I Love My Brain

I saw these super cute nutcase bike helmets on DailyCandy today and it turns out our pal Sassafrass just bought one.  Now if only she had bike!  As a fellow daydreamer of bike ownership I have my eye on this striped helmet.  Its just $50.  And according to Sass it loudly proclaims that “i love my brain” on both the backside and the inside.  Sweet.

An Open Letter to Target

 Dear Target,

I live in Boston.  We’re not New York but most people have heard of us.  In fact, we’re approximately 200 times the size of Biddeford, Maine.  Why Biddeford?  Well, that’s where I’ll be driving tomorrow to by my Cynthia Vincent for Target Gladiators because you seem to have sent the same number of these sandals to Biddeford as you sent here.  So my options are to wake up early tomorrow and haul my cookies to Maine or to pay double for the shoes on Ebay.  As an honorary yankee option B in out.  So if you need anything from Maine (jame store?) tomorrow please let me know.  And in the future Target please produce more of the highly coveted lines so that we city folk stand a snowballs chance in hell of getting them.

Love,

CityMouse

P.S. Zac Posen for Target launches this Sunday.  Hmmm, maybe I should stay in Maine for the weekend.

Smug

Are you there blog?  it’s me Countrymouse.  sorry about that everyone!  for the lack of posts as well as the terrible judy blume reference.

Normally I try to never like appliances because the always seem to cost a minimum of five thousand dollars whenever I do.  Imagine my shock and thrill when it was pointed out on Apartment Therapy recently that the cutest fridge of all, in my opinon, is only $1700!  I know, that is a lot of money.  But it’s not nearly as much as those big metal nest egg eaters.  Also they say SMEG on the front and are, as I mentioned, adorable.  Also I’m almost positive they keep food cold.  Did you further know you can purchase a SMEG fridge at Sears? I felt certain I was going to have to search all over for stockists.

I Thought You Knew…

So tonite Country Mouse and I got together with a friend from school who was at one point a loyal reader and it turns out that there are certain things we just assumed were givens that you might now know about.  Most importantly is Tarte Cheek Stain.  We never mentioned it because frankly we thought its awesomeoness was old nes but apparently there are still people in the world who don’t use it.  Fools!  It is the best.  It blends so amazingly and works with all skin types.  Also it smell so good you’ll want to eat it.  If you don’t own it run, don’t walk, to your nearest Sephora and get it.  Your cheeks will thanks us! 

 P.S.- We know that budget conscious girls might be turned off by the idea of paying $30 for rouge but trust us it is worth it and onetube will last a zillion years.

Happy Tax Day

We’re not ignoring you.  CountryMouse is very busy with selling her home and I’ve been busy with tax season.  We’ll be back tomorrow! 

On the Side

My new home obsession is bedside tables.  For the last 8 years I’ve been using Crate & Barrel folding tray tables as bedside tables.  Those tables are perfectly nice, they just aren’t side tables.  I think side tables are one of those things that people really put off and because of that they are one of the things that when done well really scream “YOU ARE IN A FINSHED HOME!!!”  I was originally in the market for a floating drawer that I could cover in mirrors.  I like the idea of mirriored furniture, but Mr. CityMouse does not so I thought small bedside tables would be a good compeomise location for my mirrors.  I liked these because they would provide both storage aand mirrors, a winning combination.  But I also liked them because I’d never really found bedside tables that I was that excited about.  And then, on the very night I’d decide on something (from Ikea which I was going to cover in mirrors myself) I came home to find a catalog that had these Marie Silver Side Tables.  And I just love them.  They’re like saarinen tables but with a little something extra called shininess and at $188 each they are in the ballpark of reasonable.  Your thoughts?

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!  We’ve had a busy Easter Sunday.  The CountryMouse clan came for brunch and I made jelly donuts in the super cute mini fryolator we got as a wedding gift.  You may not have been aware that a deep fryer could be cute but I assure you this one is.  Anyway, homemade donts are everything you might imagine and maybe evenmore.  Here’s the recipe if you’re interested.  I used raspberry jam, mmmmmm.  They were a little time consuming but very easy to make.

Nifty Gifties from JA

I cannot get over all the exciting new offerings over at Jonathan Adler.  You now those Windows 7 commercials where the people tell you how they had a brilliant idea (technically, a superior looking version of them had a brilliant idea) and they wrote in and voila, Windows 7?  Well, about a year ago I wrote to the folks at JA and suggested that they make a smaller version of the Lampert Sofa, and Voila the Junior Lampert was born.  You’re welcome world.  But on to the new items I need and can truly afford.  Letterpress stationary!  I can use it to write to all of my friends who are moving away.  Say, CountryMouse for instance.  6 notecards with coordinating envelopes are $14.95. 

More Closets

Cleaning out a closet is so calming.  After CityMouse’s inspiring closet transformation I undertook a good clearing of Babymouse’s closet, well that and the fact that we are selling our house soon and I need to make it look like no one lives here, never mind a three year old with a lot of stuff.  So after a few hours of sneaking obsolete toys off to the salvation army, removing the pictures and shelving, repainting the inside of the closet white white white (it was formerly a flesh beige that I hated but never got around to painting, but I can’t take a risk of a dirty flesh colored closet in this real estate market!) and replacing the shelving and prints, here it is!  It looks ridiculously empty for a child’s closet.  But relatively clean.  I also got my closet shelving from easyclosets, suggested by CityMouse years ago, and the white is cheaper than the wood color in City’s kitchen closet and is just fine for a kid’s room.  It really is the best solution short of Ikea pax for closets, and inexpensive, like  about a thousand times cheaper than california closets and I’m not sure it isn’t made of the same materials.

Calling All Readers With a 29″ Waist

Please, buy this dress and let me live vicariously through you.  Its $24.  Alternatively, please tell me how much you think it would cost to have it converted to a modern day size 2.  Its currently a 1960s size 14.5  CountryMouse, thoughts?