I AM GOING TO HEATH CERAMICS TODAY AND YOU SHOULD BE JEALOUS OF ME.

i'm driving to sausalito and buying all my xmas presents at Heath, "one of the few remaining mid-century American potteries still in existence today."

that's right. i'm giving rare, classy, sexy, pottery for my xmas gifts, and THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

THIS MAY SEEM LIKE SOME CREEPY SHRINE, BUT REST ASSURED, I ONLY HAVE ONE CLOSET FILLED WITH HIS PICTURES AND ONLY LIKE SIX CANDLES I LIGHT NIGHTLY.

true confessions, aj is my favorite male model right now. he's just a kool looking kat (arab/german) from KY and within the last year HE'S BEEN EVERYWHERE... mostly b/c they made him drop 30 lbs for last season after his initial stint with calvin klein. the modeling world is tough my friends... it just goes to show that if you lose weight you will be prettier, and people will love you more, and you will be more famous, and you will make more money, and people will make photo collages of you and put them on their blog.

read more about him fashionisto

LOOKIT!

I like a lot of things about this photo. Do I really need to list them, or at this point can we just trust there is a deep, unspoken understanding between us?

I LOVE IT WHEN THE WHOLE FAMILY GETS TOGETHER

The bickering, name calling and hysterics come later. But those first few moments of the trip, when you get off the speedboat wearing your club pastels, and you're finally back on the grounds of the estate... well, there's nothing like it.

YOU CAN COME VISIT OUR SUMMER HOUSE, BUT PLEASE DON'T STAY MORE THAN 3 DAYS

Unless you bring us some awesome shit or plan on teaching us to surf or something. Then you can stay four.

from theselby

REMEMBER WHEN THE CW WAS THE WB? THOSE WERE THE DAYS.

Felicity is feeling oddly style relevant to me... Maybe it's just 90's nostalgia (because it was the best decade ever) or because she was an oddly brave nerd, but I'm just so happy to see her baggy sweaters and leather backpacks again.

DADDY, I bet you secretly watched this show while pretending to dust or practice violin in your bedroom.

I WANT A LINDSEY THORNBURG CLOAK

Wahhhh.

from elle street style

i HAVE A GIRL CRUSH, OKAY?

Emily Haines from Metric and Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton. Wooh! She keeps me so young!

PUT A TACK IN IT

So I still don't have a bulletin board, but look what I could do instead! This balances on a fine line between fun and total insanity though, so don't attempt unless you are naturally visually brilliant.

LADIES, THERE'S MORE TO PAINT THAN JUST YOUR NAILS

it's walls. you can also paint walls, ladies.

YOU LOVE US THIS MUCH

first we'd like to thank our savior, father god, for inspiring us each day for blog. we'd also like to thank our friends who always tell us how cool we are and how good we look. and lastly, we'd like to thank ourselves for inspiring ourselves for blog.
thanks everyone!

special shout out to r.zoe and k.cut!
you are the reason we are here! :)

DADDY'S GIRL

I think Linds should write an advice column, kind of "Dear Abby" style, with advice for young girls. Like this:

Dear Linds, please help! My boyfriend broke up with me and won't return my
texts. I want him back, bad. What should I do? -Confused in
Colorado

Dear Confused, here's my secret: bralessness. First get incredibly skinny but remain confusingly buxom, then shun any kind of support system in favor of random recklessness and "accidental" exposure. You'll have him back in no time! And if that doesn't work, then just stalk the shit out of him and his family! XO, L

GAGA MET THE QUEEN

at the royal variety show. does this NOT blow your MIND!?!
i also love that she's bowing. click this link and you'll see a picture of miley f-ing cyrus also meeting the queen, but not with the grace of gaga. not like a true lady.

STILL CRUSHING ON DOLLY...

for no particular reason. i was at a bar last night and 9 to 5 was playing on an old tv in the corner. i got a boner.

