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Category: Expert Advice

  • Haute Holiday

    Blogger Whitney Cosgrave shares what to wear to your holiday parties this season
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    Joie Ailey Leather Jacket, Talula Storrow Dress from Aritzia, Schutz Sid Webbed Booties from Shopbop, Brookstone Champagne Flute. PHOTO: Catherine Abalos.

    Mailboxes (er, inboxes) are filled with invites to holiday parties, soirées and events galore. But after the initial excitement of a packed party schedule sets in, we’re left with one question: what to wear? That’s where we step in.

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  • High Time for a Fun Night

    High Time for a Fun Night

    Homejoy’s Rose Dawydiak-Rapagnani offers a few reminders to utilize your party planning time wisely.
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    The date and venue are set. Friends have RSVP’d. You have your party pants picked out. It’s the 11th hour, so don’t waste your energy stressing over last-minute details. Here are a few tips to keep you in check before guests arrive.

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  • Apartment Decorating on a Real-Life Budget

    Apartment Decorating on a Real-Life Budget

    Sara Bodle Takes our Homes From Drab to Fab on a Single Girl Budget

    Apartment Decorating on a Budget

    Last week I moved into yet another new apartment—a painful process, yes, but also a great way to get a fresh start. Moving is the the opportune time to clean out the old and redefine your space with new home decor.

    For help turning my new apartment into a place I can truly call home, I reached out to Sara Bodle—one of my best college girlfriends—for a few tips. Here she clues TSD in on her apartment decorating advice for making our homes fabulous on budgets we can actually afford.

    Read on to get her advice for transforming your own place from drab to fab!

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  • The Single Diaries Brunches With PR Diva Jamie Madrid

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    Jamie Madrid-Mehta moved to L.A. after college (a Journalism and Marketing Communications major) and dove head first into Public Relations. Years later, she took the plunge and started her eponymous firm Jamie Madrid Consulting. Representing the fashion, beauty, accessory, restaurant and lifestyle industries through her array of clients, Jamie has been called a “PR Diva with impeccable taste and truly great connections.” This mid-twenties Midwesterner is the antithesis of generation Y: a self-made go-getter who isn’t afraid of risk or commitment. With the brains to back it up, she’s a recipe for success.

    I met Jamie a few years ago through a friend; we had a breakthrough conversation at that friend’s tea during which Jamie first told me about her plans to launch her company, and we have stayed in touch since. One Sunday we met at Sunny Spot, my favorite neighborhood haunt for bottomless brunch libations. In between rounds of mimosas, Jamie reflected on her experience thus far.
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