New Dress a Day

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IT'S BRILLIANT

I really really like Orglamix makeup - it's organic, highly pigmented, affordable, and Orglamix offers a large range of colors. Being the very frugal person I am (as well as being addicted to giveaways), I've found a lot of Orglamix giveaways:

Check out the orglamix @hautebeauty giveaway on @smashbravoteam blog: http://tinyurl.com/25gj2wq

Cheri, the woman behind Orglamix, has almost daily giveaways on her facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/orglamix

Another orglamix review and giveaway: http://urbanbeautydetroit.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/orglamix-organic-mineral-makeup-review-giveaway/

And you can check out the Orglamix etsy store here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/orglamix

Food diary: Monday, July 12
muesli + milk
0.4 sour belt
crockpot lunch
2 rugelach (200 calories, 100 from fat)
banana
2 gin and tonics (171 calories x 2)
1 slice of wheat bread with peanut butter and jelly (150 calories)
chicken and rice noodles

Food Diary: Fri, July 9

coffee

2 pieces of cranberry nut toast with cream cheese

(Cream cheese: for 2 Tablespoons 90 cal, 8 g total fat, 4.5 g sat fat, 2g monounsat fat, 30mg cholesterol, 110mg sodium, 4g carbs, 4g sugars, 1g protien... I had at most 3 tablespoons; I'm a fiend)

handful of rainier cherries

Food Diary: Thursday, July 8, 2010
Lara Bar (Peanut Cookie) for breakfast
coffee
crockpot lunch
1.2 sour belts
1 chocolate cupcake with icing

1 vanilla cupcake with icing
2 apricots
handful of almonds

salad

1 pieces of salt water taffy

Food Diary: Wednesday, July 7
muesli + grapenuts + a little milk + greek yogurt <-- ran out of milk!
1/2 mug coffee
crock pot lunch
banana
2 apricots
2 sour belts
green tea
whole wheat pasta with zucchini

Food Diary: Tuesday, July 6, 2010
flax seed cereal + milk
coffee
crockpot lunch
strawberry ice cream
1 medium apricot + 1 small apricot
banana
peach twizzler
handful of corn nuts
handful of almonds
salad
1 piece of salt water taffy

Food Diary: Monday, July 5, 2010
flax seed cereal + milk
coffee
one medium slice of pizza
cherries
apricots
trail mix
a few slices of good cheese
frozen yogurt
whole wheat pasta with spinach, tomato, parmesan

My food consumption during 4th of july weekend was SO BAD that I'm not even going to post it out of shame :(

Food Diary: These might be a bit sketchy as I don't remember everything I ate over the weekend.

Monday, 06/28/2010
Breakfast: muesli + cereal
coffee
Crockpot lunch
m. chcolate lacey cookie
strawberries
cherries
2 peach licorice
2 salt water taffies
a little bit of lemon poppy seed scone
2 steeps of green tea

Sunday, 06/27/2010
Breakfast: eggs, bread + goat cheese, asparagus
coffee
Lunch/dinner: mac & cheese
Two peach licorice
Two salt water taffy candies
Cherries
Strawberries
Couple glasses of port wine

Saturday, 06/26/2010
Cereal + milk
d. chocolate lacey cookie + tea
Lunch: ribs + spinach paneer
White tea, 3 steeps
Dessert: Raspberry Cream Cheese croissant
Two peach licorice
Two salt water taffy candies
Dinner: a little leftover pasta + bread + cheese
One gin and tonic

Food Diary: Friday, 06/25/2010
muesli/cereal in milk
coffee
cup of milk
apple chips (58 calories, 34 mg sodium, 16g carbs, 14g fruit sugars)
crockpot lunch
fruitfull popsicle (110 calories, 18g carbs, 2.5g total fat, 20 mg sodium, 12g sugars, 10mg cholesterol)
2.5 slices of Papa John's pizza
glass of port wine

