Happy Friday, oh my darling! I hope you have had just the most lovely week & have been able to soak up some sunshine!

Today is my last day of 12 straight working days, & I am going to bask in the glory of doing absolutely nothing for the next two days! (Don’t worry though, I’ve got some posts on deck for you to keep you entertained this weekend!)

In the meantime, here’s some stuff to keep you busy!

Stuff you may have missed right here:

• Bonus Round: A Personal Manifesto
• Bonus Round: Solestruck Shoe Lust
• How To: Dress a Long Torso
• Summer Mix Tape!
• Reinventing Yourself
• A Little Bit of Heaven—May 9, 2013

For your bod:

• You know how every week there’s some new nautral health ingredient that’s supposed to be amazing for you? Well, here’s a list of 11 that actually have some science behind them.
• UGH, how amazing are these signature necklaces from Brevity?
• These geometric tattoos by Peter Ausrisch remind me of the work my friend Andrew has. So beautiful!
• Ooh, cruelty-free beauty products, right from the drugstore! Up yours, health food store makeup!

For your mouth:

• Yo Epicurious, I’m really happy for you. Imma let you finish, but Food.com had the 100 greatest cooking tips of all time.

For your mind:

• Amazing visual representations of data for people & networks in the United States! So pretty!
• I am fascinated by body language & what it all means.
• Negative space art makes my brain hurt. In a good way.
• Since I am actively trying to be smarter, I really appreciate this list of 25 scientifically proven ways to make yourself smarter. Also, it gives me an excuse to rewatch The Wire.

For your soul:

• Ready for a little dream-travelling? Here are ten beautiful natural swimming pools you’re going to want to visit.
• When I win the lottery I’ll totally visit the Maldives.
• The beauty & simplicity of going with the flow.

For your heart:

• I love love, & I love lists of ways to be more romantic with your partner!
• As a companion piece on my article on how to be loveable, here is an article on the ten habits of remarkably charismatic people.
• It’s international clitoral awareness week. (Pause for a beat.) We hope you come.

• Have you ever considered a job as a flight attendant? These ten secrets of flight attendants may give you pause!
• The high price of cheap clothes: how much denim shirt costs to manufacture, Bangladesh vs. the US.
• Money to burn? My list of ways to spend your tax refund not doing it for you? What about the 10 most expensive things?
• Worried that healthy eating is going to cost a fortune? Here’s a great article on doing it on a budget.

For fun:

• If you, like me, ever write letters in your head to inanimate objects, check out Dear Blank, Please Blank! Too fun.

That’s it for me & that’s all! Have a lovely weekend!

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Hello friend!

I hope you had a wonderful week! Here, for your browsing pleasure, are some links to help you waste some time on a Friday afternoon!

In case you missed what happened right here this week:

• Bonus Round: 10 Ways To Spend Your Tax Refund
• April In Photos & Videos
• GlossyBox: May Edition
• How To: Be Loveable
• How To: Throw a Tea Party
• Wardrobe Updates: Spring 2013
• A Little Bit of Heaven—May 2nd, 2013

For your bod:

• I wrote about wearing menswear for spring last week; here’s a look at five other spring trends which are good for the office.
• I love me a bath, & I love a good detox! Can’t wait to try giving myself a combo.
• Speaking of detoxification, here are some great foods to incorporate into your diet to kick things up a detox notch.

For your mouth:

• I eat a lot of stir-fry—it’s fast, it’s easy, & I can load it with veggies. I was delighted to find 15 basic stir-fry sauces. 
• This might have to be a weekend breakfast: chocolate chip oatmeal cookie pancakes+++!
• If you’re a kookoo for sweet potatoe fries as I am (especially with mustard!), give this recipe a try.
• Okay yes. This creamy avocado pasta will be tonight’s dinner.

For your mind:

• A great tongue-in-cheek look at why it’s hard to be smart. 
• Expand that big, beautiful, sexy brain of yours, lovely! Here are 40 websites to make you cleverer.
• I always listen to things to help relax me before bed. Lately it’s been the SuperEgo podcast (who doesn’t want to go to sleep smiling?), but I might change it up with the ten most relaxing songs ever. So says science!

For your soul:

• This might seriously be the coolest packing list of all time.
• We could all learn a thing or two from the Dalai Lama’s rules for living.

For your heart:

• You know when you feel weird & you just can’t put your finger on it? Here are 10 states of being that you’ve maybe never heard of! 
• This post from Jen made me cry in public.
• Oh guys… oh guys… I love this so much. It’s so useful. 40 ways to let go and feel less pain.

For your home:

• Great tutorial on transferring your photos to canvas. 
• I really like the idea of a vase of these painted feathers in my living room.
• My new apartment, oh, she is but tiny! Thankfully, Martha has space-saving solutions just for me!

For fun:

Hee. Source.

While I’m not one, I deeply love the introverts in my life. Source.

Have a lovely weekend! I hope you have some fun things planned!

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Happy Friday little lover! Here’s some stuff to make your day go so much faster!

