Happy Memorial Day weekend! We were sent home at 1 today and I don't have to be back in until Tuesday, so I thought I'd try to knock out the first half of this week's Book Club this afternoon, then wrap it up tomorrow afternoon. Since I never finish them in one day anyway, amirite. I hope you have Monday off because we're about to begin a journey into the land of beige that may require several days of recovery. Of course I'm talking about 'Cupcakes and Cashmere At Home', the second book by Emily Schuman.  Let us proponent! (more…)

Belle Gibson, the woman who faked cancer, gave an interview a month ago in which she basically blamed her terrible childhood for her actions. In the interview Belle claimed she never knew her father, was forced to care for her autistic brother, "didn’t have any toys", and was "forced to take care of herself from the age of five". When I started school, my mum went, ‘My daughter is grown up now’. All of a sudden I was walking to school on my own, making school lunches and cleaning the house every day...It was my responsibility to do grocery shopping,...

It's time once again for us to expand our hearts and minds with a moving tome by a blogger. This week's life changing event is 'Already Pretty: Learning To Love Your Body by Learning to Dress It Well' by Sally McGraw of Already Pretty. I haven't even opened the book yet and I'm already sighing, so let's get started. (more…)

Jenna Cole, America's most overworked mother, had an amazing Mother's Day. First she spent Mother's Day Eve having one of her girl's night outs. She had friends over to dress up and take pictures of themselves, then headed out for drinks where she took more selfies. Then she spent the day itself having yet more pictures taken of herself. My request for Mother's Day was photos of me. Me alone, me with the kids, even me with TH while T1 pointed the camera in our direction. Of course she did a touching shout out to her own mother as well....

Joy Cho, who co-founded the womp womp known as Pippit alongside pals Josh and Naomi Davis of Love Taza, would like to share some advice with you would-be entrepreneurs. Business with a friend, a close personal friend, is usually not a great idea...it usually makes it such that something goes wrong...either one person is way more into it than another, either people have different needs...I've seen it tear friendships... Joy advises people to "really assess the friendship first", "make sure you each have very clear roles", and "make sure both people are really into it." When you're the one into...

Happy Friday, hambaskets! It's Book Club day, my favorite time of the whole week. This time I'm drinking my way through 'What I Wore: Four Seasons, One Closet, Endless Recipes For Personal Style' by Jessica Quirk. So put on your scarves, strap on your nude Coach sandals, and settle in for the most basic of basic style books around. (more…)

The Feminist Breeder, always right, is apparently done looking for a real job because it's just too stressful. I've decided that looking for a job is no longer good for my mental health at the moment. I get too angry and frustrated when I see how few jobs there are in my field with far too many applicants. It takes too much time to send out cover letters and resumes only to find out they had 100 overqualified applicants and already filled the job internally... Instead, Gina has decided to...not get a job. After spending about $150,000 for a degree,...

Following EIC Eva Chen's announcement that she will be leaving Lucky, attendees of the Lucky FABB conference received notice that the event would be postponed. In light of today's announcement regarding Eva Chen's future transition from the Lucky Group to spend time with her new family, we are prioritizing what is best fo the brand and have made the decision to postpone the upcoming Lucky FABB conference. The news came just a week before the May 9th event. While event coordinators assured attendees they "will be receiving reimbursement for your ticket fee" many bloggers are angry at the short notice...

Not one to be outdone by that upstart Kate Middeton, Rachel Parcell of Pink Peonies has begun the process of producing a hashtagged ladybaby from her body. Let the name guessing begin!

Happy May Day, hams! It's time for another Book Club liveblogged book review! I decided to go with Cuppy's book. So sit back, ready the F5 finger, and curate your secret work flask as we experience 'Cupcakes and Cashmere - A Guide For Defining Your Style, Reinventing Your Space, And Entertaining With Ease' together. (more…)

Apparently a new instagram account appeared the other day. Its purpose seems to be providing sources to items featured by bloggers using the 'liketoknow.it' affiliate link system. The account is called 'whereubuyit' and bloggers are already pissed at this circumvention of their affiliate income. The two day old account already has 300 followers, and climbing. I don't see the account lasting too long because surely some litigious blogger or RStyle rep will have it shut down. I don't have much to add here but wanted to see what other people think of this. I'm not a fan of denying people...

