a big congratulations… to Blair Barone of Fairfield, Connecticut!! You are the lucky winner and I will be in touch about collecting your necklace. Thanks to all who entered and the wonderful emails/comments — it was so much fun. And special thanks to Geraldine for making it possible!

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Also, I sent our photos to my FAVORITE wedding blog ( 100 Layer Cake ) in hopes that they might enjoy them and they did!! Jillian was so sweet to post them today!!! So fun! 100 Layer Cake is truly just beautiful and FULL of inspiration. I love it and give big kudos to all the hard work those gals put into it. Thank you Jillian, Amanda and Kristina for all the wonderful posts you all share everyday!!

what a year… Thank you to all of you who have supported the blog this year. It has truly been wonderfully life changing and so much fun…more than I ever expected and opened up avenues I could not have imagined. To celebrate many months of good fortune and to kick off the new year, I am doing my first ever giveaway!! THIS IS RARE and I think I will only do it a few times a year, maybe just at Christmas so take advantage. My friend Geradline Guivas is an AMAZING fashionista and one-of-a-kind clothing designer. I love all of the things she makes, very textural and sculptural - right up my alley. She has an inspirational fashion blog that I adore,  Passion for Shoes, and over the summer I saw her at a photoshoot with Bret Sano wearing this gorgeous necklace. She handmakes them and I have one. It’s so lovely. In fact, I have it out in my home just hanging on a white compote to enjoy every day.

I am signing off until the new year — we are headed to my parents farm to do some much needed relaxing and spend time with family. I’ll post pics of the farm New Year’s day and am over -the -moon about sharing with you Vynsie Law’s bright and fun home (We are 1976) early next year. Until then, I wish you and all of your families a wonderful holiday!!  happy, merry and love to all!

(several pics of the necklace below and one of Geraldine wearing it for scale…fyi, it’s about 24 inches long)

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