Stuff you may have missed right here:

• Bonus Round: Stocking Lust
• Bonus Round: David Lachapelle
• BeautyLab: Jergens Natural Glow Review
• Style Inspiration: Menswear
• Flask Etiquette
• A Little Bit of Heaven—April 25th, 2013

For your bod:

• I am obsessed with coconut oil for a bunch of things (I shave my legs with it, I eat it, I use it on my hair), but here are fifty more uses for it!
• I always love recipes to try on my hair. Here are eight homemade hair treatments for you to give a whirl!
• I’m not yet over armloads of bracelets, oh no I am not, & these are my favourite DIY macrame ones so far; I love the hint of metal!
• Sometimes I get really anxious, you guys! Luckily I’ve found these alternatives to medication to help me deal with my anxiety.
• An excellent tutorial on how to transform your spring wardrobe with simple fabric dye.

For your mouth:

• Two-ingredient recipes. These are mostly desserts. I hope that’s okay with you.

For your mind:

• Interesting news story: a company that used false advertising to promote lap-band surgery has to pay out a settlement, part of which will be used on billboards to highlight the risks of weight-loss surgery.
• I luuuuurve me some personality tests! SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR FRIDAY.
• A recipe to increase your productivity.

For your soul:

• Oh my gosh, so lovely: 45 life lessons, written by a 90-year-old.
• I don’t know if I’d ever be able to do a trip around the world, but here are some tips to help plan one!
• How I would love to go to California’s Glass Beach!
• Also to see New York City’s hidden subway station.
• Think you’re too busy to meditate? Read this.

For your heart:

• A great article on the 12 ties that hold together long-term love.
• Caring for an introvert? Here are the top myths about introversion.
• Get your communication skills on with ten TED talks that will change the way you communicate.

For your purse:

• Can’t decide whether buying or renting is right for you? This calculator is a handy tool!

For fun:

• Make everything okay.

Evolution of Batman. Oh yes.

Have yourself a fabulous weekend, sweet baby!

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Happy Friday, little lover! I hope that you had an amazing week, & that your weekend will be filled with things you love!

Here’s some links to get you started!

For your bod:

• If you’re a stylish man, or want to be a more stylish man, definitely check out See Jack Shop for inspiration!
• Get. Out. You can treat a wart with duct tape?!
• “For me, the Dove campaign wasn’t even about beauty. It was about thinking about yourself in a way that isn’t based on truth.”

For your mind:

• An oldie but a goodie: a fascinating look at the power & influence of Vogue editrix Anna Wintour.
• I often get asked, what’s the point of haute couture? This article sums it up beautifully.
• Ridiculously obsessed with Betty Halbreich. As much as I like being me, I also kind of want to be her!
• Love him or hate him you can’t deny that Karl Lagerfeld is an interesting character. Here’s a 10-page (!) read on him.
• I wrote about Anjelica Huston a couple of weeks ago, & here’s a great Interview article on her.

For your soul:

• Oh, the days of luxury travel…
• Marketing the you you’ve invented.
• Wow. Just… wow. 18 Principles For Highly Creative Living.

For your heart:

• Gift-giving based on Maslow’s heirarchy of needs. What a great idea!
• Patton Oswalt speaks about Boston. Please read this if you read nothing else.
• Want to be happier? Here’s 22 things to incorporate into your life to get there.

For your home:

• Are you as devastated as I am over the loss of Google Reader? Lifehacker put together a list of great alternatives! I’ve started using Feedly & I’m pretty happy with it so far.
• Eight ways to edit your life & stuff. I’m going through this phase right now & it is so liberating.

For your purse:

• It’s okay that you’re not where your parents were financially when they were your age.

For fun:

• Heehee: suggestions for Cosmo headlines.
• Oh I laughed so hard at these… texts you don’t want to get from your parents!
• The Lululemon sheer pants issue has spawned a boat-load of terrible & awesome puns.

I’m working all weekend, but I also get to go to see The Taming of the Shrew on Saturday night, & attend the Prix Rideau Awards gala on Sunday! I hope you have a lovely time!

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Happy Friday! Let’s waste some time, shall we?

For your bod:

• If loving wire-wrapped stone rings is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
• Oh my gosh, I am going to make these feather shoe clips, put them on my slippers, & ponce around the house
• A financial argument for wearing makeup to work?

For your mouth:

• Uh-oh. Crunchy bloody marys? Danger zone!
  
• Deep-Dish, Single-Lady, Salted, Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie. Of course, the recipe only makes one. But of course I will make multiples.

For your mind:

• A fascinating piece on aging & the modelling industry.
• You’re hotter than you think.
• Oh my gosh seriously you guys read this right now: An Open Letter To the Guy Who Helpfully Announced “Daaaaamn Bitch, You Fat!” To Me In the Target Parking Lot This Morning. “Allow me to break out the world’s fattest violin”, indeed!
• A 72-year-old grandfather… modelling women’s clothing! I seriously love this. Especially the pictures of him without a wig on.
• Embracing feminists of all types rather than bringing them down: the Sheryl Sandberg backlash.

For your heart:

• I’m always on the lookout for fun & cheap date ideas.
• How to detox your relationship!
• Forget the Bro Code; Girl Code all the way!

For your home:

• Aah! I want to cover everything in pennies, you guys! It looks so good!
• I think I might take a stab at stab-binding my notebooks. (See what I did there?)
• I love Moroccan glass, but it’s so hard to find! I may try making my own.

For your purse:

• If you, like me, get your best work done in a coffee shop, Coffitivy is here to help!

For fun:

• A compelling argument, for being allowed to touch a butt.
• Male models with beards oh dear gracious yes please. The last two, especially.

Have a lovely rest of your day! I’ll be back this weekend with more silliness, of course!

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