riegerse

I am a thirty something shopaholic living in the windy city. I am the product of a Southern Belle mother and a very East Coast father. Things I Like: NPR, Everything NYC, Tea Shoppes, Patent Leather, Flip Flops, Polka Dots, Grosgrain Ribbon, Kate Spade, Trader Joe's, Stationary, Musicals, Dylan's Candy Bar, Magazines, almost anything Disney, Lilly Pultizer, and Nautical themed items.

In the Time of the Butterflies, The Glass Castle, What Remains, My Antonia, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Reviving Ophelia, On the Road, Passage to India, Night, The Idiot Girls Action Adventure Club, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Spirit of Leadership, Nickel and Dimed, The Last Lecture

Everyday Italian, Barefoot Contessa, Gossip Girl, The Hills, The City, L&O: SVU, Most of the trashy stuff on VH1, Project Runway

Sex and the City: The Movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Devil Wears Prada, The Lion King, Thomas Crowne Affair, Shag, Empire Records, Old School, All 007, Steel Magnolias, Superman Returns, The Dark Knight

David Berkeley, Showtunes, Ingrid Michealson, Kanye West, Carrie Underwood, Ray LaMontayne, Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, Jimmy Buffett, Dixie Chicks, Alicia Keys, Beyonce

Going Out, Volunteering (Junior League of Chicago, Chicago Cares, Glamour Gals), Reading, Shopping, Entertaining & Cooking, Traveling, Spending Time with My Friends, Attending Plays & Musicals, Home Decor, Fashion

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"There is one thing I don't get," I said. "What's that?" "How come if your favorite color is blue, you painted your house pink?" She laughed. "That was May's doing. She was with me the day I went to the paint store to pick out the color. I had a nice tan color in mind, but May latched on to this sample called Caribbean Pink. She said it made her feel like dancing a Spanish flamenco. I thought, 'Well, this is the tackiest color I've ever seen, and we'll have half the town talking about us, but if it can lift May's heart like that, I guess she ought to live inside it.' " "All this time I just figured you liked pink," I said. She laughed again. "You know, some things don't matter that much Lily. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart-now that matters. The whole problem with people is--" "They don't know what matters and what doesn't," I said, filling in her sentence and feeling proud of myself for doing so. "I was gonna say, The problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it. You know how hard that is, Lily? I love May, but it was still so hard to choose Caribbean Pink. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters." - The Secret Life of Bees

Pink & Green Black & White Navy & Green Navy & Pink Sunny Yellow Aquamarine

I enjoy making cards and stationary. I also crochet scarves for charity. I am new to being crafty and am open to new things.