From the monthly archives:

January 2010

The Glitz, the Glamour, the Globes

January 15, 2010

It’s AWARDS SHOW season!  We’ve dished about our intense love for awards shows before, and the Golden Globes may just be our favorite.  The show, which airs this Sunday, January 17 at 8 p.m. on NBC, is a sassy precursor to the Oscars with cooler fashion and a more entertaining show (and yes, we do [...]

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Chili con MR

January 14, 2010

Guess what?  It’s pretty hard to take or find a non-disgusting photo of chili.  As you can imagine, the dish does not photograph well.  I chose to display clean, non-gross chili peppers instead.
Unbelievably, I never ate chili until nearly one year ago this month when MR made a delicious version for a cozy winter game [...]

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Believe the Hype

January 13, 2010

Armani’s liquid foundation really is as awesome as everyone says it is.
I mulled/obsessed over this foundation for nearly four years (I guess long, drawn out obsessions are a habit of mine).  The Armani foundation gets an insane amount of press from celebrities and makeup artists and wins countless best beauty picks in magazines (including InStyle’s [...]

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DIY: Fabric Headboard

January 12, 2010

New year, new DIY project!  HCG has had success with a super easy DIY project before, and, although this endeavor is definitely more involved than our last one, it’s still extremely simple (believe me – HCG does not attempt to tackle complicated DIYs.  Life is too short, and there is too much DVR to [...]

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Under the Banner of Heaven

January 8, 2010

Remember when I predicted that book club would BLOW UP in 2010?  I was right.
January’s book club meeting was by far the most successful one to date because (among other reasons): 1) it had the highest number of attendees; and 2) Christa, our hostess, made THE most delicious truffle mac and cheese.  Plus, we welcomed [...]

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H&M: Heartless & Mean

January 6, 2010

Just when we thought H&M could do no wrong, our favorite cheap chic chain goes and lets us down.
An article in today’s New York Times exposed a horrific practice at the H&M in Herald Square: the store destroys brand new clothing on a nightly basis and dumps it outside the store where homeless people pick [...]

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