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Please join me this Saturday, September 20th at Secondi, one of DC's best consignment stores, to shop my personal closet (and picks from Secondi!) along with the personal closets of SpicyCandy DC, The Fashionably Broke, My Fair Vanity, Anchyi @ Work, Style Smiths, and Rock Yo Rizos. A portion of my proceeds will go to the Colon Cancer Alliance to help fund prevention, research, and support to colon cancer patients.

Here are the details-
WHAT: District Closets launch event hosted by SCDC and NeuProfile
WHEN: Saturday, September 20, 2014 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm
WHERE: Secondi DC- 1702 Connecticut Ave NW #2, Washington, DC 20009
RSVP: http://districtclosets2014.splashthat.com/

Please join us for complimentary champagne, a braiding + cat eye station courtesy of Luigi Parasmo Salon, and to support a great cause!! Hope to see you there! And check out my Q&A with Spicy Candy DC on their blog!

!!!!!!! I'M SO EXCITED !!!!!!! Sarah Jessica Parker will present the Fall 2014 SJP Collection, her line of shoes and handbags, at Nordstrom Tysons Corner Center (Salon Shoes, level 3) on August 22nd, 5-6 PM! As time permits, she will meet and sign your SJP purchases throughout the event. (Note from Nordstrom: **Please note that due to limited time, Parker will only be able to sign items from the SJP Collection for customers who have made a purchase.**)

The SJP Collection is available at select Nordstrom stores and Nordstrom.com/SJP. There's going to be a HUGE crowd that day so better shop your shoes now! Nordstrom always offers free shipping and free returns.

UPDATE: I just read from the Nordstrom Tyson's Corner Facebook page that SJP will only be signing shoes purchased after August 15?? Not sure how they're verifying this, but there you have it. Receipts maybe? I guess it's their way of limiting the number of signed shoes.

\\ SHOP THE SJP COLLECTION \\

I have a loyal love of movies especially movies showing at E Street Cinema, my favorite movie theater in DC. I'm delighted to be hosting a giveaway for an advanced screening of the movie “I Origins” with a post-screening Q+A session with Actor Michael Pitt and Director/Writer Mike Cahill!

Screening Details:
Tuesday, July 22nd
7:00pm
Landmark E Street Cinema
555 11th St NW #2
Washington, DC 20004

Hope you can join me!

Instructions:
I have a limited number of tickets available for my readers. Click HERE to contact me for passes. Then, just for fun, leave a comment below to this trivia question:

Actor\model\musician, Michael Pitt, played the role of "Henry Parker" in what teen drama TV series from the late 90s?

**Important Note: The screening is free and first-come, first-serve. The theater is overbooked to ensure a full house, so it is important to arrive early to be sure you get a seat! You must have a pass to get-in.

Throwback Thursday to the M Dot Design event I co-hosted with Haya of Good Good Gorgeous and Krystin of Be Loud Be You. M Dot Design Studio is a Los Angeles-based Design House founded by fashion designer, Michelle Aquino. She creates high quality, hand-made, custom tailored ready-to-wear fashion and lifestyle products that are made completely in-house. By producing smaller runs, in most cases no more than three of a color, M Dot produces clothing specific to the person and not the masses.

M Dot also specializes in pop-up shopping events and social mixers at W Hotel destinations in the US. Past events have included W San Francisco, W Hollywood, W Los Angeles-Westwood, W San Diego, and W Scottsdale. The events feature items from M Dot Design Studio collections and also target the best local fashion designers, artists, professionals, boutiques, sips, and flavors from each host city. Our event at W Washington DC on June 11th was M Dot's first East Coast pop-up and featured local jewelry designer, Sophie Blake Jewelry, Costella Handbags, MAU Jewelry, Amy Agamemnon Jewelry, Leoluca Handbags, and Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics.

This post was delayed mostly due to the sore throat I woke up with the next day (and that lasted two weeks). It was all worth it to be a part of such a fabulous and unique event. Thank you so much to Michelle Aquino for the opportunity and beautiful outfit, to the W for the yummy drinks and food, and to everyone who stopped by to shop and say hi!

The last 4 images are from M Dot Design's Facebook page - visit their page for more pictures.

I first developed a strong affinity for Veuve Clicquot about 6 years ago and have since made it my drink of choice. My husband and I shared a bottle on our wedding night, and it's always in our glass when we ring in the New Year. I loooove love love Veuve Clicquot. (Veuve is pronounced like "love" afterall). So when VC contacted me to attend an intimate champagne tasting dinner hosted by their Winemaker Cyril Brun and their Director of Communications Christine Kaculis, I had to pinch myself. Then the good news kept coming... The event was held at my favorite farm-to-table restaurant, Table, and each attendee was encouraged to share their experience on Instagram and Twitter using #VCTasting. Veuve Clicquot + Table + not frowned upon Instagramming at dinner?! - that's my kind of hat-trick.


The weather was near perfect as we sipped Veuve Clicquot Rosé (in celebration of Cherry Blossom season) as an aperitif on Table’s roof top and nibbled on cheese, charcuterie, and escargot. Then we were seated to an unbelievably beautiful dinner.

I snapped these pictures at the Tidal Basin yesterday along with a few thousand people visiting DC. Normally, I would go see the blossoms during the week but my mom is visiting from FL, and Saturday was the best time to go together. It can be difficult to navigate through the crowds and get pictures without other people in them but just seeing the unbelievably, beautiful blossoms makes the trip down to the basin totally worth it. Seeing the flowers never gets old.

Hope your weekend is lovely too too! xo

My mom has always told me to surround myself with people who I aspire to be like. Katya Ananieva is definitely one of those people. She's the co-founder of SpicyCandyDC and owner of the best jewelry store in the DC area, She's Unique. Katya is strong, beautiful, sexy, real, edgy, elegant... and the jewelry collection at She's Unique is a direct reflection of all of these traits. On Sunday, we celebrated Katya, her adorable mom, and the 2nd birthday of She's Unique with yummy brunch bites and a mimosa bar catered by Jessica (4th picture), and lots and lots of beautiful jewelry. Thanks to Julien for capturing every lovely moment.

To celebrate the opening of the Reston location, The Container Store will offer the following promotions both Saturday and Sunday:

• 10% of sales will be donated to Cornerstones, a nonprofit organization that promotes self-sufficiency by providing support and advocacy for those in need of food, shelter, affordable housing, quality childcare, and other human services. 

• Prizes giveaways will be given every hour on the hour throughout the Grand Opening Weekend, including $1000 elfa Space Makeovers - one makeover on Saturday and one on Sunday!

• The first 100 Social Check-Ins will be given $10 Store More giftcards! #containRES