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We Want To See Your Badass Art!

November 19, 2015
A Holiday "Stuffing" Sweatshirt for sale on glam | camp

It's the most wonderful caaaarb of the yearrrr.

(Seriously this sweatshirt is my everything.)

It's been about a month and a half since Erin and I opened glam | camp's metaphorical doors, and it's going...surprisingly well, actually. E-commerce, as I was told by virtually everyone who I mentioned the shop to, is a notoriously hard (verging-on-impossible) arena to break into, mostly because there's just so much stuff out there on the Internet to buy - and so many options for where to buy it - that in order for someone to decide to buy *your* product on *your* site a whole lot of pieces have to fall into place.

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My Looks

My “Other” Wardrobe

November 18, 2015
Jordan Reid holds Wacoal's underwire lace bra in black and gold

I finally (finally fiiiiinally) went ahead and threw out the bra that left my best friend traumatized. (It had to happen; if I went to visit her one more time with that sad, sad bra situation I had going on I think she might have disowned me.)

Anyway, it's all better now! Whew. Head over to SheKnows to check out the three gorgeous (like, gorgeous) sets that I keep in constant rotation these days (and to enter to win a beautiful - and comfortable! - Embrace Lace T-Shirt Bra).

P.S. The bra pictured in these photos - Wacoal's Embrace Lace Underwire Bra in black and gold - is my absolute favorite. More shots here.

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Recipes

Easy Chocolate Hazelnut Crostata

November 18, 2015

In my family, "pie" means "apple pie." Especially on holidays: an apple pie (specifically my unscrewupable version, which was handed down from my mom) is just what's getting made. Except more pie is good pie, and so I always make a second pie that's...something else. Usually pumpkin, because pumpkin seems obvious. But this year, for our Friendsgiving, I wanted to make something a little more decadent and fancy-looking...except given my history with baking, I figured a test-run was in order so as not to leave our friends who braved holiday traffic sitting around our dinner table all pie-less because I effed something up.

Little confession: I didn't actually make this pie; my son (who - heart swell heart swell - has announced that the "wants to cook things" when he grows up) did. (Minus the actual reading-of-instructions part, because he is four.)

And CHECK IT OUT.

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Lifestyle

Links & Love & Stuff

November 17, 2015
Pop Beauty blush and bronzer compact

I discovered this bronzer-and-blush duo on Francesca's makeup table and fell in love. Mostly love that you can get it at the drugstore (or here) for around $25.

Madewell's gift guide is a good one, if you're looking to get an early (well, earlyish) start.

I've been following Yale's Halloween Costume Drama obsessively. It highlights so much of exactly what's wrong with activist culture today. (The New Intolerance Of Student Activism, via The Atlantic.)

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Makeup & Beauty

Better Together

November 17, 2015
Jordan Reid on white couch holding basket of flowers
My lifestyle unfortunately involves lots of things that aren't especially great for my skin - California sunshine, not enough sleep, et cetera - and so what I look for in a skincare routine is something that works both to combat existing signs of aging and to prevent them. What I've been using for the past few weeks:
  • Elizabeth Arden's SUPERSTART Skin Renewal Booster, which restores the healthy appearance of your skin's surface layer and helps skin retain moisture and defend itself while also boosting the effectiveness of your other skincare products; and
  • PREVAGE Anti-Aging Daily Serum, which contains Idebenone, a powerful antioxidant that provides protective and corrective benefits - addressing lines, wrinkles and uneven skin tone that is caused by the environment.
Like every great pairing - wine and cheese, sun and sand, date nights and heels - these products are phenomenal on their own, but together? Better.

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Eat

The Ginger Shot

November 16, 2015
how to make a ginger, lemon and cayenne pepper shot for wellness

Blu Jam Cafe | Los Angeles, California

So apparently when I go to Los Angeles I turn into a completely different human being and actively seek out things like carrot-celery-cucumber juice. (The most annoying part? The damn juice tasted like heaven on toast, thereby very much not supporting my lifelong theory that healthy rabbitish food of the sort typically eaten by denizens of the Organic Coast tastes like sandpaper. Ugh.)

Francesca and I went to breakfast at the Blu Jam, in West Hollywood, because we were in need of blueberry pancakes...but then I (completely inexplicably) ordered that carrot-celery-cucumber juice. And so I figured what the hell, while I was at it I might as well get super weird and get The Ginger Shot, because I'm at the start of a cold and Francesca assured me that the shot would fix it.

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Entertaining

Upgrade Your Autumn

November 13, 2015
Green and gold holiday entertaining setup with rose gold lamp

Summer entertaining is all about keeping things simple - plastic utensils, easy recipes on the grill, et cetera - but once the weather cools down and the party moves inside, more focus gets placed on the food, the décor and all those small-but-significant details you add to make your guests feel special. But that doesn’t mean you have to get all fussy. (I can’t do fussy.)

So I thought I’d show you some pictures I took of the setup for an intimate dinner I held for a few friends. The party wasn’t for any especially good reason – just that I wanted to give them an evening of good food and good drinks. But I also wanted actually spend time with my guests and not messing around with a stove, so I made sure that everything I set out was not only one of my all-time go-to (meaning unscrewupable) recipes, but also something I could make well in advance.

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Lifestyle

Drive

November 12, 2015

Yesterday, on the endless, practically featureless drive down I-5 from San Jose to Los Angeles, my daughter sleeping in her car seat in the back, my (extra-large) Red Bull propped between my knees, I called a bunch of friends, because six hours on the road seemed like a good time to get some catching-up done. "So why are you going to LA?" they asked.

And I had a bunch of answers at the ready: I have no work this week that I can't do remotely; I was in the mood for some girl time; my dad's in town for a few days and I miss him. I wanted to see how Goldie would do on a just-us-two trip (I usually take Indy on weekend trips because he's easier to travel with, but he's got a new school schedule now that I didn't want to disrupt). I have a few colleagues in the area who I've been meaning to meet with for awhile.

See? Lots of reasons.

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Lifestyle

Autumn In The Air

November 11, 2015
a beautiful image of mulled wine, lemon, orange, cinnamon and spices

This is not what I look like right now. Pretty dress, though.

Dress (similar) | Blazer (similar)

See that? That photo was chosen because it's a nice autumn-ish image (from a photo shoot I did for TJ Maxx), and not because it in any way resembles what I look like right now.

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