Now, let me start off by saying that, in general, I support small dog clothing. As long as it doesn’t bother the dog – why not? Lucy, my sister chihuahua, frequently wears tshirts and sweaters in the winter time to keep warm (and look cute). However, please let the alarms go off when the dog has a more expansive and luxurious wardrobe than your own.
For example, this Dog wedding gown cost MORE than my gown did!!!! True, my wedding dress cost a lot less than most (hellow, you wear it for one day… get a grip, bridezillas!), but $230 for a dress for your dog? My gosh. I’d be pretty mad if I had to spend that much on a bridesmaid gown. Not to mention the fact that this dog does not look very happy about that hat/veil contraption. I realize that it’s handmade and all, but… really? Who’s that crazy?
PS Don’t even ask how on earth I came across this website. 
This is interesting. You can find out which celebrities you most resemble. It even gives you a percentage match. Here are mine:
Tata Young (61%)
Kirsten Dunst (61%)
Reese Witherspoon (59%)
Shania Twain (59%)
Paula Abdul (59%)
Leslie Caron (58%)
Sally Field (57%)
Jessica Alba (57%)
I don’t see how I resemble Paula Abdul so much, so if you’d like to give me some enlightenment on that one, it would be appreciated.
On the other hand, I don’t completely mind that several of the “hottest” celebrities are listed. Is this real, or a self-esteem booster? On the other hand, Leslie Caron was listed, who is like 90 years old or something. I’m surprised Helen Hunt wasn’t on there, as I see us as having remarkably similar foreheads.
So, everyone should do this and let me know what celebrities they get…. like – will my mom and I resemble some of the same celebrities? It only takes a few minutes.
Another success with the Le Creuset: Braised short ribs. Though, we actually used beef back ribs, I’m not sure I would have been able to tell the difference anyway. Oak was so excited about cleaning the pot because everything wiped off easily, even after constant use for 4 hours. Amazing. We visited the Le Creuset outlet in Burlington last weekend. No Lemongrass or Kiwi colored pots there, but I did enjoy the flame.
I was very happy to find a pair of sandals at the Nine West outlet store. I somehow managed to find sandals (dressy ones – not birkenstock-esque guys) that haven’t given me a blister in the first 2 days of wear. I am amazed. The $15 difference between this and a pair of Payless or Walmart sandals is apparently very much worth it.
We’re busy planning a trip to Kentucky and Tennessee for the 4th. Our stops include Dolly Parton’s water theme park, Mammoth cave national park, and some Memphis barbeque. More soon!
For any gentleman readers, let me first say how LUCKY you are that you don’t have to deal with the entire world of beauty products.
I, for the most part, have managed to find out the lines of beauty products that I enjoy. Neutrogena face wash, eye cream, and spf moisturizer. Bath and Body works lotion and shower gel. Sheer blonde volumizing spray and smoothing creme.
So yeah, I was off to Ulta to build my cosmetics supply. For the most part I stick to cheap-but-not-junky Cover girl, with the exception of mascara, which I use Maybelline. I actually brought the current costmetics I have to the store to make sure I get the right colors. So I’ve got the foundation, which I found was almost a little dark. I look at the products, and it turns out they have 2 sub-brands of that particular liquid Cover girl foundation (something like, one protects for SPF and the other protects against shine), neither of which is the one that I used, but in the same kind of bottle.
So, I decide to squirt a little on my wrist (bad Carrie! Luckily I didn’t get caught) of each of them. The shade lighter than my “Creamy Beige” that was too dark seemed completely too light. So, I decide to just go for Creamy Beige because it seemed to work okay before.
Next day: I put on my creamy beige foundation, and it’s a shade too light! Mind you, this is the SAME BRAND, just a shine-preventing formula instead of “smoothing” or whatever I had before. Don’t you think they’d just make “Creamy beige” the same for powder foundation, pressed foundation, liquid foundation in a squeeze bottle, and liquid foundation in a glass bottle? Apparently that is a bit too much for the cosmetics engineers to handle.
I think it would be very tricky if every cosmetics company just had a thing that would scan your face right in the store to tell you what colors to buy. Then again, that would ruin their entire profit margin of women buying the wrong color and then having to go out and buy another shade. Indeed.
I couldn’t help but wonder (pardon my Carrie Bradshaw expression), why do they discontinue beauty products that we get attached to?
I was rather excited to watch the Martha daytime talk show when she mentioned that the author of Generation T : 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt was going to be a guest. Surely I would learn some new life-altering tshirt transformation techniques.
So, I tune in, fast forwarding 3/4 of the show (Who cares about a lion-shaped cake? I don’t). Thank goodness for DVR. Anyway, I got to the right segment, and what does the author demonstrate? A Lace-up tshirt!!
If you don’t remember, this was a Queen motifas project: the Queen motifa t-shirt makeover. Hellow! Soooo 2003.
I bought some Chococat stickers over the weekend. Hopefully this is not a sign that I will soon become obsessed with Japanese animated characters.
Oh wait. I did buy a Hawaiian Hello Kitty cell phone charm. She has a little surf board – and instead of being white, she has a nice tan from her vacation. Apparently cell phone charms are all the rage, as every souvenir shop there had about 300 different kinds.
I am really regretting not purchasing a Hello Kitty cell phone charm that was shaped like sushi. I can’t find a picture, so I’ll just have to describe it.. it looked like a piece of sashimi, and the (white) hello kitty’s head was sticking out of the rice part, as if her body were buried in the rice. What Hello Kitty fan would want to imagine dipping her in some soy sauce? Yikes.
Update: You can, indeed, eat Hello Kitty sushi. I have been proven wrong.
Seeing all the previews for the Issac show (designer of the hip Target home and fashion stuff) on the Style channel, I was pretty sure I’d hate it, especially after he made some woman change from flats into high heels in the middle of New York. (Hellow when does HE ever have dying feet from heels?) After watching a few episodes now, though, I’m very much enjoying!
I think every show should have Giovanni the coffee dude in the corner to make caffeinated delights on command and fashion tips in every episode! I’m already considering making bridesmaid dresses into fashionable clubbing tops for a living. I think it could be a very profitable business.
After checking out these nubuck thongs for over a month, I go to buy them today online and the green is SOLD OUT! Why oh why did they have to go on sale?? Sigh.
I do admit, they are a cheap knockoff of the $90 Spearmint Gizeh birkis, but alas, I did want them so. Why are Birkenstocks, AKA “hippy shoes” such a costly product? Bummer. Silly German-engineered products. A similar knockoff was spotted at Sears while grill-shopping a few weeks ago so I must go check that situation out immediately.
I came across this link and suddenly became all hot and bothered… (or not). Who would have known that Bill Gates was a teen heartthrob? Though I’m sure it had some sort of heading about young CEOs or something. Oh yes.
Speaking of geeks, I have a strong dislike for the following geek attire:
I must say that Bill is looking rather dapper in comparison. Teen Beat must have conducted a quick makeover before this hawt photo shoot. I wonder how many fan letters he got from this one.
Can I wake Queen Motifas up from dormancy? Here’s the tres inspired project I attempted lately: The dog coat.
Dog boutiques severely overcharge for these small dog necessities. Some fleece, velcro and seam binding and Lucy is warm for the winter. All for only $7. Plus, the dog doesn’t care if you don’t sew everything completely straight…
