RIHANNA'S SAUCY NEW HAIR

Rihanna's new hair style suits her quite nicely. I am loving her new hairdo..

Rihanna was in NY today to launch H&M's “Fashion Against AIDS” Collection.

PLEASE TELL ME THAT HE is NOT THE NEXT BIG RAPPER

Please tell me that this isn't the next big rapper. It's no wonder that rap music isn't the same as it was so many years back. What is that exactly? His friend should have a "bowl of milk" chain. A hot chocolate mess! The owners of the Frosted Flakes brand are seething somewhere.

Pickled Hutch Picks of the Week - 1/29

For my Pickled Hutch picks this week, my favorite thing is partly missing. I took a picture of the adorable little glasses that come as a set with this martini pitcher, but I didn't get it off the card reader before Andrew took the camera out of town. The glasses are adorable, though. They're round and a little smaller than a tennis ball. The set of 4 glasses with the pitcher is $52. Did someone say, pomtini time? (Pomegranate martini's that is--they're pom wonderful.)

Old suitcases. Great for storage. Find one more to make three, stack them, and you have a nice little side table. The small one is $35 and the larger one is $45.

Floor lamp with ivory drum shade. I like the bulbous marble knob. I didn't write down the price, whoops. I'll have to ask Lisa.


The Pickled Hutch is an antique store in San Francisco that I love. Every Wednesday I pick three items to post on my blog that I especially like. The Pickled Hutch is located at 1605 Church Street, San Francisco, CA. Open Wed. to Sun. 11 - 6. PH 415-641-8875. Ask for Lisa.

THE RICHEST WOMEN IN MUSIC 2008

VIA USWEEKLY:
Madonna is the richest woman in music, according to Forbes.

She earned $72 million between June 2006 and June 2007, thanks to her album sales, merchandising and broadcast deals, endorsements, H&M fashion line and Confessions tour, which grossed $260 million.Her global Confessions tour pulled in another $260 million. Britney Spears ranked 14th on the list, earning $8 million from old hits royalties and sales of her fragrances with Elizabeth Arden, which grossed $55.4 million in 2006.

The complete list:

No. 2: Barbra Streisand, $60 million
No. 3: Celine Dion, $45 million
No. 4: Shakira, $38 million
No. 5: Beyonce, $27 million
No. 6: Christina Aguilera, $20 million
No. 7: Faith Hill, $19 million
No. 8: The Dixie Chicks, $18 million
No. 9: Mariah Carey, $13 million

Hilary Duff, Avril Lavigne and Martina McBride each banked $12 million.Following Spears at No. 14: Carrie Underwood and Nelly Furtado ($7 million each); Fergie, Jennifer Lopez and Sheryl Crow ($6 million each); and Norah Jones ($5.5 million).

RIHANNA SAYS:GOT MILK?-Eyecandy

Rihanna's Got Milk ad.

MARIAH CAREY THE DIVA

Photographers were surely tipped off that Mariah Carey would be shopping on Rodeo Drive and such&such time yesterday. After all, she's got a new album coming soon:continue reading at quick"s

ASHANTI:THE WAY I LOVE YOU

Ashanti's upcoming album The Way I Love You
Pure Club on January 26th


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KELLY ROWLAND IS INSTYLE-Eyecandy

Kelly Rowland was at InStyle's Best Beauty Buys 2008 event in London on Tuesday.

MISS JACKSON IF YOU'RE NASTY-Eyecandy

Check out some new promo pics from Janet:




Miss Jackson,If You're Nasty's new album Discipline is due out on February 26th.

Editing the Clutter

I'm reading a book called Made to Stick. It's not about decorating or design--it's about, as the jacket says, "why some ideas survive and others die." But one quote in particular touched on one of my decorating dilemmas and stuck with me today when I read it, and that was, "a designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Coming from a more is more background, which I feel totally comfortable in and love, I normally add things until I think something, whatever it is, is finished. I never really thought much about taking things away, at least not until Paula came over to help me depersonalize our old house when we put it up for sale before we moved to San Francisco.

Once I stored the things Paula thought we should put away, I initially felt like our house looked a bit naked. Then after a few more days of living with it, I thought our house looked better than before, and it sold in just a few weeks. I'm always drawn to knickknacks--little vases, little plates, little pictures, little books, little boxes. After a while it starts to look like clutter if you don't know how to put it all together just so, like some people do so well, which I don't think I know how to do quite yet. I think this week I'm experiencing knickknack overload and need to clear some clutter. It's especially hard to do when the closets are busting at the seams and the bed is close to lifting off the floor because of all the storage bins under it. Time to make a Goodwill run. I'll just have to resist temptation to go in and buy more clutter after I drop off my current clutter. I do love shopping at the thrift store.

