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Monday, June 7, 2010

While I was packing for last week’s trip to Los Angeles, I remembered that I had unintentionally worn the same outfit and posed in the exact same location on L.A. visits in March 2008 and December 2008. This called for a three-peat, so I packed my Black Halo top, black Acne jeans, 16-year-old Karl Lagerfeld [...]

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Sunday, June 6, 2010

I’ve been in California for a very quick visit. Luckily, I squeezed in a dinner with some of my West Coast blogger bitches. This picture was taken outside Malo in Silver Lake. It’s hard to see, but everyone is wearing a pair of my silver Cleopatra earrings except for me. I’m wearing the gold Cleopatra [...]

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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Welcome to Part III of my report on A Distant Mirror, The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman. Read Part I and Part II to get yourselves oriented. On Saturday, in my second of a series of posts on the book A Distant Mirror, I listed the disasters of the 1300s. Those included what Tuchman [...]

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

My old K. Jacques wedges were so stretched out that they were falling off my feet, so I got these to replace them. I discovered that my summer shoes were in a bad way when I sneaked off to Phoenix for a few days this week. While I was there, I saw gorgeous blogger Practical [...]

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Monday, August 31, 2009

Something I did in Napa Valley: Hot-air ballooning. Something I didn’t do in Napa Valley: Grape stomping. I Love Lucy grape-stomping episode News reporter grape-stomping fail Family Guy’s Stewie imitates the reporter’s grape-stomping failure UPDATED TO ADD MORE PICTURES: Here’s one from the air. After the flight, we had breakfast at a Tex-Mex place, where [...]

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Friday, August 28, 2009

I’ve moved on from L.A. to Napa Valley. On the way, I stopped in San Francisco and had dinner with four gorgeous bloggers at NOPA. From left to right: Catie of Cuffington, Annie of Poetic & Chic, Mai of Fashioni.st, Patti of CuteMess and me in my Francis sailor dress. In Napa Valley, I helped [...]

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

I’ve been having fun in L.A. but I’ve been doing a lot of work too. I managed to tear myself away from the laptop yesterday to sit by the pool for three hours. While poolside, I pondered a lemon tree that, unlike more productive neighboring lemon trees, had put all its energy into creating a [...]

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Friday, August 21, 2009

My trip to L.A. full of interesting meetings. On Tuesday, I visited Kristin Londgren, a chic little boutique on West Third Street in Los Angeles.A  I had a nice long chat with Kristin Londgren herself, who showed me her own line of clothing as well as the jewelry lines she carries. Here are a few [...]

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Monday, August 17, 2009

I’m heading to L.A. today. If you are in the area and want to meet me and some gorgeous bloggers for dinner on Wednesday, let me know ASAP! You’ll get a chance to meet: ENC of Observation Mode La Belette Rouge Alicia from Instant Vintage Sister Wolf from Godammit, I’m Mad Deja Pseu from Une [...]

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Friday, July 24, 2009

While having Bellinis at a hotel bar in Paris, I pointed out that there were little notepads and pencils on all the tables. I wondered if they were for the kind of peeps who would be hashing out some kind of multi-billion-euro business deal over drinks. Those peeps always need a pad for writing lots [...]

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