Lust List: Indigo Mood

Things I want (sigh). Why can't I win like $500 on a lottery ticket? Just enough to have a fun little splurge.

In this edition of my covetousness, you will notice an insistence on a particular hue: cobalt. I am all about this shade lately. Maybe I'm feeling blue?

 Adorable Zodiac-inspired embroidery kit (in Scorpio and Gemini), from miniaturerhino

 Incredible 1930s gown from violetvillevintage

And, to go with it, this a-ma-zing ring from gypsycandy

Rani, The beautiful seafoam lace necklace by treeandkimball

Aimee, the beautiful deep blue beauty from treeandkimball

My love of Erica Weiner jewelry runs deep. This Sadie Hawkins ring is no exception.

And, finally, I think I deserve a BookBook Macbook cover to celebrate

my amazing graduate fellowship (and earning my M.M. this spring)!

The only question: vibrant red, or classic black?

That's right, I accepted an incredible offer from a school that seems just as excited about me as I am about them (the department head emailed me personally to tell me how pleased she was that I decided to attend). I will begin my journey towards a Ph.D this fall!!!

Deep Blue Something

Whipped Bakeshop via oh lovely day

It's a blue cake. And not a wedgewood china, pale blue, BLUE. Like Grover. The texture looks like thick, impressionist paint globs up close.

I don't want the cake to be a big production. Because we're not serving cake to everybody (more on that later)! We will just have a tiny cake to cut and put the cake topper on. I do like looking at a pretty cake, I just know that John and I love other desserts infinitely more than cake. It is cool though, don't you think?

I could see a whole painter theme here; watercolor envelope liners on the invitations, mini easels on the tables holding up the table numbers...

Something Blue

Guess who just bought a little something blue to take away the blues?

(me).

I'm not saying these are my something blue for my wedding...I don't think I'll have any trouble incorporating many little something blues.

I'm reserving jewelry decisions until I find my dress, though there are some heirlooms that are likely to make it into the mix:

My mother's engagement ring, the necklace she wore on her wedding day, and my grandmother's locket with pictures of John and I inside.