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How To: Keep Your Hair Tangle-Free

For this month’s hair tutorial video, I thought I’d answer a reader question on how to keep your hair tangle-free when you’re constantly twisting it into an updo to keep it out of your face (and your child’s grip).

P.S. Kendrick recorded the instrumentals for the background music, which I think is cool. (Virgil contributed his own efforts to the soundtrack, as well.)

P.P.S. Speaking of hair, I would like to dye my hair this color.

Not now; I think it would involve non-pregnancy-friendly levels o...

Happy Place

I think I’ve found my happy place, clothing-wise, for Pregnancy Number Two. The first time around I did a lot of experimenting, held onto my very high heels with an iron grip in an effort to maintain my “usual” look, and basically went all over the map, ending up with some hits and a whole bunch of misses (like this outfit: ehhhh). This time I’m still up for lots of experimenting – mostly because it’s honestlyso much fun to dress a completely different (and constantly changing) shape – but fo...

Links & Love & Stuff

Alright, I think this is so cool: over on Paperfashion.net, Katie shares the process of creating the Ramshackle Glam book cover. I had no idea what went into the illustrations (and, honestly, probably wouldn’t have caught the “maybe not the best idea to show a pair of shoes sitting in a handbag right next to a baby bottle” thing myself), so this was a really fun read for me. P.S. You can check out a preview of the book and pre-order it here, and see the trailer here.

This article by the Duke U...

1970s Baby Outfits And Coffee Shops

That was pretty much what our weekend was about.

I spent Saturday – which I hear was beautiful, but did not actually see for myself – sitting in this very spot in my pajamas while my son and husband adventured around at aquariums and grocery stores, working on a couple of hugely exciting writing projects I’ll be able to announce in just a few weeks.

Sunday we decided to head into the city because Indy is pretty much obsessed with my parents’ cats and was desperate to see them. Fine by me: you k...

Presenting: The Big Boy Bed

There is a time to say goodbye to everything, and last weekend it was time to say goodbye to the crib. I held off for a little longer than we probably should have mostly because something about this made me so emotional: I remember, weeks before our son arrived, Kendrick and I standing over the empty crib and staring down at the mattress and just not being able to believe that very soon there’d be aperson(albeit a very tiny one) right there in the middle of it all.

And now he’s growing up and...

Spring Break…For My Nails

For three decades, I did not care about my nails. As a result, they were usually more than a little scruffy: peeling, dry, chipped, and filed (or, more accurately, broken) to different lengths.

My desire to have pretty nails coincided almost to the day with giving birth; all of a sudden, I had to let go of any reasonable certainty that I would be able to leave the house and interact with other human beings while looking anything close to presentable, and something about having polished, manicu...

How To Tame Frizzy Hair

I think we’ve established (via copious amounts of snow-related whining over the past two months) that I do not like the winter. But one thing that’s less-than-terrible about the season of freezing cold is the fact that my hair tends to look pretty decent. See, I have majorly humidity-reactive hair: the kind of hair that, when it encounters a single molecule of airborne moisture, twists itself into shapes so bizarre that it sometimes seems that my only recourse is to cover the whole mess up wi...

All The Pretty Dresses

Over the past several days a few friends and family members have asked me what about having a girl I’m most excited about. And I think the answer they were expecting was probably something along the lines of OMG THE PRETTY DRESSES. But that’s not the real answer; not even close.

Before we get into that, though, we should probably take a minute to talk about those dresses, because hello they are cute. Yes, little boy clothes are fun too, and I had convinced myself that they were *almost* as fun...

I Mean, Really

I kind of feel like yesterday’s shopping trip should get a Pregnancy Prize.

The Girl In The Red Dress

Everyone should own a red dress.

I’ve owned a handful over the years – none of which have cost more than forty bucks; I think this one was $15 at H&M – and they’re always what I break out when I’m feeling like I could use a lift. For a special date. For a big Girls’ Night Out. For any event, basically, where I’m OK with being The Girl In The Red Dress (because when you wear a red dress, that’s what you are, and that’s what everyone will refer to you as for the duration of the evening and in su...