return of the free pass five

i am certainly not the first to blog about the free pass five. i unfortunately wasn't a part of blogland when it was in circulation. but i want to bring it back to those of you (us) who missed it last time so as to share with new friends. if you are in the dark about what the FPF is let me shed some light... the free pass five is five guys (or girls) who, if the occasion presented itself, you would be allowed to have sex with-no strings attached and with no detriment to your marriage/relationship. in other words if any of these next 5 people decided that they wanted to have sex with me, i would only need to call home and say; "hey babe...ummm...edward cull...i mean rob pattinson is here with me and he totally wants to have sex with me, so i'll see ya' tomorrow!" at which point my husband, completely understanding, would say.."ok, have fun!!" and if he were REALLY cool, would hi-five me the next day.

got it? ok great. let's begin.

so obviously it's no surprise that this guy is at the top of my list. but there is a catch..he MUST let me call him edward. i refuse to call him robert or rob or bob or bob on my knob. it would only remind me that he is a real person who is only 23 and not the eternally young vampire that i want to have sex with. but what i would do with this kid....or better still, what he would do with ME..maybe he's this take charge guy who would toss me about the bed and pull my head back by my hair exposing my throat so he could take a "bite" out of me. you KNOW you want the same thing.
ok..#2 is a no brainer. primal hotness at its finest. i know he is kinda gross while he flaunts himself about hollywood shmoozing up every woman within a 5 mile radius. he's a man-whore, that's all. nothin' wrong with that when you are this extraordinarily fine. whore it up my way, i say!
this is what i will be looking at while i am undressing...

get the fuck OUT! look at that body!! i heart you gerard butler, even if your acting skills are poor.

dear me #3, james mcavoy...clearly there is a pattern in my crushes. it's an accent. and his is probably the hottest. scottish men make me crazy. look at him staring at me...he is letting me know where he is taking me...to his bed for some mcfucking. i don't care how short you are, when i am sitting on your face it won't matter.

my fantasy with gordon ramsay is quite simple. he cooks me dinner and dessert, lets me eat(this is a VERY important part of the fantasy-ladies i know you feel me here) and then gets to pounding.

#5 is not a dude at all but kim kardashian. b/c for me a lot of the time my fantasies start with her and end with one of the guys above. and this is ONE FINE PIECE OF ASS! in fact LOOK at that ass!

good lord. i'm not even sure what i would do with it...spank it? put something IN it? i don't know but i am pretty sure i could figure it out.

ok willing readers...who are your five?

modern goodness

aren't you dying over that lavender dining room with the shiny white floors? so feminine and lovely. and the pickled floors (are they pickled???) in the 5th one? GTFO!!!

via delikatissen

berkley illustration

i love these. they come in all sizes and they are totally affordable. great in a kids room, of course, but also fun on a large wall gallery style. animal portraits ROCK!!! there are LOADS more at his etsy shop.

kinda weird and scary but very evocative.

sparkly happiness forever!!!!!!

i figured this picture needed some serious cornification. have you been cornified yet?

*thank you annie for the heads up. i cornify you.

monday color combo

not just for traffic signs, taxi cabs and bumble bees! black and yellow has also outgrown the school bus and playground set. somehow this combination works. it works even better when you throw a lot of white around with it. and sometimes, if done with careful consideration and editing, it works with blue, pink, red and green! this is where i most admire true professional interior designers...i think if i tried this combination in my own home i would hate it. mostly b/c i think it would be really hard to get right. it looks easy enough, i know...start with a black and white room and throw in pops of yellow. but what about the pure black and yellow rooms? yellow walls black accents, pops of white? which way do you go? would you try this combo? do you like it? remind you too much of a bumble bee? or a school bus still?

images via house beautiful, living etc, blackwhiteyellow blog, ABT, flickr, etsy, web

modern granny

granny is still...granny.

nina campbell's house in veranda magazine.

today let's go on a picnic

here...

why did henri think he could get away with just white on top?

mismatched chairs??

why yes.

image marie claire maison

is this camping?

well if it is then someone needs to tell my husband. he asks me from time to time if i want to go camping? i always tell him, sure, if our accomodations have plumbing. i am not a tent person. for many reasons. too many to list for fear of sounding too high maintenance. moi? lets just say i have done a tent and knew then and there that there was no good reason to ever do it again. don't get me wrong i LOVE the outdoors, i just don't want to feel dirty and buggy and scummy knowing that it won't be washed away by a warm, salty bath at the end of the day.
so, husband, if your listening...THIS is my idea of camping....

