It’s a shame the harvest moon only comes around once a year.
That huge, glowing, gold-orange circle that will rise slowly from the horizon tonight has inspired poems, plays, books and Neil Young, not to mention a thousand romances. There’s a Harvest Moon brewery, a Harvest Moon Café, a Harvest Moon Estate & Winery and a whole [...]
Entries from September 2008
Moonshine: Nature’s spectacle, one night only
September 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Live Pretty
Five beautiful boots to strut your stuff
September 11th, 2008 · No Comments
New boots are a heralding of autumn, a shout-out that you’re moving into the other side of your closet to make the seasonal switch. In honor, we’ve found five pairs of fabulous boots to inspire you. Not booties, or peep-toe gladiator fringed platform Mary Jane type booties, but real, wonderful boots.
1. Christian Louboutin €˜Forever Tina’ fringe [...]
Tags: The Find · Walk In It
Big, beautiful bowls for football fans
September 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Having a football party necessitates having some big bowls. It doesn’t matter what charming crudités and finger food you’ve got on the table, everybody on the couch wants stuff from a big bowl, on the coffee table, between them and the HDTV. Thus, they can keep their eyes glued to the tube and still stuff their [...]
Tags: Live Pretty
Don’t shelve summer dresses yet
September 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Did we hear right? You think you’re finished with warm-weather clothes? We beg to differ. You did not spend all those hours in the gym to bail on summer now. Do not be ridiculous. You belong in this grape popsicle of a summer dress from Searle ($349), with its open back, ballerina neckline and banded [...]
Tags: Wear It
Seven hot new Nike shoes for guys
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Nike athletic shoes are always popular, and they are always introducing new shoes into their lineup. The top seven new men’s athletic shoes sold by Nike are:
1. AJF12 Premier men’s basketball shoe: A hybrid of their Air Jordan shoe design and the Air Force One shoe, it’s $160.
2. Nike Air Pegasus+ 25 men’s running shoe: [...]
Tags: Walk In It
The battle of the really big bags
September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
In the world of fabulous handbags, there are two must-have sizes: diminutive clutchs, mid-sized hobos and those huge, almost-like-luggage, carry-everything-you-can think-of, I-think-I’ve-hurt-my-back really big bags. We shall focus on the latter.
High-end designers have many beautiful, but expensive, offerings. Celebrities carry giant bags with them everywhere:
Bottega Veneta has a lovely leopard print jumbo bag for $5,500
At Net-a-Porter, Jimmy [...]
Tags: Carry It
Do not blend this way at home
September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Just when you think there’s nothing new to say about blenders, enter Blendtec. Actually, enter the Blendtec videosWill it Blend?. Call it a publicity stunt, but it’s a good one. Blendtec, which sells commercial-grade blenders akin to those you see in coffee shops, has entered the home-blender arena with their Total Blender and a series of short videos showing a lab-coated, [...]
Tags: Food · Kitchen Wares