Picture from Small Space Style

New in the Shop

I added a few party hats to my etsy shop, and this one's my new favorite. I love the mocca fabric.

Craft Tutorial Sewing a Wall Pocket Tidey Tote for Kids

Tutorial
JC Handmade offers a wonderful tutorial to create the Kidlet::Wall Pocket Tidey Tote.

"I wanted something large enough to hold a bunch of books or softies, but small enough to use unobtrusively throughout our home. Kidlet has a deep gusset to accommodate lots and lots of the "stuff" that's always lying around and has a handy strap to fit over a doorknob. "

Etsy designer Sara and Abraham personalized silhouette artwork and stationery for babies and children

Here's another great find at Etsy by Sara and Abraham. These lovely silhouette tags are printed on heavy cardstock and are printed in four beautiful colors. They are great for gift tags, scrapbooking, goody bags, and more.
Designer Sara Tams offers a wonderful collection of gift tags, personalized prints, and cards that features her unique artwork.

View the entire collection

RIHANNA'S NEW HAIRDO 2008-EYECANDY

Rihanna walking the red carpet at the 9th NRJ Music Awards in Cannes, France, Saturday, January 26.

HALLE BERRY: BABY BUMP WATCH

Halle Berry's ever-growing baby bump was seen in West Hollywood on Saturday.

HEHEHE..FLAVOR FLAV...SEASON 3..YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS-Saucy's Throwdown

YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS!Which one do you have love for?
Contestant 1:Purple RainContestant 2:Orange Flavor
Contestant 3:Flavor Flav

Flavor of Love season 3 premieres on February 11thFlavor of Love Promo pic.
heheheheh..Flavor Flav!

KEYSHIA COLE:DO I LOOK SAUCY?-Eyecandy

This pictures makes me all happy inside,like seeing a rainbow after the rain has fallen.
Keyshia Cole,among others, were at the “How She Move” hand print ceremony held at Planet Hollywood in New York City on Thursday.

DIDDY'S NAME REMAINS THE SAME

VIA MUSIC.AOL.COM

Stop the press! Despite reports, Sean Combs -- aka Diddy -- has not changed his name. "Recent reports of a name change are totally false, he is still Diddy," a spokesperson for Combs clarified. According to Diddy's rep, the mogul is "currently in 'Sean John' mode" as he prepares for his successful Sean John clothing line's upcoming fashion show in New York.While Diddy may not have officially changed his moniker, we're sure the mogul has something brewing for '08.

Industrial Cottage

What is that, you say? That's the corner of a table, formerly an iron gate that my talented friend Paula had made into a table. How cool, right? I mentioned Paula the other day in my flea market post and wanted to tell you more about her. I was trying to think of how I would describe her style, but I couldn't think of just the right words. In terms of textiles, I thought her style might be described as equal parts linen, leather, and shag. Her style is clean, classic, and modern. But then I thought about how much of her work incorporates so many architectural elements and decided my textile analogy was too narrow--could I add iron and steel to the textile group? So I asked Paula to describe her style. "Industrial cottage" were the words she used to describe her style, and before my eyes finished reading the words in an email she wrote to me, I thought, that's exactly her style! Paula spends most of her days living in her Cape May, New Jersey cottage, but she also spends time in Atlanta, Georgia where she has a beautiful downtown loft. She's a construction consultant and interior designer, and let me tell you, she has a good eye, which also happens to be the name of her business. (Below are a few pictures from her loft.)

One afternoon, after Paula and my mom spent the day together hunting for treasures, my mom said to me on the phone, "Paula has such a good eye!" In her excitement I think my mom said this a few times actually. It was only after she finished talking about their day that I told her that "a good eye" was what Paula had recently decided to call her business. My mom just didn't know that at the time, but she thought it was a perfect name for her business.


Where most people might see a pile of mechanical, nautical, or architectural junk, Paula sees potential lamps, tables, containers, mirrors . . . and turns them into just that. Like the mirror above the bed in her loft--it used to be a victorian bathtub. And look at all these amazing lamps she's designed, all re-purposed from their original use. The lamp bases are drugstore soda fountain stool bases, zinc fragments off of a building in Philadelphia, and antique shoe shine stands. The lamps range from $195 each to $795 a pair.





Her Cape May cottage especially reflects her talent in turning architectural junk into something functional and beautiful. You can see in the pictures below that she turned a bank teller window into a headboard, turned an old bait cleaning sink into a table, an old ship's lantern into a hanging light fixture, and turned propellers into lamps.








Her web site is in the works, so in the meantime, if you're interested in purchasing any of Paula's lamps or mirrors, or if you're interested in having her help you design your house, inside or out, send her an email. paularossell@hotmail.com. I'll leave you now in her garden just outside her newly renovated addition that she designed. Not a bad place to end at all!