Ranunculas | Slim Paley

Slim Paley Photo………………..Ranunculas in the pantry sink

Happy Friday Favourites everyone! It’s a gorgeous day here in Santa Barbara. We are busy sprucing up the garden, getting some Spring-time painting done (a wood shingled house is a needy mistress) and hard to reach windows are being washed. What a great feeling! It’s not going to rain again until Fall now, right?

We took some friends from NY out for dinner last night to one of our favourite local restaurants and hello there Murphy’s Law- it wasn’t good. First time we’ve ever not had a great dining experience there. Isn’t that so frustrating and embarrassing when you have talked about how great a place is? OK, I have vented, now I have to walk away from it…it’s over.

Walk away… Right now. Finished. On to Friday Favourites;

No, I’m not obsessed with Jo Malone, but I can’t help admire how the company continues to deliver beautiful products in fresh and fun ways. Brand new for Spring is their collaboration with British paint and wallpaper company Farrow & Ball (another favourite of mine) resulting in a limited edition of five of J.M.’s most popular scents presented in five of Farrow & Ball’s most popular colours. So pretty and a perfectly lovely Mother’s Day gift idea. (And don’t we love new gift ideas?!) Available mid-April thru mid-June.

We returned home to watch our recording of “Housewives of NY” just to add insult to injury (not that I’m still whinging about dinner, because I’ve so let that go now) but I think the show might have actually ‘jumped the shark’ for me with the addition of the new cast member. How fake and boooorrrring is she? I’m hardly looking for Anna Karenina-depth character development on Bravo, but couldn’t they have found someone even vaguely tethered to reality? I don’t know…perhaps this was just what I needed to nudge me off of these ridiculous shows and back to a good book just before bed.

Although, ya gotta admit Ramona coming down the runway with that walk and those EYES last night was PRICELESS!!!

(omg. I’m going to hell for this- which is really terrible because all The Housewives are going to be down there)

Not only that, but one of my good friends told me the Aveeno Cleansing Pads I recommended last week have Parabens in them. Which I think means we have to clean the cleanser off really quickly or we will get Paraben stuff on us. I am at present testing out the paraben-free cleanser she has urged me to try and I will report back after a week or so. In the meantime, if you are using the Aveeno pads, just wash fast.

Those of you lucky enough to be in NY at the moment will not only be able to partake of the Takashimaya closing sale, but will also be there for the first week of the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit at MOMA – one of my favourite photographers (May 11- June 28th)