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Greetings and salutations! I hope that you have all had a lovely holiday season thus far, and are now enjoying the leftover sweets and Crystal Jewelry while reclining on a soft surface. Like many...

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Confession time: I am not an organized person. Don’t get me wrong. I am pretty organized when it comes SOME things.  When planning an event, my colour-coded spreadsheets are a thing of beauty ...

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Hey, many of us want to look like a princess on our wedding day, right? So if you’re actually becoming a real, honest-to-goodness princess, there’s that oh-so-tiny (read: ginormous) extra bit...

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Elizabeth Taylor, living legend, philanthropist, AIDS activist, perfumer, hopeless romantic, and the owner of one of the most staggering jewelry collections ever, has passed away of congestive he...

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Aquamarine… The name itself is so evocative, isn’t it? It makes me think of beautiful, crystalline, blue-green waters and white sand and palm trees. There’s something about aquamarine that ...

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As an addendum to my February amethyst post, I just HAD to mention this. The lovely ladies at Forever Young Adult have come up with…wait for it… The Anne of Green Gables drinking game! I KNOW...

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The recent contretemps about John Galliano has gotten me to thinking about ethics and fashion. Obviously, everybody has their own standards. Some folks rival Cruella de Ville and would happily we...

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Okay, so this is the first time I’ve live-blogged anything, so please bear with me. I won’t be blogging the ENTIRE Oscars, ’cause I just don’t stay up that late. But I will blog the red-c...

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I am soooooooo sorry, February ladies! (Including my own mother, whose birthday was on the 18th — Hi Mom! Love you!) It’s not that I forgot about YOU, it’s that I forgot that I’ve been d...

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So the Grammys tend to be known more for wackitude and big upsets (who knew that Bieber fans were so bloodthirsty?) than for elegant, gorgeous accessorizing. And much like the wackitude tends to ...

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