Woke up at 4:45 to take Amanda to the airport.
Venus-Saturn oppositions. I hope you don't have one in your star chart.
It's was a strange week.
Nea is generally unaffected.

Highlights:
Swiss chard
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a red hook wedding

When Jen called me to say that her and Nick got engaged last December she asked me to be her florist and her Maid of Honor (in that order!) ...then she said they were going to move to Red Hook and have the entire shebang here! Two months later they were living in a house 2 doors down down the block from us! It was the most fun (and most exhausting!) weekend ever. The hyper-talented Robert Sukrachand's photos show all the details! Exclamation point, Exclamation point!


As MOH, I was tied up with other things most of the day...Joelle and Amanda did an amazing job hanging and decorating this huge grapevine wreath which the ceremony took place under...

We got ready at my place. Literally everything happened within a 1 block radius...

I love this photograph of Jen and Nick on the pier so much. Robert is the best, book him now foolz!!!!


Reception at Botanica...


I got to hold my very own bouquet like a real lady! Tables had short mercury glass cups with mixed flowers and amaranth and artichokes trailing down the centers.


Such a fun weekend. All the photos over at Robert's blog.

fine! red wedding, ok?

beautiful reds from last weekend. but tonight - another night where i'm drinking coffee during cocktail hour...working late on a fun project coming soon...

october roses

A recent visit to the BBG resulted in some rose-rejuvination for me...plus two tranny's eric shot in Paris.

A parsec is an astronomical unit of length equal to approx. 3.26 light years.

Here's to mookie; Maker of dinner, Buyer of carpets...

There is something happening in the kitchen right now involving panko and kale, but the important thing is that it's happening without my direct involvement. I am sipping a glass of Viognier and admiring my new carpet which Eric snagged at auction last week. Another Berber rug, but he only had to go to Jersey for it this time. He keeps reminding me that he used his own money to purchase it. As opposed to the little sack of Saipua gold coins he brings with him to such events? Anyway, now my room has even more orange and more carpeted surface area to collect pet hair. A win-win, if you will.

We have two weddings tomorrow. All was calm and peaceful when I left the studio.

PS Our first flower school class was a blast - have you checked the photos?

ps. there are a bunch of questions i've been meaning to answer for everyone, random - but hopefully this will help:

1. nicole - the ring is bloodstone, from Erie Basin
2. the dress we believe is vintage vintage Thierry Mugler
3. The little robins egg blue berries are from Porcelain Vine
anything else i'm forgetting, let me know

one thing leads to another.

autumn pinks

by now it's clear i have a penchant for pink this autumn. i even bought a pair of pink tights recently. i'm like a walking bottle of pepto bismal. yesterday i went to the city. i walked the highline - i had not been there since mid-summer, and it's even more beautiful now, but then again, i'm a sucker for the autumn. oh my god this post is getting so boring....so lets keep going with it....

then i took myself to lunch at what was once my favorite lunch spot - alas no more. R.I.P. Tea and Sympathy; you're full of tourists and my tea was cold. To console myself, I stopped into an H&M, and suddenly as if executing the co-dependent routines of an abusive relationship, found myself purchasing $100 dollars worth of guilt inducing, made-in-china rayon bullshit that will likely end up in a goodwill bin in 6 months. but hey, its a mustard colored velvet cocktail dress. which sounds to me like my day-to-evening ensemble for thanksgiving. that's one holiday outfit i don't have to loose sleep over anymore.

the girl who checked me out told me about how her daughter, who just turned four, tried to eat the $400 custom made gold and diamond nameplate she got for her birthday. the end.