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Summer’s End Shoe (And Meet-My-Baby) Party

September 15, 2014

Friday afternoon, I invited over a few girlfriends (all of whom have three-year-olds who are some of my son's best friends…as well as infants who I suspect are destined to be some of my daughter's best friends) to meet Goldie, drink some rose sangria (you need this recipe; it's coming up later this week), and eat cupcakes.

Because one of the benefits of being friends with a style writer is that there are generally fun products laying around to test out (drawbacks of said friendship include the fact that there is a decent chance that your feet will end up getting photographed), all the kids got to take home some new shoes to help them get outfitted for the school year. (Because moms deserve new shoes, too, my friends also went home with pairs; these were the most popular pick.)

Lifestyle

Invitation For You: Kipling Always On

September 14, 2014

For those of you in the NYC area: this Wednesday and Thursday I'll be hosting a Kipling event in Grand Central, so stop by for manicures, massages, lots of fun freebies, and a preview of Kipling's new Always On collection. I'll be there Wednesday from 4PM on, and then on Thursday from 3PM on, so if you come by please be sure to say hi! Hope to see you there :).

(RSVP here.)

My Looks

Faire-yland

September 12, 2014

Before I start, let me say that this is not an outfit that I wore in my "real" life, as it were - it's what I put together to wear to the Renaissance Faire last weekend. I started out in this crazy long robe-ish thing, and then realized that wearing what amounts to a cream-colored ball gown to cavort around in a big, dusty field full of people waving swords and goblets of beer and CAMELS, for god's sake, is a fairly obvious disaster waiting to happen...and decided that flowers and a leather headband and a whole bunch of jangly jewelry were Renaissance Faire-y enough to make me feel like I was participating without heading into the wildly-uncomfortable-seeming territory of corsets and full skirts and such.

So this isn't exactly an outfit; it's more of a "costume."

But maybe…it shouldn't be? I mean, it doesn't look too far away from what I wear on any old day…and I felt so good in this. Comfortable and happy and free. And also sort of like a Robin Wright's character in Forrest Gump, which is never a bad thing.

Best

In The World

September 11, 2014

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I have to admit: I was terrified at the idea of venturing out into the world with two children. I worried that both would cry at the same time and I wouldn't know who to go to first; I worried that my son would go running off somewhere and I'd be dealing with the baby and not notice; I worried that two kids would be so much to handle that I wouldn't be able to handle anything else…like whatever it was I'd theoretically gone out to do; grocery shopping or picking up dry cleaning or grabbing dinner.

I worried that I simply wouldn't have enough hands to carry all that stuff.

When Kendrick's around, we can sort of divide and conquer…but when I'm on my own with two (and I am, a lot of the time)? Wouldn't it just be easier to…stay home?

Home

Quick And Easy Clean

September 11, 2014

Mess makes me nuts. I literally cannot relax - can't read a book, can't watch a movie, can't even sit down - if the house isn't nice and tidy. (This, as you might imagine, makes Kendrick nuts.)

Guess what a toddler and an infant create?

Because I don't have a ton of time (or patience) to handle all this mess - and yet handle it I must, for the sake of my own sanity - I've developed a bunch of easy home-cleaning shortcuts that make the house feel lovely and sparkling without taking up too much time (or effort; because honestly: when the day comes to a close and both children are asleep approximately the last thing that I want to do is break out the mop; I much prefer a little Kardashians and red wine in bed, please and thank you).

Makeup & Beauty

Fall Skincare Switch-Up

September 10, 2014

Fall means pumpkin patches and amazing soups and cozy sweaters and long walks through the leaves…and it also means that things have to get switched up a little in the beauty department. We're not in full wintertime dryness mode yet, but still: nothing like the present to start preparing for the Sahara-like conditions to come.

What this means for me:

SNAPSHOTS

An Anniversary And An Oops

September 10, 2014

Last Friday night, Kendrick and Indy and I were sitting down to dinner, and I picked up a card that had arrived from Kendrick's aunt and uncle, expecting it to be a "congrats on your new baby" card, and:

Nope.

An anniversary card.

For an anniversary that happened a good two weeks ago, and which did not occur to either of us even a little bit. I mean, not even a whisper of "oh, right: fairly significant annual event on the horizon" entered either of our brains for even a single second.

Makeup & Beauty

You Have To Try These Fall 2014 Nail Trends

September 9, 2014

The nail color I'm into right now: a kinda dusty mauve shade that's a little on the "lilac" side of pink and feels very old lady-ish to me, in a good way (meaning, I suppose, an antique-teacups-with-little-rosettes-on-them way).

Get The Look: Essie Secret Stash

Now, this color isn't exactly a "trend" - more like "a color I think is pretty and feel like wearing right now"…so let's move on to a few more right-this-moment looks that I'm excited about. (Mostly, I'm excited that we appear to have collectively moved on from that crazy nail art trend that did very little for me other than cluttering up my Pinterest boards and making me feel inadequate for the past year.)

Makeup & Beauty

Two Fantastic New Beauty Finds

September 9, 2014

I write about beauty on a semi-regular basis and am in the middle of filming two beauty-focused shows for Allure, so I try out a really lot of products in search of the ones that I think are great enough to tell you about. My favorite products to try out are always the weird ones (like this hairy gel and this "décolletage" mask)…but I also love it when I come across one of those beauty must-haves that are so useful that they end up taking the place of several other things that used to clutter up your makeup bag.

I hate clutter.

Presenting: two of my favorite recent discoveries, both of which I'm wearing in these photos and both of which give serious bang for the beauty buck.

SNAPSHOTS

Why Renaissance Faires Are Wonderful

September 8, 2014

A few weeks ago, the front panel fell off of one of the drawers in our apartment in San Jose. (I know, this doesn't sound like the start of a very good story. Stay with me, here.) This front panel falling off required me to call the apartment building's landlord, and…you know how some people can best be described as "characters"? This guy. He fixed the drawer in about thirty seconds, and then spent the next hour and a half standing in the doorway of my apartment telling me stories ("Just one more! Promise!") about his Renaissance Faire adventures, with full-on accent and dramatic reenactments and wild gesticulating.

When he finally left, he bowed practically to the floor and called me "my lady" with absolutely no hint of irony.

I loved him.

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