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People
29 Mar 2013

Toy Stories

all photos by | Gabriele Galimberti

I was quite the collector and toy enthusiast when I was a small child. As kids, you don’t really have any perception as to how much these toys cost and I have to say that if I were my parents, I would be a little upset at me right now knowing that I was going through several phases of toys that would just be played out over a month. I’m looking at you Poo-chi – the substitute I had because I couldn’t have a real dog, or the Razor scooter. That toy is simply just a mode of transportation and let me just say that even then I wasn’t active enough for that. Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti spent 18 months traveling and capturing photographs of children with their toys from all over the world. The series is incredible and reminds me of my own childhood (and yes photographs!) with my Beanie Babies and Polly Pockets.

To check out the entire series, click here.

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Design
04 Jan 2012

Boo the Dog Becomes A Stuffed Animal

photo cred | Refinery29

When my friend Dom first introduced me to Boo, I immediately became smitten. This is the most adorable dog I have ever seen! I dare you to try and find another famous dog that has over 2.6 million fans on Facebook and a book of its photographs. You can’t. Okay the other famous dog that I would like to have is the dog that celebrates its birthday every year and kind of has human looking eyes. You’ve seen it right? I post about his birthday every year.

Anyways, Boo is famous on the interwebs and I am envious of the owners. I suppose this stuffed animal was created so that we could all have a little piece of Boo in our homes.

Hey friends and family, this present would make me a very happy girl on my birthday. To learn more about pre-ordering, click the source below.

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09 Dec 2011

The Toys I’ll Never Have

It’s a funny thing when you realize that you are no longer a kid anymore. Granted, I haven’t been a kid for many years now, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think about my childhood often or see my old toys when I come home. If someone would’ve told me as a kid that in my pre-teen years, makeup and clothes would become more important than my Mario Party and Polly Pockets, I would’ve laughed in their face. No way. Chemical and powder on your face? Where’s the fun in that? It isn’t fun. In fact, sometimes those things costs just as much as toys, which is kind of a disgusting fact.

Though I can’t see myself playing with toys anymore cause..uh I’m 21 and all, I still think about the toys I had and the toys I never had. And with that, here are the toys that I never received for Christmas – but this is nothing against my parents because they provided me with more than enough toys throughout my childhood.

Baby All Gone

Something I’ll never understand is why little girls wanted to become mothers at a young age. Baby All Gone just seemed so much fun with the disappearing act of the food and the bottle. I later learned that it had something to do with a magnet and a secret compartment for the bottle, but hey! back then I didn’t know that.

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04 Dec 2011

Whatthecool Roundup

Have you ever tried sleeping with earbuds? It doesn’t work. By morning, my earbuds are entangled in my ears and/or they feel sore from having headphones wedged in. I suppose that’s why SleepPhones was created and apparently it’s supposed to be the “most comfortable headphones for sleeping.” UM. Do want. Only $39.95 [Source]

London has set up a 33ft tall Christmas tree made out of Legos in St Pancras station. [Source]

Adorable bibs for babies. [Source]

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29 Nov 2011

It’s Another Jimmy Fallon Night

Somebody please tell me they just saw The Roots rapping about Polly Pockets on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

This kind of stuff doesn’t happen everyday!

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12 Nov 2011

Diva Pumps For the Lovely Miss Piggy

I’m probably the only 21-year old to ever admit this, but I really want to see the new Muppets movie. When I was a little kid, I loved all of the characters. Maybe this isn’t news to anyone though since I mentioned a couple weeks ago how much I still loved Elmo. There are some things that you grow out of, but there are others that will stick with you and the Muppets are really not something to be ashamed of.

Designer Jerome C. Rousseau designed these beautiful “Diva” pink pumps to honor the BIGGEST diva of all time – at least to the children of the world anyways. Even though I’ve outgrown my girly girl ways, I still believe that every girl needs to own either a pair of pink pumps or a pair of sparkly pumps. Personally, I’d like to own pumps in every color – but that’s just me.

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12 Nov 2011

In the News…

Fashion

– Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are covering Vogue’s second annual best dressed issue. The issue highlights the best in fashionable sisters including the Olsen twins, Kate and Pippa Middleton, Dakota and Elle Fanning and many more. [Source]

– Dakota Fanning’s ad for Marc Jacobs’ “Oh Lola” fragrance has been banned for being too sexual. [Source]

– In Chloe Sevigny’s recent cover shoot for Candy Magazine photographed by Terry Richardson, the two of them collaborated in…another way. [Source] Must be weird for Terry to make out with someone that completely looks like him.

“There are a lot of pop stars making fashion collections – Kylie and J.Lo, Puff Daddy and Kanye West…Maybe next season, [Domenico Dolce and I] should sing a song.” – Stefano Gabbana

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– Girl Scout cookies as chap sticks flavors [Source]

– Alber Elbaz, the designer behind Lanvin, is writing a book. [Source]

–Dakota and Elle Fanning cover W. [Source]

Music

– The lovely and talented Dia Frampton will be releasing her first debut album on December 6th. [Source]

– To celebrate Christmas at the Rockefeller Center, Tony Bennett, Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé, Cee Lo Green, Faith Hill, Carole King, Katharine McPhee, Javier Colon and The Radio City Rockettes will be performing for the live broadcast. [Source]

– Justin Bieber is definitely taking the paternity test in two weeks and Maury is trying to recruit him to be on his show when he reveals the results. [Source] I would love to hear Maury announce, “YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER!” or vice versa.

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– An acoustic performance by Fun of “We Are Young” featuring Janelle Monae. [Source]

– EMI Music has been sold to Universal for $1.9 Billion. Sony bought out EMI Music Publishing for $2.2 Billion. [Source]

– Taylor Momsen’s band, The Pretty Reckless, will support Guns ‘N Roses on tour. [Source]

Television

– Showtime has renewed Weeds for an eighth season. [Source] I can’t believe this show isn’t over yet.

– Billy Crystal will be hosting the Oscars this year replacing Eddie Murphy. [Source]

– Lifetime TV is planning a new reality series called “Starving Secrets” to highlight the effects of having an eating disorder. [Source]

Movies

– Breaking Dawn fans are camping out for the premiere of the movie in Los Angeles. [Source] Wow, that doesn’t sound like fun at all.

Seattle

– The Chihuly Garden and Glass Exhibit will open next spring at the Seattle Center and will be the world’s largest Chihuly exhibit to ever exist. [Source] Above is a photograph of our Chihuly sculpture on campus in Pigott.

– Cupcake Royale has made Breaking Dawn cupcakes to celebrate the release. [Source]

– Meet Seattle’s most influential people of 2011. [Source]

– Seattle made the list for being the 8th shopaholic city. [Source]

Other

– These are the worst action figures of Kate and Pippa Middleton I have ever seen. [Source]

– Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are finally following in the footsteps of their previous characters and are dating! [Source]

– 25- year old Kyla Pratt (One-on-One, Proud Family) has a one-year old daughter. [Source]

– Ex-pornstar, Sasha Grey, read children’s book to elementary students yesterday and parents were not enthused. [Source]

– A 10-year old girl from Mexico gave birth to a baby boy in a 31-week pregnancy. [Source] OH MY GOD.

– A straight rugby player suffers a stroke and goes into a coma – wakes up gay and fabulous! [Source]

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07 Oct 2011

Do Want

The Easy Bake Oven got so futuristic. Please can I have this for Christmas? Why do the treats look like they are the size of rings? Do kids not eat anything anymore?