unzipped

I watched this documentary yesterday.

Perfect rainy day entertainment.

It's Isaac Mizrahi

in the thick of creating a show back in 1994 .

Love it.
Love him.

The fashions are all so now.

The colors, the booties, the sequins, the hats....all of it.

The runway hairdoos are so beautiful.

Supermodels deluxe.

I enjoyed looking in the background 

at the furniture etc....again...all works today.
Fun music!

Only bad thing is how much 

everyone smoked...so glad that's changed.

trader joe's jelly beans

Quick.  

Get your body over to 

your nearest Trader Joe's.  

Buy as many boxes of 

the gourmet jelly beans

as you can.  

They are so so delish.  

I don't even care about jelly beans.

 These I do.  

The grapefruit jellies taste like grapefruit.  

The mango taste like mango.

Kinda like the blueberry girl from Willy Wonka.

No joke.

{thanks for the tip KPA}

This is the box you will need to find in the candy section.

Good Luck with Easter around the corner.

{KPA said bags. I only saw boxes}

I put beans in teeny WECK canning jars.

One for each plate at our Easter table.

A bowl of beans.

{the colors are spectacular}

searching for sugar man

This is a must see...I'll leave it at that.

Won Oscar for best documentary.

Run.  Don't walk.

Available on itunes for quick rental download or purchase.

cozy books for winter

Nothing like a pile of books to cozy up

with in the dead of winter.

Here are three goodies from my pile:

Waiting for this one to come in the mail.

Katie's blog, What Katie Ate 

is eye candy deluxe so 

I know this is a good one.

 Another cookbook to drool over.

Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

by

Deb Perelman.

American Heiress is a novel

tying me over until 

Downton Abbey DVD

arrives in the mail.

 

my week with marilyn

  Perfect Saturday afternoon film to see solo.

Zoomed home to make sure 

Michelle Williams 

is an Oscar nominee.

She sure is for

Best Actress.

Most enjoyable.

A must see.

downton abbey

Another thing I'm hooked on:

Downton Abbey.

A British television series that aired on 

Masterpiece Theater 

here in the states back in the spring.

I stumbled upon it on the Netflix "play it now", 

started watching and could not get enough of it.

  I didn't know how much of a following it had here and in the UK.

(Cathrin are you hooked????)

Julian Fellowes is the writer.

He wrote Godsford Park starring

Dame Maggie Smith..love her.

Here is the trailer of series 1 which again is available on Netflix.

Below you will find the trailer to series 2.

 It's due to air on Masterpiece Theater
January 8, 2012

I can hardly wait.

calder's circus

Alexander Calder.

My all time favorite artist.

I have a wonderful film on VHS

of Calder performing with his circus 

called

Calder's Circus

by Roland Films on Art

 I tried to find a copy on DVD...no go.

Here is a clip of this special, special film:

Love it as you can see Calder's wife manning the music

with a necklace he made for her.

You can see his mobile hanging, gently swaying.

The music is also fantastic.

 I did find another film on DVD:

This one is from the Whitney Museum shop.

It's also fantastic yet different from the Roland version.

Here is a clip of this one:

Both capture

Calder's brilliance.

What a talented man...with a child's imagination.

Love.

beginners

Just saw this.

Super film.

Both A and I loved.

It's a summer go see.
Oh and it has fireworks in it so happy 4th!

the romantics

Waiting for this film to come around.