Just My Cup of Tea

This is a class I want to take!

Lessons of a Lipstick Queen by Poppy King

"This breezy business how-to seeks to empower other women to start their own companies." -- Publishers Weekly

"With this how-to on starting a small business, King weaves together her own story with the key entrepreneurial insights she's picked up along the way -- the perfect primer for budding beauty princesses." -- WWD (Women's Wear Daily)

"Expect to get engaged, to laugh, and to be inspired by the ups and downs of Business Life 101."--Booklist

Available at Amazon.com

Put that kid to work!

Baby, Mix Me a Drink!

"Many people are parents, and many parents are thirsty. Yet too many parents allow their infant sons and daughters to lie about idly: napping, drinking milk, and whatnot. Why not put them to work? Observe how tots enjoy the shapes and colors, all the while learning how to mix a variety of basic cocktails. Thanks, Baby!"

Baby, Make Me BreakFast!

"Many people are parents, and many parents get hungry. It's time to show those infants how to concoct a simple breakfast! This instructional board book teaches precious little angels to be useful, at long last. It's a delicious way to start the day. Thanks, Baby!"

Baby, Do My Banking!

"Are you a parent? Have your finances become a chore? Perhaps you should hand over those onerous fiscal responsibilities to someone with a little more time on their hands: your child. Let them wait in line at the bank. What else have they got to do? Thanks, Baby!"

The Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independant Brides

by Ariel Meadow Stallings at Amazon.com

Paris: Chic & Trendy

Is there any other way?

 

By Adrienne Ribes-Tiphaine At Amazon.com

If you ever worry you are a bad mom...

Read this book and you'll definitely feel better about your parenting skills. 

Also file under: I share a lot with my mom, but not drugs or boyfriends

Summer Reading List: Flex Time

The Four Hour Work Week: Escape The 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join The New Rich.

Also see: The Anti 9-5 Guide

Summer Reading List: Plenty

Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally

Also see: Local Harvest, Food Routes, Eat Local Challenge, One Local Summer, Pocket Harvest

Grace-full

Grace Kelly: A Life In Pictures

Also see: High Society, True Grace, Visit Monaco

Go Slow

Slow Food Nation

Also see: Fast Food Nation (the movie), Fast Food Nation (the book), Fast Food As Addictive as Heroin, Fast Food Calculator

Summer Reading List: Real Food

Real Food: What To Eat and Why

Also file under: I'm lovin' it

Also see: What To Eat, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Farm Girl's Paradox, Nina Planck, Real Milk, Organic Pastures and La Leche League,

Rub a dub dub, thank God for the Grub

"Grub: Ideas for an Urban, Organic Kitchen" by Anna Lappé and Bryant Terry

Also see: Have your grub and eat it too on the web, the Grub blog, Added Value and Just Food, Natural Gourmet Institute

Summer Reading List: Essential fatty acids

At Amazon.com

Happy Earth Day, Earthlings!

From Chronicle Books

Also file under:  "I'll make mine a hybrid"

Bake Sale YUM

From Chronicle Books

Also file under:

I wish they had this when I was in elementary school

Chronicle Books doesn't pay me (believe it or not)

God, I wish I had a tapeworm

Little dogs, big cute

Available at Chronicle Books

Also file under:

Highly recommended by Emma

My!What a fabulous boa you have!

Skinny is so last year

Slim is in. By Cynthia Rowley. Available April 17, 2007 at Amazon.

Also file under:

Overwhelmed with excitment

The Princess and the Pea

Have you seen this version of the classic story? It's absolutely gorgeous.

Pick up your copy at Anthropologie or on Amazon.com

File under: Pink + green, inspiration and home decor ideas.

Why don't you...

 

Surf on over to Amazon and pick up this beautiful book for a little inspiration.

Pug Style

Proud Pug owners from around the country submitted their best pug mugs for a chance to appear in PugStyle, a photo book edited and foreword by celebrity pet photographer and In Touch’s “Stars and Their Pets” contributor Chris Ameruoso.

Find it at www.ilovepugs.photoworks.com 

Want your pet on the cover??  One of the coolest features about this program is you can go to the site and customize this book to your liking!!  Just click on “add your photos” and you can make this book your own!!

Proceeds go to Animal Haven SoHo, a no-kill shelter in New York City.

Tricia Guild "Pattern"

I see this book everywhere. And I want it. Bad.

Buy it on Amazon.

Books + Booze

1. Do you live in NYC?

2. Are you totally rad?

3. Do you like to read?

4. Do you like to booze?

If you answered yes to any of these questions (especially #4) then you sound like you'd be perfect for Books + Booze, a monthly(ish) book club.

In 2007, Books + Booze will be meeting in Brooklyn and Manhattan (yeah!) to discuss scanadalous literature, drink cocktails, stuff our faces and track Lindsay Lohan's progress in rehab.  E-mail me if you're interested and tell me a bit about yourself.

The book pictures is "Charity Girl" which is totally on my reading list. Yes, it is.

In other NYC happenings, if you haven't e-mailed me yet about the Bitch + Swap for charity and you'd like to participate, please DO! We have a location, we have goody bag items, once I make them, we will have cupcakes...now all we need is YOU! Don't be shy, damn it!

Naughty Knits!

Ingenious!!

 

Sexy, Saucy Knits available at Amazon.com

If you haven't broken your New Year's resolutions yet...

(or if you even bothered to make any to begin with...)