happy weekend to you and enjoy the outdoors before it gets too buggy.

images via country living

i vicky cristina'd in my pants

in my next life can i PLEASE look like this?!??

i'm feelin' it!

great song, great rendition.

turquoise x's two!

the first comes from the seriously awesome alison from my little happy place. she kicks ass in brazil and takes names in glossy blue goodness. this is the after...go see the before and then SEE if you don't run out and try to do this yourself! you know you will. i am on my knees in worship to you my dear. oh, the lamp has had a makeover too.

the next picture is from anna over at ABT. but i'm sure if your reading THIS blog you most definitely know who she is and what an amazing blog she has. this image is of her shop, black & spiro. i have a major crush on this turquoise room. its just so....doggone pretty!!!!! not sure if i would do this in my house....maybe one day. but i think i could manage to pull off a piece of turquoise furniture like alison has.

love it. love the painting. love the green and blue together. love it. love it LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rose

the queen of all flowers. just amazing. can't you smell them?

from here.

a staunch review

so i watched it. there is a lot to say really. not sure where to begin. ok, first off let me just say much of this movie was speculation and for the sake of dramatization i guess there has to be to a certain extent. i'll start with what i liked...the set WAS amazing. i was so in love with that dark blue, almost iridescent paint on the walls of their living room. gorgeous!!! the house inside and out was fabulous and fabulously shot too. the lighting was beautiful. things you may not notice when watching a movie, but i do. man do i! you WILL notice when it is terrible though, true dat! the house in ruins was astounding. i would have HATED to be the art department/props team on this part of the movie. my husband did this for a living for a while and let me tell you- driving all around the filming location (and beyond)to find EXACTLY what the set designer wants often to no avail leaving you to MAKE the sought after prop would not be fun on this movie.
the costumes were fantastic as well, especially that satin-y white hooded number drew wore. the costumes for the later years (in the documentary) were so dead on accurate! i want to know who knitted that blue and black scarf that is exactly like the one little edie wore back in 1975. IT IS THE SAME!!! and it's knit, so unless someone just happened to have this in their closet, someone had to have made it. set and costume teams will win awards for shiz on this movie.
alright!! so i feel like i am avoiding the inevitable...my review of the performances.
lets start with jess. how can you fault this woman as an actress? you can't, that's how. she played the selfish bratty socialite perfectly, her husband didn't get her and had no time for her antics, so she turned to a (probably gay) musician for companionship and at the end she was abandoned by everyone she loved. so her codependent ass made her daughter come back and care for her...selfish selfish selfish!!! jessica can give us controlled crazy like on one else. i mean what can you say? plus that scene with the song?? it was dead on perfect.
now with drew i think we were all excited to see her performance and she delivered a fine one. but, i wish she had given us a bit more coo-coo and a LOT more sad. there were glimpses of it, but i wanted more. i wanted to see a few more scenes recreated from the documentary. in fact, there are a few in there that are so heart-wrenchingly sad that i think the addition of them into the movie would have given more insight as to why they let themselves go like that. i mean after all that's the fascination with this story, how could such a prominent, affluent family live like this? this is why the crazy factor was missing for me. the embarrassment would have been way too palpable if these women were sane.
overall i had less of a problem with the performances then i did with the telling of the story. i think both women delivered beautifully, but i feel what we were all looking for was more insight as to how they let their house and lives fall into ruin like that. and while we get an idea, albeit a speculative one, of their lives as young women the overall decline in thier mental health was glossed over.
so will both women be nominated for their roles? absolutely! who will win? drew will.

pluck you

readers, you must pluck and squeeze with a magnifying mirror! my mom has one and every time i go to her house i get my squeeze on and it is righteous. you can see hairs and blackheads that no ordinary mirror can pick up. it is soooooooooooo satisfying. and all of you pick and pluck haters can just stop reading. i mean what do you care if i pluck my eyebrows bald and make my skin scar?!?! it's my skin!!!! and you would be right, damn you. but i am willing to bet that for most of us it is just. too. fun. to. ever. stop.
now you can go for one of these fancy models (all from restoration hardware) and by all means, if you have the means...they ARE beautiful.

or you can go for the cheapo version with suction cups from the dollar store, like me.

either way...you must get one. your eyebrows will thank you and your blackheads will be a thing of the past.

