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I inadvertently started my blog during my infant son’s nap time back in 1999… before the term ‘blog’ was even popular.

Through it all, I believe…

Your style is your fingerprint in all that you do… it’s how you see the world + how the world perceives you.

 

The blog archives go back to the beginning and are updated regularly.  You’ll find 1,000’s of posts about modern business, branding, positioning, marketing, photos, fashion, style, beauty, lifestyle… and most importantly, how to do anything authentically. Enjoy!

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Thanksgiving Survival Tips- Impromptu Madness with Sharon Haver and Brad Boles, Episode 15

How to Avoid Turkey Day Disasters! Entertaining tips to make the most of Thanksgiving, even if you are a vegetarian. Plus, what excuse do the The Real Housewives of New York City use to leave a party early???? Huh, huh, don't you wannna know? Co-hosts Sharon Haver & Brad Boles are getting loopy with Thanksgiving Survival Tips. In the last video, Brad brought up Sharon's least favorite, jewelry... basic pearls! Now, it's the smell of turkey cooking that makes her queasy! Maybe it's time to hit Brad's weak spots soon????? Thanksgiving Survival Tips and How to Avoid Turkey Day disasters: Watch more Impromptu Madness with Sharon & Brad Video topics include: Since Sharon was never able to stand the smell

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Sales Start NOW- Our Favorite Shopbop Discount Deal Codes

Shopbop Discount Code: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, who needs the craziness when the online deals are already here?! What do we want more than great clothes, no lines, and fantastic savings? Shopbop Biggest SALE Not much. Shopbop started there BIGGEST SALE EVER! In addition to 20% off hundreds of new items-- look at the Club Monaco for Shopbop line that we love-- Shopbop's spend-n-save event kicks off today! Spend $250 and get $50 off.Spend $500 and get $100 off. Spend $750 and get $150 off. Spend $1,000 and get $250 off. AND, spend $1,500+ and get a whopping $500 off! ALLYOU NEED TO DO IS TO ENTER THIS DISCOUNT DEAL CODE AT CHECKOUT: Enter BIGEVENT at checkout. SHOPBOP TERMS:Offer begins

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Travel Underwear to Maybe Block Your Naughty Bits Along With That TSA Radiation

Wacky Invention of the Day: Keeping the junk in your trunk personal when you travel the friendlier than usual skies Women's Brief Blocker with Clasped Hands motif from rockyflatsgear.com Now that those pesky TSA full-body scanners are in place, one wouldn't necessarily want their privates on display and risk possible radiation damage when inhaling lousy airport air is bad enough. So, here comes Jeff Buske, a Colorado-based inventor behind Rocky Flats Gear who has come up with a line of underwear that, as its web site claims, "insures privacy of medical and body scanner images" and can be worn "every day to block natural and man-made radiation." According to a statement in the LA TImes, the TSA has said repeatedly

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How to Wear Pearls, Keeping It Young- Impromptu Madness with Sharon Haver and Brad Boles, Episode 14

Co-hosts Sharon Haver & Brad Boles are going at it point / counterpoint again, and this time it's about pearls! Brad loves them and Sharon says that the classic, single strand ones add 15 years to your look. If you're going to wear pearls, make it edgy and off-handed or you'll remind her of Grandma with the mink stole looking for her second husband in Miami! David Bromstad, Sharon Haver, Brad Boles at the GLAAD Auction. Photo thumb via: Patrick McMullan Company Fast forward to Miami of today and Brad is still going gaga about their meeting the charming and talented David Bromstad of HGTV's "Color Splash" at the GLAAD Auction in New York this weekend. It's one of Sharon's

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Model Carmen Kass Shares Some Fashion Tips While Designer Reet Aus Takes Eco Chic To A New Level

Retail Remedy: A fashion collection that self-recyles adds a new spin on being fashionably green Everyday we hear recycle, recycle and more recycle. And now, Estonian designer Reet Aus had made it her fashion statement. With the help of her well-known supermodel friend Carmen Kass, Reet presented her collection last Friday at Beyond 7, at the retail launch of edgy fashion showroom Showroom Seven last Friday in New York's Meatpacking area. The Reet Aus collection is made entirely of the recycled materials. Designer Reet Aus But, here's the spin that makes this collection really edgy and intriquing... We are promised that the designer will not create a new collection every two weeks. However, the collections she creates uses organic materials

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Forget Worst Dress, Miley Cyrus Wears the Stupidest Dress We’ve Seen In a While

Mr. Blackwell must be turning over on this one! Miley Cyrus in her TP inspired number We really hate to mean because she is still young and have to admit that in some odd way this outfit is better than a pole dancer's getup. So let's just think of this as a fashion courtesy. Afterall, shouldn't friends tell friends when they have toilet paper stuck to them? At last night's AMA Awards, Miley Cyrus walked the red carpet in what appeared to look like a mega roll of toilet paper that gathered up in her undies and unrolled itself into a infiniteless train down the the red carpet. We understand that it is the American Music Awards and Miley probably

