Entre Nous.

Maygram

Life summed up via Instagram.

   

• Rocking some lash extensions.
• My first go round with nailart featured a rose, which seemed apropos because it is my middle name after all.
• Homeward bound.
• Cocktails al fresco.

   

• Driftwood fort.
• Matching manicures to the ice cream container.
• Getting my knit on with ink jet dyed yarn.
• I adore my Mother's class ring.

   

• The most adorable lending library I ever did see.
• Peony season!
• Beach shack.
• Love me some wisteria.

   

• Bedroom bits and bobs.
• Alice in Wonderland unBirthday tea.
• Everyday feels like your Birthday with a tassel garland from Studio Mucci.
• Oysters on ice.

   

• A room with a view.
• Bedside blooms.
• Birthday roses.
• Jelly sandals I picked up in Paree.

   

• Getting my reading on.
• Birthday champs and macarons.
• Birthday celebrating.
• Tis true.

   

• Bellini slushy!
• New shades.
• #taurus
• Birthday cupcake from Trophy Cupcakes.

   

• Birthday blooms.
• Brunch at Loulay.
• My favorite flick turned into a play.
• Chocolate dipped strawberries and Birthday wishes.

   

• An old fashioned, if you please.
• My first Molly Moon's ice cream experience.
• The Birthday breakfast, waffles with strawberries and whipping cream.
• Love it when the the weather is warm enough to use this darling set.

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Wanderlusting

It's that time of year when I start contemplating trips taken during the previous 12 months and look ahead towards future travel. In 2013 I managed to check one more state off my list, Utah (bringing my total to 32 out of 50). I was in Salt Lake City for Alt Summit and Park City for Sundance in January. Then in July I took my annual (sometimes bi-annual) trip to Savannah. Finally, there was the a road trip down to Ashland, OR for their Shakespeare Festival.

January: Salt Lake City, UT & Park City, UT

July: Savannah, GA

August: Ashland, OR

As always, one of my perpetual New Year's resolutions is to travel more. I think I've started out on the right track with four trips already on the books for the next four months. One trip a month, not too shabby of a start. In January I'll be attending Alt Summit once again. In February it's another trip to my Southern home, Savannah. March will be a visit to Los Angeles where a reunion will be taking place with all the girls I traveled to Europe with in the summer of 2012. Then there's a trip to NYC for another reunion of sorts and a viewing of the play Heathers (p.s. it's a musical!). Finally, in an ideal world I'd love to take a road trip from San Diego to Savannah at some point during the summer months. Beyond that, who knows.

January: Salt Lake City, UT

February: Savannah, GA

March: Los Angeles, CA

April: NYC, NY

Summer: Road trip from San Diego to Savannah

Do tell. Where will 2014 take you?

Augustgram

                          

August summed up in photographs via Instagram.

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    November & December summed up in photographs via Instagram. Instagram: @HissAndTell

Tie one on

You'd think the massive London Eye would be easy spot from anywhere in the city. Not so much. It took a little traipsing here and there before locating it. The Eye was a solo adventure for me as Sara was hesitant, not of the heights, but of the ferris wheel aspect. She having had a bad reaction to a ferris wheel rather recently. I soldiered on and took the ride alone. The only other solo passenger being a German gentleman who kept asking me to take his picture. The pods, as I like to think of them, are massive. What fun it would be to not have to share it with strangers. This I found out can be done, for a price. Taking in all the monumental sights from that height and vantage point was spectacular. A highlight of the trip.

A good chunk of the rest of the day was taken up getting lost. We stumbled upon Shakespeare's Globe theatre by subtly following some other tourist who were heading in the same direction. Apparently one can attend a performance at the theatre on the cheap by purchasing groundling tickets (otherwise known as standing only). We didn't have the patience to take the official tour, but a wander around the exterior and a trip to the gift shop sufficed.

At that point in the day we had wasted so much time attempting to get from one destination to another. Eventually getting so fed up with not being able to find our way, that we headed back to Tophams to pick up our luggage and high tail it to our next hotel. We had a prearranged dinner date that we couldn't miss. What I wouldn't have given for a chauffeur that first full day in London.

After a lackluster dinner, we headed out to a nearby pub for Pimm's Cups and to catch a little "football". Obviously the football was an afterthought, it's just that it was impossible to focus on much else as all other eyes and attention were on the match. By the time we left London I had practically drowned in Pimm's. I couldn't get enough of the concoction.