blog appreciation: cupcakes and cashmere

I often find myself one step behind the rest of the crowd when it comes to news, trends and other timely things--thus blogs are no exception. I spent a good portion of yesterday going through Cupcakes and Cashmere's archive, catching up on what I'd missed the last three years of Emily Schuman's booming career. (Kinda like how I only last month finally checked out Smitten Kitchen and consequently scanned through every page on until I reached the first post from June 2006.)

Thank you to C&C for providing me with this week's inspiration and a good kick in the pants to get my own blog into shape. (Really, what have I been doing all semester?? I did just return from a quick Tgiving trip to Prague and Paris to visit a certain special man friend--so there's that, but still not a valid excuse.) This girl has an awesome classic style, posts recipes with gorgeous food photography, and lets us in on her clever home decorating projects. She basically just does fun stuff all day and blogs about it: trips to flea markets and food truck festivals, baking cookies and pies, playing dress up for makeshift photo shoots. Now that's my kind of woman!

Here are some particularly inspiring photos from the blog:

{love the color of this mirror}

{rack of her current closets favorites, set up in her office as inspiration}

{another clever/cute way to hang and display jewelry}

{lemon ricotta pancakes nom nom nom}

{gorgeous anthropologie bowls}

{the girl knows what's up}

Peace, Love and Neon,
Marisa