I Sold My Soul for a Haircut: Sponsored Content as an Influencer
Navigating paid brand partnerships as an influencer and when money has you lose sight of your beliefs and business goals.
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Alison Gary of Wardrobe Oxygen Offers Personal Wardrobe Advice at IKEA
On March 9, 2013, Alison Gary of Wardrobe Oxygen was invited to speak at the College Park IKEA. With over a decade of fashion experience, Alison Gary offered tips and answer audience questions about how to organize, curate, and update their own closets. The topic of Alison Gary’s presentation was, “Closet Cleanout and Organization: Refreshing…
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True Fashionista: Interview with Angie Cox of YouLookFab
There’s some people who like fashion, and there’s some who live and breathe it, understand it, research it, and share their passion and knowledge with others. Those folk who understand proportion, why Emerald is the hot color of the year, how that Forever 21 dress was made and what designer inspired the print and silhouette,…
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True Fashionista: Interview with Chastity Garner
I get often receive emails and comments from women stating that fashion is unattainable because of their size. That I don’t get it because I have never been larger than a size 18. That they can’t relate to fashion blogs because they never feature fashionable plus-size women. That they can’t wear current trends because they…
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Seeing Morrissey in Concert at Strathmore
This weekend, dear Emily from Capital Style asked on Twitter is anyone wanted to buy her tickets to see Morrissey at Strathmore on January 16th. Um, ME ME ME!!! Since Emily got the chance to instead see Moz in Atlantic City this past weekend, her cool opportunity was an opportunity for me as tickets sold…
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Blogger Burn-out: How to Get Reinspired for the New Year Jan 12, 2013
The fabulous Kat at Ginger, Adorned recently asked on Twitter what fellow bloggers do to get through burnout. It reminded me that I had started a post on this very subject a few months ago but never did anything with it. Kat inspired me to finish my thoughts, and made me realize that my experience…
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Les Misérables: My Worlds Collide
When I realized: Was also: The 16-year old in my heart swooned. Yesterday was a wonderful Christmas. We hosted for the first time; Karl made some sort of breakfast casserole, had fresh fruit and my mom made her awesome coffee cake. Emerson had so much fun and loved what Santa brought. For lunch, Karl made…
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Hive on the Hill: The Shoe Hive’s DC Pop-up Shop
Like fashion, I believe in quality instead of quantity for my social life. My evenings and weekends are primarily dedicated to my family, and only a few choice blog events. Last night I attended a fabulous and quality event; Hive on the Hill from The Shoe Hive. While The Shoe Hive has the most adorable…
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True Fashionista: Meagan Kyla
Oh the tangled web blogs weave. Visit a blog and click on the profiles of commenters or the links in their blogroll and you go down the rabbit hole. I could easily spend hours on the computer with just one innocent click in a blog’s sidebar. Sometimes it’s a time suck, and sometimes you hit…
