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Spring is coming and so are the new Spring bags

March 16, 2008 by Tricia

Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on two of my new sites and since they are related to shopping and fashion I’ve been reading a lot of fashion related articles in magazines and on the web. I don’t think there’s any chance that I’ll ever be a fashion Diva, but you can be sure I’ll know what all the current trends are and what new products are coming out each season.

So lets talk about handbags and purses. What bags are going to be must have’s this spring? Well, I can tell you that you should be looking at >Drawstring handbags. I think they’ve been popular in one way or another since the 70’s, but they are really coming back in a big way this year.

drawstring.jpg I really like the look of this Adrienne Vittadini Drawstring Hobo. It’s made of Italian glossy snake printed leather. It also has cell phone pocket as well as an inside zipped section and additional pockets. I love purses that are sectioned or that have pockets inside as it makes it so much easier to keep your bag organized and find things when you need them.

If you’re just not that into drawstring style bags perhaps a Flat tote might have more appeal?

This bright red Dolce & Gabbana flat shopping tote is made of woven patent leather. Isn’t it just gorgeous?

flattote.jpg If you like to carry just about everything you might need in your bag then this is the bag for you. You can carry it using the dual handles or if you’ve filled it with your days shopping you can use the adjustable cross body strap.

Bright colors are in this year, and so are floral and graphic prints.

Why not carry these trends over to your choice of bags and clutches? We all know that the right purse and the right shoes can make or break and outfit.

Personally I’m not that big on wearing floral patterned tops, dresses or coats. I know they look great on some people and maybe they look good on me as well, but they aren’t to my taste. Now isn’t that interesting given how much I love flowers?

dis_envelope_daisy.jpg However, having said that I certainly wouldn’t be adverse to carrying this lovely Daisies and Lilacs Envelope Clutch. Isn’t it cute?

It’s handmade in floral print cotton canvas and it’s also fully lined in Spring green cotton.

Have you purchased a new bag(s) for the Spring season? If you have, or if you’ll be shopping for a new bag soon I’d love to hear what styles and colors interest you most.





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Finally upgrading my WP sites and their plugins!

March 7, 2008 by Tricia

Over the last few days I’ve spent a good portion of my time updating all of my blogs. All of the new ones – the hush hush ones – have been updated to WP 2.3.3. It was easy to do because I was able to use Fantasico in my web hosting C-Panel to do it.

Now I have to update all of the blogs on this domain! Argh … I’ve moved those blogs to new web hosts twice in the last year and the last time was a manual update so this time round all the blogs will have to be manual updated too. It’s ok to do one or two manually, but when you have seven or eight that need to be upgraded manually it’s a pain in the butt! By the time I’m done I’ll be the WordPress upgrading queen! (17 blogs later!)

I’d also been having trouble on all my blogs when I’d try to save or publish a new post. A few months ago I had some kind of conflict occur when I upgraded my bad behavior plugin and the Google Sitemaps plugin on the same day. Ever since then I’d always get an error message when I saved or published a post. The posts were published but I’d have to check to be sure. It was a pain! I didn’t realize it but it was also messing up the do follow tags on my sites too. So there was a conflict between three plugins!

Luckily I discovered that there was yet another new Bad Behavior plugin update as well as a new Google XML sitemaps plugin. I updated those two plugins and refreshed my permalinks and TADA everything works right again!

Now I just hope that I don’t have any problems with my wordpress themes when I upgrade the sites on Feverishthoughts.com to the most recent WP upgrade. I think all my blogs on this domain are using 2.2.1 so it’ll be a big upgrade. If you drop by and notice that one of my feverishthoughts blogs is sporting a new very plain bare bones theme then you’ll know something strange happened when I updated the platform. It will only be temporary.

Once all that is done I can get back to work on the new blogs. One is a home and garden blog that will discuss mostly home type topics (my gardening blog will go back to mainly gardening!) such as decor, interior decorating, great recipes, tips for around the home and so on. The other blog is a shopping blog where I’ll talk about fashion trends, cosmetics, new home decor designs – who knows I’m sure I’ll even talk about platform beds on one or both!

Working on those two sites has inspired me again. I’m full of ideas and of course every time I find something cool to write about I also want to go out and buy it. I’ll be unveiling these new blogs shortly and I really hope that you like them. I’m trying to keep it fun, interesting and of course full of helpful information.

Have any of you updated your sites recently? Did it go well?

Anyone start any new blogs too? What is your new blog about? Are you being re-inspired as well?

