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Real Simple Organizing Products : RealSimple.com
Categories: Bookstand, Stationery
These days, it’s not enough to be a print magazine. A magazine must have a Web presence. Some are even getting their own TV shows and branded products.
Time Warner’s Real Simple has a Web site, its own TV show on PBS, and now branded products.
I’m a sucker for gimmicks for organizing my desk – see my past articles on the File-It Calendar, bookmark flags, and Pro-Con pads – so I was curious to check out the new line of Real Simple Organizing Products.
Project box
I found many of the products overpriced, rather cheesy, and/or more gimmicky than useful. I did, however, like the Dual Notebook, which is two spiral-bound notebooks in one. I use one side for capturing ideas related to my job and the other side for capturing ideas not related to my work (including The Style Page). I also like the Project Box. I use the individual file boxes for storing ideas for different parts of The Style Page.
You may find Real Simple Organizing Products at Target stores.
What do you think of the organizing products branded by Real Simple? Vote at Quimble.
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Cosmetics that have caught my eye
From Elke von Freudenberg’s The Beauty Newsletter, Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Balms in Tarred (black) and Feathered (white). No, these products are not supposed to color your lips black and white for a Goth look, but are supposed to serve as transformers: Tarred is supposed to darken and deepen your natural lip color or lip stick, while Feathered is supposed to lighten your natural lip color or lip stick.
Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Balms in Tarred and Feathered
Paula Begoun, the consumer reporter whose web site now describes her as “the creator and innovative force behind Paula’s Choice skin care and cosmetics,” has now added gel eyeliners to her ever-expanding collections of skin care and cosmetics products. I’ve liked most everything I’ve purchased from Paula, as her products are effective and well-priced – I have many of her eye shadows and especially recommend her 2% Beta Hydroxy Acid Lotion for treating acne. My least favorite product is her Close Comfort Shave Gel.
I want Paula’s Constant Color Gel Eyeliner in Earthen (described as a medium soft brown) and Nightfall (described as an “almost-black brown with a subtle hint of plum”). I won’t need Espresso, as I am content using Sonia Kashuk’s eye shadow in Night (a deep charcoal brown) as an eyeliner: it is perfect for the smoky eye!
Constant Color Gel Eyeliner from Paula’s Choice
Please share your comments if you’ve tried any of these products. I’d like to know what you think. You can see other wished-for items on the Beauty page of our web site!
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Tom Ford Estée Lauder Collection :: Azurée :: now online
The much-hyped Tom Ford Estée Lauder collection Azurée is now online. As with his previous Youth Dew collection, Tom Ford researched the archives of Estée Lauder and reinterpreted another classic. There are three different color palettes: Azurée (peach and coral), Cap Bronzée (sand, amber, and bronze), and St. Tropée (mauve, violet, and plum). Ford describes the Azurée collection as “a collection for the woman whose fantasy takes her away to sexy, remote beaches” – Whew!
Tom Ford Estée Lauder Collection Azurée
While it was hard to come by the makeup for the Youth Dew collection – it wasn’t available from esteelauder.com or gloss.com and was available at only select stores – you may purchase items from the Azurée collection from esteelauder.com.
Beauty Addict has a review of the Azurée collection in her May 30, 2006 post That Long Weekend Glow. I swear, I didn’t copy that quote by Tom Ford from her article – she and I picked that quote independently!
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Home and Design pages now updated
Hard to believe that three weeks have passed since my last article!
I have just completed updating the Home and Design on The Style Page website.
Object of desire: Drum stool from Room & Board
For those of you who find this blog by searching on “interior design,” check out our new links for Bath, Walls and floors, Furnitiure, Home Accessories, Kitchen, Lighting, Tabletop, and Youth. I’ve greatly expanded the use of del.icio.us link rolls to direct you to relevant posts on this blog and external sites. Also check out my wish list on the front page of the Home and Design section.
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Anglomaniacs
Style.com, the home of Vogue and W online, has a terrific Flash presentation on British style, starting with Saville Row (men’s tailoring) to Carnaby Street (Swingin’ London of the 60s) to Kings Road (the birthplace of punk) to Central St. Martins, the fashion design school that produced Stella McCartney, among others.
