julie daniel

April 30, 2011

A Few Favorite Hats and Fascinators

I don’t know about you but I was swooning over the amazing hats and fascinators worn by the ladies at yesterday’s Royal Wedding. I’ve always loved hats and if I had boat loads of discretionary money you can bet I would be spending it on building a wardrobe of hats. Here are some of my favorites from some of the most famous British Milliners.

Jane Taylor Millinery:

The one above kind of reminds me of Carrie Bradshaw’s wedding headpiece from the Sex and the City movie…

My favorites from the British Favorite Philip Treacy:

Faint. My favorite. (Above)

And some from Catherine’s favorite Milliner, Vivian Sherrif:

My favorite look of the day was Miriam Gonzalez, wife of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. Love her fascinator. Faint.

This just cements it in my mind… I was born in the wrong country and century. Sigh.

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April 24, 2011

Royal Wedding Dresses

Lifetime recently had some of their past Project Runway contestants submit sketches of ideas they had for Kate’s wedding dress… here are my faves:

Here is the full gallery of dresses: http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/william-and-kate/photos/project-runway-kate-middleton-wedding-dresses#id=1

I think I like these three because they are very similar to the wedding dress style I would like to have someday:

(Can’t remember where I got this picture from, most likely either stylemepretty.com, emmalinebride.com, or utterlyengaged.com. Sorry if that’s you in the picture or you were the photographer, let me know and I’ll give you credit!).

Source: http://www.utterlyengaged.com/category/issues/issue-011/page/23/

Which is your favorite sketch?

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April 23, 2011

Basic Tomato Sauce Recipe

Tomato Sauce is so easy to make I will never buy it from the store again- and it’s so much tastier!

Basic Tomato Sauce:

A splash of extra virgin olive oil

1 28oz can of whole peeled tomatoes in their juices…. can the best quality you can, I like San Marzano

1 can of tomato pasta, if you’d like a thicker sauce (better for pizza, just the whole tomatoes + EVOO is fine for pasta)

If you’d like to fancy it up a bit:

Red Garlic Flakes

Basil

Some red wine

Garlic

Whatever your heart fancies…

Heat the EVOO in a medium saucepan over medium heat…. add in the whole tomatoes and heat the mixture up for a few minutes till the sauce is hot. Crush the the tomatoes against the side of the pan with a wooden spoons. You can also run the tomatoes (and their juices) through the food processor if you don’t want as chunky of a sauce. Simmer a few minutes and enjoy!