Stephanie Smirnov's Posterous

My seven year-old loves playing “Rock Paper Scissors.” Getting him a tee with this image on it's appropriate, right?

More clever and in several cases fantastically inappropriate SnorgTee designs here.  

I was confused by this picture when I first came across it at an obscure gadget site. It wasn’t the unusual flat surfaces the lady in the photo is marking up with the pointy blue object (I’m told old-timers call that “writing with pen and paper”) – no, I was baffled by the puffy things on her wrists.

Turns out those are ½ pound weights she’s wearing. Isn’t that a clever way to tone your arms? Just slide them on and go about your day. You’ll be sporting Michelle Obama guns in no time.* If only they weren’t so reminiscent of the scrunchies I wore circa 1991. If the manufacturers can figure out a way to make them look like Diana Vreeland’s verdura cuffs, I’m all over it.  

More fitness tools disguised as 1990s hair accessories here.

*This is probably a gross overstatement. I don’t think you can get Michelle Obama arms from wearing puffy weighted bracelets on your arms. This is the kind of irresponsible claim that makes the FTC want to spank bloggers. Don’t worry, FTC, this Posterous has even less traffic than my big-girl blog, and by “less traffic” I mean none.

I grew up in Hershey, PA, so candy is in my DNA. And on my hips, thighs and a**.

Candy aficionado that I am, Dylan’s Candy Bar is something of a personal mecca. It is also located perilously close to my office. This means nothing but trouble for my hips, thighs and a**.

Dylan Lauren has written a book which not only looks adorable, but has no calories.

Look at that cover. I don’t know what’s tastier, the candy or Dylan’s hair.

Check out Unwrap Your Sweet Life by Dylan Lauren here.

This photo was taken by Tim Walker in 1998 (or as digital-geeky types would say, the Paleolithic Era.) I love that it was created old-school – no digital retouching, no photoshopping. Kittehs get brushed with colored powder, kittehs arrange themselves by the clematis, *snap.* Beauty ensues.

On an art history note, who likes John Singer Sargent? If he were alive today and specializing in kitteh portraiture, this is totally the kind of image he’d create.

More from the photographer on how he got the image here.

Image: Tim Walker courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery   

For the two or three of you who care about this stuff, I wanted to let you know that I’m shifting my Fall 2010 nail color allegiance from Chanel back to Essie.

Essie Merino Cool is a brilliant greige-y shade with hints of lavender and I am obsessed with it. It’s fugly and fabulous all at the same time. If this color were a woman, she’d be totally jolie laide. I smile every time I look down at my fingers on my keyboard. Whose nails are those, I marvel. Must be someone who finally decided the vamp-y blood sausage look was just a tiddly-bit tired!

Warning: the straight men in your life will likely not “get” this color. They may worry that the circulation in your hands has stopped. Perhaps they will grab your hands and start rubbing them briskly in an effort to return the human color to your fingernails. If this happens, you will coolly withdraw your hands and inform them that Merino Cool is “the nail color of the season.”

From the Prada Spring/Summer 2011 collection. How dishy are those shoes?

 Makes me think of flappers and girls named Zelda and “Boardwalk Empire.”

You are watching “Boardwalk Empire,” right? It’s a must-see: amazing art direction, great cast, beautiful costumes and Steve Buscemi’s adorable buggy eyes.

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