked in small Bayfront condo
We’re also focused on the kitchen, and food, and feeding the family. We’re learning to be more disciplined while cooking, using more whole foods than not, and to consuming and wasting less. It’s a process for sure, and it feels right, and good.
white linen shirt, best cover-up
Helping women look and feel good, that’s really been our thing in one way or another since we started at a women’s only fitness center at the age of 17 teaching group classes. Perhaps we simply like feeding them now, too. Oh, what a run: fitness, fashion, and now food.
So here’s to 5 and 10, and to the next 5 and 10, and to women everywhere that jump in, try new things, hang in there, take a risk, take a gap, reinvent.
grocery tulips in a coffee mug in the condo with the laptop
morning walk, those 10k steps, wall flowers 🙂
Love and peace to all.
and for fun, totally want this red leather biker and tulle skirt, hello Kathy! (saved and copied from Instagram)
ps. do not google 5 and 10, especially urban dictionary. 🙂
all photos taken while in Ruskin, FL, on the iPhone
We’ve been doing stuff, like roasting chickens, and grilling caesar salad, and wearing our wardrobe classics: long merino skirt, Breton stripes kind of thing bodysuit, a leather jacket. and a striped scarf.
Also going on, a pile of beans, and weeknight dinners:
a pile of beans, who really cares
sweet potatoes
add a lean protein and some time in the kitchen and you’ve got dinner baby
grocery roses, $20, DIY
cut flowers on the table at the restaurant, always add votives
double dates xoxo
a finger or two in the frosting, always
twins!! celebrating 27…
the men watching sports, on the iPhone, in the wine cellar haha
While talking about the blog with second son, graphic designer, expressed how I didn’t want this to be a place where readers felt worse after visiting. You know, an endless visual parade of all things new you need to buy, or etc.
We like new, no problem there. It’s the constant and endless acquisition that gets us.
So, here we are, digging down a little in the kitchen and digging down a little in the closet.
so, he did get the bunny in the window, and here is its head, on a platter, for breakfast, lol
