Cheers to the freakin' weekend friends! This week was sort of amazing... yesterday's Fashion Show Recap found it's way onto Anthro's Twitter and Facebook pages. Even though it's a small feat, I proceeded to happy dance around my apartment for the remainder of the evening. The wonderful thing about blogging is reaching out to your favorite brands and having them reach right back. In other news, I'm officially stoked for our Washington D.C. trip. I can't wait to see a few fabulous girls in person, wander around museums and spend some quality time with my fam. I hope your weekend is fun and relaxing... with a little time to read through my favorites from this week:

Garance Dore launched her paper line with a bang! check out the "open studio" and a few fabulous talks with the designer/blogger the print shop at Catalina CreativeJenna Lyons' super cool favorites via J.Crew the sweetest Spring shoot featuring Hanelli Mustaparta & inspiration from Kate Moss' Calvin Klein campaigns via Into The Gloss

Happy whickety-whickety-weekend my lovelies! This week was another doozy ladies and gentlemen (are there gentlemen reading? I'm sorry for all of the shoes...). Mr. Jackson's momma left early on Tuesday morning and I quickly crashed due in part to the worst. cold. ever. Nyquil replaced my main man and little girl as BFF number one but I'm feeling so much better now that the weekend (and Valentine's Day) is finally here. We've got big romantic plans to stay in our PJs, pop open some popcorn and watch a few favorite films just as soon as the mister returns from a long day at the office... perfection (especially since we're snowed in)! Another eventful thing this week: my first official bully happened by this happy little corner of the internet. I let her (I'm pretty sure I know who sent the nasty message... WordPress tracks IP addresses, dontcha know) bother me for a few seconds a good, long while and then realized: this blog is so much fun and I'm so thankful for all of the positive feedback and sweet tweets you send me throughout the week. A great big thank you from the bottom of my heart for making Chelsea & The City part of your daily/weekly routine!

Here's what I've been loving this week:

Garance Dore experiences NYFW online behind-the-scenes before J.Crew's presentation at the Lincoln Center speaking of Garance, a sneak peak of her collection with Rifle Paper Co. Porter Spring 2014 & the chicest emojis you'll ever send via Harper's Bazaar

 

weather it together, merci, xoxo, bees knees, hello telegram, monogram, hostess thank you, hello,  just a little note

One of my big plans for the new year is to send more snail mail! There are few things better than opening our letter box and finding a fun little package for me... it feels like Christmas all over again and with Facebook, Instagram and E-mail dominating most of our days it's nice to take the time to really show loved ones that you care. Since I haven't amassed a huge stationary collection just yet, I have big plans to stock up during 2014. I'm expecting most of my shopping budget to go towards paper products and I'm not mad at it...

Recently, I signed up for a little pen pal experiment via One Fine A and Alecia from Likes of Us sent me the sweetest note in the mail... I love this little community of blogland and all of the great relationships it puts in the works. What fun!