Kitty Deschanel

We're home from the Summer Wine Festival in the lovely Taos Ski Valley, NM and we had the BEST time ever. Somehow, the fabulous Cecilia Cuff and her fellow event organizers made it even better than last year ! I have a million photos to share, but since that would surely freeze your computer and make you hate me forever, I've broken them into lots of smaller blog posts. You're welcome! Well, unless you hate wine festivals, in which case you're going to get pretty annoyed over the next few weeks. It's going to be wine, wine, and more wine around here. Also, what the heck do you mean you hate wine festivals?? Let's start with a little non-awkward stuff. It's my site and I am the poster child of social anxiety, so you know I mean it when I say there will only be a little. Even that may be an exaggeration... See this cute hummingbird? These guys were all over Taos this weekend, zipping along and enjoying the beautiful flower arrangements and probably

What is my bra size?! How to properly measure your bra size - a public service announcement. After my lovable boss decided to measure my bra size in front of everyone, this post seemed like a great idea. (Seriously, have you ever read such a mortifying work story? I love her, but geez!) The Proper Way to Measure Your Bra Size You know the joke about not being able to go back out at night because you've already taken off your bra? This is me 100%. And I bet it's you too, which is a safe wager because the majority of women purchase the wrong size bra simply because they aren’t aware of their correct measurements. If you knew what to measure and how, you could say goodbye to all those ill-fitting bra woes, such as gaps, backaches, and sore spots from a too-tight bra cutting into your skin. Plus, you'd save time and effort when you shop sexy bras for women . To help you out, I've partnered with Cosabella to come up with a guide to the proper way to measure b

The best Amerisleep mattress review you will ever read. It has been more than 6 and a half years since we purchased our first mail-order mattress, an Amerisleep AS3. Yes, with our own money! Really!  (I think this is worth noting as it often seems like every "unbiased" Amerisleep review on a blog has a disclaimer that the reviewer received one for free. So, you received this and 50 other mattresses - did you even sleep on it for one night? There are also lots of sneaky sites out there, like Sleepopolis and Mattress Clarity, that claim to be unbiased but are actually owned by the same company, which seems to basically be Casper. Google "does sleepopolis own casper" and you'll see what I mean. Crazy, right?)  Long story short, I thought it would be appropriate to provide an update to my Amerisleep mattress reviews after so much time. I've also created a handy comparison chart. I'd intended to make a buying guide like this back when we bought our AS3

With the Taos Summer Wine Festival August 17th-19th and the  Angel Fire Wine and Wagyu Weekend (formerly known as the Angel Fire Food & Wine Roundup) August 24th-26th , this is the perfect time of year to plan a visit to the beautiful New Mexico mountains. You can easily fill a week with fun activities in between each foodie event. Not a bad place to spend a week, eh? And, yes, you should totally try to make it to both. We attended both last year and have been looking forward to both ever since. The Taos Summer Wine Festival and Angel Fire Wine and Wagyu Weekend could not be more different and each is amazing in its own way. I think of the Taos event as being aimed at yogis and hikers, whereas the Angel Fire event is for cowboys and Texans. It's cheese pairings versus barbeque. Hippie music versus country. Chevy Volts versus Dodge Rams - and as an owner of both, I absolutely LOVE both festivals. The Angel Fire Wine and Wagyu Weekend features a VIP food and wi