Food diary: Thursday, 06/24/2010
muesli/cereal + milk
coffee
colin's crockpot lunch
strawberries
3 milk duds
m. chocolate lacey cookie
2 mugs of tea (green and white)
half a bag of cheetos puffs
whole wheat pasta with salmon, goat cheese, and spinach
1 large drinkie (gin + tonic + grapefruit juice)

Food diary: Wed, 06/23/2010 - did so well until dinner!!
muesli/grapenuts + milk
coffee
colin's crockpot lunch
d. chocolate lacey cookie
cherries
strawberries
banana
dinner: bread+cream cheese, celery/snap peas + hummus
2 half-drinkies (limoncello + tonic water)

Food Diary - Tues, 06/22/2010

Muesli/grapenuts/milk

coffee

sesame bagel + fruit smear (dang refreshments at orientation)

breakfast burrito

lacey cookie (85 calories, 6g total fat, 2.5g sat fat, 7.5 mg chloesterol, 20mg sodium, 7.5g sugar, 1g protein)

cherries

strawberries

almonds

dinner: salmon feta salad

one chocolate mint
shrimp chips

Food Diary - Mon, 06/21/2010

Muesli/cereal/milk

coffee

donut (dang refreshments at orientation)

crockpot lunch

lacey cookie (85 calories, 6g total fat, 2.5g sat fat, 7.5 mg chloesterol, 20mg sodium, 7.5g sugar, 1g protein)

one milk dud

cherries

strawberries

dinner: ribs, beans, corn

fruityfull ice cream bar

...pretty bad days, especially Monday

Here is my contest entry into Denim Blog x Rich & Skinny's cargo leggings giveaway!

Awesome blog find!

So I don't know how I missed this, but there's a blog called P.S. - I made this and it's GREAT! Obviously, it's filled with D.I.Y. fashion and the results are amazing... who knew so much could be D.I.Y? Here are my favorite posts:

wrap heel
w/ Proenza Schouler
statement necklace
stud a shirt!
Preppy necklace
Tie-dye shirt
Embellished headband - so simple!
punky cuff bracelet
cork earrings

So, of course, I like shiny things, and what better way to control the amount of shiny than DIY? Here are a pair of earrings I made for a friend:


They's so pretty!

I have a confession to make: I am a contest addict! Here is a picture I posted on the REVOLVE Spring Style contest on Chictopia.com :

It took me forever to make the spring imagery around me, but it was soooooooooo much fun! The flowers and birds are origami, the tree trunk was made using GIMP (free image editing software), and the rest was hand-drawn.

I am sooooooooo bad at contests where you win by the number of votes you get! I need to stop doing "popularity" contests! But they often have the most awesome prizes...... sigh........ what is a contest addict to do?

Bluefly contest

Bluefly is doing a $500 contest where you upload a picture of the fly-est thing in your closet and the one with the most votes wins!

Check out my entry here and please vote for them if you think they're fly! I'd be happy to return the favor - just leave your link in the comments box :)

I'll put the picture here too because I'm so proud of these babies:

I hand-rhinestoned and flowered every detail into these shoes... they cost me at least $100 and a LOT of time but it was so worth it! I love them.

Purple Lab + Closet Couture

You can enter to win a makeup wardrobe from Purple Lab on Closet Couture here.
Prize: $300 (first), $100 (second), or $50 (third) of Purple Lab makeup!
Enter by: May 1, 2010
Other details: You hafta sign up for Closet Couture and "follow" Purple Lab in Closet Couture.

You can see my entry here.

Win win!

So for those of you looking forward to summer ( like meeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ) you can win a pair of REUSE shorts from denim debutante!

[Material] things I love (in no order because I love them all so much I can't even chose):
1. REUSE jeans (eco friendly!!!)
2. Denim Debutante (just plain AWESOME) blog
3. Dessert
4. Seafood
5. ok, all sorts of clothes.
6. all sorts of web comics
7. this list is becoming a little ridiculous, I am going to stop.

