The Sugar Buzz

Checkerboard cake? $14 at Sur la Table . Don't forget the checkerboard ice cream. Or maybe striped neopolitan...love print mixing. Bun...

This could be the coolest toaster I have ever seen. Even you minimalist people can appreciate this kind of countertop clutter. Leave it o...

Let us begin the Parade of Bacon. Slightly odd, mostly funny. Well, I guess because wearing a real strip of bacon over a wound may raise a ...

Grill for your wrist, $112 . Far less expensive and less intrusive than getting one for your actual mouth. This plus the Brooklyn Bridge ...

It is the time of year where Dockwise has made it's last pick up in Newport Harbor (this past Tuesday)...sure restaurants are offering w...

With the recent conclusion of some borderline trashy but possibly inspiring reality shows ( Rachel Zoe Project and Flipping Out ), I have b...

I absolutely cannot contain myself one more second about this subject. Therefore I am starting a new month of entries with a little note to...

I mean, come on. Fabulous. Stirrup cufflinks. Vintage. I hesitated posting this because even though I am not a wearer of cufflinks I thin...

Home Sweet Home... If you want to visit Newport, here is a great guide on Design*Sponge written by a one-year resident**. **good job Andre...

This is the coolest ice bucket I have ever seen. It is also handmade from sterling silver. Available on Ralph Lauren's Gift Vault si...

This mouse. Is brilliant. It has whiskers*. I love a dash of humor, especially one that involves animal shapes. Available on the Colette we...

I am not a huge fan of the live, roving, squawking, mating Peacock. When I lived in the Village on Longboat Key there was a throng of "...

Tony Duquette's new book More Is More is available now...combine this with Assouline's lifestyle book GYPSET about the designer-hipp...

I'm not insanely fond of the Walrus. Except that cartoon Walruses are cute. And I do like their tusks. Things with fangs and tusks are p...

I never fully got the concept of "cocktail ring" since my Grandmother, who owned the rings and allowed me to wear them to picnic d...

Brooklyn Bridge knuckle ring...need I say more? nOir jewelry, $250

Peabody's Beach, aka Third Beach. I clearly cannot just let summer go so easily. I like fall. But it also is a precursor to somethin...

I got slightly distracted by summer...and now there is no hesitating to say that on this sunny and chilly October morning Fall has arrived ...

Delicious fish earrings! I love oddities and these are scrumptious. I don't even like to eat fish, maybe it's the Pisces in me. But...

Brilliant! Scissor cuff made by Georgo Phillip Pecenikov. They open and close! Available on A+R online for $550.