The Official Preppy Handbook Preppy challenge

The Home:

"If The Look must be pinned down, the look is English-American, with a dash of seaside resort and women's handicraft. It is where the Chippendale secretary meets the needlepoint covered brick doorstop, and the lobster-trap coffee table meets the prized Kerman rug.  Understatement is essential--perfect proportions and clean lines are preferred over ornate detail. The key words are classic, handsome, patina, and Mother's." *

Mommie's needlepoint foot stool I use every day to reach my sweaters and shoes

Our nautical fish door knocker

Our original ship lantern and mermaid that hang over our front door

Check, check! I've passed another preppy challenge. What Mommie did not give me we have purchased from nautical antique store. It probably helps that we live sea side.

How do you decorate? Do you like to mix in the nautical theme?

xoxo

SC

* all quotes taken from TOPH

The Official Preppy Handbook

TOPH:
Of Mahogany and Macrame
Decorating Haves and Have Nots

"There is only one look in Prep decorating: Not Decorated. Nothing is consciously coordinated, but everything works together through a successful marriage of utility and excellence.  Furnishings have always been in the family, but are not treated like museum pieces.  Everything is used: The Georgian silver is on the table at meals, the Canton china is chipped regularly by the dishwasher. And not using certain rooms except for special occasions would be like wearing curlers in public."

 

CHECK CHECK!! I pass this preppy challenge with flying colors.

#1 My house is filled with Mahogany

#2 I did not hire a decorator (I wanted to do it myself and save the money)

#3 I've inherited close to 90% of my furniture/art

#4We use all of our rooms/china/silver etc

#5 My furniture boasts some of Husbands nick nacks and they all blended beautifully (or they were thrown out)

This is going to be a fun chapter! I can't wait to show more of my preppy furnishings (just wait until you see all the ducks we have)! What's in your house? Did you get it from Mummy???

XOXO

SC

Family Preppy Challenge

Enter my Preppy give away below on blog post 10.5.09--Good luck!!!!


TOPH:

"No use sacrificing Bermuda vacation money for tuition for a kid who's going to run off and join a modern dance truope. Nor does the Prep parents' responsibility stop with simply ensuring their children's acceptance at a school: They've got to make certain that once the progeny are enrolled, they're not going to lock themselves in the computer lab for the whole four years and miss out on house party invitations, 'after-hours alcoholic sprees,' and the joy of shopping for madras."

Here is my Mommy at The Ocean City Yacht Club this summer! She smokes with a cigarette filter and is very eccentric!  We love her and we all have fun stories to share about our relatives. Do feel free to share some with me!

TOPH "When you spend all your time with your family and other Prep families at the beach, on the slopes, at the country club, and at innumerable family reunions; when all your birthday and Christmas presents are either monogrammed or have Izod labels, it's unlikely that you will have the normal childhood aspirations of becoming a fireman or a nurse."****

Preppy challenge complete--eccentric parents who instilled preppiness in me--skiing, sailing, monograms, needlepoint, etiquette school, debutante dancing class. (just to name a few) Check! I passed with flying colors. And I"m only on page 18!!

Preppying through Wednesday!!!

xoxo

SC

****these are direct quotes from The Official Preppy Handbook. I think being a nurse or fireman can be preppy too.

Preppy Day #2

TOPH (The Official Preppy Handbook) ruled my life until I wrote my own. Please take the challenge with me. I open the book, read something and see if it still applies and if so do I fit the bill. Now that I live in New Jersey I fear I've slipped. I used to live on the Main Line--now I've discovered I live in ML New Jersey--that counts right? They have the same initials.  So from ML  here we go............

"Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be a registered Republican. In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut. It's only fair."

JM dress I wore to dinner with Husband! You can't see but I'm wearing signet earrings.

Peace, Love and Preppy

xoxo

BETH