Listen To This!!

Do yourself a favour. Click HERE now and enjoy Pia playing the Piano!! Amazingly, Goose Bumpingly beautiful!

Thanks Martha!!

I was so thrilled to come back from Straddie to find that I had been included in Martha's Best of Blogs: Editor's Picks by Rebecca Robertson, Deputy Decorating Editor at Martha Stewart! How exciting! Thank you so much Rebecca for including ABT!! Also a big congrats to fellow bloggers This is Glamorous, Coco+Kelley and Design*Sponge for also making the list.....these three blogs are among my favourites too!!

Sex Returns To The City?

So it looks like Sarah Jessica Parker is already talking about the next Sex And The City film. But it's hardly time to set a date with your girlfriends-it's not even official yet. However, Parker told USMagazine.com that she'll be discussing the possibility with writer Michael Patrick King pretty soon.

"It’s all about the story," Parker says. "If we can’t tell a story that’s really worthy of an audience, then we won't do it. We've been really lucky at this point. We’ve been in people’s good graces for a long time, and we take that very seriously. So that’s the biggest challenge, the story."

And just where does that story have left to totter? Cynthia Nixon fancies a "mad cap adventure" starring the main characters and Kim Cattrall is resolved that Samantha must remain single while Mario Cantone thinks Brad Pitt should play his boyfriend.

A girl can dream.

Brad's Same-Sex Marriage Support

Speaking of Mr. P., it turns out he does want to hear wedding bells- but not his own just yet. Brad is standing up for gay rights to the tune of $100K, serving up the hefty sum to aid in the fight against banning gay marriage in California and Massachusetts.

This week Brad explained his support: "Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8."

Grace's Absolutely Favourite Things

Gracey Bonney from Design*Sponge is one of the original design bloggers and is believed to be one the very best by many readers worldwide. Based in Brooklyn Grace originally started Design*Sponge as a place where she could talk about her love of chairs with anyone who was interested. Today her site is HUGE with a worldwide readership and hits of more than 30,000 a day! How does she do it? I know that when I have had any email conversations with Grace she's very quick and always seems to be very organised and always so, so pleasant!! I was thrilled when she said she would send me some of her favourite things. Let's see what Grace has to say about her favourite things...

"This is our new "landing strip" in the living room. Our living room space is impossibly small and cut-up into odd alcoves with walls jutting out here and there. So without cutting into the room, we wanted to create a space where we could leave notes for each other (without paper clutter) and keep mail, keys and magazines that typically pile up pretty quickly in our house.

The chalkboard frame is a vintage piece from Blue Bell Bazaar at Etsy- I love the way Gosia (who runs the shop) thought to reuse found frames and give them new life with a little bit of chalkboard paint. The little hutch by the door is a fleamarket piece that our friend Carl from Repop NY found for us- it's got a drawer where I stash my laptop and houses a rotating collection of my favorite books of the moment. I bought some el-cheapo wire baskets at the hardware store and used some Benjamin Moore test pots to paint them a bright blue (which contrasts nicely with the grey and orange wallpaper we have on another wall in the room). I made the little pencil cup one afternoon with some of my favorite gift wrap from a local paper shop.

It's been rainy in Brooklyn lately so I've been getting a lot of use out of my favorite umbrella from Pare- it's so girly and I always get compliments on it when I walk to the coffee shop in the rain.The prints on the wall are favorites from Hammerpress, Camilla Engman, Sugarloop, Alice Stevenson and Little Doodles at Etsy. Most of all I love the Paul McCobb chair beneath it from Scout in Chicago. The plaid upholstery makes me wish for Fall to hurry up and come soon."

I'm in love with that chalk board and of course I love the art cluster wall!! Thanks so much Grace for taking the time to put this together for us!!

Absolutely Favourite Thing will appear here every Thursday so stay tuned!!

Happy Weekend!!

I'm heading off a little early this week as I have to pop over to Straddie again tonight to get the house ready for some more tenants arriving on Saturday! I hope you all have a great weekend and I'll be back next week!!

Image by Monika Elena

People's Best Dressed

It's that time of year again. People has released its picks for the 10 Best Dressed Stars of 2008.
Some of the predictable evergreen fashionistas have once again placed but there are a couple unconventional appearances too. So, prepare yourself for some hell yeahs and what the hells-here's the rundown:

Fergie
Anne Hathaway
Kate Hudson
Heidi Klum
Eva Mendes
Michelle Obama
Sarah Jessica Parker
Rihanna
Gwyneth Paltrow
Charlize Theron

Paltrow definitely amped it up this year, Rihanna continues to up the fierceness, and Hathaway's elegance has graced every glossy. Really, most of them are no-brainers for the mainstream fashion set. Any opinions on People's picks?