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Tag Archives: The Cottage
Happy Valentine’s Day to all Victorian Chick Readers! Dinner at Relais de Paris and a SCORE at the Cottage Boutique!
I just got to SB from LA with a detour to the Cottage Boutique which can be regarded as nothing short of miraculous! I got an early birthday present from my friends at the Cottage, lovely bangles I could not … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, St. Augustine, Uncategorized
Tagged consignment, happiness, love, relais de paris, shopping, The Cottage, Valentine's Day
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Great Santa Barbara Happy Hours: Why I Don’t Cook/Inaugural Victorian Chick Blog for the Palisades Patch/SB Symphony with State Street Ballet at the Granada and Geffen Wine Down Sunday for “The Gift” on Last CA Weekend pre-NYC
I realize it is perverse, if not downright cruel–when CT is buried under 26 inches of snow and the rest of New England is reeling from Blizzard Nemo–to post this picture of me on a warm, sunny February Monday in … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Music, Relationships, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Ben Vereen, bicoastal, Brahms, cadiz, culture on a budget, Debussy, enterprise fish company, Firebird, geffen theater, Granada in SB, happy hour, Kathy Baker, kids, los angeles, Palisades Patch, saving money, SB symphony, state street ballet, Stravinsky, the Broad Stage, The Cottage, The Gift, yelp
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Victorian Chick’s Anthropology of West Los Angeles Real Estate (Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Bel Air, Westwood, Malibu and Santa Monica–North of Montana)
I knew this iTunes thing was too good to be true. I have had the Macbook Pro about three months (used, a great deal on eBay) and it tells me there is a security breach and I cannot purchase … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged bel air, beverly hills, brentwood, college, elyse walker, entertainment industry, harvard westlake, high school, hollywood, holmby hills, lawyers, malibu, marina del rey, pacific palisades, reagan estate, real estate, shawn colvin, The Cottage, ucla, venice, wendy plumb, west hollywood, west los angeles, westlake school for girls, westwood, yale
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Musings on Christmas Trees Amidst Pre-Christmas Preparations for Trip to NYC and Dogsitting a Sweet but High Maintenance French Briard
Happily, I persuaded my Jewish boyfriend to agree to a tree in his beautiful condo with ocean views. He did have a tree for five years or so when married to a Catholic, and while he’s not in the least … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Literature, School, St. Augustine, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged bob schiller, Bugsy, childhood, Christmas, christmas trees, Dylan McDermott, Emmys, Hanukah, I Love Lucy, Nicole Miller, Observant, Out of Africa, pacific palisades, Ronald Reagan, second-hand clothing, Secular, Shiva Rose, The Cottage, vintage clothing, westlake school for girls
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