How to Read Rue Mag Step-by-Step

1. Stop what you're doing
2. Click on over to Rue Mag issue number three.
3. Skip to page 100.
4. Yes, I know there's some other good shiz in there, ppl but who's in charge here, me or you? THATS WHAT I THOUGHT, SUCKAZ!
5. Stare at all the amazing photos of Nicole from Sketch 42 Blog's amazing apartment...and her amazing family...and, yep, even her amazing leather jeggings.
6. Realize your space sucks a dizzle.
7. Cry
8. Read the article I wrote about Nicole's amazing space.

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[GIFTED] Drunk Dogs

You know how sometimes you're just sitting around doing sudoku puzzles-n-stuff, and then you say to yourself out loud: OMGZ, MY DOG IS SO CUTE! IF ONLY I COULD GET HIS HAWT ASS ON A BOTTLE OF WINE!?

Just me?

Anyway. YOU CAN!

A Dog's Life wine allows you to send in pics of your dog (or pics of friends' hawt dogs), and then they print em, and stick em on a friggin bottle of wine! No clue if the wine is actually good or not, but who the hell cares! YOUR DOG IS ON THE BOTTLE! You can even customize it further with your own caption. i.e. MY DOG IS WAY HOTTER THAN YOURS, like just for example.

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[REVIEW'D] The Alt Design Summit

Hey all you ppl who didn't go to the Altitude Design Summit (aka #altsummit) in Salt Lake City last week: SUCKKKKKKAAAAZZZZZZ!

Yep, it rawked that hard.

In it's second year, the Altitude Design Summit brings together the best of the best in the world of shelter/design bloggers for 2 days of kickass panels, inspiring keynotes, and down-n-dirty networking. I didn't attend last year so I didn't really know what to expect. But I was super impressed with their list of speakers, and thought the sessions sounded killer, and oh yeah, full disclosure: the company I work for, Squarespace was one of the sponsors.

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[YOU'RE WELCOME] Bangin' Hostess Gifts

When I cook for friends, it's generally assumed that I only expect them to bring the biggest bottle of the cheapest wine they can find.

But, for those of you out there that have a disposable income AND try to keep it classy (did you ever know that you're my hero?), you may want to show up to a dinner party with more than just a cheap bottle of hooch. 

You want to bring something thoughtful, something genuine.  Something relatively cheap and not too personal.

That's right, we're talking hostess gifts.   

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Who Gives A Shit: Nail Polish In Weird Colors?

I watch Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars, have read every Twilight book, and I'll even admit to thinking Justin Bieber is *kinda* cute, but for some reason, I gotta draw the line at weird nail polish colors.

And by "weird" I pretty much mean anything that's not some sort of variation of red, pink, coral. Like blue, green, yellow. OMGZ, and if you're using one of those colors AND you have sparkles in it!? I just can't.

For some reason, I am just far...and I mean F-A-R too old for that shit.

Just me? Are you guys down with the bizarro colored nail polish?

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