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Screen Savers
Wednesday, June 23, 2004Hide the clutter with panache and dashes of your own personal effects! Great in a dorm room or home office, this three-panel cotton canvas wallscreen ($199) from Reliable includes a hanging metal basket and shelf, magazine rack plus three picture hooks. Create a seasonal display by splashing it with summer flowers and it'll transition quickly in Autumn when accented with leaves and gourds. Have two children battling it out in one room? This item creates instant privacy they'll have a blast personalizing, meaning less headaches for you! |
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You Light up my Life
Tuesday, June 22, 2004If you've been searching for gifts you won't find anywhere else...MousseShop makes the process not only a cinch, but a total joy ride! Take our pick of the day for example - their British lamp shade (named after a seaside resort) that can be hung upside down on standard lamps or used as a ceiling pendant -- all that versatility for just $39.50. Other out of the box items you'll find to light up your life include The Hangover Pack ($18), Recordable Postcards ($10), Spike, your personal Urban Pet ($29) and totally laughable Ugly Dolls ($29). |
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Quick Draw
Weekend EditionGet Styli beautiful faster than you can sharpen a pencil! Styli-Style's introductory set includes all the colors you'll need to spring into summer with style. For a limited time, you'll save 60% on the set (regularly $64.00, just $25.00) which offers: 5 Line & Seal Eyeliners, 3 Line & Seal Lipliners, 3 L3 Shadow Pens & 1 Duo Sharpener. Line & Seal Eyeliners are the first semi-permanent eyeliner and lasts over 18 hours! Line & Seal Lipliners are semi-permanent and last up to 8 hours. Both Line & Seal Eye & Lip liners have received Self Magazine's Healthy Beauty Award. L3 Shadow Pens are long-lasting to the 3rd power. These semi-permanent metallic liquid eyeshadows last up to 8 hours and don't crease plus their unique flat design won't slip in your hand during application. |
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Love Bugs
Wednesday, June 16, 2004Adored by fine jewelry connoisseurs since the '50's, Aaron Basha's couture jewelry creations are whimsical and extraordinary. Famous for his adorable jeweled baby shoes and unlimited range of charms, his newest Love Bugs are a precious collection of multi-colored rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings adorned with the kind of bugs you'll be eager to wear with everything you can. Pieces range from $750 - $8,800 and are of heirloom quality -- many with brilliant diamonds as only Madison Avenue's finest jeweler can do. |
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Party Time!
Tuesday, June 15, 2004Planning some splendor in the grass? Whether it's a quiet, romantic picnic or a more intricate family reunion. What could be better than harnessing the resources available online to make your event rival that of Martha Stewart? RecipeLink has an incredible collection of picnic and summer entertaining recipes here. Ladies' Home Journal offers up eight super creative (and very easy) summer decorating tips here. Parents looking for a unique birthday bash for their tots will find this tip sheet fun and informative! Looking for something out of the ordinary? Check out these crafty ideas including a Pajama and Indoor Beach party. And get the word out creatively with Crane's whimsical assortment of backyard and BBQ entertaining invitations here (customizable on your own printer). |
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Rainbow
Room
Thursday, June 10, 2004$10,000 and change for Patrick Norguet's Rainbow Chair (shown) is a lil' steep for most decorating budgets, but you'll find yourself engrossed for hours browsing the trend setting modern decor, furnishings and gifts at TheMagazine.info. The store features free Design Tips for Modern Lofts, an online gift registry and enormous selection of furnishings from leading designers including: Alessi, Artifort, Cappellini, Herman Miller, Leolux and Mueller Moebel. Don't have 10 grand to drop on a chair today? Browsing TheMagazine.info is guaranteed to leave you with infinite decorating inspiration to help make use of things already lying around your home! |
