Archive for 'Distractions'

Pure Joy, Darlings: Itty Takes a Snow Day

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Darlings!!  Are vous as cold as Itty is?
Itty Bitty City Girl is writing to vous from a very cold place! Moi wishes that she was one of vous lucky girls out there who chose to go to school in a warmer place that the north east.
Here in this Itty Bitty City where Itty resides we […]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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Happy Thanksgiving! Here are some fabulously fun wordplays for your holiday enjoyment from the crew at Daily Candy. 
Cornycopia
n. A surplus of tacky Thanksgiving decor: papier-mache turkeys, faux fall leaves, etc. (We barely had room for the food with all the cornycopia on Aunt Gertie’s dining room table.)
Cranberry boss
n. The control freak in the kitchen who […]

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End World Hunger with Free Rice

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 Free Rice is a multiple choice vocabulary game that for every word someone gets right, 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations to help in the fight against world hunger. The site was created by Poverty.com.  They state that over 1,330,639,890 grains of rice have been donated since October 7th. This concept amazes me, assuming […]

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Nostalgic Halloween Treats

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Bon Jour Mon Petites!
Itty is writing to you and wishing you a very Happy Halloween week!
Moi is wishing you a week filled with holiday costumes that make vous look just adorable, witchy and a little spooky if need be.
Itty can’t help but get nostalgic at this time of the year for fun Halloweens she spent […]

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ChickSpeak’s Halloween Do’s and Don’ts

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Do have fun with your costume.
Do wear layers b/c baby, it will be cold outside!
Do coordinate your outfit with your friends.
Do drink responsibly 
Do bring your camera.
Don’t pull a Paris or Britney while getting out of the car. (Ie: Have a trusted friend check for anything too short, skimpy, sheer or- gasp- missing (ahem, cough, cough) from […]

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Remembering 9/11: We Continue to Grow

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Where were you when you heard the news? It’s strange how even the smallest details have been burned into memory and are now forever linked to the day that our nation was attacked.
I was in an art history lecture and was so confused at first when my professor delivered the somber news. Class was cancelled […]

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Congrats to Elysa R. - Winner of Our “Must Read” Book for August

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ChickSpeak subscriber Elysa R. was the lucky winner of our August “Must Read” Book: The Girl’s Guide to Absoluely Everything. 
So what was Elysa’s trick for snagging this autographed give-a-way, you ask? Simple, she was super-fast on the draw and emailed us at TheGirls at ChickSpeak dot com. Yup, winning free fabulous stuff really is that easy, so […]

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Sample Sale: Snag Fall Must-Haves Before They Sell Out Today!

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I HOPE YOU ARE SITTING DOWN…because there is an online sample sale going on RIGHT NOW at the Art Of Shop!  London designer, Ted Baker shoes are a mere $30 and shipping is ONLY $5.  I.Can.Barely.Breathe.  Must type faster to score these beauties to complete a perfect Fall-ish outfit

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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What a great reminder from our friend Sophie about priorities! Do you ever feel so busy or booked that you keep putting off time with the people you love most- ie: your fabulous girlfriends?
I think we are all guilty of doing this at times… thinking that work, classes and maybe even boyfriends come first and that our friends […]

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The Fashionista Diaries- Enter to Win!

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 Tell Us What Makes You a Fashionista in 25 words or less in our forum by August 10th and be entered to win the following Prizes from ChickSpeak.com and SOAP.net’s New Series The Fashionista Diaries:  
One (1) Fabulous Person will WIN: 

 $60 worth of Flirt cosmetics
 Fashionista Diaries Tee and Beret
 and additional prizes

Five (5) Runners Up will WIN:

Fashionista […]

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