Guilty Pleasures

Archive for February, 2008

La Vie en Rose

By User ImageMiss Tique • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Bazaar

Add a touch of class to your evening wear with a pair of chic satin gloves: the ultimate in sophistication.

Who wouldn’t want to play the diva for a night with this gorgeous jet-black feather fan?

To complete a slightly mysterious look, accessorize your hairstyle with this sheer tulle veil.
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Not to Miss

By User ImageMiss Tique • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Bazaar, Library

Who’s in for a guilty treat?
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Confessions 2.

By User ImageMiss Tique • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Asides

No other guilty pleasure can rival chocolate’s magical ability to assume so many different shapes and forms.

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Chocolate - Whim or Necessity?

By User ImageMiss Tique • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Asides

Often, you feel like eating a bar of chocolate..but you don’t, because you shouldn’t - and so you are being unfair to yourself. You don’t want chocolate, you need it! You’ve done the shopping and the housework, and still somehow found the energy to be the perfect hostess. You are exhausted, your body urgently requires [...]



Guilty Pleasures

By User ImageMiss Tique • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Library

Hamilton’s vampires are of the Anne Rice genre. They are beautiful, deadly and follow their own code of ethics. Many humans have become enthralled with them, but many are deeply suspicious. To Anita they are monsters who, when they go out of control, must be killed. But U.S. law protects vampires that behave themselves. Even [...]



Confession 1.

By User ImageMiss Tique • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Asides

When you’re 20 you think the whole world’s ahead of you, when you’re 25 you are sure of it.

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Chocolate Mousse

By User ImageMiss Tique • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Cuisine

Make your own chocolate mousse, by trying to mix the amounts you believe right. Normally, nothing bad can happen.
Combine bananas, ground cacao nibs, coconut oil, agave nectar and vanilla extract in a food processor, and pulse until smooth. If a thicker pudding is desired, add more banana and coconut oil (pudding will also thicken as [...]



Shoes: A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers & More

By User ImageMiss Tique • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Library

Most shoes reveal something about the status of their wearer, but sandals have been alternately symbols of prestige and poverty, of chastity or coquetry. Plain wooden sandals were worn by the poor and humble in the Middle Ages, medieval priests and Franciscan monks donned them as a sign of disregard for worldly luxury.

After having gone [...]



Zodiacal Shoes

By User ImageMiss Tique • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Bazaar

Aries
“Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively. ” Roger Bannister
Taurus
“My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize [...]



Whimsical Shoes

By User ImageMiss Tique • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category: Bazaar

No woman is the woman without the intricate and elaborate pleasure of owning shoes. High-heels, boots, flip-flops, yellow, burgundy, black, teal , all are sassy and sweet as long as we have a bigger dressing room with plenty of space and shelves for our guilty pleasures.
Sugar has found sweet success among the fashionably young. [...]