my friend robin

i met my friend robin on a double date to the homecoming dance our freshman year of high school.  she had a mouth full of braces, i had enormous eyebrows, and we both wore velvet dresses.  we were trying desperately to act cool in front of our older dates, when unfortunately a meatball fell off my fork at dinner and landed in what little cleavage i had in 1993.  robin escorted me to the bathroom to help me retrieve the meatball and my dignity.  knowing her, she was probably giving me a pep talk and assuring me that no one witnessed the unfortunate event.  we didn't make a love connection with our dates that night, but we certainly did with each other.

{our first date}

 from that point on we spent endless hours together watching friends/my so-called life/reality bites, driving around listening to mix tapes, crying over boys.  we graduated, went to college, backpacked in europe together, drove up and down the california coast together, navigated our twenties together and stood up in each others weddings.

{bahahahaha!  look how tiny our sunglasses were.  nice, france. 2000}

 she is my soul sister, my biggest cheerleader and can still give a pep-talk like no other.

{santa barbara, california.  2003}

she also happens to be one of the most driven and ambitious people i have ever known.  your jaw would drop at her resume.  she is the founder of society bride, an on-line community of wedding vendors.  it's a place brides can go to find inspiration and ideas.  her blog is her business and it is fantastic.  she has recently started a new feature on her blog called nest-to-nest.  she will feature homes (in dallas and denver, for now) that will inspire newlyweds as they create a home together.

 

a few months ago, she asked if she could feature my home in her blog (i never tell her no).  a professional photographer came to our house and snapped away.  her name is amanda marie lackey.   i have never felt so fancy.

 

i am so flattered and so proud of the pictures and my home and my friend.

 

check out the rest of the pictures and the article here.  feel free to leave robin a little comment if you are so inclined.  oh, and you might want to add her blog to your list, it's good stuff.

 

love,

coco

 

p.s.  last week she feateured her parents' house on nest to nest.  robin's sense of style is evidently hereditary.

 

p.p.s. robin and her husband are also the brains behind mailagra.ms.  need invitations?