Why Don’t You…
Create an easy and elegant centerpiece by collecting antique/mismatching tea cups at thrift stores and putting in them flowers or candles? It’s such a sweet way to display the little buds that are leftover when the bouquet is gone.
Create an easy and elegant centerpiece by collecting antique/mismatching tea cups at thrift stores and putting in them flowers or candles? It’s such a sweet way to display the little buds that are leftover when the bouquet is gone.
I love men’s ties. I love the silk, the prints, the colors…love, love, love. When I gift a tie to a man, it’s not just a banal present, it’s an act of genuine love and I feel so happy when I carefully select a gorgeous tie that I know the recipient will look amazing in. I recently bought a Missoni tie for my dad with a pink background and beautiful colored Missoni stripes through it. I’ll admit that I tried it on first tied like a traditional men’s tie, then through my belt loops and then tied like a scarf around my neck. It took all my willpower to place it back in the box. SO PRETTY. My dad has a million ties, half of which he’s received from me over the years and the Missoni tie has YET to make an appearance. *sigh*
Women have always played around with men’s ties. Look at these pretty girls.
Or, Miss Jackson on the way to the preliminary hearing for Dr. Conrad Murray:
Have I thought about wearing one to the office myself? Puuuurhaps. I am certainly tempted to. But I could not tie it as tight at the neck as a regular men’s tie, I really hate anything snug around there ever since I was a little one and I ripped off frilly collars from dresses my poor mom shoved on me.
Then I saw the Colonel Sanders neck tie popping up at Jason Wu’s Ready to Wear collection Fall 2011. Helloooo gorgeous!!!
These looks are so fresh but immediately translatable to the office. I love how the small tie is unobtrusive (not such a political statement as a men’s tie would be perceived to proclaim), easy and most importantly, no strangulation. I think I will try the skinny bow tie to work next week and post it as a Work Outfit Post. Stay tuned!!
My stash of makeup that I drag out to get ready for work in the morning looks like this:
Let’s not even talk about the 3 huge containers of “other” makeup I have in my bathroom. What can I say, I love makey and pretty colors, and packaging, the whole shebang. I think it’s fun.
But when I’m rushing in the morning and I drag out this monster, my angry face momentarily appears. While cleaning the other day, I found a makeup palette where you can aggregate pans and personalize called a Unii and forgot that I had purchased it a while back:
It’s called an Uni palette and you can purchase it from uniicosmetics.com.
As an FYI, I do not shill products. I genuinely purchased this on my own volition about a year ago and forgot about it. They’re $29 each with free shipping. I think it’s worth it, it’s a smart gizmo. It’s sturdily built and I think I will get good use out of it.
Here’s how it goes. Gather all your make-up products that you generally use.
Use a sharp knife or tweezers to pry the individual pans out. It comes with 3 large magnetic sticker sheets that you cut out and stick on the back of each pan. Then place them on the palette. Use the pretty square thingy in the palette to position your thumb as you hold the palette while you apply makeup. Very simple and pretty genius. Except for one thing.
Sometimes the pans don’t easily come out. The instructions say to use a hairdryer to apply heat to the bottom of the pan to loosen the glue. I tried that. But sometimes those little doodads are stuck on for dear life. Look what happened to my MAC eyeshadow.
The sad dents in the pan are from my futile efforts with tweezer points (which are now bent and ruined) and the cracks in the eyeshadow are also from the tweezer points which slipped when I was madly trying to get the pan out.
However, the majority of the pans from other compacts came out. And here’s the end result:
Oh happy day! I just cut out almost half of my makeup bag clutter. :-)
Great article on 5 ways the Kardashian klan built a brand worth $65 million, “more than Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie and Sandra Bullock combined.”
I seriously think their mom is a brilliantly shrewd manager which goes to show, don’t underestimate mom.
In a nutshell:
1. Be relatable. ”They are approachable to fans, and nice and polite to boot.”
2. Extend your brand as far as you can, and then even farther.
We’ve all seen the incredible array of products and services they endorse.
3. Connect with the consumer through social media.
The article notes that while they exploit their public image and as a consequence, have basically lost their privacy, they never complain about their lack of privacy or how hard it is to be a celebrity. Meanwhile, they are all constantly tweeting and connecting with the public through social media.
4. Collaborate with winners.
5. Make the most out of the good and bad.
I had so many plans for some great posts but have been monetarily thwarted by illness. 
It’s even worse because unfortunately work does not pause even for those hacking up phlegm every 5 seconds.
My colleagues at work give me the evil eye for even being in at the office. I’m sorry but I have to get briefs out!!
Will be back on the bandwagon soon. Blog, I barely knew thee.
