Last night I had a wonderful birthday dinner with Jen, one of my best friends. 5 hours! And on a weeknight! Anyway, she gave me a super and very useful present: an easy-to-use new cookbook from the best-selling Food Network Magazine, Great EASY Meals 250 Fun & Fast Recipes. It’s the perfect resource for fun [...]
Month: March 2011
I Heart We Heart It for Photography
When I first started blogging on Tumblr and was trying to make sense of the blogging environment, I noticed that many of my fellow bloggers would post gorgeous photos from the site, We Heart It (www.weheartit.com). Naturally piqued by curiosity, I checked out the site and instantly knew it would be a fantastic resource for [...]
Spotted. Stylish Boutique: Twig & Willow
Over the weekend, I had brunch with dear friends in Long Beach at Coffee Cup Café (http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-coffee-cup-cafe-long-beach), a delicious diner and reputably one of the best of Long Beach. I love to eat there because not only is the food delicious, it’s a good halfway meeting place for me, an Orange County resident, and my [...]
Beautylish-ous Spring Trends
Last Tuesday, I was invited to the 2011 Spring Trend Review, sponsored by the beauty site, Beautylish. In case you’ve never heard of it, Beautylish (www.beautylish.com) is a social network for beauty, cosmetics, and their brands. A site still in its infancy, Beautylish launched last year to capitalize on the $330 billion dollar beauty product [...]
Embrace Who You Are
“You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves and those around them.” Those words (a tweet, actually) were some of the last that Elizabeth Taylor, the beautiful and talented Oscar-winning actress and arguably, the last great star, posted before her [...]
Piano Statement
We bought a keyboard for our home last week. My boyfriend wanted to learn and teach himself how to play the piano, and I get to benefit as I now get to practice some of my old classical pieces (such as Debussy’s Reverie) after taking 12 years of piano lessons as a child. I love [...]
How to Get What You Want
I finally finished reading “Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want” by Barbara Sher. Now, for those of you who have never heard of this book, it is now printed in its 30th anniversary edition and more than 650,000 copies have been sold. It was originally published in 1979 and is a timeless classic [...]
Stuck on Tucker
As many of you know, last week I went to Target to pick up some limited item dresses from some fantastic designers. One of these dresses was from a favorite designer line of mine, Tucker, by NYC-based designer Gaby Basora, a former magazine editor and stylist (www.tuckerbygabybasora.com). I first discovered Tucker at my friend Lance’s trendy clothing [...]
My Latest Beauty Supplement
I celebrated my birthday a couple of weeks ago, and as my friend Jeff, who also recently celebrated a birthday, jokingly said to me, “Yeah, it’s so great getting older! Who wants to be young?” Ha! Of course, I’m thankful I’m healthy, happy, and surrounded by so much love, but let’s face it, getting older [...]
The recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan was so devastating. It just goes to show how life is so fleeting and precious. It is incredulous to watch how our Japanese neighbors have had to cope and struggle to survive. On a more personal level, with our numerous earthquake incidents, it is incredibly humbling to know [...]
No Ugly Duckling 