A LIttle Extra Cool

"Life's just a cocktail party - on the street."

Mick Jagger

On Gratitude

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.  It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.  Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Melody Beattie

Image:  Cottage Window by Back.Yard.Photo.

A Little Extra

"Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together."

Elizabeth Taylor

A Little Extra Myrna Loy

Life is always better with Myrna Loy....

A Little Extra Christmas Spirit

"Christmas is doing a little extra something for someone."

Charles M. Schulz

Image from here.

A Little Extra Pretty Man

I'm still not over it.

There's just nothin' prettier than Paul Newman.

Not one thing.

A Little Extra Pretty

I got a post card last weekend from Corrigan Gallery - one of my favorites in Charleston.

They are apparently having a show of one of my favorite artists, Lynn Riding. 

I love her stuff.

Image:  Pause by Lynn Riding.

A Little Extra Love

"love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...."

e.e. cummings

Image:  Love by Marianne LoMonaco Photography.

A Little Extra Big 80's

I saw this album (that's right - pure - T Vinyl) for sale at the Antique Mall last weekend.....

It made me ridiculously happy. 

It's just SOOOOO Nineteen Eighty One!

A Little Extra William Faulkner

"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad, and nostalgic and familiar."

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, 1929.

Image:  Road to the Sun by Birdies & Peppers.

A Little Extra Pretty

Husk featured the work of artist John Thompson - throughout the restaurant.

It was absolutely beautiful and added so much to the experience.  Modern yet traditional and (I thought) a little edgy.  We definitely noticed it and commented on it as we were shown to our table and as we were eating.

Image 1:  Combahee 10, 2010 by John Thompson.
Image 2:  Waban, 2007

A Little Extra William Faulkner

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

William Faulkner

Image from here.

A Little Extra Wardrobe Lust

So -

I know that everyone is talking about Huma Abedin because of her husband's (Congressman Anthony Weiner - in case you live under a rock) almost certainly ill advised behavior of late. 

I'm not here to talk about him.

Or to talk about what I think she should do with him. 

I have bigger fish to fry.  

I am here to talk about her accessories. 

Basically, I would like to own her necklace, her earrings, her sunglasses and the dress she is wearing.  I would also like to have her hair (and if I were being totally honest her lips but then we'd maybe be getting into a weird area).

And I'd be willing to take just about anything else I've ever seen her wearing - in case she's looking to clean out her closet. 

Just sayin'. 

Charlotte and Coffee

So I started a little Tumblr page called Charlotte and Coffee.

I did it for two reasons.

First, I thought it would be fund to sort of capture the little moments in my life but mostly I did it to -

Play with my iPhone and Instagram....

Seriously, Instagram so freakin' cool.  And I had such a fun time taking pictures in Paris that I'm trying to keep up the feeling while I'm at home.

Did you know that one of the secrets to creating a charmed life is to be a tourist in your home town?

Well it is.  And this is my way of attempting to do it. 

If you want to check out Charlotte and Coffee you can go here. 

Or you can follow my Charlotte and Coffee posts on Twitter.

A Little Extra Pretty Man

Mr. Jon Hamm....

*heavy sigh*

That is all.....

On Living

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.  It comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.  It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

John Wayne

Image from here.

A Little Extra William Faulkner

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.  If people all over the world would do this.... it would change the earth."

William Faulkner

Image from here.

A Little Extra William Faulkner

"I believe that man will not merely endure.  He will prevail.  He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."

William Faulkner

Image from here.

A Little Extra F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights.  In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

Image from here.

A Little Extra F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Well. let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over.  There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Image:  UnDress by Elle Moss.