December « 2008 «

VE Day

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As in “Victory Over Mrs. E.” Yes, it is our eleventh anniversary. And tonight is the party.

Step three in the Easy and Elegant Life Party Planning Guide calls for the final setting up of the manse: buying the ice and the flowers, chilling the champagne, setting up the bar proper and a final carpet [...]

Recipe for a New Year’s Eve Buffet

“No surprises” that’s the motto for this year’s party. Day two of the Easy and Elegant Life’s Party Planner calls for the heavy lifting… shopping and cooking all that can be cooked in advance. Which, in this case, is almost everything. I’ve decided to stick with finger food this year — lots of hors d’oeuvres [...]

Wishing the Old Year Out

While we wait to kiss the new year in, there is still a lot to be done. Especially if you’re hosting a party for a few friends as Mrs. E. and I do every year for our anniversary. This year we have had sixty-five acceptances, fourteen regrets and a dozen or so un-accounted-fors.

Clearly this is [...]

Luxe, calme et volupté.* That sounds wonderful. In today’s world, I find that there is a disturbing lack of all of the above. Maybe it’s the speed at which we live our daily lives, multitasking during each measured moment of the day and well into our nights. Whatever the reason, I think that we’ve lost something that our parents and grandparents took for granted. Not just an ease in society or how to throw an intimate dinner for six or write a thank you note, but an everyday elegance. Easy and Elegant Life is my attempt to define what makes up an elegant existence and to pass along a few easy (and inexpensive) ideas for bringing back a little elegance to our everyday lives. Here you will find ideas for living, decorating, entertaining and dressing with an easy elegance. Not just my ideas. To help point the way, I intend to seek out all sorts of people -- professional lifestyle experts and those who seem to have been born elegant -- asking them what they believe constitutes elegance and how we can best achieve it. So to those whom Honore de Balzac called “elegantologists” I dedicate this site and the good fight. * From “L’Invitation au voyage” by Charles Baudelaire. The whole line reads: “Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté/ Luxe, calme et volupté.”

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