Meet the wife of Johnny Depp's character, Mad Hatter, from his latest movie Alice in Wonderland: No, really this has nothing to do with the movie. Unless the Belgian designer, Walter Van Beirendonck, designed it from being inspired by the movie. This model presented the over-the-top (okay, no more puns) creation ...

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It started out as a really rough evening (food craving wise). I made spaghetti for the hubby and girls & made Maplelicious Butternut Squash Mash for myself. The Squash Mash was good, but the smell of the spaghetti was so overpowering - I wanted a bowl! So, I had an ...

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So, I'm sitting here watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition & looking around on Twitter. I see this tweet, "Jessica Simpson Aims to Send 50,000 Pairs of Shoes to Haiti: Jessica Simpson and her pals Cacee Cobb and Ken Pave... http://bit.ly/5pIFFd" from kimwow. So, I go to the website www.50000shoes.com, which is ...

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OK! Magazine's new issue shows Kourtney Kardashian holding her baby with what appears to be an unnaturally slim post-baby body. Seeing the cover of this magazine while in line at the grocery store, makes this mama (who still has 30 lbs. to lose to reach her pre-pre-pre-baby body) feel pretty ...

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Weekly Weigh-In : I lost 5 pounds!! I can't believe I didn't take a photo of my pre-weight last week. I do have this photo from 7/31/09, when I weighed 165: But I don't have anything showing 160 from last week. [But that does tell you that from August 1, 2009 to ...

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I met with some friends from high school yesterday for lunch & then did some shopping (had some gymbucks to use and a gift to buy for my new niece), so hubby had the kids for about 7 hours (yes, I was out that long - also went to Target ...

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Back in December, one of the blogs I follow (sorry I can't remember which one right now), featured a link for a free Aveeno tote bag (I think from MarthaStewart.com). So, I signed up to receive one. Apparently, they either didn't know how many tote bags they actually had or ...

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With my current fruit & veggie only diet, dairy is off limits. So when I went to pick up some milk for the girls & hubby at the store, I went to look at soymilk for myself. The grocery store had my hubby's favorite Very Vanilla Silk Soymilk, so I ...

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[polldaddy poll=2574165] I don't normally follow gossip blogs, but when I saw a mention that Hayden Panettierre has red hair, I had to check it out. Being a natural red head, I'm always intrigued when others "go red". I want to see what shade they go with and how they look with ...

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I have officially completed Day 3 of fruits & veggies only. I have been tempted several times, especially as I have been preparing meals for my family with other items on my no-no list (like meat). So far, I've only squeezed in one workout (when we went to the gym ...

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