THANK YOU!!!

Just got my 1,000 hit on A Prep In The City.  Thank you to everyone who takes the time to read my blog.  I've had a blast working on it the past few months!  Please continue to enjoy, comment and share with friends! xo, M

movies, movies, movies!

Because of the Oscars this Sunday(!!!!!!) I have movies on the mind.  These are the ones I'm most looking forward to seeing once they're in theaters.   What are you dying to see?

things I'm lovin'

Stella & Dot

Milly Bikinis

Inslee Haynes Stationary

iomoi plates (and well, basically everything they sell)

Tory Burch Tab Front Super Skinny Jean in Cornflower

Tibi Silk Print Dress

Stubbs & Wootton True Prep Slipper

february playlist

Here is my February playlist (a work in progress) of the music I'm lovin' these days.  Hope you discover (or rediscover) a song or two that will put a smile on your face

1. You Look Good In My Shirt by Keith Urban
2. Walcott by Vampire Weekend
3. Mississippi's Crying by Margaret Durante
4. Dancing On My Own by Robyn
5. Opposite of Adults by Chiddy Bang
6. Brutal Hearts by Bedouin Soundclash
7. We Can't Be Friends by Lorene Scafaria
8. Testament to Youth in Verse by The New Pornographers
9. Young Blood by The Naked and Famous
10. More by Usher
11. Kiss With A Fist by Florence + The Machine
12. Coming Home by Diddy-Dirty Money & Skylar Grey
13. Marathon by Tennis
14. Tonight (I'm F**kin' You) by Enrique Iglesias
15. The Cave by Mumford & Sons
16. New Lipstick by The Kissaway Trail
17. Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance
18. Lose Control by Back Ted N-Ted
19. Great DJ by The Ting Tings
20. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To by Weezer

valentines day.

Dr. Harrison Copeland: What's there to hate? 

Julia Fitzpatrick: Nothing, if you're a handsome, divorced doctor, but for the rest of us single women, it's kind of a giant cosmic bitchslap. It's like the universe saying, look, remember when you were fourteen and you had cystic acne and braces and you played the saxophone in the marching band and no one would invite you to the winter formal? Well nothing's changed

Amen.  Hope you all survive another valentines day. Let me know what you're plans are...I'm eating heart shaped pizza with my roommates (but really we wish we had a fabulous piñata like Jessica Biel)

monograms galore

A few weeks ago I got super cute monogram decals for my computer and crackberry (I got them for my whole fam too!) I ordered mine through Cambridge Street Papers they only take 7-10 business days and are a great price.  Totally the perfect gift (for a friend or for yourself).  I got mine in green (as you can see by the picture, obviously) but they come in a bunch of colors and different monogram styles.

Matchbook

Matchbook is a new monthly online magazine that just launched this year.  It looks fabulous! I loved their first issue and cannot wait for more.   Adored their description of the 'matchbook girl'.  Promise me you'll go take a look, I know you'll love it

THE matchbook girl...

VIEWS THE WORLD THROUGH ROSE COLORED GLASSES • LOVES TO THROW DINNER PARTIES, BUT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO BURN THE ROAST • VALUES ECCENTRICITY OVER CONVENTION • IS THE FIRST TO LAUGH AT HER OWN BAD JOKES • KNOWS THE CHA-CHA, THE CHARLESTON, AND THE TANGO • PAINTS HER NAILS BRIGHT CORAL WHEN SHE'S FEELING BLUE • IS INFINITELY CURIOUS • COULD HAPPILY LIVE OFF OF RED VELVET CAKE • PENS HAND WRITTEN NOTES TO HER GRANDMOTHER • HAS A SIGNATURE SHADE OF LIPSTICK • SECRETLY THINKS SHE MAY BE BABE PALEY REINCARNATED • RECEIVED AN iPAD FOR HER BIRTHDAY, BUT WILL NEVER GIVE UP HER LIBRARY CARD • HAS A BUCKET LIST A MILE LONG AND DREAMS A DIME A DOZEN • IS SMART, BUT NEVER A SHOW-OFF • LISTENS TO THE DAY'S FORECAST, BUT TRUSTS HER OWN INTUITION • NEVER SAYS NO TO A SUNDAY MATINEE AT THE THEATER • IS QUICK TO BLUSH, BUT NEVER SHORT OF A WITTY REPLY • HAS A SKIP IN HER STEP AND A TWINKLE IN HER EYE •ALWAYS SHARES HER LAST PIECE OF GUM

happiness :)

oh Kate Spade. how I love you.