This presentation was created to mark the opening of the Anglomania exhibit at The Costume Institute in New York City. Suzy Menkes of the International Herald Tribune reviewed the exhibit in her article Sex and the Brits: An ode to irony. Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director of The Daily Telegraph (my favorite “old” source for fashion) covers the opening night gala in her post on Madcap Anglomania.
If you want an entertaining read about Swingin’ London and its movers and shakers, pick up Ready, Steady, Go! : The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London
The cover of Ready, Steady, Go! : The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London
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Kickoff our Fashion web update with savings from Stylism
Categories: Fashion, Updates, Promotion, Jewelry, 2006, 2006-05, 2006-05-15
It’s been a while, but The Style Page has updated the Fashion pages on its website. We’ve expanded the use of linkrolls to the Fashion pages, so check our pages often for new items that might not be posted on this blog.
Necklace by Elizabeth Gillett, offered by Stylism
To kick off the update of the Fashion pages, we’re partnering with Stylism to offer a 10% discount off any order from their website. Stylism offers a wide variety of jewelry from designers such as Ayala Bar, Ben-Amun, Elizabeth Gillett (better known for her sweaters and other knitwear sold at Anthropologie), Liz Palacios, R.J. Graziano, and Sorrelli. To take advantage of this offer, please go to Stylism and enter coupon code TSP10 on the order page. This offer is good through May 15, 2006.
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Variations on the Chinese garden stool
Categories: Home, Accessories, Interiors
The Chinese garden stool is a low stool (only about 20″ high) that typically is round on top, bulges out, and then tapers to the bottom. It is great as a home accessory, a side table, or even a place to sit. The one pictured above, from Oriental Furniture
Visit our photo album for modern takes on the Chinese garden stool, including stools by ceramicist Michael Jones, a tea house fountain from dharmacrafts.com, and a steel “Penta” (5-sided) end table from Room & Board.
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National Poetry Month, too.
Not only is this week National Library Week, the entire month of April is National Poetry Month.
Commemorative poster for National Poetry Month, April 2006
Some ways to recognize National Poetry Month:
1. Read the Poet’s Choice column from the Washington Post. Every week, Robert Pinsky, who served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (sometimes informally referred to as Poet Laureate of the U.S.) from 1997 to 2000, selects a poem for analysis. You can track updates through the linkroll on The Style Page > Bookstand > Books. The 10th anniversary of Poet’s Choice will be marked in the April 16 issue of Washington Post’s Book World supplement.
2. Subscribe to the American Academy of Poets’s Poem-a-Day service, in which you will receive a new poem in your inbox everyday.
3. Listen to audio from The Poetry Archive, which features readings of poems by their authors, both those who are living and those who have passed on. Readings by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (died 1892) and Robert Browning (died 1889) are featured.
4. Has a poem affected you in a certain way? Are there some lines which have been a source of comfort or solace to you? Find out what poems mean to others through the Favorite Poem Project, founded by Robert Pinsky, and Life Lines, from Poets.org. Also listen to the poem beginning “Death, thy servant is at my door” by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, as read by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, who lost her mother, her father Johnny Cash, and her stepmother June Carter Cash in the same year (you will need to browse or search the page for “Her Favorite Prayer”).
Links to Poets.org, The Poetry Archive, and Favorite Poem Project may be found through The Style Page > Bookstand > Books
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National Library Week, April 2-8
Ok, I know that my articles on books and readings don’t draw readers in the way that my articles on Top Picks for ’06 or L’Oreal HIP High Intensity Pigments or Vital Radiance have done, but I’d like to draw your attention to National Library Week, which is April 2-8, 2006. National Library Week celebrates “the contributions of U.S. libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support” and encourages reading.
The American Library Association has more about National Library Week on its site. You can even buy posters such as this one featuring the babe-lish Aishwarya Rai through the ALA bookstore.
For more inspiration, see The Style Page > Bookstand > Books.
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