The Sassy Kathy

Dear Friends,

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:27:00 +0000

I am moving to Princeton.

No one can stop me.

Who CARES if I only work part time and could never hope to afford the exorbitant rents in this precious little town.

Not I.

There's a JCrew and bakeries and ice cream and restaurants and THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIBRARY IN EXISTENCE. So clean. So bright. So glorious.

That's where I am right now.

And let me tell you, it's freaking heaven.

So yes.

That's all.

Toilet Paper Wall Art

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:37:00 +0000

oh the creativity.
the repurposing.
the simple everyday materials turned 3D wall art.
it blows me away.

{project instructions by growing up creative via design sponge}

Kitchen Envy

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Clean and simple and vaguely retro

{via design sponge}

Interpreter of Maladies

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:05:00 +0000

I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

Lit

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:41:00 +0000

I officially have a lighting fetish.

{West Elm globe pendant via KID Collective}

Gallery Wall

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:23:00 +0000

{via decor8}

Kitchen Envy

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:23:00 +0000

This Before and After blows my mind.

The most interesting part is that the Before - with the dark wood cabinets - i

s probably what a lot of people would consider a pretty decent, classic kitchen.

Of course, the mismatched appliances would have to go (and buyers would whine that they're not stainless steel), but otherwise, not totally horrendous.

But when you check out the After - there's just no comparison. Even the white "outdated" oven/stove looks perfect in the space.

Some paint and new fixtures on the bottom cabinets.

Chalkboard paint for the fridge.

Then those lovely open shelves.

My goodness it's just brilliant.

Here's Miss Pure Style Home's rundown on the updating process.

{via Design Sponge}

Beloved

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:16:00 +0000

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

- Toni Morrison

Book Lust

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:13:00 +0000

{Ligne Roset bookcase on Refinery 29 via A Merry Mishap}

13.

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:58:00 +0000

When I was younger I wanted to be a ballerina

I got older and came to think that it wasn't good enough

that I should be doing something more worthwhile

now I realize

you can save lives

or you can give people something to live for

Print

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:18:00 +0000

Add it to the list...

{by Coulson Macleod via Design Sponge}

Nightclub

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:31:00 +0000

You are so beautiful and I am a fool
to be in love with you
is a theme that keeps coming up
in songs and poems.
There seems to be no room for variation.
I have never heard anyone sing
I am so beautiful
and you are a fool to be in love with me,
even though this notion has surely
crossed the minds of women and men alike.
You are so beautiful, too bad you are a fool
is another one you don't hear.
Or, you are a fool to consider me beautiful.
That one you will never hear, guaranteed.

For no particular reason this afternoon
I am listening to Johnny Hartman
whose dark voice can curl around
the concepts on love, beauty, and foolishness
like no one else's can.
It feels like smoke curling up from a cigarette
someone left burning on a baby grand piano
around three o'clock in the morning;
smoke that billows up into the bright lights
while out there in the darkness
some of the beautiful fools have gathered
around little tables to listen,
some with their eyes closed,
others leaning forward into the music
as if it were holding them up,
or twirling the loose ice in a glass,
slipping by degrees into a rhythmic dream.

Yes, there is all this foolish beauty,
borne beyond midnight,
that has no desire to go home,
especially now when everyone in the room
is watching the large man with the tenor sax
that hangs from his neck like a golden fish.
He moves forward to the edge of the stage
and hands the instrument down to me
and nods that I should play.
So I put the mouthpiece to my lips
and blow into it with all my living breath.
We are all so foolish,
my long bebop solo begins by saying,
so damn foolish
we have become beautiful without even knowing it.

- Billy Collins

Question

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:17:00 +0000

Is one allowed to shop (even when one is on a self-mandated shopping-hiatus) when every single pair of one's pants is at least 2 sizes too big - resulting in a rather unstylish I'm-wearing-my-older-sister's-clothing-even-though-I-don't-have-an-older-sister kind of look?

Also

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:26:00 +0000

Still wanting high waisted pants...

{Jeffrey Monteiro pleated trouser via Shop Jumelle}

Torture

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:17:00 +0000

I'm seriously being SO GOOD about not shopping that it hurts my heart and brain when I see so many pretty pretty things.

{Lover witches circle dress; Jeffrey Monteiro draped dress; 3.1 Phillip Lim gathered faux wrap drape dress; via Shop Jumelle}

12.

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:43:00 +0000

Life is short and

always shocking and we must do our best

to live it hard and fast

The Feast of Love

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0000

But on that day, she leaned into me. We held on to each other. Clutching. We must have stayed together in one posture just holding each other, there on the sofa, for maybe an hour. When you're in love you don't have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don't have to much an inch.

- Charles Baxter

White Lights

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:30:00 +0000

who knew white lights could manage to be so softly romantic and grown up?

{via design is mine}

Gallery Wall

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:43:00 +0000

If you'll just bypass those piercing blue eyes and porcelain skin and bitty baby chub (oh, and the man with the hair), you'll notice a rather delightful arrangement for a gallery wall... symmetrical yet still intriguing.

{by dooce}

Cat's Eye

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:36:00 +0000

Jon glowed for me then like a plum in sunlight, richly colored, perfect in form. I would lie in bed beside him or sit at the kitchen table, running my eyes over him like hands. My adoration was physical, and wordless. I would think, Ah, nothing more. Like a breath breathed out. Or I would think, like a child, Mine. Knowing it wasn't true. Stay that way, I would think. But he could not.

- Margaret Atwood

Mrs. Dalloway

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:37:00 +0000

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

- Virginia Woolf

Beloved

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0000

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

- Toni Morrison

Gallery Wall

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:55:00 +0000

{by Luca Trovato via desire to inspire}

The Feast of Love

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:40:00 +0000

As my mother once said to me - they're quite crazy dear - men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

- Charles Baxter

Want

thesassykathy@gmail.com (the sassy kathy) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:31:00 +0000

Darn you Anne...

And Hayden Harnett too!

PS - I super love her hair. That's what I pretend my hair looks like... it's almost the same as my current cut... except mine is not dark and dramatic. It is also much too stubbornly wavy to be anything close to straight and chic.

PPS - Apparently I have loved the Yoko dress for quite some time...

{Yoko knit sweater dress; Thames silk dress; Bibliotheque silk shift}