The latest acquisition

After getting a 20% coupon by email from Banana Republic yesterday, I immediately went out and bought this dress after work. A girl can NEVER have enough green.

Go, Nikki, go!!!

Awesome news! Nikki--of the highly anticipated and long awaited first novel, Walking on Tiptoes--has been selected for a prestigious and competitive writer's workshop sponsored by the Hurston-Wright Foundation. This summer she will have an opportunity to spend a whole week focusing only on her novel and getting a lot of much needed work done to bring it that much closer to a bound book and a book signing at Union Square.

Please join me in a round of applause for Brooklyn's best kept secret--Nikki.

A girl can only hold out for so long

before burning a small hole in her pocket. This weekend's acquisitions:

This gorgeous belted shirtdress by Doo Ri from the Gap's Design Edition:

And a professional Waring waffle iron that makes beautiful, round, deep belgian waffles. Mmmmm!!! Now I just need to learn how to cook!

Pretty, pretty wedding dress

There's one thing that I can guarantee about my wedding dress. There will most definitely be some princess pouf involved. I saw this dress at a bridal fashion show over a year ago, but I still love it. And I still love the fact that HB's sister volunteered to take me to the fashion show, even though there was a nor'easter, and even despite the fact that she had a baby--I think--two weeks ago and wasn't feeling all that well. Seriously, people. Good bridesmaid material.