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Saturday Morning Links: Coveted Cardigan, Hot Toddy, Good Book Edition

November 20, 2010 By Blonde Mom 5 Comments

A few weeks ago I was waiting at the chiropractor and I noticed that the woman sitting across from me was wearing the most gorgeous gray cardigan. She told me she bought it at a little boutique near my office (cha ching!) that looked expensive but was filled with reasonable things. (Double cha ching!)

I love cardigans because it’s never really THAT cold in Nashville, or at least for very long, and cardigans are versatile. I haven’t quite been able to find a match online to the coveted cardigan but here are a few I love.

This one at Target is a close match and is less than $32:

Have you heard of J. Crew Factory? It’s an online store ONLY open on the weekends. Love this sweater. I read about it on Nashville blogger Dr. Baby Mama Drama’s blog.

I love this one from Anthropologie, too. Although Anthropologie is not cheap.

Oh and this sweater from Sundance, owned by Robert Redford. My mom used to get this catalog and I had completely forgotten about it. Pretty!

Now that Don Draper has left the house until season 5 of Mad Men, SOB, I am down to watching virtually almost nothing on TV except for House with the hubby. There was a time I was totally addicted to HGTV but I burned out on it and all the 9.2 million DIY projects I could be tackling at our 42-year-old house and I’m on a reading kick.

Since Labor Day I’ve read The Help, The White Queen, and Girl in Translation. I’m now reading The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory. I love hearing about a good book and then requesting it on the Nashville library website. Typically, being the ADD kind of girl that I am, I forget about what I’ve requested and then a few weeks later I get an email telling me it’s available at my local branch.

This makes me quite giddy.

Yes, I am a nerd.

Next subject.

Some other fall tidbits for you:

I just discovered a website called Girly Drinks. Love that name and love this Witch’s Pumpkin Egg Nog recipe (which could be renamed Pilgrim Pumpkin Egg Nog for Thanksgiving. Mmmmmm egg nog.)

Here’s a recipe for a yummy do it yourself Pumpkin Spice Latte from Bless My Nest.

Hot-buttered rum in a crockpot? Sign me up!

What are you reading or drinking these days?

p.s. Don’t forget to enter my awesome Lipo in a Box shapewear giveaway on my review blog (as featured in O magazine) and my SmartyAnts reading software giveaway.

Affiliate links used for book titles.

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Power Panties

August 13, 2010 By Blonde Mom 5 Comments

Last week I “had” to make a Target run for a few things before my trip to NYC which is really code for “yes I am addicted.”

I found myself eyeballing bras that were on sale and before I knew it I was drawn to a c-section veteran’s flat belly mecca, otherwise known as Target’s version of Spanx called Assets.

I decided to splurge on a pair of $14 black Assets panties because all the cocktail dresses I’d packed were black.

Normally I am very no-frills with my underwear purchases. Seriously, ya’ll I buy cotton practical undies at Costco. So this was a splurge.

I didn’t try them on, because, unlike swimwear there was no hygiene crotch sticker thingy so I just assumed that for $14 these panties would turn me into Heidi Klum overnight, never mind that I am barely 5 ft. 2 inches tall and the only Project Runway I’ve worked on is in our den with the girls modeling dress up clothes while Hannah Montana blares.

I’m not sure I got $14 worth of anything out of my fancy black underwear but just knowing I had them on made me feel good while I pretended to be Miss Fancy Britches (literally) for the weekend.

Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself, as buyer’s remorse sets in.

Fourteen dollar underwear?

SIGH…

The things we do in the name of fashion and beauty.

Speaking of shopping, I’m giving away a $50 credit for Gift Card Rescue, a unique website that allows you to trade in or get cash for your unwanted gift cards, over on my review and giveaway site. Check it out!

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Meeting In The Ladies Room

August 11, 2010 By Blonde Mom 8 Comments

I recently wrote about what I recommend fashion wise for conference wear because clearly I am an authority as I sit here early this morning wearing my pajama bottoms and t-shirt and glasses with a lens that keeps popping out.

All kidding aside, I do love to shop and I took full advantage of traveling to New York to buy some cute things, especially cocktail dresses. I just don’t get to shop often enough. But WHO does? Unless you’re on one of those Real Housewives shows…and like those are real depictions of real housewives. Please.

The editor from New York fashion website The High Low (they had me at their Mad Men articles and their philosophy that style can come from anywhere), interviewed me about what I would do to change WalMart if I were in charge of their fashion line.

And yes, I had plenty of opinions.

I was traveling to New York the day we tried to connect and ultimately found that the Philly airport ladies room proved to be a quiet spot for a phone interview. You know…inbetween flushes.

Check it out!

Where do you buy most of your clothes? I’d have to go with TJ Maxx.

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