sitting down with a fresh cup of coffee & a fresh stack of fashion magazines, plus a couple issues of elle decor, i am starting out my morning perfectly.  my plan to get rid of clothing is still going to apply, but with a helpful suggestion from the magazines i'm going to stack things vertically in the closet as much as possible.  this week i purchased a drawer unit with slideout shelves that should be fairly convenient & soon we'll look into more shelves/organziers.  

our cookware set is now on order & i just absolutely love it.  it has a hard anodized outside & non-stick inside with really neat looking contemporary handles.  there's still a few major kitchen necessities that we still need to get, but we have a lot of really great things already. my favorites so far is the dinnerware set joe bought & than these cute martini glasses from my mommy just for fun:

our general theme, may it be boring to some or not, is everything modern with black, white & stainless steel accessories.  so along with that will come some of my favorite photographs that i've collected:

i received these vintage chanel pieces from lara a while back & am thinking that appropriately enough they will go near the closet.

to match our empire state building shower curtain i couldn't resist the brooklyn bridge & than to compliment it i thought the eiffel tower was wonderful.  so those will be placed somewhere in the restroom, most likely above our towel bar. then maybe we'll add touches of red.

& of course we can't possibly leave out the leading lady, she'll look beautiful anywhere. i promised joey the apartment wouldn't turn into a total girl place & while it might look like that so far, he's going to have his own art pieces to contribute. this week my mom bought a new dyson, the dc seventeen, so i put it together last night & than she told me i can have her other dyson!  it's hardly been used & it's the slim model, so it'll be perfect to store in a compact space & i just think it's so awesome that i can have it! i should probably start packing things.

  

& the best new addition to our home will be our new kitty:

we decided her name will be bella & she's eight weeks old at 1.6lbs! we are lucky enough to have her because of my bff alysha & her mommy.  alysha has bella's brother & his name is pj & they're just the cutest little things eveeer.  we're so excited about everything!