A group of my closest friends get together for an annual beauty swap. This year they are coming over to my house for a Trick or Treat Beauty themed party. I have a lot of samples and full-size beauty products so I decided to give them each a bag of 5-6 products and then they …
Having recently returned to Chicago after two years in New York, I’ve found that my tastes have slightly changed when it comes where I’d go for happy hour spot after a long day, or take out of town friends to on the weekend. I no longer think that the noisiest place equals the most fun, …
From Italian blog Fashion For Travel is this beautiful post on the Roberto Capucci Dress Exhibit at the Royal Palace of Venaria. It makes me want to go to Turin to see it. Note these photos are from a cell phone! Roberto Capucci loves to mold his fabrics in an architectural way; his choices in …
The new Plum Market opened a few weeks ago in Old Town and I was finally able to visit the store this week. Now I can’t stop talking about it and can’t wait to go back. Just north of Division on Wells Street, the store has an Intelligensia Cafe and Swirlberry on the street side …
In case you have not noticed, we no longer do “Web Snob Fridays.” It sorta died. So we decided to share some links outside the US. In fact, we have become quite obsessed with WebFlakes which a site dedicated to translating popular European blogs into English. Every Friday we will share with you some of …