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Night Lights
Wednesday, June 9, 2004Twinkle, twinkle little star! Planning a fabulous outdoor party this summer? Illuminate your event and guests in the prettiest of light with the Net's most elegant selection of party lights from ShojiDecor. The store's full of beautiful oriental decor products ranging from rice paper table & floor lamps, shoji blinds that'll cool your home this summer, to these Maru party lights ($52 for a string of 10). Plug 'em in and entertain knowing you'll have the most stylish party in your zone! |
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Elephant
in the Room
Monday, June 7, 2004Born in Zimbabwe in 1982, Flora's a 10,200 pound elephant with lots of dignity and style! Orphaned at the age of 3 when poachers killed her mother, Flora was then sent to the States to work in the circus for a long and lonely 18 years. Retired in 2001, Flora was shipped this past February to the Elephant Sanctuary in Honhenwald, TN. Wildlife Works Free Flora campaign needs your support to help secure Flora's permanent retirement in Honhenwald where she now gets to spend her days roaming 3,000 acres and for the first time in her life -- now has a family! Purchase your Free Flora Tee ($25.00) and $10 of each shirt sold will help fund Flora's well-earned respite! |
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Spray Imperfections
Away
Weekend EditionArtists striving for the perfect finishing touch have long relied on airbrushing. Now you can achieve the same results with your look - even during summer's most unrelenting conditions. Sally Hansen's Airbrush Makeup ($7.99, click HERE for coupons) lets you spray on perfect skin in an instant. This lightweight, irritant free formula imparts an invisible, impeccable finish. It's long wearing, mistake-proof and water resistant. Your skin will look just like a cover girl's! For those who want supermodel legs without the fuss and snags of nylons (who can stand those in the heat?), check out what The New York Times is calling "one of the most progressive inventions of the year!" Air Stocking combines a rich formula of hydrolyzed silk and moisturizers to create a flawless skin texture on the legs. Varicose veins, bruises, and scars are immediately covered and your gams are smoothed to perfection. The water-resistant finish stays put (after you let it dry for 2-3 minutes), rain or shine. Grab yours from Sephora ($28) by searching for: air stocking plus click HERE for current Sephora promotions. |
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Men Wrinkle
Too!
Wednesday, June 2, 2004Unless they're a proud metrosexual, most men won't admit to being too passionate about their skincare choices. But the tide's quickly turning and well groomed men are enjoying the indulgence of great products. Clarins has a specially targeted line featuring Bison Grass Extract, a source of strength and vigor for men's skin! The starter set ($37.50) includes a 2.6 oz Active Face Scrub , 1.7 oz Moisture Balm , 0.7 oz. Active Hand Care and 0.4 oz. Total Wrinkle Control packaged in a cool navy travel bag. To find quickest, search for: 126423 at Nordstrom and when you use promo code: FACE at checkout you'll receive a FREE deluxe travel size Men's Active Face wash with your $50+ Clarins purchase. |
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Pink Pour
Homme
Tuesday, June 1, 2004We fashion lovin' girls know how fast pink has become summer's ~it~ color. It's effect somehow instantly doubles when it's worn by a man - there is nothing more irresistible than seeing your guy wearing a splash of pink! Rev up Dad's wardrobe this Father's Day with some of these fresh styles! Piombo's pink & beige stripe cotton dress shirt is perfect for the business dad and really pops with Giorgio Brutini Novello Pink Leather Lace-up Shoes. Metro dads will own the street with Marc Jacobs very hip rose shirt with brown geometric pattern (shown). Athletic Dads will soften right up with French Connection's pale pink cotton jersey casual shirt (polished off perfectly with Duffs Road Runner Black & Pink Skateboard Shoes). While the more conservative will look beachy keen in Polo Ralph Lauren's Polo sport pink cotton blend swim trunks. |
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Memories...
