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It’s been a stressful couple of weeks at work for both Cath and I. We come home late and a bit grumpy; grumpy we don’t have time to catch up with our girls for frozen yogurt, grumpy we can’t see our men folk as much as we like, and especially grumpy that we don’t have much energy for blogging.

Well, this work week is more of the same but we had a much needed break this past weekend visiting one of my besties in Charleston!

(That’s my bestie to the left looking like a GQ model. That’s me on the right looking like an over zealous talk show host interviewing a GQ model).

Now normally I don’t like to have facebook-y photos of us up on the blog. We really have no desire to bore our readers with our social going-ons that we might find exciting, but you all might find repetitive (smily group photo #547, etc.). All that said, this is the stuff that keeps me from becoming Jack Nicholson in The Shining (all work and no play… le scary).

Any other Charleston fans out there? Outside of our beloved Decatur/ATL, Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans are our favorite dirty south locations to be in. We spent the weekend drinking margaritas, eating delicious food, watching Alice and Wonderland, going to a drag show, and driving around downtown Charleston with the sunroof open and Lady Gaga on the radio…ooo-la, ooo la la!

We hope you all had equally wonderful weekends, and are successfully avoiding Julius’ Caesar’s darkest day. Come March 15, I’m keeping my head down… or heading back to Charleston.

So apparently there was a giant pillow fight in Piedmont Park last weekend. I didn’t hear about it until I saw this photos on Josh Weiss’ blog. Damn! How did I not hear about this?!

• Lar and I are in love with these hipster/cheap-ish glasses available at Warby Parker.
• One of our favorite Atlanta fashion bloggers, Jinah, looks absolutely gorgeous in her Atlanta Magazine feature.
• The folks behind this New Zealand Book Council ad are brilliant.
• Of course we know how wonderful Alexander McQueen’s fashion was, but you’ll also love his art direction throughout the past 13 years for Dazed Digital.
• Refinery29’s top 5 spring fashion issues is our idea of March Madness.
• We love the fact that Tesco is making a line of clothes out of its leftover stock.
• Wondering if Forever21 will make a knock off version of the sunglasses snapped by The Sart and Vanessa Jackman.
• Currently lusting after this Madewell bag.

The Constellations – it doesn’t get more Atlanta than this. Check out their song Step Right Up if you really want to get to know ATL.

• Fashionistas/Anna Wintour fans can now pre-order The September Issue on Amazon. The two disc set includes an additional hour of deleted scenes.
• Jinah has a great list of ways to donate to Haiti
• Ediot has the perfect Valentine’s tee available at her Etsy Shop, and it’s neither pink nor red
• Ashley has the secret to making salads not only palatable, but down-right delicious!
• Tired of the cold weather lately? So are we! Cath and I have this Dolce Vita spring/summer dress on our wishlists.
• A shout-out to Scoutmob for featuring us. Thanks, Liza! Read our interview here.
• We just met the lovely lady behind Chowdown Atlanta. Read her blog for the best foodie advice in the ATL.
• Locals, find out the latest news on local eateries and retailers all over the Atlanta area at EZ’s blog, Tomorrow’s News Today.

We know a lot of you aren’t interested in seeing photos of haggis or even hear us babble more about our love for rainy weather and kilts, but we thought you might like a little peak at our Rabbie Burns supper.

Above: Cath and I prepping the neeps (mashed turnips) and tatties (mashed potatoes) in our kitchen. We both had delusions of tartan that we had planned to wear, but realized we didn’t have the funds to spend money on a dress we would wear only once a year. Tartan isn’t the most flattering thing on us. We’re still working on getting our bfs into kilts though .

Our fridge fully stocked with one actual Scottish beer and some other Scottish-looking beers. We still have plenty left over. If you’re in our neck of the woods, stop on over for a tipple- we’d love to have you!

Cath made this awesome sketchbook when we lived in Scotland. It’s full of maps (Cath loves maps) and her awesome drawings which are very much like Eric Chase Anderson’s illustrations (brother to Wes Anderson).

We hope you guys had a wonderful weekend too- full of good food, good friends and rousing bag pipe music!

All photos but the beer photos by Troy Cono. Thanks, Troy, for the delicious meatloaf and the photography!

Welcome to our first ever link love post. There are so many great treasures out there in the blogging world that Lar and I figured it was about time to start up our own weekly link lists. So here goes!

I suspect that Lar and I have been living under a rock the past month because today is the first time I discovered the Atlanta Creatives Project 2010 calendar. The exhibition that coincided with the project was early November (boohoo), but the calendars are still available for purchase (woohoo!).

• A big thank you to Ash over at Hiking in Stilettos for thinking we’re so talented.
• Refinery 29 does a very fine job of showing blogosphere’s coverage of today’s Moschino It belt.
• After schleping around the Northeast in frigid weather I’ve done some serious thinking on proper winter coats. La Mimi has a great run-down of the season’s must-haves. I’m personally loving the Michael Kors quilted version.
• Dolci Odille shares some of their creative brilliance in a couple of New Years DIY projects.
• Sal over at Already Pretty makes a great etsy find. I really want the origami pocket gray blazer.
• NubbyTwiglet’s Week in Pictures makes us yearn for matching Forever 21 jeans, mall food and gold chocolate coins.
• B* a la Moda has a great steal-from-your-bfs-closet tutorial complete with photos and video (thank god for her subtitles – my Spanish es está es muy mal!).