I'm sure I'm the ten millionth person in the blogosphere to blog about this but I couldn't resist sharing it with you.  This three minute video just totally turned my frown upside down (not an easy accomplishment after the day I've been having!)

Enjoy.

The Kennedys

This photograph was taken 50 years ago today

In honor of the day (see previous JFK post) I thought I would create my own tribute to an incredible former First Family.  Both President Kennedy and Jackie iconicized  the prep lifestyle

JFK

Thought Google's way of commemorating the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of JFK was pretty neat.

bah-nanas

Milly's Valentina Combo Dress is my new favorite dress for spring. i die.

Get yours here 

Sunday Funday

Having friends over for a champagne and dessert party tonight to watch the red carpet and Golden Globes. Tomorrow is a holiday so no one has to worry about getting up early for work!

Get your printable Golden Globes ballot and pass them out to your guests when they arrive and then you can see who's predictions were right!

Also, make your own best dressed ballot for the red carpet, put categories like best light colored dress, best bold color dress, best jewelry, best long dress, best short dress, best hair, best makeup, worst dressed, best old-holloywood looking, overall best dressed etc.  Put a line next to each category and give them pens to fill in the blanks during the red carpet, then after you can all compare notes and come up with who the party thinks is the best dressed! See if the critics agree with you!

I'll be posting my favs tomorrow

Live Colorfully

For those of you who know me (or just follow me on twitter) it is no secret that I'm OBSESSED with Kate Spade. Over the years I've seen them go from just a cute boxy handbag designer to becoming a lifestyle brand.

What I adore about Kate Spade (besides the super cute clothes and accessories) is that they portray's today's woman as a cross between a fifty's housewife and an intelligent, preppy, independent, artistic, stylish girl of today.  I love how the idea is to live each day with purpose, with grace, with effervescence, and with color.

Their advertisements bring their concept to life...and they have a fabulous playlist to go with

Here are some of my favorite ads (I had a hard time picking just a few!)

Saved by the Great White Hope

Last night on ABC a new show started called Off the Map (I'm sure everyone saw at least one of the 23,048,304,820 billion previews ABC has been showing for months)  As a fan of everything Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and the short lived The Deep End I put the show in my TV forecast widget so I would remember to tune in (as if ABC would let me forget)  I was pleasantly entertained for an hour and very much enjoyed looking at the beautiful scenery, beautiful people and mediocre acting.  The actors in the show seem like they have a lot of potential, like Grey's, and Private Practice the actors are people we've seen around the guest-star-on-a-major-tv-show circuit, but no one hugely famous. 

Pilots are hard, so I'll cut them some slack.  Go back and watch the pilot episode of one of your favorite shows...I bet you the setting looks pretty different and the characters have basically a different personality...I think it takes about half a season for a show to finally find its footing.

This show looks like it could be pretty good.  I would recommend tuning in if you are free between 10pm and 11pm on Wednesday night.  If you missed the first episode you can watch it here

Also, check out New York Magazine's Vulture comparison of Grey's and Off the Map

(because doesn't look like a Grey's Anatomy ad at all...)

"New Year, New You"

Apple, please forgive me for borrowing one of  your headings from itunes, but it seemed fitting for my first post in January.  The past few days I've spent time skiing, thinking, and breathing fresh mountain air-something that gave me time to figure out what I want to get out of 2011.  I've spent different years focusing on different aspects of my life and in 2011 I want to be able to put it all together, to try to start to become the best version of myself.

I'm not one for writing down my feelings or creating resolutions, but I use music as my diary.  Each month I create a playlist of songs that express my thoughts, actions and emotion during that month.  I have months of happiness, months of breakups, months of change etc.  This is my playlist called january '11.  For me is a list of my 'theme songs'-a playlist full of honesty and hopefulness.

1. The Long Way Around by the Dixie Chicks
2. 100 Years by Five for Fighting
3. Good Day by Luce
4. I Like It by the Dixie Chicks
5. Joy by Phish
6. You Can't Always Get What You Want by the Rolling Stones
7. Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac
8. Closer to Myself by Kendall Payne
9. Time to Pretend by MGMT
10. Love, Love, Love by Tristan Prettyman
11. Long Live by Taylor Swift
12. Fool in the Rain by Led Zeppelin
13. American Pie by Don McLean
14. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
15. The World Should Revolve Around Me by Little Jackie
16. Anna Begins by the Counting Crows
17. Name by the Goo Goo Dolls
18. Learning to Fly by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
19. New Strings by Miranda Lambert
20. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face by Coldplay
21. Little Secrets by Passion Pit
22. A Lifetime By Better Than Ezra
23. This by Darius Rucker