Lisa Vanderpump is the Ish

"Faye was like a pantha, prowling through the jungle" That line. I mean. I just love 99% of the things that come out of her mouth. You can see this crucial moments in seconds 15-35 in this video. If you don't watch the show, don't even bother, you wont get it.



First of all she looks almost exactly like my mom. Ok, the glammed-up, curvier version of my mom. But, basically twins.

She isn't your typical RH on Bravo who you feel guilty/stupid for watching.

- Whenever the other cast members freak out on her, she remains perfectly calm and cuts right to the point with a poignant and embarrassingly accurate comment that completely turns the tables on them while simultaneously high-lighting one of their many character flaws.

- Her choice of clothes and dresses are spot on every time. She takes classic silhouettes (some of which you could find in Banana Republic dresses - not even kidding) and has them tailored perfectly and in beautiful fabrics and colors that compliment her skin tone.

- Her makeup is phenom. Here is the first woman with an older face who's make-up is modern and age-appropriate that I've seen in a long time. Notice her color choices:

I bought her book recently in the spirit of continuous life improvement - I have no idea what it's about exactly- but it's her 2 cents on things, and thats enough for me. I have no doubt it will rule.

I think its important for every girl and woman to have a celebrity to relate to and reference. These people have access to stylists, make-up experts, health experts, and top quality everything. If you're in a rut, you just do some google-image searches and you will literally find a palette of pictures to choose from. For people like my mom, who knew how to manage their beauty in their youth and are now handsome older women, its nice to have someone who at least looks like they're aging naturally to look to for inspiration.

Molly Sims: Unbreak My Heart

I have been on a Gwenyth Paltrow roller coaster ride for about 12 years. I've loved her movies, her fashion, hated things that she says and does, then loved her website and thought I was a Gwenyth-lifer. I even wrote about it in this blog. But then. She came to my city. She came to Chicago and wrote a glorious post about where to go and where she went. Of course, it came out that she didn't go to the restaurants she said she did...and my beloved was exposed as a phony baloney.

But I kept reading her bullshit newsletters. And probably will continue to read them. But maybe not.

Today I stumbled across an article about Molly Sims and her style-inspired website. It caught my eye because I saw pictures of her bridal party on Pinterest that I thought were beautiful. What a discovery! I hope you're as excited to get insider tips from a celebrity other than Gwenyth who has a sense of self and something to stay. It's fitting that Mollysims.com covers several different areas. Style is, afterall, not just about clothes.

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Her Website

My Beef/Obsession with Pinterest

Pinterest, is a brilliant, brilliant website with a simple concept. Save pictures of things you love to a cleanly designed online "pin board" - organize your boards by category - and end up with an organized gallery of your favorite things. People in the Pinterest community typically pin projects or crafts they want to do, items they want to buy, collect inspirational images, etc... The girls in my network all have wedding pinboards, fashion pinboards, and Betty Homemaker boards.


Annoying things about Pinterest:

1. EVERYONE can see your boards. If you want to have a private board for your own reference that nobody else can see, theres absolutely no way to change the privacy settings. You can only choose not to be found on a public search engine. So, if I have clients, copy-cat friends or other non-specific-stalker-types as members on pinterest - they can see all my cool shit. I'm not into that. Copy catting is my #1 pet peeve!

2. People abuse pinterest. I can NOT believe that professional pinteresters/bloggers pin like 30 things in 2 seconds and clog up my feed. THANK YOU OLD LADY FOR DISPLAYING 300 VINTAGE DRESSES. Oh wait, no. THANK YOU CRAFT BLOGGER LADY FOR PINNING 15 RECIPES AND 15 DIY PROJECTS IN 30 SECONDS - ITS NOT EVEN POSSIBLE THAT YOU READ THOSE. I hate you.

3. These annoying people were automatically added to my "following" list when I clicked that I was interested in fashion and crafts. It took me 2 frustrating weeks to unfollow them.

4. Listen, lady friend, I see you all the time. I know that you don't know shit about fashion. So can you please stop repinning fashions you like and scaring me into thinking that you might one day start a blog about fashion. I see you wearing your ugly outfits. Don't start with me.

5. Why do you have a wedding board? You don't even have a boyfriend. People know this. Save it to a secret file on your computer like everyone else and stop embarrassing yourself.

6. Some people pin things that I like. But I can't bring myself to repin their fake style. While I love when someone repins something of mine, I jut cant give that satisfaction to people I think are fronting. Sorry.

7. It's like....living a fake life on facebook - like you're having the BEST time EVER all the time. Except on Pinterest, you're faking being skilled and having the best taste EVER.


Good things about Pinterest:
1. It's a really really beautiful interface.
2. It's really easy to use.
3. It's something I could use for my whole life.
4. You have to be invited or wait "in line" for a membership. Exclusivity is attractive to me...even if its a little faux-exclusive. Whatever.

Conclusion: Give the ability to make boards invisible to your followers and I'll be addicted for life.
Here's a snapshot of mine:

Learning HTML

I have no idea what I'm doing, but considering google has the answers to just about everything, I'm trying to build a small business website and am learning HTML coding via google. Not an easy feat. Apparently adding a sexy twitter button to your page is also ridiculously complex when you know just about nothing about coding. I'm using iWeb, an easy interface but whatever, it's still hard! I'm following a step-by-step on how to do this and have to upload the icon im using to a blog? Good thing I happen to have one! Now, lets just hope I dont inadvertently link a serious business website to my beautiful fashion blog and scare their customers away.