I've Moved!

Wondering where alexi 101 went?  Here's your answer - I've moved over to fun and fresh little place I like to call
Mimosas and Lattes!  

Why Mimosas and Lattes?  Well, because those are some of my favorite things and Mimosas, Lattes, Red Wine and Cupcakes makes for a weird blog name. 

Come check out the new digs!

p.s.  that's a red wine cupcake recipe.  Betcha want to come over now huh? :)

A Christmas tree for the Chick Den.

xoxo - Alexi 

The heels I wear.

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I would rather live my life at 6 foot than 5-7 anyday. :)

xo-Alexi 

I welcome you Christmas Season, with open arms.

I enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner yesterday with my amazing family that I love oh so much and ate nummy Turkey Day food while exchanging many laughs around the dinner table.  I love Thanksgiving because it involves a few of my favorite things: family, food and laughing.  And all three of those things are some of the things I am most thankful for.

Yesterday I ate, today, I decorate!!!  The Christmas Season is officially upon us and I am thrilled!!  It is my all time favorite time of year.   The feeling the air throws off is like none other and it makes my feel goods so happy!  It is the first Christmas of living in the Chick Den rather than the family home and you can bet that I will be going all out for my favorite holiday season.  I may only have a deck to string lights on but they will be oh so beautiful lights!

xo-Alexi 

Call me crazy

but I want a fluorescent pink couch.

In a big beautiful white space with large windows looking out to the city street.  Fun, no-so-matchy pillows (including a gold chevron) could be thrown on the couch effortlessly while fabulous antique lamps sit on the sofa table.  The white marble coffee table will bring in the glam and a little bright pink detail around the valence and drapes act as the cherry on top of the loveliness. 

xo - Alexi

Warm and fuzzy.

Hello Monday.  In attempts to make Monday a little more bearable than normal, I am filling ze blog with warm and fuzzy stuff.  I am also dedicating today's post to them because I am currently obsessing over things of the fuzzy variety.  Fuzzy pillows, fuzzy throws, rugs and more, I love all of it.  I have the need to put fuzzy in every room in my house (which isn't that many) but the desire is strong my friends.  It is strong.  My most favorite of places to put these fuzzy things?  The most impractical of places - the bathroom of course!!

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xo - Alexi 

An Orange October it was!

The San Francisco GIANTS are World Champions!  They showed up with their brooms and swept the Tigers 4-0 in the series!  The final game was an exciting one which resulted in me doing a little jig in my family room and proposing marriage to Buster Posey via Twitter.  Never been prouder to be a Giants fan.


As I said before, there are many things that need to be talked about here on ze blog.  But, I figured that I would first show you...

Talk to you soon.

xx Alexi

#OrangeOctober

Oh hello.

It's been awhile.

There are many things that need to be talked about on this sweet blog of mine that I have rudely neglected but there is one item of business that must, must be talked about and celebrated about and shouted about from the rooftops.  This is the kind of news that is requiring of a bottle of champagne to shake, spray and drink!

I'll sum this up in three words...

GIANTS.

WORLD. SERIES.

My amazing Giants are going to the World Series!  Game 1 is tonight in fact and guess where I will be?  Nope, not on my couch wearing my SF shirt, drinking wine and watching the game.  I will be in class.  Trying to learn about leadership and management.  I mean really, at an important time like this, how can they possibly be holding class???  (That is coming from someone that firmly believes Opening Day should be a national holiday, however).

I haven't always been a Giants fan.  Growing up in Salt Lake City, Triple-A is all you get when it comes to baseball.  Well, all things changed two summers ago when I lived in the Bay for the summer.  I went to one Giants game and lets just say, they had me at "Fear the Beard".  As the Wall Street Journal put it today, the Giants let their "Freak Flag fly", which is precisely why I love them - and their epic comeback abilities help too.

I may be a newbie to the world of Giants fans, but I am here to stay.  Die hard if I may.

There is only one way to end this post...

GO GIANTS!!! (I'll be covertly watching tonight's game via iPhone updates)

Don't mind me. I'm just going to swoon over you right now.

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There are some things that I see, that simply will haunt me forever.  I believe this is one of them.  This might just be the most beautiful *camera* bag I have ever encountered.

daydreaming the day away - Alexi

We go to County Fair's on Saturdays.

Fair food.  Crowd tolerating.  Fantastic people watching.  Soy sauce spilling.  Frozen pink lemonades.  Looking at all the crafts that people submit to the Fair and realizing that you in fact are not crafty at all.  Crazy ass men who think it's normal to dive into a 10 foot deep pool from a ridiculously high platform.  New sunglasses.  Livestock looking.  Realizing that livestock is not cute.  And the sound little kids make when asked "what does the piggy say?" sounds nothing like the real horrifying thing.

Saturday well spent.

xx - Alexi