Between the months of October and April, I turn into a for-real alligator. Here's how I deal.
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This is happening today! Yeeeee.
Oh. It all makes a lot more sense now. (What Happens To A Woman's Brain After Having A Baby, via The Atlantic.)
The Workout (Or Hang Out) Wardrobe
Hard Tail Crossover Sweater & Bootcut Knit Pants
OK, seriously: when did fitness wear go and get all cute on me?
Maybe it was during those years when I was ignoring it completely (by which I mean All Of Them).
One-Pot Chicken With Artichoke Hearts
I first discovered a version of this meal about six months after I started blogging, when a reader sent me a Giada recipe for a dish called "Chicken Vesuvio" (as an aside, the photos I took of the dish are terrible...but also kind of cool examples of something I realized very early on that I had to work on). Over time that recipe evolved into the dish you see here, which is one of our all-time family favorites. Even when I think, "ehhh, not in the mood for chicken"…I am always in the mood for this. It's that good.
Oh - and this is an important part: it uses chicken thighs, which are apparently a thing that nobody wants to buy, because they are hella cheap. So cheap that I just said "hella." (They're also hella good.)
Chicken With Artichoke Hearts (serves 3-4)
15 Best Dresses For A Vegas Wedding
While we're on the topic of Vegas weddings and you doing you…
Any of these short (and super-chic) dresses would look pretty killer next to an Elvis (and some are less than two hundred bucks). Just saying.
Your Wedding, Your Way
Q. Jordan,
I'm engaged! Yay! Honestly, my dream wedding is a quick and fun weekend trip to Las Vegas (the Little White Chapel where Britney Spears got married, duh), followed by a week somewhere warm. And if not Vegas, a courthouse. No part of me wants the normal ritual or ceremony girls have...I've never wanted that.
Ramshackle Glam + Prim & Propah: Interview…And A Giveaway
Head over to Prim & Propah for an interview in which we talk the one beauty product I never forget, how to have your partner help with your blog without ending your relationship, and where RG is going next (plus a giveaway of Ramshackle Glam).
Weird Product Test-Run: Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Nighttime Miracle Moisturizer
Have you heard of Elizabeth Arden's Eight Hour Cream? You probably have: it's a super-rich emollient that you use on everything from your cuticles to your elbows to your eyebrows, and is a total cult product (and one of my personal must-haves). And it's not exactly "weird"; more like "classic"…so what's up with the "Weird Product Test-Run" title of this post?
What's up is that Elizabeth Arden just added a new product to the Eight Hour Cream line: Nighttime Miracle Moisturizer. And it's weird. It's basically an enhanced version of the original, with the same uber-thick texture (plus lavender to calm skin and help you sleep)…and the weird part lies in the fact that it's supposed to go on your face. Because it's one thing to apply a product that heavy-seeming to your nail beds, and another thing entirely to apply it to, like…your chin.
Goodbye, My Pretty (How To Handle Postpartum Hair Loss)
Oh, my hair.
I have loved it SO MUCH these past few months. I've even been accused several times of having hair extensions (as if I wouldn't excitedly declare CHECK OUT MY EXTENSIONS! were I to actually shell out the money for them)...which is less "accusation" and more "best compliment ever."
I did not have extensions; I had pregnancy.
Easy Pear & Cream Cheese Turnovers
These are going to be the best thing that ever happened to your wintry weekend morning. I stand by that assertion.
Make them make them make them.
