Color. It makes you feel good. So does leaving the house.

Color. It makes you feel good. So does leaving the house.

Hello! I’ve missed you! I got caught up in trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up….such a waste of time really, because thinking somehow always leads to paralysis (for me), which leads to an inevitable downward dip in emotional spirits. It’s time to stop thinking and start doing; that can be as simple an act as just getting out of the house...

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Amateurs Studio: for babes, boys and dogs

Amateurs Studio: for babes, boys and dogs

I feel like the older I get, the more casual I become. Moving from New York to Los Angeles fifteen years ago didn't help, since a lot of the time I'm ensconced in a car, as opposed to on display on the 23rd street subway station waiting for the N train. Sometimes I wonder what my younger Marie Claire-beauty-editor self would have said to my now wiser, and less caring of others opinions, self if told...

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Pops Of Color

Pops Of Color

Is there a better time-wasting tool than the internet? No, no there is not. Take this house (above) for example, it's for sale, it's dreamy and I stared at it for 45 minutes. In that time I moved in, rearranged the furniture and decided that the one thing I'd keep is that amazing pop of color on the wall (I think it's Gary Baseman whom I really enjoy on Instagram).

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New Years Resolutions: Take 2

New Years Resolutions: Take 2

Really January? I’m supposed to clean and organize my house, start exercising, get a hobby, lose five pounds, AND get my taxes in order in the name of new year resolutions? Well, the universe had other plans; my washer and dryer broke, the car died, and I got the flu ( and not even the stomach flu, that at least, would have taken care of the five pounds!).

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