Feel Good Friday is a gratitude list I write each week to express my appreciation for all of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! “Dancing” with new friends at The Ranch—really just observing the country dancing, it’s…
DIY Inspirational Coffee Table
Decoupage (or découpage) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and so on. Commonly an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from purpose-manufactured papers. Each layer is sealed with varnishes (often multiple coats) until the “stuck on” appearance disappears and the result looks like painting or inlay work. The…
How Exactly Does One Write an Undie Review?
… without getting too personal? MeUndies recently sent me a sampler pack of briefs to try. I mean, when cute underwears arrive in the mail, you gotta try ’em, right? I’ll admit, I was dubious. Not because of the delivery method, but because remember when boyshort undies first came on the market and they were so…
ViP
Yeah, that’s VlittleiP. ViP treatment + backstage access for PowerHouse 2013, Power 106’s summer concert. Gifting suite, drinks, food, artists, all-access. All, that is, unless Chris Brown, the headliner, was anywhere near. Security cleared everyone the hell out. Which is why we decided we were VlittleiP. Very important People, important enough to have the passes,…
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Feel Good Friday is a gratitude list I write each week to express my appreciation for all of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! … ummm, hello, yes it’s Sunday. I felt great on Friday, so great,…
Booze!
Us Americans aren’t picky. We like all sorts of booze, a lot. So the question: how do the cultural norms of countries inform their booze consumption and preferences? Discuss. via the economist
Straight From a Fella’s Mouth: Yoga Pants
Introducing a new sporadic series that cannot be planned (think: Compliment or Insult), entitled Straight From a Fella’s Mouth, where we reprint here some amazing gems of … wisdom/stupidity/hilarity straight from a fella’s mouth. The fella will remain anonymous, but all of female-kind will benefit. Male-kind, you will learn what not to say … On Yoga…
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Feel Good Friday is a gratitude list I write each week to express my appreciation for all of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! First The Wedge experience! Can you spot the tiny black dots? They’re PEOPLE. This…
Dog Guilt
Maybe I’m being over-sensitive. As a single dog-mom, I have a lot of dog guilt. This probably doesn’t bode well for actual parenting of a baby human, should that ever occur. But I read a recent post about dog-walking frequency—dog-walking frequency! who even needs to read this?—and felt judged. Judged by a writer who doesn’t…
Mesh. Gets Me Every Time.
Maybe it’s the years of basketball indelibly searing a love of mesh into my soul, maybe it’s the sexy factor of skin + air, maybe it’s the contrast—or confluence—of sport and fashion, but I freakin’ love mesh. I love it in athletic clothes, in casual clothes, in fancy clothes. I love it in small patterns…