Gimme A Break

I just bought a black handbag. All my handbags are black. It’s a color coordination thing I developed from the time I was working in Corporate Tower.

All my handbags and shoes were black. I would not buy any other color because I didn’t want to crack my head trying to match my handbag to my shoes everyday.

Black goes with everything, right? So I could wear a different pair of black shoes with the same handbag and vice versa and I’d still be right.

• the eccentric in me
• the search is over
• she sells sunglasses on an island
• my handy travel tips
• good-for-nothing sandals

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I walked past the bead shop yesterday and was reminded of this short-lived beading hobby of mine. I was so crazy about it at the time that I went hunting all over town for the tools and supplies.

Night after night, I would struggle to stay awake just to finish up one more accessory. Eventually I made so many earrings and necklaces I started giving them away to my friends.

Soon I started getting orders from them. Not big orders, just a few here and there, enough to make me happy that there was a demand for my creations.

But this little small business opportunity didn’t last long. Pretty soon, some ladies were asking for small favors. They asked me to modify the designs after they got bored with one design after a few wears. Others came to me with broken jewelry to be repaired and redesigned.

Soon I got stuck redoing and repairing stuff for free late into the night. When I couldn’t deliver on time for some event they wanted to wear the jewelry to, these witches (I would swap the “w” with a capital ‘B’ but I’ll be nice this time) gave me hell and set me deadlines!!

Hey, I was just doing them a favor. And for free, darn it!!! What ungracious creatures!! Finally it became such a pain I just gave up beading altogether.

• contemporary gold
• stretch your creativity with Aqua Dots
• trying to keep awake all night
• staying up late
• bedtime

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My cousin tells me that maternity clothes aren’t what they used to be any more. The days of the tents are over, it seems. Yes, and I remember how I used to dread wearing them. They made me look like a sack of potatoes.

These days, preggies are proud to show off their growing tummies and choose maternity wear that expose the midriff. I’ve seen pictures of celebs wearing these modern maternity styles. But I find them quite gross actually.

Much as I hate tents, as many women do too, I’m sure, I don’t know about strutting around town with a barrel protruding out for all to see . What do you think?

• parachute or potato
• gotta have those camo cargo shorts
• jewelry to match
• camos and cardigans I don’t understand
• want a piece of the high life?

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When I was out on my shopping marathon yesterday with my cousins and our kids, I was wearing my Dockers pants.

I needed pants that would survive the day, and my hands just automatically reached for my Dockers.

With half a dozen kids in our shopping contingent, we have to be keeping an eye on each other’s kids. Gosh, you cannot imagine what it’s like when we descend on a store!

The moms would be picking out clothes to try while the kids would be running around the store, getting impatient. While one of us is in the fitting room, the other moms would be chasing the kids round the store.

It’s like a scene from a comedy! The looks on the store staffs’ faces, I just know they can’t wait for us to leave . If my pants could talk, they’d be laughing at the fun I put them through, or maybe screaming their heads off !

I’m thinking of taking part in the Dockers contest that’s going on right now to talk about my favorite pair of pants.

Do you have a funny story to tell too? If you do, share your video story and win some great prizes by entering the Dockers contest.

• blisters be gone
• mommy burnout
• a parent and a friend
• back to the grindstone
• altruistic dolphin

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I know it’s a couple of days after Mother’s Day but if I’d found this website sooner, I might’ve been tempted to buy myself a baume mercier watch if the price is right.

Well, for one thing, Swiss watches aren’t called timepieces for nothing. I may have been under my shell too long because I haven’t heard of Baume and Mercier before this.

But they do have an interesting history. Back in 1830, two brothers, Louis Victor Baume and Pierre Joseph Celestin Baume, started a business who grew and became so successful that it went on for a couple of generations.

In 1918, Louis Victor’s grandson, William Baume, was running it and was joined by a new business partner, Paul Mercier, hence the name Baume and Mercier.

I visited their site at ViaLuxe.com where they have watch collections for both men and women. They have so many designs that if I really had to choose one, I’d have a hard time deciding.

I think that’s the thing with us women sometimes. We see one watch and when we look at another one, we think, wow, this one’s nice too. And then pretty soon, they’re all nice in their own way and we want them all .

• not getting to watch the Olympics sucks
• his majesty
• the mark of bravado
• the watch master
• need to manage my time better

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My entire head’s been swimming in glamor these past few weeks. I’ve been watching entirely too many fashion shows.

Those models strutting their stuff on the runway are all young and beautiful. I wonder if they know they could $10,000 at Look of the Year, a beauty contest open to anyone in the world.

Glamor and the spotlight is something all young women dream about. Getting on Look of the Year could get them spotted by some modelling agency.

If you’ve had dreams of living the high life, why don’t you go try your luck at http://www.lookoftheyear.com.

• a prestigious address
• bad role models
• all the time in the world to smell the roses
• no worries about being single
• a piece of Spanish action

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I can be such a dodo bird sometimes. You know, I’ve come across many shops selling pearls, yes, only pearls, in places like Hong Kong but I never gave them so much as a second look.

Why? Because I’m not a really, really big fan of pearls, reason being that I always think of them all as being white, bland and boring. After all, life in a clammy old oyster can’t be all that exciting, can it now ?

Silly me, where have I been? I didn’t know cultured and freshwater pearls come in such vibrant colors and that they don’t necessarily have to be white and lifeless. Maybe it’s time I came out of my oyster shell.

• digital kitchen scales
• fly away, little bird
• gourmet gift baskets
• Caesars Palace
• shopping for fashion jewelry

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My son left his eyeglasses on the back seat of my car when I picked him up from college the other day, and someone accidentally flung a bag of stuff on it. The glasses broke into two.

I wish he would be a little more careful with his glasses. He’s broken them more times than I’d care to count and each time, we’ve either had to replace the lens or the frame.

His next pair is going to be cheap eyeglasses, that’s for sure. It’s getting too expensive maintaining his glasses, so that next pair is going to come out of his allowance. Hopefully he’ll learn to treat them better.

• oops, I did it again!
• get $20 back for your iPod earphones
• keep right on dancing
• good-for-nothing sandals
• golfing in the rain

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I’m looking for a new watch. Again? Between me and my two daughters, we’ve got so many watches in the house and yet we always seem to be adding to our collection. You reckon it’s because watches have become more than a means of telling time these days? I mean, I’ve been wearing them as accessories for as far back as I can remember.

Of course, having many watches means I can’t afford to be buying a Chopard every other shopping trip. In fact, many of the ones I have are what I call ‘throwaway’ watches that probably aren’t mean to last. But they’re very trendy and I guess they’re not meant to become heirlooms or anything like that.

• the watch master
• need to manage my time better
• buying in bulk
• the search is over
• how to reduce back-to-school stress (1)

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I’ve been looking for a handbag since Christmas but haven’t found anything I like. I think I must’ve looked at dozens of bags but there was never one that I liked totally. Either I liked the design but they didn’t have the color I wanted, or I liked the color but it was too big or the price wasn’t justified.

Today I was at the mall for lunch with the kids and I actually went to buy a clothes rack but guess what? I ended up buying a handbag. The search is over. It was just the right size in very trendy silver and it was on offer at 70% off. Happy days :grin: !

• it’s black or nothing
• a leg up
• good time to invest in silver bullion
• buy gold, not wear it
• the eccentric in me

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