Filed Under: Blogging, Decor, Entertainment, Fashion, Gifts, Great Sites, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Recreation, Shopping, Web and Technology, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Writing Tagged With: bad behavior, blog, blogs, changed web hosts, cool, cpanel, Decor, design, Do follow, domain, fantastico, Fashion, garden, Gardening, google sitemaps, help, home, hosting, idea, ideas, inspired, interesting, links, my sites, new, plugin, plugins, post, posts, problems, Recipes, server, Shopping, upgrade, web host, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, wordpress update, write

What’s your favorite menswear style for women?

February 24, 2008 by Tricia

Have you ever noticed how great mens clothes look on some women?

Certainly some things, like mens shirts, feel much more comfortable and cozy to wear then a ladies fitted blouse. Come on admit it, I bet there’s few women reading this that haven’t thrown on one of their boyfriends or husbands shirts at least once.

My husbands actually shorter than me so I’m not in the habit of wearing his clothes. He, on the other hand, has been known to wear some of mine! No, no I know what your thinking – it’s not like that at all! … he’ll sometimes be lazy and grab one of my coats to put on or one of my sweaters or even my shoes when he’s got to go outside. He looks awfully silly in my puffy winter ski jacket or and he stretches my shoes with his wide feet when he wears them!

vest.jpg It’s not likely that I’ll ever wear any of his clothes, but I do like some menswear fashions that have made their way into female fashions. Take for example the womens vest. It’s obviously been converted from menswear. Womens vests are often tapered at the waist and contoured to fit our curves and can be very flattering when worn with a blouse and skirt or perhaps even some Denim stovepipes or dress pants. That would be a great outfit either for the office or for a casual night out depending upon which items you chose to wear with the vest.

That’s what I like about vests. They’re so versatile.

belt.jpg You’d of course need to accessorize your outfit. A womens western style belt and perhaps a studded purse would look great if you were wearing the vest with a pair of straight legged jeans.

I really like the belt that I’ve shown you above. It has a feminine pattern to it, but it still has a bit of it’s masculine roots. It’s a good thing that my purse is on the other side of the room as I have a strong urge to pull out my credit card and do a little online shopping!

When you think about it, a lot of womens fashions today originated as menswear. In a way we’ve all been wearing mens clothing and probably didn’t even realize it. Vests, jeans, shirts, womens suits, belts – what other types of clothing can you think of that were originally only for men?

Filed Under: Fashion, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: accessories, accessorize, belt, clothes, clothing, coat, comfort, credit card, curves, denim stovepipes, dress, Fashion, fashions, feminine, fitted, husband, items, jeans, men, mens shirts, menswear, online, Online shopping, original, pants, purse, shoes, shop, Shopping, skirt, straight leg jeans, studded bag, style, vest, western belt, women, womens vest

Love watches? Check out the 10 hs 10 watch portal

February 18, 2008 by Tricia

Hey if you’re in the jewelry field, perhaps as a watchmaker, or you simply adore watches you might be interested in learning more about Amazing Swiss luxury watches. If you subscribe to their newsletter you’ll get the latest facts and news about new watch styles, watchmakers and the watch market overall.

Actually if you subscribe to the newsletter now you’ll have a chance to win an Atlantic Watch. Just think, if you win you’ll have another watch for your growing collection.

Filed Under: Fashion, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Jeweller/Jewellery, Shopping Tagged With: amazing, collection, collector, interest, jewel, jeweller, jewelry, luxury, market, news, newsletter, style, styles, subscribe, watch, watch collection, watch industry, watch makers, watch news, watch newsletter, watch styles, watchmaker, win, win watch

Gotta work on the new sites

January 29, 2008 by Tricia

Back in April of 2007 I bought 6 new domains and I had hoped to have developed all of those sites long before now, but sadly I’ve barely had time to do much with the new sites. Well, one of the sites was for my husband Chris. It’s his new Guitarlicksandtips.com music related blog. He’s done a good job of posting articles on that site (well he’s a bit behind lately), but the rest are languishing.

I’m hoping to set aside some time later today to get to work on two of my new home and shopping related blogs. I’ve already been looking around on the internet to find some products to talk about and I came across a great sale at Kohls.com that some of you might want to take advantage of. It’s a big two day sale where you can save 60 – 80% on a number of items. Hey stop by this site first get some Kohls coupons and you’ll probably end up saving even more money!

Anyway, it’s not like the new blogs are blank or anything, but I haven’t done all that much with them. Perhaps after I do some work on some of them today I’ll be willing to let you in on their urls so that you can check them out for yourself.

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