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The Third Annual APRIL FOOD DAY!

For the third year in a row, Easy and Elegant Life’s Editor, Chris Cox and I are pleased to host APRIL FOOD DAY, Bloggers Fighting Hunger. April Food Day 2011Here’s what you can do to help!

You can add the logo for Feeding America, the national food bank, to your blog. Feeding America has also set up a special URL for donations, here.Feeding America

You can tell the story of how many people in America:

  • In 2009, 50.2 million Americans lived in food insecure households, 33 million adults and 17.2 million children
  • In 2009, households with children reported food insecurity at almost double the rate for those without children, 21.3 percent compared to 11.4 percent.
  • In 2009, households that had higher rates of food insecurity than the national average included households with children (21.3 percent), especially households with children headed by single women (36.6 percent) or single men (27.8 percent), Black non-Hispanic households (24.9 percent) and Hispanic households (26.9 percent).
  • In 2009, 7.8 percent of seniors living alone (884,000 households) were food insecure.

You can tell your readers what a contribution to Feeding America, or a local food bank will do to help those who are hungry:

  • Feeding America provides emergency food assistance to approximately 5.7 million different people per week.
  • Among members of Feeding America, 74 percent of pantries, 65 percent of kitchens, and 54 percent of shelters reported that there had been an increase since 2006 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites. 

Here’s what else you can do:

  • Add the Feeding America, or April Food Day link to your Facebook status
  • Tweet about April Food Day
  • Link your post here, so we can see how many participants we have.

On behalf of all of the people you will be helping, thank you so much!

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Thursday, March 31, 2011 0 comments

Arthur Elgort Exhibition

There is no better way to escape the dreary weather than to head to a museum or gallery.  I can't wait to visit the Stanley Wise Gallery soon to see the fabulous photographs of Arthur Elgort on display.  They range from the beginning of his career in 1970 to 2010.  Elgort has shot for some of the best fashion magazines so his subjects range from models and designers to even a few editors and other photographers.  Many of them are in motion or on the street instead of posed in a studio which "changed the face of fashion photography."  The best part is that they are also for sale! 

Christy Turlington at La Coupole, Paris, British VOGUE, 1988


Yves Saint Laurent, circa 1970


Wendy Whitelaw, Park Avenue, New York, 1981


Diana Vreeland and Valentino, 1982


Keith Richards, 1981


The Rolling Stones, 1981


Stella Diving, VOGUE, 1995


Bill Cunningham, 1984


Top Photo: Kate Moss on Fiat, Paris, VOGUE Italia, 1994
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Luxury Silk Flowers

Spring is in the air, can you smell it?  After weeks and weeks of rain we finally got a sunny day in Sausalito.   Who knew the sun could feel so darn good...

We just got an email from our silk flowers vendor today and we have to show you their new stuff.  It's gorgeous and it's a great way to bring spring inside your home all the time.

Don't forget, silk flowers are kinda like perfume.  You CAN NOT get the cheap stuff! It has to be upscale or you better off not having nothing at all.

Take a look at these...








Aren't these beautiful?  We'll be loading them up in our luxury silk flowers section soon, so please check back in a couple of days...
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Trench Warfare

Tomorrw is April 1st and you know what that means, April showers that will hopefully bring May flowers.  It's actually already raining in New York today so most likely everyone will be pulling out their trench coats.  I still love my Gryphon trench but it's looking a little old and my Burberry trench tends to make me look like Meryl Streep in Kramer vs. Kramer above.  It seems like it might be time for a little shopping so I'm looking to these lovely ladies for inspiration.  Find of funny that the five year is chicest one!  Enjoy!

Celine Trench shot by Tommy Ton

Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy

Emmanuelle Alt and chic daughter by Tommy Ton


Alexa Chung

Catherine Deneuve in La Chamade

Jackie O

via Burberry

Photo by Pamela Hanson

Photo by Patrick Demarchelier

Lauren Santo Domingo

Joanna Hillman

Ludivine Poiblanc
Catherine Deneuve

Aerin Lauder

Olivia Palermo

Ellen Barkin by Patrick Demarchelier

Nine d'Urso by Benoit Peverelli

Birdie Bell in Burberry

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Photo by Vanessa Jackman

Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Sponsor Spotlight & Discount: Kage on Irving

It may not feel like spring but that doesn't mean we can't shop for it!  I visited my friend Creations by Kage designer Kristin Holstein at her cute little shop Kage on Irving recently to check out the new bags.  I absolutely love the embroidered clutch and hobos and of course the trellis wallpaper in the store.  If you can't make it to the Kage on Irving, you can always shop online. Kristin has generously offered Habitually Chic readers a special 10% off with code habituallychic11.  Happy Shopping!

Kage on Irving
72 1/2 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003
212-228-8603

Monday-Thursday: By appointment only
Friday: 12:00 -5:00pm
Sat: 11:00am - 4:00pm
Sunday: CLOSED






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Modern Kitchen Design - 5 Great Ideas

Planning a modern kitchen design? Well, here are five great bits of advice I can offer you on getting every element of your plans bang on perfect.
Let's start by talking about planning. A modern kitchen could look and feel any number of ways but what will determine how yours looks is your lifestyle. Think about how often you use your kitchen, what you use it for and the type of things you do in there. Then write down all the things you need to have in there to enable you to work better. Planning isn't the most glamorous part of any kitchen design, but you'll be rewarded for your work by the end of the process.
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Archive for the ‘bath faucets’ tag Bathroom Remodeling

bathroom improvement

The bath is one of the most important rooms in a house. Styles in bathroom designs are constantly evolving and new trends are being developed everyday. So whether you are interested in a bathroom for a new home or a remodel of your current one, let Mitchell Construction design the perfect bath for you.Read more…
bathroom light

Designed for the Italians from Falper, they look equally stylish, sensuous and inviting after a hard day (or night). Achieving the perfect blend of form and function, Scoop is a bathroom design that uses curves while Shape uses straight lines to create an harmonious look all around. Using only the simplest and most unassuming shades along with the integrating ergonomic design, these are like minimalist’s gateway to bathroom peace. [via DigsDigs]Read more….
Bath Fixtures

Their luxury bathroom design ideas are amazing and can please every customer requirements. With their ideas you create piece of art which would be great place for relaxing and refreshing. Everything they made is full of harmony, beauty and luxury. If you want create not just beautiful but also unique bathroom which you can be proud of than getting ideas from Axor will help you a lot.Read more…

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Madeleine and Coco, Emily, Lisa and Me!

I just returned from attending a fabulous lecture by published author, and fellow blogger, Emily Evans Eerdmans at the equally fabulous Evergreen House in Baltimore.

Emily took the audience on a historic trip from the time of NapolĂ©on and his consort, JosĂ©phine, along through the 1800s and right up until Madeleine Castaing’s death in the early 1990’s. A fascinating journey in beautiful rooms and stunning interiors, all with a thread connecting them through time.Madeleine Castaing by EEEEmily is just a delight… smart, funny and very well-versed. And she’s gorgeous, too!  One of the most interesting things that Emily said in her lecture is that Madeleine Castaing is the Coco Chanel of interior decorators. Her innovations, though sometimes subtle, are all around us in so many ways. Les GalsAnd Lisa? Lisa is my friend Lisa Simeone, former host of NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered and all ‘round gal about town. She and I attend a lot of these great lectures together!  Here we three are in the Leon Bakst Theatre at Evergreen. You can just see the stenciled roosters in the upper left of the image.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011 , , , 0 comments