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How to: Prepare “Inclusions”

ibeadmag recently ran an article on how to prepare “inclusions” for resin jewelry.  This article written by Michael Cluley is a great resource for how to prepare everything from flowers to candy for inclusion in resin elements (such as the candy heart pictured here)

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How to: Prepare “Inclusions”

e.l.f.’s New Beauty Boost Kit to Benefit Bottomless Closet – Win It!

Filed under: Beauty , News , Makeup , Skin & Body e.l.f. will donate 100% of proceeds from its Beauty Boost Kit to Bottomless Closet. Courtesy photo.

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Tiger Woods Mistress Jaimee Grubbs Visits ‘Gossip Girl’ Territory

Filed under: Celebrity , News Tiger’s Mistress #2 Jamiee Grubbs. Photo: Maury Phillips/WireImage.com New York Cit’y's Upper East Side may be where ” Gossip Girl ” is filmed, but the tony neighborhood has never seen anything like this. A black town car arrived outside the opening of the new Foravi boutique on Madison Avenue on Tuesday night, discharging a pair of long, sculpted legs that finally revealed themselves as belonging to Miss Jaimee Grubbs , the reality-TV starlet who shot to recent fame as Tiger Woods Mistress #2

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‘American Idol’ ‘Do Review: Best Hair of the Season Belongs to…

Filed under: Hair , Celebrity , News , Celebrity Hair “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi rocks her long brown locks in loose waves. Photo: AP While millions tune in to ” American Idol ” each week, the contestants aren’t the only ones getting the attention.

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Topshop Makeup Launches in Stores and Online

Filed under: Beauty , News , Makeup , Shopping Topshop makes its foray into cosmetics with a new makeup range launching in stores and online today. Photo: us.TopShop.com Topshop is bringing its rendition of fashion-focused designs to the beauty world

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The Real Anthropologie: An Antiquing City Guide

So, I’ve confessed my love of Anthropologie . But what I must say is the South has a great market of inexpensive goods, similar style, and fun to boot

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The Real Anthropologie: An Antiquing City Guide

New Release: The Greeting Farm Stamps

image by The Greeting Farm and Cindy The Greeting Farm has released some super cute new stamps including a sweet Grandparents couple, Anya with flowers in her hair, a cool rocker chick and a cutie pie with a bear hat, click here to see what’s new and then you can visit their blog for lots of great ideas with these new images. -heather …

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Kylie Minogue Hangs Out on Elle UK’s June Cover, Opens Up About Aging, Hanger Phobia and Fashion Regrets

Filed under: Fashion , Celebrity , News , Celebrity Style Kylie Minogue lounging on the cover of British Elle’s June issue.

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Kylie Minogue Hangs Out on Elle UK’s June Cover, Opens Up About Aging, Hanger Phobia and Fashion Regrets

Sean Jean Menswear to Be Sold Exclusively at Macy’s

Filed under: Fashion , Celebrity , News , Designers & Brands , Shopping Sean “Diddy” Combs attends the Sean John press conference. Photo: Getty Images t Macy’s snagged another one: Sean John Menswear will now be sold exclusively at the department store starting this October. As part of the deal, there will be extensive Sean John shops established in Macy’s flagship stores at Herald Square in New York City, Union Square in San Francisco, State Street in Chicago, Dadeland in Miami, and South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Calif

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5 Things I Hated In the ‘Vogue’ Sarah Jessica Parker Cover Story

Image via WENN Though the Lady SJP is a hot topic here, I have to say that I’m mostly ambivalent about her. I watched the show, but not the movie, and don’t have plans to see the second one. That said, it’s always nice to see a woman who isn’t a cookie-cutter traditional beauty become a fashion icon

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5 Things I Hated In the ‘Vogue’ Sarah Jessica Parker Cover Story

Fashion’s Night Out Expands to Six-Night Global Event

Filed under: Fashion , News , Shopping Anna Wintour and Gwen Stefani celebrating the first Fashion’s Night Out last year. Photo: Jerritt Clark, Getty Images for Bloomingdale’s Oh, Anna , you shouldn’t have.

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Fashion’s Night Out Expands to Six-Night Global Event

Lands’ End and Lands’ End CANVAS Fall 2010 Preview

Filed under: Fashion , News , Designers & Brands , Shopping Photo courtesy of Lands’ End DESIGNER: Lands’ End INSPIRATION: For the core collection, a continuation of its classic, well-designed pieces. Lands’ End CANVAS, the company’s new younger, hipper lifestyle collection, is striving to be cool and to provide “must have pieces for everyday,” senior merchandise manager Jennifer Stevens told StyleList.

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Lands’ End and Lands’ End CANVAS Fall 2010 Preview

Annapolis Scavenger Hunt

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you already know I try to walk downtown to the Annapolis City Dock everyday, so yes I do know where the lovely victorian piece of glass pictured above is located, however if you check out the 24 other photos on the web posted by the Annapolis Historic Commission you may be stumped in a few instances. You only have to be able to identify 20 of the 25 to be entered into a drawing for a $75 gift certificate at a downtown store

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Annapolis Scavenger Hunt

I like everything in Enna’s shops.

Everything in Enna’s shop is pretty awesome. The Cassette Envelopes , the Rabbit Paper Doll Card , the ABC Poster , the fancy embroidered Deer Patch ! All so adorable, I love her design and illustration style. You can find her blog here

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Tory Burch Gathers Fond Mom Memories From Fashion Industry Insiders

Filed under: Fashion , Celebrity , News , Stylish Living , Celebrity Style Tory Burch, with her mother Reva. The designer enlisted fashion insiders to talk about their favorite mom memories. Photo courtesy of Tory Burch Ever wonder how the fashion industry’s most chic got to be where they are today

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Shell Suits Named Worst ’80s Fashion Trend

Filed under: Fashion , News Sweatin’ to the oldies. Photo: Tony Anderson, Getty Images Parachute pants, banana clips, tapered jeans … when it comes to tragic fashion trends, the ’80s really outdid itself.

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Shell Suits Named Worst ’80s Fashion Trend

A tour of Kantha work with Deepa

Deepa of This and That… blog has been posting a great series on Kantha embroidery. The basic stitch for Kantha work is running stitch, but there’s so much more to know! First Deepa gives us a bit of background and a link to free patterns .  Then she gives us a look at Nashi Kantha — dazzlingly detailed embroidered quilts. And she finishes with…

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Celebrate the Squiggle…Submit Your Art to the Hostess Portrait of the American CupCake contest

To honor the 60th anniversary of the Hostess CupCake squiggle, celebrities created artwork, as inspired by the squiggle, to benefit the Free Arts NYC organization, which provides “under-served children and families with a unique combination of educational arts and mentoring programs”. Celebrities that submitted artwork include Chelsea Handler, Rosie O’Donnell, Gossip Girl Kelly Rutherford and Chaske Spencer (the drum set shown).…

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Celebrate the Squiggle…Submit Your Art to the Hostess Portrait of the American CupCake contest

Tutorial series: Embroidery 101

Amy of Early Bird Special has put together a series of tutorials called Embroidery 101 . It includes transfer techniques and the five basic stitches that every beginner should know, and there are videos for the hard parts.

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Tutorial series: Embroidery 101

Tutorial: Kitchen curtains with bow toppers

Sew4Home continues their Retro Fun kitchen sewing series with a tutorial showing how to make these ribbon topped kitchen curtains.  Go to the tutorial . [photo from Sew4Home ] Technorati Tags: sewing , tutorial , kitchen , curtain , bow , ribbon , topper

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Tutorial: Kitchen curtains with bow toppers