At Amazon.com

At Chronicle Books

File under: Why is everything at Chronicle Books so dang cool?

all at...Chronicle Books

Why do brides get to have all the fun?

Bride Ideas: A Creative Wedding Journal and LIST!! Maker

available at Chronicle Books (my fave)

Girl on Fire

Available at Chronicle Books

(Does anyone know when the Sienna movie comes out?)

Little Bunny

Pretty much the cutest thing you ever did see...at Chronicle Books

A super adorable book

for the baker or seamstress...or whomever in your life

At Amazon

Have you seen this book?

Not to go all literary on you and only post about books today, but have you SEEN this book? It's incredible. Go straight to Barnes and Noble and you'll see what I'm flappin' my gums about

The Audrey Hepburn Treasures by Ellen Erwin and others

So what if I haven't been a teenager in like...forever

I'm totally obsessed with this book

The Diet Book for Teenagers Only (cha!) by Barbara Schroeder and Carrie Wiatt available at Amazon.com and other places that sell books 

It's not you, it's me.

I've just been so damn busy, I haven't had time to update. 

In the meantime, here are two cute new books from Chronicle Books

 

I'll post pictures from the blogging event and my "commentary" on Fashion Week soon..ish.

xo

The Perfect Fit

by Megan Cleary. Available at Barnes and Noble

(I wonder what ratty old Uggs and Pumas with holes in them say about me? Actually, I'd rather not know.)

Ticket Stub Diary

On sale at Chronicle Books

Alligators, etc

 

Available at Amazon

Once I Ate a Pie

Sweet-as-pie book with fantastic illustrations.

"Once I Ate a Pie" by Patricia MacLachlan available at Amazon

Straight Up and Very Dirty

If you are a fan of Stephanie Klein's blog Greek Tragedy, check out her new memoir Straight Up and Dirty released today.

The Black Dahlia

Kelly's got me ALL kinds of obsessed with the Black Dahlia.

 

(All at Amazon.com)

Here are trailers for the movie (due out this fall...For all you L Word fans, Mia Kirshner plays Beth Short)

Un

Deux

Trois

Read Kelly's post HERE

Pug-a-riffic

Letters to a Young Pug due out October 2006

   

Can You Get This Pug Out of My Coffee?

Pug Hill 

The Portable Dorthy Parker

At Amazon and other super-duper cool retailers

If I've told you once...

...I've told you a hundred times.

You must read Eat, Pray, Love.

(thanks for the tip, Lisa)

Flyin' High

Available at Chronicle Books

A v. good summer read

(Perfect for the beach...I finished it in a little over 24 hours)

Available at Amazon

Viva Vodka!

 

Available at Chronicle Books

Roaring '20s paper dolls

At Amazon   

Summer Reading List Part 1

 

Zadie Smith -  On Beauty

Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking

Haven Kimmel - A Girl Named Zippy

Janice Erlbaum - Girlbomb

Bridget Harrison - Tabloid Love (cover to cover in one day)

Mary Lawson - Crow Lake

Audrey Niffeneger - The Time Traveler's Wife

Suggest more in my comments.

The Happy Hockey Family

(or "what I got in the children's book swap")....Yeah!

(Thanks Lobster Girl!)

Available at Amazon.com

One Special Summer

by Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier

Available at Amazon.com

You are invited...

To celebrate the publication of Tease: 50 Inspired Tee Shirt Transformations by Superstars of Art, Craft and Design

and help support 826 NYC

Thursday, May 11 7-10pm

Nom de Guerre, 88 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

View the invitation Download tease_invite1.pdf

Catalog Man

Mail Order Fashion Hunk Postcards

Available at Chronicle Books

Just in time for the weekend: Retox

By Jennifer Traig and Victoria Traig

Available at Chronicle Books

Finders Keepers

By Davy Rothbart

a "funky collection of letters, flyers and other miscellany from the pages of Found magazine"

available at Amazon.com

Photo Booth: The Postcard Book

Available at: Chronicle Books, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum Shop and other fine retailers

The May Queen Brooklyn Reading

Be There or Be Square!

   

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 8pm

at

BookCourt, 163 Court St. (Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens)

Reading with Louise Jarvis Flynn, Andrea Nicole Richesin, Heather Chaplin, Sara Woster, Kimberley Askew, Ayun Halliday, Ivy Meeropol, Jennifer Baumgardner, and Heather Juergensen

After-Party at Brooklyn Social

Find the book here

From Publisher's Weekly: "In these previously unpublished essays, writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, actors and businesswomen in their 30s take stock of their lives and "consider what they have lost, what they have gained, and what they still need to learn."

He Loves Me....He Loves Me Not...

by Georgia Routsis Savas

Available at Amazon.com

Music to my ears

Jean Godfrey-June's memoir is "memoir is fun, instructive and dishy" according to Publisher's Weekly.

Available at Amazon.com

Sweet Tooth

By the Editors of Daily Candy

"an alphabetized compilation of some of the best musings on topics ranging from how to plan a party to coping with enemies in the workplace to how to make a budget (and stick to it)"

Available at Amazon, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum Shop and other fine retailers.

Daddy-O!

Available at Chronicle Books

Also see: Nick and Henry Guest Blog; While the cat is away, will the mice play?

Get in my belly!

Available at Chronicle Books

Divorced is the new black (So I'm told)

by Plum Sykes

"light, wicked, name-dropping fun"

Available at Amazon.com

Cath Kidston's In Print

At Chronicle Books

Books and Booze: Book Number 1