Right before she absolutely took over every magazine and blog ever (this month’s Vanity Fair, anyone?) with her phenomenal, luxurious, plant-based skincare line, I got wind of what the fabulous Tata Harper was up to on her farm in Vermont. She recently released a 15% discount with my affiliate link, and I realized that while I…
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Feel Good Friday is a roundup 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! New use for wine rack (now all my wine is stored in the refrigerator so as not to ruin the delicate flavors) Funniest help…
The Friends-As-Family Generation
Subhead: Making Friends in Anywhere. I’m constantly amazed at the number of thoughtful comments a post I wrote three years ago still receives. The topic: Making Friends in Austin. Turns out, while it can vary by location and number of young professionals, young singles, so on, making friends anywhere is a challenge. I’ve written in countless…
Welcome to You Are My Celebrity!
Hello. Curious how you got here? It’s okay, it’s confusing. This new blog is all the good stuff from the old blogs but not location-centric. See, this is the blog formerly known as this is life in austin & aspen, which WAS formerly known as this is life in austin until I partially moved and…
Compliment or Insult: Shopping Edition
That’s right, even though I’ve been working out at the infamous Aspen Club, I’ve been steadfastly disappointed by how used to me the gym-goers appear to have gotten. Aside from the occasional creeper just staring at me throughout my entire workout, nothing of note has happened, no more Gym Gems or Compliment or Insults. How boooooring,…
Flash-Sale Shopping from JP Selects
How cool is this? An eco-friendly flash-sale site I’ve been loving called LovingEco joined forces with a website called JP Selects, which was founded by sometime Austinite, entrepreneur John Paul DeJoria. John Paul DeJoria is the co-founder of Paul Mitchell Systems and Patron Spirits. John Paul and his wife, Eloise, believe that each of us has a daily responsibility…
Advice from a Daaaawg
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Feel Good Friday is a roundup 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! Tragus/targus piercing, celebrated by Cook’s champagne at the kayak park, a 60-cent canister of salt and 25-cent Starbucks cup, and Dale/dial soap. “Let’s go…
Summer Anthem
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ySHSTEzjQ] As I’ve now facebooked, tweeted, and posted this, it may be overkill. But this is undoubtedly the Summer 2012 anthem, and marines cutting loose to it is too great to ignore.
Austin: Breaking News, H&M is coming!!
But not ’til this fall so you don’t actually get to purchase the teeny bikini shown here. Hennes & Mauritz, or H&M, or “achay y emmeh” as it will always be known to me as my first H&M visit was in Madrid where I was living, will open its 24,000-square-foot outpost in the Domain in the fall, offering women’s, men’s,…