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What Not to Wear and What to Wear to a Job Interview- Impromptu Madness with Sharon Haver and Brad Boles, Episode 13

Office Chic, is obviously the way to dress but what's chic to some may be cheap to others. Check out these fashion tips to bone up on your job interview style. Can't keep co-hosts Sharon Haver & Brad Boles down, in lucky episode 13 of their Impromptu Madness video series. They share tips to help you make the best first impression to snag that job. Afterall, it's "perilous times" as Brad says and Sharon wants you to be sure that you don't overly sex it up on a job interview. Rumor has it that they are pretty hysterical in their down-to-earth fashion tips, but you may crack up at some of their tips on white teeth... Shhhh, Sharon is all

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Martha Stewart Keeps The Style Coming with Michael Kors

Reason Number 999 to love Martha Stewart: Oh, snap! That's what Martha said when an audience member asked her how to make 18 dozen cookies in a post-show question yesterday. Then, of course, Martha got down to business with her no-nonsense, down-to-earth way of mastering any task with style I had the pleasure of being invited to yesterday's edition (you can catch the encore today at 1 PM ET) of THE MARTHA STEWART SHOW on The Hallmark Channel. The audience enthusiasm was palatable- notwithstanding the warm-up guy who kept the energy high, these were dedicated everywoman (and a few men) fans of Martha who couldn't get enough of their mistress of haute home ec.   I have to say that

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Shopping On the Cheap- Who Wants to Pay Retail When There Are Great Deals

Sharon & Brad's Latest Radio Show: Talk show co-hosts Sharon Haver and Brad Boles share tips to live large on a low budget Sharon & Brad LOVE expensive things. Sure, who doesn't? But they also know how to buy the best for less with shopping tips to get you through the holiday season and beyond. Brad is in the airport off to a trip to Morocco this week, where he has a vacation home and he spent his afternoon thrifting in upstate New York. Sharon is recuperating with a cast on her foot, and where was her first outing? To a sample sale, of course! Brad Boles & Sharon Haver: Focus on Style- Talk Radio Hosts Sharon was raised with

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In the Realm of the Fashion Senses

Retail Remedy: New shop to focus on foreign & lesser known trendy designers A REALM is a dominion of a monarch or other sovereign ruler. It is also happen to be the name of the new high fashion boutique that just opened in the heart of New York's SOHO at 98 Greene Street by Randi Jacobson. Blake Lively at the Realm boutique opening The idea of the boutique came to Randi after being unable to get access to less known trendy designers that dwell outside of US. Jacobson decided to represent them in New York and establish her own REALM where she rules fashion. The store is spacious and eclectic. Last week there was an official opening fit to a

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Paris Chic Bicycles Are Rather Fun and Utalitarian

One reason why Parisians have such fab legs Somehow we would like to believe that the bikes in Paris are rather tzujed up glam affairs. But, no. More often than not, Parisians go for practicality rather than preciousness when it comes to getting around the city-- always with a dash of French chic style, of course! Richard Nahem, observes... I recently started taking photos of bicycles around the city. They have a certain charm which is hard to describe. From the slick racers that are used in the Tour De France, to the beat up but tough spray painted bicycles to the delivery ones with baskets to the gray, to the utilitarian Velib rentals, they are a vital form of

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Giorgio Armani From Sketch to Star, Naomi Watts in Fair Game and The Modern Power Suit

Heightened Reality: The Giorgio Armani film fashions echo the real life Armani wardrobe of Valerie Plame Wilson Giorgio Armani is no stranger to dressing strong woman both as leading ladies and in real life. What's interesting this time is that Armani's collaboration with with costume designer Cindy Evans on select wardrobe looks for the Naomi Watts character, Valerie Plame Wilson in the film, "Fair Game" is based on reality. “Giorgio Armani's clothes are modern and feminine, always making me look my best and confident. This became even more important when I found myself, reluctantly, placed in the public eye,” says Plame Wilson. Couldn't think of a better wardrobe to "scoot" around in... Valerie Plame Wilson wore Giorgio Armani while the

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How to Shop Your Closet- Impromptu Madness with Sharon Haver and Brad Boles, Episode 12

Sharon & Brad talk about how to save money and shop your closet for some of the best buys around Hosts Sharon Haver and Brad Boles are at it again and in this episode of Impromptu Madness talk about fashion do's and don'ts about what to save, what to toss, and what to rethink in that clothing goldmine of yours... your closet! Fashion tips to to consider from this video: Put things away fro a few years before it's time to recycle them back into your working wardrobe. Save good pieces not disposable fast fashion pieces. Retire trendy pieces for about 15 years and more classic ones for about 5 years Brad can't bare to think about shirtdresses Consider the

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