Entries Tagged as 'The Good Life'

Monday, November 10th, 2008

The Art of Church & State

Eye candy time, brought to you by Church & State.

Alaska blouse, Connecticut shorts

North Dakota dress

Nebraska jumpsuit

Delaware dress

Oregon dress
C&S is designed by a ridiculously adorable and talented Portland couple, Nathaniel Crissman and Rachel Turk — read all about them at Portland’s Ultra. The duo used to sew all pieces themselves but recently began outsourcing to a […]

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Project Runway notes

While I’m sitting at my desk looking forward to Project Runway tonight, I wanted to throw this up if you hadn’t seen it — Leanne’s winning design from two weeks ago is available on the Diane Von Furstenburg website. It’s beautiful! And I don’t know about the specifics of this dress, but DVF does have […]

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Reduce your carbon footprint: Buy box wine

Quoting The New York Times via Daring Fireball:
“Switching to wine in a box for the 97 percent of wines that are made to be consumed within a year would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about two million tons, or the equivalent of retiring 400,000 cars.”
I’m convinced… and it didn’t take me long to find box […]

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Behind Beklina

To know hot green fashion is to know the fantastic online boutique Beklina. July is self-proclaimed Eco-Month at Grechen’s Closet, featuring green fashion content, and a sweet interview with Beklina founder Angelina made the list. Check it out (as well as the rest of Eco-Month), and enjoy these FLP Editor’s Picks — including Grechen’s 25% […]

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Newman’s Own wine

Paul Newman is a man of many hats. Ranch dressing (the cowboy hat), salsa (the sombrero), Caesar dressing (the crown of olive branches)… And now wine! (A derby for the cabernet and a top hat for the chardonnay, his only two varieties.) I was excited to discover it on sale at World Market for $10, […]

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Huge sale on Stella

Moment of truth here: I cannot afford thousand-dollar items of clothing. I’d go so far as to say that most fashion blog writers can’t either — but it is quite fun to pretend we can. Which we sometimes do.With facades aside, I won’t be affording any of these beautiful Stella McCarney pieces on sale at […]