We’re staying put for Christmas this year, and it’s going to be slow and easy. Not that anything is ever really slow and easy, simply a mind-frame to try to hold onto.

Life keeps coming at you, holidays or not. House had a phone call this morning that took my breath away and had to pause, and then catch it again.

We’ve got one pre-lit tree up and ready, that became part of the rotation years ago when we started making our annual trip to northern CA. Leaving town preempted the real tree. Yesterday we picked up a fresh-cut too, she stands solo while waiting for her lights. This year, instead of nine of us flying out we’re flying just one of us in, oldest daughter that lives in works and NYC.

Photos shown are from the weekend, slow cod and asparagus, ready to be put away for breakfast or lunch the next day, easy winter greens and a simple yet festive front door look. We’ll be adding to it all as the days go on.

Everything here is do it yourself, no household staff, and supplies are picked up here and there while doing the runaround.

Happy Monday everyone. Every day dress, slow and easy. Gotta believe.

So you talk to your kid (or two) about pitching in and helping with the social media thing and whoa, not surprisingly, they have lives of their own. Then you’re stuck, with stuff out there that’s not really what you’re thinking, and you really don’t know how to change it back and it scares you and think about how many internet hours you need to make it look like something you relate too, and then you just can’t think about it and decide to ignore it yet it really never goes away…

Hello kid (or two) love you to the moon and back and all around the glob-o-sphere yet you’ve left me in the lurch. There’s an ‘about‘ page and a ‘contact‘ page with no content at all and we’re really not ‘liking‘ it. Fired? Or not really into it which we completely get, just let us know for real.

We can make this happen, fired or not, for fired is a word that might arouse the emotions of; make enthusiastic or ardent, and that might just have to be me here. 🙁 It’s hard to engage those that might not be engaged and that’s okay, it’s always about timing.

Dear subscribers, and there’s 137 of you out there, thank you. On long walks with the dogs for sure thinking about where we are and where we might be going.

Every day dress, need to fix that header photo, yikes, and fix a bunch of other stuff, keep the faith everyone, and (not) fired. Work in progress, always. xoxo

 

 

If it hasn’t happened yet for you, holiday dressing starts tomorrow, first of December, big time. We love us a mix.

For recent gala at world-renowned contemporary and modern Albright-Knox Art Gallery wore the ultimate, a sequined sleeveless t-shirt dress. Doesn’t get much easier than that. The event kicked off their current exhibition Monet and the Impressionist Revolution 1860-1910. While celebrating Impressionist artists, we were seated for dinner by none other than Henri Matisse, pretty downright amazing.

Love mixing up the daytime bag, daytime suede boots, and adding sheer dark hose, two matching silver wrist cuffs picked up in Sedona AZ a few years ago with a sequined t-shirt dress for a kind of glam night-time look.

Every day dress, we love us a mix.

Dress | Worth New York Winter 2015

Bag | Louis Vuitton

Boots | Isabel Marant

We’d kind of like to direct you to the bag and boot directly, yet kind of have way too much other stuff going on, like doing balsamic rosemary garlic chicken for dinner right about now. Sorry, you’ll have to search. 🙂

We love us a mix, sequins, cooking, and off to NJ tomorrow morning at 4:45 am, yikes, to work Spring 16. Every day dress. We’re okay with the nails undone, hair center-parted and straight, and a blurry camera lens. Sometimes you’ve just gotta get out the door, a good dress, bag, and heel always makes it easier.

 

Saturday morning and the house still sleeps. Two days and nights of making memories, let’s all keep the glow.

Off to wash yet even more dishes, every day dress.

Simple and pure, from our home to yours, Happy Thanksgiving. Wishing one and all many continued blessings. xoxo

So, your turkey (or two) is just about dressed and you’re still thinking about what you might wear: we can help.

Received fifteen boxes of pristine samples from colleague in Boston MA and we’ve been working sample sale. 50% off, and you can use your credit card to accumulate those mileage points.

All pieces are hung and ready to go home with you or even for you to wear out the door. Yeah, we’re all that busy right about now.

Super pressed for time? Give us a call and we deliver, by car or postal service. 716.445.3033 or 716.870.1323.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 25th and Black Friday, November 27th. 10 am to 2 pm. Thursday we’ll be off, gobble gobble.

Weekend, by appointment: www.worthnewyork.com/rebecca-collins or www.worthnewyork.com/michelle-capizzi.

Simple style notes: we’re working, cooking, baking, running to the airport, cleaning house, so the dress memo is black skinnies, grey tee, (untucked and it can be longer that your jacket or sweater), black suede comfortable open toe shoes because we’ve actually got a great pedicure, and super luxe cashmere cowl sweater. The silver safety-pin thing around the neck with the readers hanging off? That’s actually a belt, and my partner started a trend. We’ve been wearing our belts that have chains around our necks and hanging our readers and/or glasses off of them. Without those things we can’t see a thing.

Every day dress, sample sale, 50% off.

 

The blog here is a little under construction: twenty-five year old son and soon to be twenty-three year old daughter are pitching in for the upgrade. It’s a pretty cool thing to put your faith and trust in others and let them run with it for a little. We’ll be working away for a few weeks, nothing comes quick or easy.

Fifteen year old daughter snapped these outfit pictures yesterday, we’re always in a hurry and they took place in about ten minutes flat. It’s a family affair for sure.

Outfit shown is what we wore out Saturday night to an engagement party for a young woman we’ve know for two decades now, so so happy for her and her beautiful family. Heart is bursting.

Style note: sometimes you’ve just gotta get it all out there. Lace, satin, fancy shoes, statement lipstick, dangling earrings that we’re a gift from second daughter while she studied in Seville, Spain, crazy wrist party and a white leather gold grommet studded handbag.

While usually a minimalist, sometimes it’s fun to just pile it on.

Thanks for reading, blog has had lots of site visits- not sure what’s going on out there in the blogosphere, one of the reasons we called in the two young guns.

 

Sunday lifestyle post here: to feed your crowd in a hurry, try like an hour and a half, first preheat the oven to 425 degrees and then run to the grocery. Ask for a whole beef tenderloin, take two halves as that’s what they have. Add five bunches of asparagus, two dozen eggs, one dozen bagels. Scout the flower section and tuck in three small yellow rose plants.

Once home, start to rouse everyone out of bed and call/text to get the young adults over. Once it’s noon, send second daughter out again to grab three bottles of champagne. Take those petite rose plants out of their cellophane and dump them in small, cheap pots. Put two of your guests or youngest children on setting the table.

Get all others in the kitchen, no recipes, measuring or cookbooks this day; everyone’s hungry and has somewhere to be. Butcher was busy too so had to trim and tie as best we could, we all should have some sharp shears and kitchen string on hand. Kosher salt, pepper, butter, rosemary and olive oil dressed it all up.

We’re all kind of carnivores here, oh well. Every day dress and steak and eggs. It’s that time of year again, feed your crowd. Simple, easy, fun.

Linnie, see you in a day and a half, can’t wait. xoxo

 

We’ve been a little off the grid enjoying all things fall: in the garden raking all kinds of leaves, cooking, community events, working.

Absolutely gorgeous fall, and we’ve been all about it.

Happy Friday everyone. Cheers, and we’ll be sure to touch base soon.

Every day dress, fall baby fall. xoxo

photos | Joe Cascio Photography