Lay Lady Lay

We're snowed in though there's not much snow - a delightful excuse to putter around and practice the magic of tidying and preen just a little.

 Bianca Jagger via Pinterest

 -Leigh

Tell me a story.

Let's light a KITTEN candle and listen to Alice Coltrane and talk about when we were small.

-Leigh

photo of Twiggy and her eyelashes and baby blue sweater via Garance Dore's Pinterest 

Pajama Game

Catbird's resident nightgown enthusiast (moi) has her eye on this # by Undercover.

-Leigh

image from NY MAG

She's a silvery bell

Gorgeous gorgeous lustrous lashes and a delicately flushed complexion for a fairy nap amongst the small blossoms and tall tall trees.

-Leigh

Chanel FW 2013 via Into the Gloss

The Rain in Spain

Well, this looks delicious, no?

-Leigh

Tim Walker panna cotta via Another Loves

A riotous serenade.

The colors! The light! The swan faucet! Ha cha cha, I love it.

-Leigh

photo from Saipua's Instagram

White Night

Turn the taps on hot - thigh oh my!

-Leigh

photo via Tocca's Tumblr

Candy, darling.

Big, gorgeous, riotous roses at Dolce and Gabbana Alta Moda - February always has me craving lipstick pink roses, fuchsia nails, and fragrant blooms bedside; a hothouse spring in the imagination.

-Leigh

image from 10 Magazine

Ha-choo!

I've got a cold - it arrived at approximately 12:14 pm, on the dot, give or take. I shall retire to my home for a hot hot bath and an evening reuniting with my friends at Downton Abbey. A delight of a night- ha-choo!

-Leigh

Photo via This is Glamorous 

In the mood for love.

Just a beautiful face, looking a little kittenish in icy Bowie maquillage.

-Leigh

Sasha Pivovarova at Chanel Spring 2007 via Pinterest

A nice weekend for black butterflies, and black hearts.

These days, I'm mainly interested in watching The Sopranos, and streaming the Valentino couture show over and over and over again.

-Leigh

photo via Style.com

Salutations, and imaginations.

Greetings, from one of my favorite places I've never been. The world is whirling, the years are turning, the rings are glowing, and hush, hush, hello, I see you, New Year.

-Leigh

Blonde Redhead's Brooklyn apartment from Domino Magazine, via Pinterest

Let the Light In

Glowing skin and sooty eyes are terribly fetching.

-Leigh

photo: Terry Richardson for Vogue Paris

Weekend Reverie

A gift: ponder the genius that will be Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham.

-Leigh

Dream Date: Twinkle Toes

I've had such deep feelings about mules lately. Thanks Coco, for sending me this picture! It's really such a delight to have co-workers who can crawl inside your fantasy brain. Now, does someone want to send me these shoes?!

-Leigh

Valentino via Pinterest 

Dear Criterion,

I love you. I really, really love you. It's so nice spending time with you on the couch, and in bed. I think we're really good together.

Love,
Leigh

Still from Tokyo Twilight

Dream Date: Ballerinas and Chiaroscuro

We've got ballerinas on the collective Catbird mind, and chiaroscuro (Italian for light-dark). New pieces are nearly ready to wake from their slumber, all bright and shiny, strong and graceful, light and dark. We are none of us but one thing.

-Leigh

photo via oh no! I don't know the source - do you? tell us! UPDATE! THANKS GUYS! PHOTO BY MARK OLICH

Another Postcard from PEI

For Anne the days slipped by like golden beads on the necklace of the year. - Anne of Green Gables

Have a golden bead kind of weekend, full and round and nourishing.

-Leigh

Necklaces from left to right:
You Are My Moon and Stars
Chained to My Heart
Opal Teardrop 
You are My Moon and Stars paired with Dollhouse Locket

Summer Reading and Marble Halls of Moonshine

Last night, I started rereading one of my totems of childhood, the Anne of Green Gables collection. I've missed you, Prince Edward Island (or, PEI as we local armchair travelers - here's looking at you, Dwight and Jeanne - call it).

"I had made up my mind that if you didn't come for me tonight I'd go down the track to that big wild cherry tree at the bend, and climb up into it to stay all night. I wouldn't be a bit afraid, and it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don't you think? You could imagine you were dwelling in marble halls, couldn't you? And I was quite sure you would come for me in the morning, if you didn't tonight." -Anne of Green Gables

-Leigh

photo from Laetitia Crahay's Instagram feed

Keep it Casual.

This weekend? Slip on a black dress, have some friends over for wine and intrigue and sly eyes...

-Leigh

Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller circa 1960 by Bruce Davidson