Weekend EditionIt's time to fire up the grill, invite family and friends over and create some memorable times! Digital photogs toting their cams to capture this summer's memories may not know this (it shocked us), but the cost of printing one 4x6" color photo at home is $1 when you factor in ink and top notch paper - not to mention the time involved. The cost to upload the same picture and have it printed out online averages a mere 29¢. Try Shutterfly this summer and you'll get your first 15 prints FREE, or save an extra 20% printing your pics at oFoto. Your pictures will arrive in the mail within days and the quality is out of this world. For high quality archival products, stop by Exposures where you'll find brag books, photo boxes, leather photo bookmarks and the gorgeous leather albums pictured here. The Pink and Maize albums are from Exposures Bedford collection ($14.95/leather envelope or $60/album). The purple album is a flashier, more affordable leather version ($29.95) from their Felicity Collection and can also be personalized in silver foil at an additional cost. |
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Bionic Sheen
Thursday, May 27, 2004If you've ever dreamed of sleek straight hair and want to exterminate the summer frizzies, use what the pros rely on for Hollywood's most glamourous manes! Bion's Fine Ceramic Digital Flat Iron gives you even shinier results than typical ceramic straighteners with its' fine ceramic plate. Plus the Bion uses digital liquid crystal display technology with patent pending flat screen monitor display indicating your exact setting and temperature: No more guesswork! It's by no means cheap (Regularly $230), but coming directly from the mouths of those who've used it, it's worth "every penny" as it leaves your hair stick straight all day long - even in the most humid conditons. Grab yours today from Folica at $50 off (on sale for $180) + FREE Shipping! |
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Koo Koo
Tote
Wednesday, May 26, 2004Scoring "Best of the Web" marks by InStyle Magazine and the New York Times, Koo Koo Bear Kids has the cutest stuff on the planet for kids. Bedding, rugs, organizers and gifts that are so elegantly cheerful - you'll want to pick up a few things for yourself even if you're an empty nester. Our latest crave is this catchy canvas tote ($26). It's uber versatile with a lined/waterproof "tub" center designed to hold ice and cold drinks. Two large outside pockets hold magazines and flip-flops while four smaller ones catch everything else that may fall in. Perfect for the beach, a handy gardening tote, or bath toy organizer...its versatility reaches to infinity and beyond! |
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It Takes
a Village
Tuesday, May 25, 2004Today is National Missing Children's Day. First proclaimed in 1979 by President Ronald Reagan, the day acts as a reminder to renew our efforts and help find missing children. The rare case of Elizabeth Smart helped prove that missing kids can indeed be found. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children invites you to take a few seconds and look at the missing children's photos listed on their site. Every glance gives these children an Elizabeth Smart chance and possible long-awaited reunions with their families. NCMEC's website is also a must see for every parent! In it you'll find a wealth of resources on how to prevent your children from being subject to online predators, how to submit a sighting, a missing kids desktop alert system and tips you may not otherwise think about to help keep your child safer. Because one can never be ~too~ safe. |
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Turn $30
into $300...beautifully!
Monday, May 24, 2004Treat yourself to a treasure of new skincare goodies valued at over $300 for less than $30 out of pocket! First, polish your skin to a radiant glow with derma e's nine product sampler - proven to diminish the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and scars. A $17 value that's yours for $4.95. Then grab Allure's "Play Safe in the Sun" Beauty Box before it's all gone. $23.99 delivers lots of beauty booty to your doorstep from brands including: Blue Lizard, Coppertone, De-Luxe, Kinerase, Shiseido and Solangé. Plus $5 of your purchase is donated to the amazing efforts of The Skin Cancer Foundation. |
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Sugar Sugar
Weekend EditionRefined white sugars aren't so hot for your bod and used in more places than we can even fathom. Sprinkled into coffee, baked into cookies and cakes and your pancake syrup is loaded with the stuff. What surprised us was how many natural, healthy alternatives there are out there! Take Agave Nectar for example. A syrupy liquid that's great for use in tea, coffee or drizzled over waffles and pancakes. $4 for 11.75 oz and 1/2 cup of it is equal to a cup of sugar. Stevia, a Paraguay native calorie-free herb that's FDA approved as a supplement, is far sweeter than sugar. 1 tablespoon of stevia-leaf powder = 1 cup of sugar and it's a fantastic baking alternative to sugar. See Stevia.com for lots of great recipes and places to purchase its' different formats online. Brown Rice Syrup, a traditional Asian sweetener, has a subtle butterscotch-like flavor and doesn't just sweeten, it also contains small amounts of B vitamins and minerals. $3.31 for 21 oz, 1.5 cups of it is the equivalent of 1 cup of sugar. Popular with macrobiotic afficionados is Amazake, also known as "sweet sake" in Japan. It's great when blended with fruit to make smoothies, poured over cereal in place of milk and used in puddings & baking mixes. It's easy to digest and is a complex carbohydrate weighing in at $3.59 a pint. 1.5 cups of amazake is equivalent to 1 cup of sugar. |
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