I recently hosted a little tea party to chit-chat with some lovely ladies about a very exciting new project in the works. But more about that later… let’s talk dessert, people! I wanted to create a tableau of cocktails and sweets that were a feast for both the eyes and tastebuds. This is what I came up with: grapefruit martinis, a platter of fresh raspberries and watermelon, saucers of salted caramel and fluffy whipped cream, lavender hot chocolate (recipe here), cloud-like lemon meringue pie, dishes of cherry gelato garnished with berries and fragrant flowers, and lastly, a scattering of little rosebuds and stems of lavender from the garden . . . xoxo

We’ve all seen this decadent and delicious film but did you know there was a book?! It was such a treat to flip through all these beautiful images and decorate them with my own frou frou costume jewelry. The film’s screenplay is interspersed with the photographs and there’s also a lovely forward written by Sofia Coppola herself! Get the book here.