SOMETIMES BABY JUST SITS IN HER CHAIR AND LAUGHS

but only after laying out the sheepskin daddy bought her.
but really. this chair. i'm dead i'm so in love.

garance dore

I KNOW WE AGREED NOT TO EXCHANGE XMAS PRESENTS, BUT....

Okay so I'm about to tell you a weird secret: most of the time I find even really cool jewelry just somehow VERY OBVIOUS.

HOWEVER, I feel differently about Jill Golden's latest stuff, Flutter. http://www.flutternyc.com/ Isn't it neat? Wooden beads! YAY for something actually surprising me. Even though I hate surprises.

THIS IS WHAT THEY LIKE TO CALL "UPCYCLING"

up-cy-cle
[verb] :
the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of equal or better quality.

i love that these bags by teamwork are made of old sails. we should all be doing this more often. finding old shit and making things out of it. because you know what? i don't know if you've heard, but scientists are saying we should start respecting the earth and it's resources and crap... and i'm like really really environmental now so listen to me.

I'VE BEEN INSPIRED TO UNEARTH MY OLD ROCK COLLECTION

as a kid daddy didn't have a whole lot a friends. so sadly trips to "the rock shop" in evanston were a big thrill (i even asked for rocks for christmas). ANYWAY i treated these rocks like the friends i didn't have. i took care of them. i counted them. i researched them. i labeled them. I occasionally played rock dress-up. i proudly displayed them on a set of shelves in my bedroom.

but then in high school, when i became devastatingly popular, i put them in storage so my lonely past could no longer haunt me.

but you know what? NOW I'M READY TO TAKE THEM OUT AGAIN.

ps baby- we are selling rocks and gems at store. deal with it.
photo from t magazine

NORTH KOREAN DENIM?

this swedish trio (pictured above in amazing enlarged-transparent-head-floating-above-seated-body-portrait-pose) started a denim label called Noko Jeans, and spent a year negotiating with north korea to have them produce the first 1,100 pairs of jeans. read an interview with them and refinery 29 here.

can i just say how insane it is that two obsessions of mine (north korea, swedes) are coming together in the RANDOMEST way possible? now it seems like anything can come true!

thanks kate!

I THINK THIS SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

So this is actually a book cover for Steve Jenkin's children's book Never Smile at a Monkey: And 17 Other Important Things to Remember. You know Baby and Daddy love good book covers! Another case of a sexi sans-serif font.

DADDY IS A BIG FAN OF TRACK SHELVING

because it's simple and sensible. if you are poor and trying to find a storage solution stay away from some shitty, espresso-stained, particleboard bookshelf. instead you can spend even less and install some sexy track shelving. plus you have the ability to change the shelf heights whenever you please!
okay? get it? learn how to use some mother effing tools already. JESUS CHRIST.

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO GO TO MIAMI FOR THIS

but i didn't go. i was totally invited, and i totally had my awesome new furniture collection ready to be revealed, but i felt like this was far too amateur of a show for me at this point in my career. you know what i mean?

IS EVERYTHING ALL RIGHT?

So I know that maxi dresses aren't blowing anyone's minds anymore, and now that they're all made of jersey, it makes me sad anyway. BUT I'm willing to stick my neck out there and say that I'm all for long skirts getting their day in the sun again. Mark my words, friends. I'm on board.

Yes, this is a picture of a long dress, but it has the spirit of a shirt/skirt combo. Get it yet?

From jakandjill

BABY AND DADDY'S FAVORITE TV PERSONALITY

Finally! Kelly Cutrone's Bravo show, KELL ON EARTH, will premiere February 1st.

Yes, we might love her more than R. Zoe... we know, we know, such blasphemy is bananas. However, we are strangely drawn to her, while at the same time-- totally terrified. She hits us in just the right spot on our pleasure/pain ratio. Mama like.

Kelly with her daughter, ava, via fashionologie.

BUY THIS T-SHIRT I AM TELLING YOU TO BUY

Because it's World AIDS Day, folks.

Stella McCartney designed this t-shirt, and 50% of the proceeds go to the (product) RED campaign, on sale at select Gap stores today.