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Summer time weather screams for fun casual hair styles filled with messy buns, braids and beach waves! Being a pin-straight, fine haired gal myself, beach wave hair is always something I am trying to achieve (The grass is always greener– right?). I've found quite a few ways that effectively achieve great beach waves, but keeping them in is the challenge, so I continue to try new methods and products. This weekend I had the chance to … [Read more...]
All of the buzz about The Great Gatsby ( a movie I'm unsuccessfully campaigning to get James to see with me), has left me drooling... and not over Leonardo DiCaprio. Fashion in the twenties was arguably the most sophisticated style decade for women– a decade I would have loved to have been part of. There was no such thing as "too much"– art deco jewels and fringe, T-straps and martinis, headscarves and hats.... the more glitz and drama … [Read more...]
You know those weeks you have everything going on at once and barely have time to sleep? That was this week at the now on-the-move Complicated Chateau. This week, we literally moved from our home to a temporary apartment and left 12 hours later for a wedding weekend... 250 miles away... Oh, yea... and then there was Mother's day- which we headed back home for at 6:30 am. With the craziness of it all, and my growing frame, I never really … [Read more...]
Summer time weather screams for fun casual hair styles filled with messy buns, braids and beach waves! Being a pin-straight, fine haired gal myself, beach wave hair is always something I am trying to … Read More
My kids LOVE cakepops (who doesn't?) Cakepops are the first thing they ask for when I mention stopping at Starbucks. We've had them as party favors, but we've never really made them before in the … Read More
