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Cupcakes and Cashmere Emily Schuman Fashion Blogging Lifestyle Blogging The Cupcakes and Cashmere Nordstrom line has been available for a few days now. The collection is about as much of a yawn farm as one would expect considering the most vanilla blogger on earth created it. It’s mostly striped cotton, shapeless dresses, leather shorts, jumpsuits, and various items made out of a floral fabric that appears to be the skin of a sofa belonging to my Aunt Helen in Boca Raton. Pretty basic crap that is sold at every Target ever since 2001. Yet this snore inducing collection is enraging people because it only goes up to a size 10/12. Fans took her out on various facebook posts and even in her blog comments for only providing limited sizes of 0-12. You’d think people would be more annoyed that she’s selling them a striped shirt for 80 bucks when you can get pretty much the same thing at Old Navy for 8 dollars, but, priorities vary for each of us. Anyway, I guess if you’re a skinny person with a lot of disposable money for jersey shirt dresses have fun buying out her collection!
Cary Randolph Internets Lifestyle Blogging Cary Randolph, getting married in the Hamptons, got married in the Hamptons about an hour ago. Evidently she and her non-Kennedy husband are now at the reception dancing to totes ironic music. Congratulations, Cary! You got married before 30, just like you always wanted. Sorry nobody bought you that $700 gravy boat though.
Happy Radical Friday, hams! It’s time to tap away that negative haterness and join me in reading Gala Darling‘s limited edition, available for one month only, life-altering book, ‘Radical Self Love – A Guide To Loving Yourself And Living Your Dream’. Get yourself a pink drink, put on some Instagrammable shoes, and let’s love each other radically.
Fashion Blogging Lifestyle Blogging Rachel Parcell Rach Parcell, the big dollar blogger behind Pink Peonies, seems to be doing well with her “Pink Peonies Collection” jewelry. She has spent the past few months gramming pics of herself ‘designing’ jewelry and very much giving the impression that her pieces were original designs by her. But is that truly the case? Some eagle eyes noticed that the “newest arrivals of my jewelry line” looked awfully familiar. Evidently Pink Peonies Collection is almost exactly the same as jewelry that can be found through several mass sellers, including AliExpress and Amazon. This is strange because in her announcement back in January she at least implied she was designing the entire collection herself. Almost two years ago I had the incredible opportunity to start the process of designing my very own jewelry collection. It’s something that I’ve dreamed about doing since I was a little girl, so the fact that it is actually happening truly feels like an absolute dream come true!! As her instagram and blog comments blew up with Stella & Dot reps calling out ‘designs’ (that are also sold through them) and fans wanting to know why she was pawning off wholesale jewelry as ‘her’ collection, Rach finally issued a statement via her instagram comments. the first collection was originally designed. However, it takes 8 months to year to design a full collection from concept to finished product. While our next full collection is in the design process and being produced, we added pieces that were immediates from market. I had no idea other jewelry companies sold the same pieces and I’m just as upset as you are about it. Trying to get it all sorted out. Thanks for your concern and support. That’s all well and good, but why was this not mentioned up front? Instead we got pics of Rach posing at a desk full of pencils and saying she is “designing my very own jewelry collection”, and leaving her fangirls to infer that ALL the pieces she was pushing were her design for her collection. But hey, whatever, she has now posted a pic of her baby, so I guess she’s saying the matter is closed and can we all just coo over her offspring now? Jordan Reid, super chill parent, has arrived with her family at their new home in ‘San Francisco’s South Bay’. She immediately exchanged the daisy duke shorts she apparently wore for two straight weeks of road tripping for a bikini in order to do a sponsored post about wine and bbq around their new pool. Her “kids are ob. sessed” with that giant shimmering hole full of water in the backyard. Thankfully Jojo takes pool safety very seriously. As an aside, because the safety issues surrounding kids and pools clearly deserve mention – our approach this weekend was to have a serious talk with our son about pool safety, confirm that the gate around the pool was secure, and install a home security system that also chimes whenever the doors to the backyard open. When her readers mentioned she might want to get a regulation locking fence around the pool, what with two kids under 4 running around, she responded that they take pool safety “extremely seriously” and that this “wasn’t the only conversation we had or will have with our son” because “safety in and around the pool” is something they will “improve upon as we settle into our new home”. Jeez, they checked the gate so, shut up about the pool already people! Focus on the wine shill and telling Jojo how hot she looks in a bikini! It’s like you missed the whole point of her bikini and wine filled post. Jordan Reid, self-proclaimed ‘writer’, is on her family roadtrip from NYC to San Jose. Along the way she decided to stop in Hot Springs, Arkansas for a ‘couple of days’. I want to be clear: there are great things about the area. It is beautiful out there in the country…There is so much poverty. There is so much decay. And god, is there ever a lot of racial tension; you can practically feel it in the air. The ‘liberal resident of a coastal state’ then described the horrifying situations she was exposed to in omgAR. The hotel we stayed in – which was the second-nicest one in town, from what I gathered – had cockroaches on the floor, chipped walls in the elevators, trash on the mattresses, a two-foot-wide pool of water in the carpet from a leaky air conditioner, and burned-out lightbulbs. Outside the hotel sat a woman in a wheelchair wearing a Confederate flag t-shirt, smoking alternately from the long cigarettes she held, one in each hand. This basically sounds like something from any number of New York City neighborhoods, so I’m not sure why she had to travel to Dixie to experience such upsetting sights. She goes on to say the ‘hotel received two visits from police officers within twelve hours (two that we knew of, at least)’; that she heard someone use the n word; that she and her family unwittingly rode in an elevator where someone had been pepper sprayed minutes before. I can’t feel good about having gone to this place, and failing to show you what I really saw. Because there was a dark and ugly undercurrent hiding behind the facade of leisure… Jordan is responding to the collective ‘wtf?’ of much of her audience by saying ‘it was important to write about it – if only for the reason that writing gets people talking’. Because obviously nobody was discussing poverty and racism in America until a white, upper middle class lady from a white, upper middle class suburb told everyone how awful poverty and racism are, and she should know because she made a choice to stay in a bad hotel that one time. 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!
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