That Wife, encourages imaginative play, is shaking up the blog world with some awesome news. After less than 5 months of disabled comments, she has graciously decided to let people leave comments on her posts once again. So let’s give comments on That Wife a try once again!  Be nice...That Wife Blog will forever remain my little corner of the internet where I am reigning Queen of Everything and get to decide what it’s like to be in this space... She says she wants her blog to be "an experience, not a broadcast", and feels "comment-free posts felt a bit...

Jenna, of Eat Live Run, joins the ranks of bloggers who are shutting down their sites to move on to non-blog jobs. Yesterday she announced she will be retiring from blogging at Eat Live Run. ...I’m just going to be real honest with you all right now and say that I haven’t been passionate about writing this blog for a long time now. I don’t know what turned the switch, to be honest. I just know that you guys deserve more than me writing mediocre blog posts every three weeks. I would rather write nothing at all, than write something...

Cary Randolph, finally getting married, has announced she will be getting married June 20th in Bridgehampton. She also shared the amazing love story that has led her to this ultimate achievement. For our first date, Doug invited Cary to dinner at Tamarind in downtown Manhattan. She didn't know this was a test of compatibility--was she adventurous enough for Indian food? Nearly two years later, the answer is yes. She goes on to say "rom the start, we knew we would get married on Long Island's East End". We all knew she would as well, because Cary's been obsessed with the...

Dooce, valedictorian of self-importance, has announced she is moving on to "different sources of professional fulfillment". Apparently "these sources have become so numerous" that they require what is possibly the ugliest website I have seen since GeoCities shut down - heatherbarmstrong.com. (more…)

It's Friday, hams, and you know what that means - it's time to read another life changing book by a blogger. This week's offering is "Homemakers: A Domestic Handbook For The Digital Generation" by Brit Morin. (more…)

Belle Gibson, cancer liar, has admitted to Australian Women's Weekly that she lied about having cancer. The interview is titled "My Life-long struggle with the truth" and comes complete with a softly filterered photo of Belle doing her best sexy apology face. When asked if she ever had cancer, she replied "No … None of it's true." Belle then went on to complain about how mean everyone is being to her just because she lied about having cancer. In the last two years I have worked every single day living and raising up an online community of people who supported each...

Cupcakes and Cashmere, provider of elevated lifehacks, has shared her secret for those times "when someone's service dies or they accidentally hang up and you spend the next ten minutes frantically dialing each other at the same time and can't get through". She and her best friend have a system that will forever alter the way you deal with dropped calls. ...simple things like phone conversations carry more weight, which led us to develop a bit of a strategy for those annoying times when calls drop...Our solution is simple: whomever initially dialed the other person is in charge of calling...

Cary Randolph, husband hunter, seems to have finally nailed down a man. Just six months after moving back to Missouri her boyfriend apparently finally stepped up and proposed - and she's already starting a wedding diet. Her man finally popped the question 3 weeks ago, but without further confirmation I thought maybe it was a joke. Especially since a mere month ago, following speculation of a breakup, she was spewing rapture about life in St. Louis. STL is pretty amazing. I love it here. My apartment sits right across the street from Forest Park, and on weekend mornings, I go...

TGIF Hams! It's time for another liveblogged book. This time we are reading 'Oh Joy! 60 Ways To Create & Give Joy' by Joy Cho. I'll be honest - I've been trying to read this thing for a week. I'll get one or two pages along and just think 'wut? who is this written for?' but in my defense I'm neither crafty nor particularly into Pinterest type crap. So let's get started! As always, I will update as I go... (more…)