Dining Room Chair Options

I'm loving this new site I found - www.hickorychair.com.  Their furniture is absolutely gorgeous!

I'm in the mood for some new dining room chairs... the wood finish needs to match the table and china cabinet we already have and I want to stay with the neutral/cream color schema.  These are the two that I'm leaning towards...

Option #1

Option #2

Both have nail head detail and come in many fabric choices.  Think I'm digging Option 2 more... and it comes tufted...

Furniture for Sale!

I'm finally refurnishing our den area and in order to do so, we need to redistribute the furniture we have now.  Anyone interested in a large red chenille chair and ottoman?  Or a console table?

Chair Dimensions

50"W x 29"H x 37"D

Ottoman Dimensions

37"W x 17"H x 26"D

Console Table Dimensions

30.5"H x 58"W x 20"D

Winston playing in the snow

These just make me laugh.  He had so much fun.

Steal

For 6 months, I've been eyeing a pair of Christian Louboutins but just not bring myself to pull the trigger.  There are several ways that I can spend $795 - new microwave/oven (since our microwave just went out and they're attached), new sofa, new front door - all very practical things. However, my obsession with these shoes would not go away.  Aren't they beautiful???

Well, this weekend I popped into Off Broadway just to browse and I found a pair almost exactly like it but a much better price point... and they were 40% off of that!!! 

Granted they don't have the signature red sole but I can definitely live with that while saving multiple hundreds of dollars!!

Happy Monday!

New Shoes

A few weeks ago, Michael and I both returned home really late on a Wednesday.  Poor Winston had been alone for more than 16 hours all by himself.  Instead of just greeting us with a happy face and tail wag, he decided to destroy a pair of my shoes to demonstrate his disdain.  Clearly, I was in the wrong because I left them in a place that was easily accessible.  While I was upset, I'm sure I wasn't nearly as upset as he was for being left for that long.  And, luckily, the shoes were not an expensive pair and are easily replaceable.

So, the pair he destroyed were my everyday black patent leather pumps which I do wear almost everyday.  I finally succombed and bought another pair today.  Have you ever shopped on PiperLime.com?  Because it is amazing!  It was very hard to only buy one pair - but I stuck on target and here's what I ended up with:

I think the studs give it a little umph!  I dunno - too dominatrix?  The thing is that all my pants are so long that I have to wear high heels - I actual prefer heels to flats.  Anywho, we'll see when they arrive in 5-8 business days!

Winston's Surprise from Aspen

Forgot to post these pictures on my Aspen post...

Guess what I brought back to Winston from our trip...  a camo rain jacket!

Now, you may think this is ridiculous; however, it could have been a lot worse. I could have bought him a fur lined parka! :)

Aspen

Aspen is such a wonderful place!  Michael and I joined our friends, Neil and Mandy, on a long weekend in Aspen this past week.  Our flight out there was completely uneventful - we landed on time and were at Ute City for dinner by 8 o'clock sipping cocktails.  Neil and Mandy had a more difficult time.  Our flights were supposed to get in at the same time but their flight out of Atlanta was delayed by many hours, then diverted from Aspen to Denver where they then took a 5 and 1/2 hour bus ride to Aspen.  They ended up getting in about 6 am the next morning, sans luggage.  Luckily, their luggage arrived later that morning and they were skiing with us on the slopes that afternoon - what troopers!  Don't feel too bad for them, they already planned on staying two extra days so they definitely made up the time!

We ate at some wonderful restaurants, skied (yes, even I skied!), shopped, Apres skied, sat in the hot tub, watched the X games (on tv even though they were right down the street) and relaxed!  I would definitely recommend Aspen! 

Cocktails at La Cantina on Thursday night:

Main Street Bakery for Breakfast on Friday

Ski Bunnies

Mandy and Neil

Top of Ajax Mountain

Friday Apres Ski at Ajax Tavern and Dinner at LuLu Wilson

Saturday Apres Ski at J Bar

Dinner at Matsuhisa on Saturday night (where we saw Shaun White - the Flying Tomato)

Our Condo

View from the Hot Tub

Sunday - Skiing at Snow Mass, Lunch at Sneaky's Tavern, Apres Ski at the Condo, Dinner at Little Annie's, Capped off with watching the Grammy's at our condo

What Michael did on Monday (cause why wouldn't you work while you were on vacation in Aspen?)

Dinner at Su Casa on Monday Night

What a bummer to have to come back to work... we had such a blast and can't wait for the next trip!