Swanky earrings!

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Every night I peruse red carpet photos to check out what everyone is wearing. Tonight, I came across these pics of Hillary Swank at the premiere of “PS I Love You” in Hollywood last week. I am OBSESSED with the platinum, gold and diamond chandelier earrings she had on. They are made by Neil Lane, who designs really gorgeous pieces for totally wealthy people and celebrities (rumor has it, he is designing Nicole Richie’s wedding ring- but again, that’s just a RUMOR).  I spoke to Lane during the Oscars last year, and he told me gold as well as black onyx are going to be something we see a lot of on the red carpet in the form of earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings. And these babies do not come cheap. The price is available upon request which is code for: if you have to ask you probably can’t afford them in the first place!

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What’s on the inside matters.

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I found this picture taken at a party I threw in 2006- I love how you can see the entire contents of my handbag. What’s in there is pretty typical. The bag is a Botkier circa 2004. In the middle is my ginormous Vuitton wallet stuffed with reciepts (I obsessively get a reciept for EVERYTHING), and my allergy medicine. On the side, you can see all of my lipstick and glosses, keys and wallet which holds all the important cards-like my kinkos copy card and NYPD press pass. ALSO you can see all of my mail which I carry around all week until I can go through it on the weekends…

Productive day.

Instead of going holiday shopping, I decided to plow through my “list of things to do today” and I am happy to report I got through most of of it! Expenses: Done. Responding to random e-mails: Done. Invoices: Done. Woo!

Also, stay tuned for the biggest, badest, most awesome last  minute gift guide coming to you at the beginning of the week. I promise you won’t be dissapointed!!

My handbag is my ball and chain.

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(Sienna Miller carrying a handbag that looks like mine)  

How heavy do you think your hand bag is? The Daily Mail reports the average weight of a woman’s hand bag is 5.2 lbs!! What’s more, in the next decade we are going to see that amount go up to 6.6 lbs!! Carrying gadgets like iPods, Blackberrys, iPhones, cell phones not to mention the ten tubes of lipstick, lip gloss and chapstick are to blame for the added poundage. No wonder my arm feels like it’s about to fall off every time I carry my bag around!!

The Hills invades our closets…again.

 Keggy belts

 (Our favorite example of a brightly colored, reversible belt is brought to you by Keggy. Price $132, for more information visit www.keggy.com.)

According to Lauren Conrad in a FoxNews.com piece, brightly colored reversible belts are so totally in for spring. I never quite got into the wide waist belt trend but these belts by Keggy seem acceptible. This is how I would wear them: Seven for all Mankind wide leg ginger jeans, a white tank top doubled up, and a pair of wedge espadrilles and gold hoops. For all you skinny minnys out there, this belt would look great cinched at the waist over a brightly colored dress!!