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Threadless.com recently teamed up with TOMS Shoes to launch their Threadless Loves TOMS One Day Without Shoes challenge. On April 8th TOMS Shoes is having their annual One Day Without Shoes. The event is a tangible way to make a statement for the millions of children who go shoeless everyday. To spread the word about…
And really, fiber is important for everyone, pregnant or not. It’s especially important during pregnancy when a high fiber diet is recommended to prevent constipation, which is an extremely common problem during pregnancy. One of the many joys of bearing children… This means you should have a goal to get 25 to 35 grams of…
Image Courtesy of eHow.com When Exactly Did We Start to Hate Our Bodies…? I can precisely pin-point the moment when I started to hate my body. I was twelve years old and my dad was a professor at UNLV, Las Vegas, Nevada. I hadn’t thought much about my appearance until the summer I would turn…
Image From the ‘Dove Real Beauty’ Campaign “When I looked in the mirror, it was like cutting my body up into different pieces and evaluating the pieces, as if it was some sort of thing … I would really focus on different parts and then rip those parts apart, being hypercritical. It was a violent…
So I was telling you about meeting What Not To Wear’s Stacy and Clinton at the Discovery Communications’ 25th anniversary gala. Despite being overwhelmed with eager admirers and reporters, they took time to speak directly to FH readers. We had a fabulous conversation about the stresses women face and how someone can empower herself by…
MUCH ADO ABOUT A MUTE SWAN: Part 4 “The Coldest Day of December” The interesting thing about mute swans is that they mate for life. They reach maturity around 2 years of age and that’s when they start scouring the pond for available males and females. The pond turns into a veritable bar scene on…
MUCH ADO ABOUT A MUTE SWAN: Part 3 “Breaking and Entering Into My Honda Mini-Van Is Where I Draw the Line!!!” So, you’re probably wanting to know if I ended up allowing Princess to move into the guest bedroom. The answer would be an affirmative ‘No’. You see, Princess, as beautiful as she is, was…
Who Took the Gloves Off???!! Reminiscing on How This Fashion ‘Must’ Became Passe It used to be that one of the very core items a lady possessed was a pair of white gloves. A lady could be seen wearing her white gloves at all times, except when she was eating at a prominent citizen’s house….
As a Matter of Fact I Can’t Fit into My Size 4 Jeans After Having Just Given Birth… Dear Readers, all of us mothers have certainly come across that urban myth about the friend, of the friend, of an acquaintance who went to high school with the so-and-so who used to know our sister, but…
Apparently Granny Panties Are Hazardous to National Security! My grandmother was a very interesting and quirky lady indeed. Born in 1906 to parents who grew up during the latter part of the Victorian Era, she was an interesting mix of the utmost propriety and manners thrown in with a little bit of feminist ideals, although…
This Holiday Season, Eat Your Heart Out and Still Look Swell, Without Looking ‘Swollen’ Oh my! Is it that time again? All of a sudden I am hearing Perry Como, from the 1958 recording, gently crooning “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” in the background. The kids are all sweetly tucked under fleece…
NEST sale on Hautelook Happening right now!! The Fashionable Housewife and The Fashionable Bambino have teamed up with Hautelook, one of our favorite sample sale sites to tell you about an exciting sale today! NEST, a fabulous line of chic children’s clothing. Their designs are based on popular and contemporary adult styles, yet are offered…
I have to admit that I grew up in a rather proper home, with a proper mother who knew how to set the table just so, and how to use which spoon when and with what. However, as proper as my own mother was, my grandmother was even more so. My grand-mother, having been born…
Under-pinnings! Behind every chic girl is a good stylist, but the secret to every chic girl’s look is encapsulated in her under-pinnings. I just love the word under-pinnings to refer to a lady’s unmentionables. It adds a hint of mystery, a little tension, the spice of the exotic. But, if you don’t buy that explanation,…
Vera Bradley pledges support from market tote sales to non-profit working in Africa, South Asia and Latin America to empower women and mobilize communities for self-reliance. Vera Bradley has pledged $10,000 USD from sales of their exclusive, new, reusable Market Tote bags to The Hunger Project (THP), a non-profit that works to end hunger and…
Yes it’s true. I kind of hate winter, What? It’s not like I hate Christmas, or the snow (much) or the jolly laughter of little children playing in the snow, I just hate freezing. Actually, I hate the cold waging it’s yearly war on my sexy skin, by drying it out and thus causing flaking…