Help Through the Dark Hours

Help Through the Dark Hours

29.1.09

The box of Ferrero Rocher's new offering, Rondnoir, says ... Crisp dark chocolate-covered specialty, with a smooth filling and a dark chocolate centre. If it's getting late and your favourite chocolatier is closed, this will help you through the dark hours. You'll almost forget it isn't handmade....
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Worthless Oscar Tips Here. (I mean Priceless.)

27.1.09

by SHELL SHERREEDue to popular demand by my readers {snort}, I have put together my tips for some of the major categories in the upcoming 80th Academy Awards. {What's that? The 81st Academy Awards? Oh, damn it all. Be right back ... }Sorry for the wait. Back to those tips. As those who rode my Melbourne...
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Storm in a Milli Vanilli-flavoured Tea Cup

24.1.09

by SHELL SHERREEUh-oh. A storm has been brewing in a Milli Vanilli-flavoured teacup.Rewind back to the inauguration ceremony of President Barack Obama last week. The pomp. The circumstance. {Rightly so.} The rejoicing and celebrations. {Even more rightly so.} The fridgy-didge weather that would...
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In the Luscious Pink

In the Luscious Pink

24.1.09

Of the recent bloom of new fragrance releases, Mariah Carey's Luscious Pink has one of the prettiest bottles. Even though we're supposed to store perfumes in cool, dark places to protect their contents (what the ?), I can see it on a dressing table with a gathered and ruffled skirt of aqua fabric...
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Save Your Wedgwood

Save Your Wedgwood

20.1.09

Jasper Conran's 'Chinoiserie' design for Wedgwood isn't all white but I'd be tempted to break my 'all white dinner ware' inclination for a few feature pieces of it. Or bend it slightly, at least.My rendition shows the green Chinoiserie but it's also available in a white body with coloured pattern....
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If It Acts Like a Log ...

20.1.09

by SHELL SHERREETom Cruise met with reporters in South Korea on Sunday to promote his latest movie 'Valkyrie' in which he plays Claus von Stauffenberg, would-be Hitler assassin. Cruise {reportedly} told reporters "I've always wanted to kill Hitler. As a child, I used to wonder why someone didn't...
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Behold the Baggy Greens

18.1.09

by SHELL SHERREEAnother cricket match went down-to-the-wire at tea time, with Australia barely winning today's one day thriller over the tenacious South African side. Rewind several years and I'd never have imagined I'd be describing using the words 'thriller' and 'cricket match' in the same sentence.After...
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Louis Vuitton Tambour

Louis Vuitton Tambour

17.1.09

Ooh, pretty! Louis Vuitton watch, Tambour Forever Silver with pink alligator strap (also available in red; my colouring came up fuschia-like ~ am I hedging my bets?). I've never seen a pink alligator befo...
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Aircraft Safety 101

17.1.09

by SHELL SHERREEJohnny Knoxville, star of 'Jackass', was detained last Thursday morning at LA International Airport for allegedly having a grenade in his luggage. Oops. There was no real threat, though, aside from the fellow passengers on his Miami flight succumbing to salted-peanut-induced sodium...
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Misplaced: One Golden Globes Ceremony

13.1.09

by SHELL SHERREEDoes anyone know someone who knows someone whose hairdresser's uncle's accountant might know someone who works at the commercial TV stations and can come up with a logical reason why none of them showed this year's Golden Globes ceremony? I thought not.Thank Heavens for pay TV.Our...
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Warm and Fuzzy Tea Cosies

Warm and Fuzzy Tea Cosies

13.1.09

This possibly is better reserved for an autumnal post but comes under the heading of "Why didn't I do it when I first thought of it," so I'm not delaying any further!If you have visited any fine bookstore in Australia and not seen Loani Prior's 'Wild Tea Cosies' book there, be surprised then ask...
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Rearranging the Blog Furniture

12.1.09

As means of explanation for what appears to be a shocking gap in posts, here goes.I've been rearranging my blog furniture during the holidays. Though I started this blog with all good intentions, like so many things started that way, it went off the rails. Posts with some relationship to things...
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When Hubby's Best Mate Has to Go

11.1.09

by SHELL SHERREEMy hubby has finally had a parting of the ways with his best mate. They'd been together for thirty years. And they were a tad too close for my comfort. After all, I've only known my hubby for twelve years. Even a rug rat (ok, a large one) could do the maths and figure it out; his...
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Up the Cotton Pickings

6.1.09

by SHELL SHERREESorry for my absence during the festive season. I wish I could say I've been hunkered down in a garret in Paris, writing a smokey novel by day and pickling myself with some French pear cider by night. But there's a difference between poetic license and poetic larceny. The closest...
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