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I’m sorry but it was just too good of a match up! They are twins! It scares me a little bit that my painting looks so much like those pants and the way she paired it with a heavy dose of a white top: YES, well those match the chairs. The sunglasses in the deep purple even correspond to the darker blue paint at the top of the canvas. She should have worn an Edie Parker black and white clutch with that though, then she would have picked up the striped stool.

The outfit pic is via Refinery 29′s Australia Fashion Week coverage HERE, the painting and room is obviously my own. 

More new art in my apartment, this one via my nephew photographer Eddie Cohen.  It’s printed on aluminum and its fabulous. He’s a huge Woody Allen fan, so this is a very personal piece to him. And I’m SO happy to have it. It’s too cool for school… and I LOVE how it looks on the silver walls. I generally have enough paintings in my apartment (although I was totally the cobbler with no shoes for the past few months!) so I look for work I love in other fields.  Learn more about Eddie HERE. 

My apartment feels like a whole new place to me. Between the round painting over the high chair, Cookie’s pieces, this Woody and the new paintings, it’s a new world. I also moved the polka dot chairs to the den and left the area in my living room open with just the chair that I rescued from the garbage, and the lucite bench under the big painting. It feels so much more spacious and open now. (Yes Erica, you were right.)

It feels good to be back, baby! And thank the lord I have photoshoots and house tours, cause otherwise I would NEVER finish anything.

Im heading to Frieze today, I’m so excited and Ill report back!

Now that I’ve gone the route of massive, I don’t think I can ever have small paintings there again! I picked these up from the framer on Friday at 4 pm! Talk about crunch time. I’m sitting and drinking my coffee and looking at these babies right now, and smiling because I love them so much. (You can click HERE , HERE  and HERE to see what the apartment looked like with the previous paintings that sold, there are also before and afters and sources listed on those posts.)

Anyway, the Junior League House Tour was so much fun yesterday! Honestly, it was kind of bizarre having so many strangers in my house, but like I told some people yesterday- because of the blog, I’m used to people seeing my stuff, so that part isn’t so strange… Just you know, the in person contact in my house was strange. And even though I’m so out there and exposed, the fear of judgment doesn’t go away.

Above all else, the hardest part was getting everything NEAT and uncluttered and organized for this! I swear to you, I don’t think this house will ever be this neat again, so I took a ton of photos! You have to see the magic that Liz worked in my playroom. Master organizer and stylist! A lot of people wonder how I have kids in this apartment. Two answers: 1, I have a playroom that usually looks like a bomb exploded in it, and 2, nothing in here is actually that precious. Lucite and glass wipe clean, and everything else is actually not that delicate. The only difference between my staged living room and my not staged living room is that on a normal day, I don’t put anything on the coffee table where JoJo can reach it. Thats it. Oh yea, and on a normal day there is cereal crumbs on every surface.

In addition to my own two massive paintings, I also hung work by other artists that I know and love… one of whom is COOKIE! I swear to you, people were instantly drawn to her pieces, and she even had a few offers on her work! People- you don’t need to buy my kids artwork, you have your own amazing artist at home! All kids have some level of artist talent because their strokes are so uninhibited! Like I told some people yesterday- all you have to do is limit them in some ways: don’t give them that many paint colors at once, and take away the paper before they mess it up! Then frame it like a serious piece of art, and trust me, it will look fabulous!

Stay tuned for more photos, and if you are new here, feel free to peruse and ask any questions about sourcing, or whatever else you feel like asking! We are very casual and friendly on this blog! Welcome and enjoy!

What are you doing this weekend? Cause I have some exciting news! Remember when I mentioned cleaning up because “people were coming over”? Well, those people are YOU and various other New Yorkers and ladies who lunch via The Junior League House Tour this Saturday, May 5!

Um, yea… this is crazy!

What is the Junior League and what is their house tour? The Junior League is a charity, established in 1901 and made up entirely of female volunteers, that’s goal is to improve the lives of New York women and children around our city and in the greater New York area.

