Categories: Fashion, Bags, Promotion

Renée Davide is a new line of handbags from the sister-brother team of Renee and Davide LaTulippe. Renée handles sales and marketing from her home base in Tuscany, Italy, while Davide focuses on design and fabrication in New York City. Their handbags feature classic shapes, Italian leather, and European linen with a twist: the fabric is embellished with embroidery featuring their whimsical designs.

Here are Renée Davide’s most popular designs:

The Signature Satchel, featuring the flamingo logo that has become the Renée Davide signature

The “Catsanova” wristlet

The Style Page is delighted to announce that Renée Davide is offering a 15% discount any of their regular priced handbags (which also include totes, day bags, and clutches). To take advantage of this offer, visit their online shop at www.reneedavide.com and enter discount code StylePage15 in the comments section on checkout.

(NOTE: Your discount will not show up at checkout, but will be taken when your order is actually processed).

This promotion is in effect until Saturday, April 8, 2006. We will repost this message periodically to remind you about this offer.

Categories: Miscellany

I’ve liked how some bloggers “tag” or assign their entries to different categories, but didn’t know how to tag using Blogger. By searching Blogger help, I found out how to add tags.

You can now find entries on The Style Page blog with particular tags by visiting our Technorati profile or del.icio.us/thestylepage. del.icio.us features a comprehensive list of tags and also provides customized RSS feeds for entries with particular tags. That way you can subscribe to only the topics that interest you.

I’ve gone NUTS with tagging! Although I said that I wouldn’t tag all entries, I have indeed tagged all 100+ entries … and even embellished archived entries with pictures. You might enjoy browsing the archives to see our new additions.

Check out the linkroll I created for the Books page! Also see the tagroll I created for this blog … just scroll down the sidebar to My Del.icio.us tags.

Categories: Home

Just before the end of January, we finished updating our Home and Design pages.

Visit our many new additions to the Home and Design pages on The Style Page website. Also check out the list from TheThingsIWant in the right column of the index page.

Categories: Beauty, Cosmetics

Paula

Ever been frustrated by advice to determine your “undertones” by looking at the veins in your wrist to see if they were more blue than green or vice versa? Paula Begoun, the consumer expert whose web site now describes her as “the creator and innovative force behind Paula’s Choice skin care and cosmetics,” offers sensible, easy-to-follow advice on determining skin tone to find your best shade of foundation.

Categories: Miscellany

to all our readers!

Categories: Beauty, Cosmetics

If I didn’t get my hair colored, my hair would be completely white. I even have my hairdresser dye my brows to cover white hairs, but white hairs keep appearing. That’s when LORAC Brow Wax in Brunette comes in to cover the white hair and groom the brows into place at the same time. For those with lighter hair, LORAC Brow Wax also comes in Blonde and Auburn.

To apply the LORAC Brow Wax, I use Sephora Short Handle Synthetic Beveled Eyebrow Brush

I am addicted to eye makeup. I scrutinize eyeshadows in the way that other people scrutinize paint chips. My latest acquisitions are
Lola Cosmetics Eye Shadow in Bones and Firehouse, a reddish brown that I use for the crease and the outer third of my eyelid.

I also purchased Clinique Brush-in Creme Eyeliner in Black Honey (part of Clinique’s holiday collection based on its popular Black Honey lipstick) and like that product, but I was taken aback by the small amount of product there is. Don’t bother with the itty-bitty brush furnished with the eyeliner – use a full-size slant-edge eyeliner instead.

Categories: Bookstand, Books, Stationery

Stack of books from LibraryThing

Greetings,

The Bookstand pages have now been updated. Check out the new listings for Stationery – especially timely, as Christmas and Chanukah are upon us.

Also check out new listings for Books such as Books – Classics – Literature from About.com and LibraryThing. I discovered LibraryThing through a comment on this blog, after I mentioned ConnectViaBooks in my previous update of the Bookstand pages.

By merely looking at the home page, It is evident that the focus of ConnectViaBooks is social networking, while the focus of LibraryThing is cataloguing. I soon discovered that “Tim” who left the comment is the developer of the LibraryThing website. I wrote him to explain why he thought that his website was better than ConnectViaBooks.

Tim compared the lengthy sign-up procedure for ConnectViaBooks versus the “comically simple” approach used by his site – just enter a name and password and you can begin cataloguing books. Even if you don’t sign up, you can browse people’s catalogs – for example, you can browse my catalog (three books!) at http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=thestylepage.
Tim even provide a utility to create a “widget” that features books from your library – I created a widget for the Books page.

Other benefits of LibraryThing include:

– Searches of the Library of Congress and other libraries around the world
– Use of real cataloguing systems, such as the Dewey Decimal System and Library of Congress call numbers.
– Editing capabilities, including the creation of tags that are meaningful for you. Tagging, or “Folksonomy,” is also used by TheThingsIWant.com for creating and managing wish lists, del.icio.us for creating and managing bookmarks to share, and flickr for photo sharing.

Categories: Beauty, Cosmetics

FYLO Cosmetics (see our April 26, 2005 post) will debut at Henri Bendi November 18-20.

Congratulations to Heidi for getting her line picked up by Henri Bendel!

Categories: Home,

My comments on Cars and Stripes in last week’s Design Within Reach’s DWR Design Notes are published in the current DWR Design Notes – just scroll down to the bottom.

Categories: Fashion, Jewelry

Twelve years ago, I took advantage of the personal shopper services at Nordstrom after I moved from a small town in the Midwest to the DC metro area. She put together two outfits with wool gabardine trousers, a hopsack blazer, and two silk camp shirts, one a “watercolor” print and the other a paisley, for which I received a lot of compliments. She also selected a pair of bronze faux pearl clip earrings by Carolee and a matching necklace of oversize faux pearls, which I call my “Wilma Flintstone necklace.” While I have given away or discarded most of the pieces and worn the paisley campshirt until the fabric itself became frayed and threadbare, I still have the clip earrings (I lost one of the earrings and purchased a replacement pair directly from Carolee) and necklace.

My style and tastes have changed, but I’m still fond of Carolee’s faux pearls. My latest acquisition is the Gold Coil Bracelet (below). It looks great with the multistrand necklace of brown seed beads that I purchased from mexx.