Gung hay fat choy! Happy Lunar New Year! It’s the lucky year of the dragon and you should get one of my dragon jewelry designs to celebrate. Sure, it will cost you a pretty penny, but it’s much cheaper in the long run than having a dragon-year child. Eighteen years from now, you won’t be…
Special Occasions
What Wendy Wore: Gold Sequins for New Year’s Eve 2012
The color gold was on my mind as I got ready for New Year’s Eve. Much to my delight, it was on other people’s minds too. MrB and I gave gorgeous blogger/designer Stacy Lomman a ride to our dinner at Indochine. When Stacy turned up at our apartment wearing gold sequins that matched mine, I…
What Wendy Wore: Thanksgiving and a Birthday
Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday. There’s too much food and football, and a dearth of costumes, confetti and candy dioramas. I was happy to shake things up by going to a restaurant instead of having dinner at home. So happy, in fact, that I celebrated by wearing something other than my jeans-and-t-shirt uniform. What…
Pretty People at the CPJ Dinner
So much happened at Tuesday’s International Press Freedom Awards Dinner for the Committee to Protect Journalists, that it has taken me three posts to cover it. My first post was about the vintage gown I wore. The second post was about CPJ’s mission and the dinner’s awardees. Now it’s back to the lighthearted stuff: party…
Giving Thanks for Press Freedom
Yesterday’s post was about what I wore to the annual International Press Freedom Awards Dinner for the Committee to Protect Journalists. As I said, the dinner honors journalists from around the world who risk their lives to report from war zones and in defiance of brutal regimes. It also raises money for CPJ’s activities: denouncing…
What Wendy Wore: Golden Girls Gang Does Vegas
Since 2008 — and inspired by a gold sequin Antik Batik dress — I’ve wanted to organize a terrifying gang called the Golden Girls. Membership would require the wearing of gold sequins, the ability to strike the WendyB pose and maybe a violent initiation ceremony just to keep things lively. I unexpectedly achieved my gangsta…
Happy Rick-Ross-o-Ween!
I’ve been worried about my latest obsession, rapper Rick Ross, ever since he had two seizures earlier this month. Apparently, he’s doing better. I’m relieved, because the world can’t afford to lose a man with such exquisite taste in jewelry. Embed from Getty Images It made my Halloween to see this photo of a Ross-o-lantern…
Have a Horrifying Audio/Visual Halloween
For audio frights, check out my recently promised murderous playlist at 33 avenue Miquelon. CLICK HERE FOR MY PLAYLIST POST. For visual terror, yesterday’s New York Times had a feature called “When the City Was a House of Horrors.” It’s about John Conn, who photographed the New York City subway system in the late 1970s…
What Wendy Wore: Stacy Lomman Dress for Tina’s Birthday
My gorgeous friend Tina the Occasional Cook had a Solid Gold-themed birthday party last night. Actually, as I’m writing this, she’s still having the party. I left just minutes ago while an enthusiastic karaoke rendition of Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer” was still in progress. You know that song: The perfect outfit for a…
No Need to Be a Sexy Cat This Halloween
Wondering what to do for a Halloween costume? Thinking of going with that old stand-by: the sexy cat? No need! I have found the ultimate sexy costume. Behold! The sexy watermelon dress from Yandy.com. Yandy.com has every sexy Halloween costume option, including the sexy banana; the sexy skunk (that one’s for you, Jennine); the sexy…