Jasmere.com is pretty awesome. They offer lesser-known businesses the opportunity to sell their merchandise at a highly discounted price (up to 70% off) on jasmere.com . Why is that an opportunity? This way, lesser-known companies get AWESOME exposure AND consumers can try new products for much MUCH cheaper than they normally would, all guilt-free! Even better, jasmere picks only high-quality retailers. Example: REUSE jeans - jeans that are 80% made from jean SCRAPS from CHINA! Talk about environmentally friendly! Or Amella... I didn't believe in gourmet caramels until I tried them! I have LOVED everything I bought from jasmere... I wish I bought more of some things!

That said, jasmere needs help ASAP:
"Help us get on Martha Stewart's show and you could win $150 in jasmere credit. All it takes is a quick email to television@marthastewart.com ("bcc" to info@jasmere.com). If we get invited on, *everyone* who participated this effort will get $25 in jasmere credit. Click for details: http://www.jasmere.com/martha . Drawing tomr night at 10pm Eastern, so don't delay! Let's show Martha the power of jasmere's community. Woo hoo!"

If you haven't signed up for jasmere yet, please please PLEASE use my referral link: http://www.jasmere.com/referral/777779e4

Let's all get $25 jasmere credit!!!!!!!!!!!!

In honor of the upcoming earth day, I'm posting about a few misconceptions some people in the general public have about being eco-friendly.

1. You cannot "make up" for an environmental misdeed with an environmental good. For example, you cannot "make up" for driving an SUV by recycling and using reusable bags at the supermarket. That's ridiculous and not how resources work. (That's like trying to make up for murdering someone by giving money to charity.) If you're not environmentally perfect, take responsibility for it! If you drive an SUV or drive a lot in general, know and understand that you're killing the environment and no amount of recycling you do can offset that. Own up.

Every little bit of environmental good helps (so keep recycling and using reusable bags, that's good) and every little bit of environmental bad hurts. However, driving is a LOT of environmental bad, not just a little bit.

2. In most places, you can't recycle anything with food stains on it. That's why you can't recycle used pizza boxes. Where I live, we're asked to rinse out any plastic containers before recycling them. Putting things in the recycling that have food stains on them when your local recycling plant can't handle them causes a lot of problems. Don't sabotage the recycling program!

You can yell at Starbucks for not offering recycling all you want, but the fact is you probably can't recycle those coffee cups anyway! The best way to minimize the environmental impact of your coffee is to bring in a reusable mug (and, of course, get "organically grown" coffee). Go a step further and bring Tupperware (or any reusable containers) to restaurants if you know you're going to take leftovers home (most restaurants appreciate not having to give you Styrofoam).

You can also suggest to your local cafe to use compostable/biodegradable plates/utensils/napkins/cups. That will make things a little greener.

3. You can't recycle plastic bags or Styrofoam in regular single-stream recycling. I don't care if it has the recycle triangle symbol on it. You can't put it in regular recycling.

4. Reusing is better than recycling. No contest. It takes energy to recycle (electricity and water to run the recycling plant, etc), especially plastics (see Wikipedia). Obviously, reusing does not take extra energy.

Now that I made some people feel bad about themselves, I'll join the self-consternation party and list my most heinous environmental misdeeds:
1. I take long, hot showers :(
2. I eat a lot of meat :(
3. I consume a lot of everything (food, clothes, makeup, electricity, etc)
4. I do ride in a car sometimes, approximately 3 or 4 times a month.

I'll keep trying to be better.

All I have to say about what Kanye West did to Taylor Swift is... Kanye, why do you have to be so heartless?

OK, here is a really awesome giveaway: http://myblogonbeauty.blogspot.com/2009/10/win-lashmantra-eyelash-serum-malibu.html

I'm very curious about eyelash growth serums, so I entered.

Food Diary: Day 1

Breakfast: 1/2 LARA bar - Apple Pie
Peach
2 Chocolate covered almonds

Lunch:
Food Colin made
1 cookie (140 calories, 70 from fat)
2 ginger snaps
Piece of Trident gum