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So Friday I was snooping about looking for trends, jewelry, etc--when I saw that Claire Danes is this fall's face of Gucci. Gucci's creative director, Frida Giannini has been quoted as saying that "Claire Danes is a modern icon."

Uh--what?

Not even to us costume drama geek girls is Claire Danes a modern icon. Maybe she was for a few minutes after ( Read more... )

Because nothing says couture leather like gold plastic 16th century armor....


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My breasts are too big for Autumn.

Hmm, perhaps I should back up here.

Autumn, my favorite time of year, has arrived.  Cool weather, with actual cold around the corner.  This means I get to slip into one of my favorite articles of clothing, the turtleneck.  More specifically, the ribbed turtleneck.  Paired with boots and jeans, hair up or down, hoops ( Read more... )

Photo Credit:  http://www.theinsider.com/photos/1206797_Mariska_Hargitay_on_the_Red_Carpet_at_2008_Emmy_Awards

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October's one of my favorite months.  Unfortunately, not my birth month.  I would've liked to have delivered one of my children in the month of October (wouldn't a kid like to have his or her birthday in the same month as Halloween?) but reproductive fate was not so kind.  Come to think of it, I don't know anyone born in October.  Er, that I know ( Read more... )

I was talking with a friend the other day about purity rings.  Mind you, I'm always leery of a promise not to do something, but the way my friend explained things, it made a lot more sense to me.  And then the light bulb went on.

"The idea," she said, "has expanded to more of a spiritual and life purity concept.  Just because you're behaving in a ( Read more... )