Prints Charming

On Sunday we went over to our friends house for a casual brunch and to celebrate the arrival their new baby.  Even though I feel like my to do list keeps getting longer, it was nice to ignore this list and just spend a lazy Sunday afternoon drinking champagne and catching up with good friends.  And can you believe it's already May? It was a gorgeous sunny day in Boston yesterday so I thought it would be a great excuse to get dressed up and put on my new printed spring dress.  Unfortunately, it was not warm enough to forgo the tights quite yet.

Ariyana is wearing a Gap tiny flower tank dress, Ralph Lauren cardigan and See Kai Run shoes

 Thakoon for Target dress, Burberry sunglasses, Madewell oxford slingbacks, Michael Kors watch, turquoise bracelet, and dark purple swarovski crystal bracelet

dark purple swarovski crystal bracelet

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Weekend Celebrations

Ariyana holding the flowers we used to throw on my nephew right after the ceremony.  We do this as a way of blessing the baby and sending him good wishes.

I hope all of you had a lovely weekend.  We flew back home to North Carolina to visit my family and it was an extra special weekend because this was the first time my sister's fiance spent the weekend with our entire family.  We also had a ceremony for my nephew who is about to be 6 months.  Since we all got dressed up for the ceremony and lunch I thought I would take a few photos of us dressed up in our Indian outfits. 

My sister in law Hetal

My sister Rachna

My mom with Ariyana

Me

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Weekend Celebrations

All Lacquered Up

Last weekend we spent time with my family in Charlotte relaxing and drinking wine on the patio, blowing bubbles with Ariyana, eating out a sushi/burger bar called Cowfish, and meeting up with old and new friends.  My sister, sister in law, and I also treated ourselves to gel manicures.

This weekend will be less eventful as I hope to catch up with a few things around the house, watch a few DVR'd shows and the Oscars, and pack for my work trip to LA next week. I hope you have a lovely and relaxing weekend!




OPI Axxium Gel Lacquer
Sister in law (left)- Russian Navy
Sister (right)-Private Jet
and I got Black Onyx

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All Lacquered Up

Valentines Day

I hope your Valentine's Day is sweet

carefree and relaxing

and filled with lots of love, laughter, and style (of course!)

Naina-Kimchi Blue blouse, Old Navy scarf,  J Brand jean leggings, Tory Burch sandals, Banana Republic sunglasses

Ariyana-Old Navy dress, Gap jean jacket, and Kenneth Cole flats

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Girls Day In: Valentines Day Cookies

I love Girls Day Out which usually consists of shopping and afternoons at the spa but on Saturday my sister Rachna, Ariyana, and I decided we needed a Girls Day In.   We hung out all day and baked cookies from scratch (my first time) and spent quality time with each other.  We made these cookies and used this icing.

 the dough all ready to go into the refrigerator

While waiting for the dough to harden in the fridge Rachna and Ariyana passed the time playing peekaboo

A package I ordered arrived while we were making the cookies so we got creative with the tissue paper

more uses for the tissue paper

Ariyana taking her frustrations out with the bubble wrap

the dough is finally ready

I was going to package the cookies in cute bags and have Ariyana take them to school but we had a small Superbowl get together at our place and we ended up eating all of them.

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Family Style

My brother and sister in law had these stylish and beautiful family pictures taken with my nephew recently and when I saw them I just melted.  Looking at these photos is so inspiring to me and even though I know I have a long way to go with my photography skills, these family photos touch my heart and motivate me to keep moving forward with this blog and with my photography journey.   These lovely pictures were all taken my sister in law's good friend Jasmin Hejazi of Hejazi Photography.

My sister in law is wearing a Ryu jacket from Nordstrom, Prada sunglasses, and diamond hoop earrings designed by my mom and made in India. My mom had identical pairs made for my sister in law, sister, and me.

My brother is style'n in a shirt from Abercrombie and Fitch.

The little munchkin is too cute!

Nails: Gel Manicure
Color: OPI - Black Cherry Chutney

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Family Style

A Walk In The Park

I was excited when this custom illustration of Ariyana and me arrived on my doorstep this week.  It was drawn by the lovely and talented Sara Bentley of Purses, Pastries, Etc.  I am such a huge fan of Sara's illustrations and I adore her fashion-obsessed cartoon character Cassandra Carmen.  I think Sara did a fabulous job capturing my style in this drawing.  Now if only I could get my hands on this (sold out) Mulberry Neely Bag in Nude!

I have also been a bit under the weather the past two days and I hope I will feel better for all the fun weekend festivities.  I am so excited to see all our family and friends tomorrow at Ariyana's bollywood dance birthday party.  And it's also my parent's anniversary so we have so much to celebrate and be thankful for this weekend.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend too!

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A Walk In The Park

A Little Retrospective

From 50's cat eye to 70's round sunglasses, we will be seeing all types of retro sunglasses this Spring.

Cat eye

Edgy color shades 

John Lennon

(photo credit)

Oversized

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Retro round

(photo credit)

When I was home over the Christmas holidays I found these pictures of my mom in her round oversized sunglasses from the early 1970's.  I like to describe them as her "Jackie O meets John Lennon" sunglasses.

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Family, Fashion, and our Favorite Handbags

Happy Holidays Everyone! I have been enjoying some quality time with my family in North Carolina and as you can see we got some snow here on Christmas.

My tall and gorgeous sister: Rachna

My super stylish mom: Kiran

My lovely sister in law (and new mom!): Hetal

 

Me 

My little Ariyana

Our Favorite Handbags:

1. Rachna-The Sac silverlake flap (currently on sale for $99 and available in many colors.  I think I might be ordering one of these in oyster or black)

2. Mom-Tory Burch norah satchel

3. Hetal-Michael Kors skorpios tote  (doubles up as her diaper bag and it is engraved)

4. Naina- My mom's vintage handbag from Kenya from the early 1970's

5. Ariyana-American Girl Bitty Baby and backpack

What is your favorite handbag to carry? 

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Family, Fashion, and our Favorite Handbags