monday color combo

we atlantan's had some crazy stormy weather last night, tornadoes, straight line winds, thunder and lightening, heavy rains...you know...run of the mill springtime stuff. it's still a bit weird to me and somewhat reminiscent of my youth in the tornado alley of the midwest to be woken by a tornado drill so loud that you think IT is the tornado. then a man's voice comes over a loudspeaker almost as if it was god himself telling you to "take cover now!!!"
well monday's color combo comes from the stormy side of spring. and it's also sort of a play on color itself...it's wood & gray. i have a lot of this in my own home. it is warm and welcoming, soothing and calming. it fits well into any design...rustic, elegant, modern, country and all the rest. so..enjoy and happy monday!

images via house beautiful, living etc, flickr and etsy.

grey gardens-not a design post!!!!

not that i am at all dissing the lovely blog posts i have read over these last few days on the set design of this movie...they were awesome!! this is more about the movie itself..the acting mainly. i am, after all, an actress above all else. so i was a little curious about the casting of drew barrymore as little edie. i mean, i CAN see it, but still i am having to put on glasses to REALLY see it. the trailer below alleviates most of my confusion as to why they cast drew. i saw a picture today in US weekly of drew barrymore and jessica lange in character and i have to say, jessica LOOKS CRAZY CLOSE TO BIG EDIE!!!! anyway i am very excited to see this movie and i think if you have never seen the maysles documentary you should before you watch this hbo dramatization. really. you should. it will explain sooooooo much.

we will meet back here on sunday for a full review!

most definitely NOT a dungeon

apartment therapy did a post last november about this house, i guess b/c that's when the movie came out. also b/c the house is beautiful!! but those were my pre-blogging days and pre-cougars-for-cullen days. it's called hoke house and here it is again for your viewing pleasure.

the staircase....***sigh.
do they know their house is in a vampire movie? probs not.

in fashion, sometimes you play AGAINST the designer....

ostrich feathers, anyone? honestly there are no words...just click...

brenda dickson.

and then you can thank the lovely ks from

return to bohemia, a fabulous new blog.

eat-in kitchen

would you believe that only until fairly recently i had no idea what an "eat-in" kitchen was? now that i know i am embarrassed at how retarded i was. it's pretty obvious when you think about it. when in fact i think that was the problem, i OVER-thought it. anyway..i like 'em! covenient and efficient. keep the mess in one place. stove to table and all that. it's also the open-plan aspect that i like. i know europeans tend to prefer their kitchens to be away from the rest of the house, a sort of cooking sanctuary or prison, depending on which way you see it. in my next house i want an open-air living thing going on. kitchen, family, dining- all one big room!! bedrooms can be the sanctuaries, surrounded by 4 walls and all that.

i love how in this next one the kitchen is sort of a thru way between the living area and eating area...notice the shiny tiles and that fabulous fireplace...swoony-swoon.

the next one has a wall with sliding doors so it can become a little more private..THAT'S cool. do YOU like this idea????
images via living etc.

welcome home...

cb2's movie sofa. mine mine mine!!!!

peeps contest winner

congrats!!!! hermione granger won the washington post's peeps diorama contest.

it was based on this painting here...

for more go here.

monday color combo

i hope you all had a fabulous easter and didn't o.d. on too many reese-y eggs, cadbury eggs, hard boiled eggs, scrambled eggs or deviled eggs. i sure did. it's another rainy monday here in atlanta. blech! so monday's color combo for those of you enduring nasty weather today should be a welcome one. it's pink and blue!! careful though, pink and blue can be tricky. you have to get the hues right and the doses. the cobalts and fuschias, the turquoises and hot pinks or magentas are my favorite, these are a bit more modern. whether in your home or in a glass with an umbrella or on a beach at sunset, pink and blue can be a lovely combination.

images via flickr, house of turquoise, etsy, house beautiful and the web

a smackdown of cute

i have posted on this little fella here before asking had you ever been punched in the face with cute? hurts doesn't it? happy easter!! love, jenny.

its. getting. far far worse.

i have become a vampire. i haven't killed anyone (yet) or anything like that. but i haven't been sleeping. seriously, since last friday sleep has evaded me like my undead friends. not even sleeping aids will help. natural or narcotic. there is a reason for this..several really. said reasons stem from the same source...books...you MIGHT know of them...the twilight series?