Every Spring and Fall, the Junior League selects a bunch of cool apartments and houses across the city for a tour. I’m so honored to be part of the tour, its kind of prestigious and my home will be in the company of some design legends.  Past tours have featured both designers’ own residences as well as their clients, including: Geoffrey Bradfield, Paula Caravelli, Alexandra Champalimaud, Robert Couturier, Laura Day, William Diamond and Anthony Baratta, Jamie Drake, Steven Gambrel, Phillip Gorrivan, Christopher Hyland, Eric Lysdahl, Todd Merrill, Robert Passal, Campion Platt, Jennifer Post, Scott Salvator, Hunt Slonem, Sara Story, Stephanie Stokes, Alan Tanksley, Matthew White, Frank Webb, and Vicente Wolf.

What this means for you, is that you can see my apartment , along with a bunch of others, without feeling like a weirdo stalker creep! People that see the apartment in real life after seeing it on the blog say its like being on a movie set. Familiar because they’ve seen it so many times, but weird too!

Here is the schedule for the day:

  2012 Spring House Tour Schedule of Events

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Spring House Tour Kick-Off Party Hosted by Tory Burch
Tory Burch will offer all guests who attend the party 10% off all purchases that evening and 10% of the proceeds back to the New York Junior League. Tickets for the Spring House Tour will be available at the door.

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm                               Kick-Off Party
Sponsored By Tory Burch
797 Madison Ave. New York, NY
Between 67^th Street and 68^th Street

Saturday, May 5th, 2012

10:00 am – 12:00 pm                           Guest Registration and Breakfast
The Astor House
130 East 80th Street
Between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue

10:00 am-6:00 pm                               Silent Auction

10:30 am – 4:00 pm                            Homes Open

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm                             Buffet Lunch
Sponsored by Architects & Designers Building,
GE Monogram, Miele, and Sub-Zero/Wolf
150 East 58th Street
Between Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm                               Cocktail Reception
Sponsored by Newel Antiques
425 East 53rd Street
Between First Avenue and Sutton Place

2012 Spring House Tour Ticket Details

$85                                                          In advance for NYJL Volunteers
$100                                                       In advance for the general public
$125                                                                                                     At the door
$200                                                                                                                    VIP

General ticket includes: Entrance into the “Kick-Off Party” at Tory Burch, Complimentary Breakfast, Luncheon, Cocktail Reception, and Gift Bag.

VIP ticket includes: All of the above as well as, priority seating at breakfast, exclusive stop on the tour, full day transportation, and a VIP gift bag.

The last day to purchase tickets in advance is Thursday, May 3^rd, 2012.

Click HERE to purchase tickets to the event!

The best thing about photo shoots…. are the left over flowers. A little iPad magazine interviewed me yesterday and took a few photos in my apartment… Nothing crazy, not like the Rue shoot which took all day… At the end of the day, I went around snapping photos…

Peony season is the best, isn’t it? See that metal container they are in? Its actually a cooking utensil holder from my kitchen. I left all my vases at the bachelor pad after the photo shoot, and so I had to improvise!

Herbs I bought from the farm the other day, and I plan on planting them in a terrarium, like last here. See HERE. (Sorry, I was directing you guys to a post with defunct photos. Trying to figure out what happened!)

Lilacs in an antique sterling pitcher that I received as a wedding gift. Another improvised happy accident.

A little shot of the room, and in case you need more evidence for the glory of black doors, I’ll post more pictures of those. Also note, baby cream on table, Cookie’s art on the wall in frames looks pretty good. BUT I have a massive piece coming for over there. Also, yes, I am a chair hoarder and it has to stop. Go ahead, buy my chairs! (Also, this photo is a little weird because it was so dark when I took the shot, walls look different than normal.)

Last, Kelly Wearstler pants that I paired with my favorite shoes ever by Prada and a black leather shirt. And incidentally this outfit took me from day to night, I wore it to a Decoded party.

I am SOOOOO not a photogenic person. I HATE having my photo taken, and in my family albums, it looks like I don’t exist (I take pictures of everyone else!)… but its kind of fun to be forced to do it. And I can’t wait to have an updated headshot that isn’t from when I was 8 months pregnant! (The only benefit to that is that faces look less wrinkly at 8 months pregnant.) I also made sure to have my hair curly for these photos.

So yea, can’t wait to see em!

(Also, there is this new site called Threadflip, I’m selling some clothes and DIY’s on it…)