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Entries Tagged as 'southern california life'

girl crush…

May 18th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Beauty, fashion, Food, Four Seasons Hotel, friends, girl crush, Newport Beach, Orange County, photography, shopping, southern california life, Travel, Weddings

welcome to today’s latest edition of girl crush. i cannot contain my excitement that my stunning friend, anna ziebarth agreed to stop by gni today. mother to zoe and lux, anna runs heavy petal flowers, orange county’s go-to floral design company for weddings and special occasions, with her equally beautiful sister, jena. i’ve known anna [...]

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girl crush….

May 9th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Beauty, friends, girl crush, Marriage, Newport Beach, Orange County, parenting, southern california life

welcome to goodniteirene’s newest series: girl crush. i am so lucky to know buckets and scads of incredible women near and far. mothers, designers, business owners, artists, teachers- all inspiring me daily. i’ve wanted to share with you my love for them, and now i finally can. so here goes…..the first of many girl crushes….. misha [...]

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lusting….craving….coveting.

May 1st, 2012 · 4 Comments · Decor, fashion, HH, Home, Perfume, shopping, southern california life, Yves Saint Laurent

a new month! my birthday month {giant smile, hands up in the air happy}. just a quick little share of a few items on my springtime radar. a new scent. typically i’m not a big gardenia fan-perfume wise. it’s too sweet or overpowering; i’ll take a gardenia candle, or a plant, i just don’t want [...]

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change in itinerary

April 3rd, 2012 · 1 Comment · coreplay, fitness, Newport Beach, Orange County, Pilates, southern california life, Spin Class

  tuesday morning sunshine to you m’loves! i’m loving the uptake in class attendance throughout the various gyms and studios where i teach. the new year’s resolutions haven’t dropped off, and there seems to be an influx of new springtime moxie with people’s fitness goals. sign me up. well this is the perfect week, if [...]

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weekend palette

March 30th, 2012 · 2 Comments · design, fashion, Food, Happy Weekend, Home, music, Newport Beach, Orange County, pretty photos, southern california life

friday happy to you m’loves. we’re expecting a glorious, moody, early spring weekend, full of mint green, misty, coastal mornings, warm coffee cups perpetually in hand, where the slower pace, and drowsy eye trumps fast, shiny cars and perfectly glossed lips. i think this is where california is her prettiest, and unfurls her most unexpected, [...]

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weekend happy….

February 6th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Happy Weekend, HH, Newport Beach, Orange County, southern california life, tamara my camara

a cabana for two, the pool practically all to ourselves, and weather for a bikini. welcome to the first weekend in february. california dreaming on such a winter’s day……. the dark-haired handsome cooling off from hot-n-heavy flirting en chaise lounge. miss mary, miss mary. your bloody, pert ways bring out my spicy sass with each sip. [...]

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on such a winter’s day…..

January 6th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Newport Beach, Orange County, pretty photos, southern california life

“i’d be safe in warm, if i was in l.a.” ~mamas and the papas friday toasty to you m’loves. we are finally cooling down from a glorious 84 degree high yesterday. for all my bellyacheing over the plastic ken dolls and the pill popping housewives that populate my county of orange, i have to admit, even [...]

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year in review…..

December 30th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Acting, beasts, Beauty, Bloggers, Books, Diet, Dogs, Family, fashion, fitness, Food, friends, health, HH, Marriage, Newport Beach, Orange County, pretty photos, ramblings, southern california life, tamara my camara, Travel, yoga, yoga

goodbye 2011. can i get you a cab? this year can’t end fast enough for me. it was a top five suck, i must say. i try not to be that girl who bares each & every single maudlin bullet point of a bad situation….so much has been lifted from la blog. but we prolly all [...]

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monday musings

December 12th, 2011 · 8 Comments · beasts, Books, Newport Beach, Orange County, pretty photos, ramblings, southern california life

  clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ~rabindranath tagore monday happy to you m’loves. it is a scrumptious, rainy, cold monday morning here in southern california. these are my most favorite types of days, the drearier and damper….the happier the [...]

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on-PCH {literally}

November 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Bloggers, fashion, Newport Beach, Orange County, pretty photos, southern california life, yoga, yoga

tuesday happy to you m’loves. i’m flash-card deep in cramming for my yoga exam this week. last night before bed, the beast and i quizzed each other on sanscrit. savasana, chaturanga, tadasana, uttanasana, utkatasana… i think i’m getting most of them correct. i know my pronunciation in the balancing series gets kind of ugly when priscilla [...]

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