it started out innocently enough. the first book, twilight sucked me in fairly quickly but still i guess i wasn't as "invested" in the characters as i would eventually become. toward the end of it though, i was racing for my keys to drive to the closest barnes and noble for the next book in the series, new moon. now THIS is where it has become...well...PAINFUL to read. if you haven't read further than the first book..STOP READING HERE AND NOW!!!!! let me first inform those of you that don't know, i am 39 years old. not 19, not even 25....THIRTY NINE. and a mother. whose mothering has gone by the wayside in lieu of too much reading during the day. then at night the reading continues. and the material is such an adrenaline rush that i can't get to sleep. first of all i can't stop reading and then by that point its like 1:30 and then i can't fall alseep because i am too amped up!!! the story is almost too much for me to handle. why?? because of this guy right here:ok, so i OBVIOUSLY don't have to tell you that the guy is good-looking. no. i do not. but it's not really HIM..rob pattinson..it's edward cullen that we all love. is it not? and at this point in new moon i think i keep reading so that i can get to the point where they are together!! its KILLING me. really. all reality has gone out the window. i have reverted back to when i was a teenager and actually believed that i would marry roger taylor from duran duran. this would all be much easier to bear if i could just sleep at night. but i can't i am haunted. it's just so hard to keep away...to find out what happens next....to see if they...you know....do it!!! so much so that i think i may have to take a break from all this vampire romance after new moon is over. i just hope i can. are there any twerds out there that can offer help? without giving anything away of course. even if you wanted to just air YOUR grievances..that would be helpful.

peep fun

the washington post is having a peeps diorama contest. here are a few...

marpeep antoinette..let them eat jellybeans!


mommy peepest..no more wire hangers!

to catch a peep-a-tor!

there are lots..go vote for the winner!

purple monster

here in georgia (all over really) you can take a walk anywhere in early spring and say.."what is that heavenly smell and where is it coming from?!?!" it is usually this beautiful stuff also known as wisteria. it grows wild all over here. oddly enough i have heard it's really hard to grow yourself. driving thru the city you can see it covering the tree tops like some kind of seussian beast. i love it. it is beautiful!! look how this one is growing out of the concrete!!

flickr images.

hark?

can a lamp make you hear angels sing? a LAMP?!?!?!

for roughly 400 dollars you can have it.

from here.

smeg

deelightful!
from delikatissen

a vampy honor

ok bloggers i am officially 'on the map' as it were. at least as far as i am concerned. the beautiful, lovely, talented, saucy valorie hart of the super cool blog v i s u a l v a m p has given me a shout out on her blog, in her shop and on top OF A FUCKING MOUNTAIN!!!!!..ok so maybe not on the mountain...but it feels that way to me! so thanks ms. hart...it means a lot to me.

image courtesy of her vampiness.

monday color combo

turquoise and yellow has been on the radar for a while now..so nothing new there but it's so damn cheery and today here in atlanta it is so damn cold and rainy!
anyway..i love how it seems to work well in nature too...sort of a sun and sea thing...or flower and sky. ...and pink, purple, white and green.

images flickr, ohdeedoh, apartment therapy, house beautiful, domino and etsy.

beaches

this is my little girl. fiona. she is going to the beach with her grands' today...'til monday. she is super excited here in her new hello kitty b-suit.

this is me 5 minutes after she left. no i did not plan to capture me bawling for the blog. but as soon as it started happening i thought (as a good blogger should) "shit, capture this for my readers". this is a first for us all.

i was reeeeeally feelin it here.


my hair looks good though.

living the dream

their dream anyway...

they have great style.........for circus freaks.

images and story from family living magazine..

the perfect bedroom and a room with a view

you may remember last week a post i did about my style in a picture..it was started by alek at this cool blog from the right bank to the left coast. anyway...my choice was this room. well i found the bedroom version of my style in a picture. below. look. the simple bed, huge bench, bleached floors, white walls...mmmm...i love it. i also love the play with scale. doesn't it look so serene and peaceful?this next picture is all about that view. i mean you just know that that apartment is a kajillion dollars because of that view and also that the apartment itself is probably teeny tiny. i want to have coffee there tomorrow and a chocolate croissant. image from the paris apartment

officially obsessed

if you know me then you know that it's not hard for me to get obsessed with a book/movie series. even better when the books become movies. harry potter? check. lord of the rings? check. my inner nerd comes out with a vengeance. i can quote all 3 lord of the rings movies beginning to end. and while i LOVE the harry potter movies the books are where its at for me.

so i was up reading for 3 hours last night!! what? twilight of course. i am hooked. this book is so good, GOOD i tell you!!! the buildup of sexy tension is palpable, high school or not. i couldn't put it down, i had to force myself. then as i lay in bed i just imagined all the mysterious, foggy, rainy forest surrounding these characters and how and when they would kiss?!!

so i had to flick through flickr to find some washington area rainforest images...oh and an image of edward and bella...behold..vampire hotness...

so have any of you jumped on the nerdlight bandwagon?