My new biz Ember Heart!

I have a new laptop! (Rest in peace my lil’ old one) Thank you Rick! And now my new biz! I have been rolling along already but now it’s taking off like a cloud of butterflies! Come visit anytime. I ship worldwide and hand-make all the blends, each are unique- you won’t find them anywhere else.

Designer Malan Breton in an Ember Heart pendant.
The gemstone pendant is part of the Fashion Scents Gift set found here!
Malan has been such a great supportive person through all ups and downs of the world if you have never seen his lovely designs and craveable handbags you should!

Check out all of Ember Heart’s Custom Blends
Malanscents, Malan Breton
Forest Fairy, Wendy and Brian Froud
jolie Miraval!, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
Maysong, Aaron May

THANK YOU to Blogging Project Runway for being my first big website supporter and running my little ad 🙂 Wonderful site, wonderful people!

Film, Quinceañera

Just wanted to remind everybody about a great film,Quinceañera, check it out some weekend and maybe have a Prom Themed Movie Weekend with friends. You could even show these films at an After-Party.

Related Articles

Cool Movies and Books

Top Ideas for a Safe After-Party

Cooking Up Some Prom Party Food

Review from Amazon.com
A Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winner, Quinceañera is a small film with a big heart.
The plot unfolds at the leisurely pace of life itself, yet there’s not a wasted moment in the script. The story follows the travails of young Magdalena (Emily Rios), a teen in the Mexican-American, but gentrifying, Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park.

Find Wonderful Fashions for Less

You’ll never know what you can find at a thrift or vintage store if you don’t look! Check out this amazing article to see the kind of wonderful fashions you can find, yes even for formal events and Prom! Imagine too the things you can get for everyday at amazing prices. You are also helping charities in many cases too. So if you can’t afford a gown or tuxedo don’t despair just get looking. Department stores are not the only places you can find fashions like these. Why miss a wonderful night because the mall shops are too expensive there are alternatives and as you can see by this article you can find wonderful things. You friends may even be envious you found so much for so little!

Armed with fashion, Spring looks at bargain prices at Salvation Army fashion show
By Patrice Stewart pstewart@decaturdaily.com

Maythion Casteel of Falkville got his first chance as a fashion model Saturday and bought the Brooks Brothers suit he wore for just $6.

To brighten the black suit, he spent another $3 for a purple dress shirt by D’Amante.

This bargain buy and others could have been yours if you moved quickly after the fashion show presented by the Salvation Army’s thrift store in Decatur.

A Guide To Your Perfect Prom

Check out these great tips on how to make your prom night fun and less stressful. This is a great article from Courier Journal and it’s an interview with Joanna Saltz, executive style editor of Seventeen magazine. She is quite an expert since you can say she literally “wrote the book”. That book is “Seventeen’s Guide to Your Perfect Prom — A Planner & Scrapbook”. Check it out!

“There’s no denying it, the prom is an enormous extravaganza for a high school student.

That’s why Joanna Saltz, executive style editor of Seventeen magazine, decided to write a book about one of the biggest nights of a teen’s life. It’s called “Seventeen’s Guide to Your Perfect Prom — A Planner & Scrapbook” (Hearst Communications, 2007, $14.95).

“Prom is a major milestone in a teenager’s life. … It is such a huge thing for a lot of our readers,” Saltz said. “Part of the mission with this book is to make sure that our readers understand that there is a lot of planning that goes into it, but it doesn’t have to be stressful.”

Sweet Sixteen Party Themes

Some helpful links to get ideas and tips on a Great Sweet 16 Party. Also check out the The Big List of Prom and Party Themes for ideas too!

• Chiff’s Ideas and Links Page
• Party 411’s Sweet 16
• Party Treats!
• Kid’s Party Fun Pages
• Birthday Party Ideas.com
• Party Pop.com
• MTV’s Sweet 16
• Entertaining About.com Sweet 16
• Sweet 16 Party Ideas from Nautical Cruiselines
• 4 Favors Sweet 16 Party Ideas
• Sweet Sixteen Help

More on Event Fashion here!

Read some Vintage Fashion articles here

Casual Formal Wear for Guys

Can’t get your guy in a tie? Check out this cool hoodie, yes a hoodie! Price: $45.
“Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) For many high school and college students, proms and Spring formals are just around the corner. This year, there’s no excuse for not hitting the after parties in comfort and true nerd-chic style, with a brand new dressy casual black hoodie for men just released by www.NerdyShirts.com. This latest original shirt design offers a casual yet tasteful option for keeping both warm and fashionable.

The latest of the weekly, original shirt designs is a slim-fitting, zip-up, black hoodie (available only in men’s sizes), sporting a white printed-on “tie” for that “I don’t need to be stuffy to be classy” look. Now guys in this traditionally casual generation can lose the tux when they step off of the dance floor, and slip into comfort for the after-hours.”

Alternative Jewelry For Special Nights Out

These are some cool alternatives to the sparkling gems we love. These may actually start conversations and get you a little playful envy! Creative adornment by artistic people for lovely evenings out… very nice to keep for yourself or give as gifts. Photo, ToyMe Sneaker

It’s a Tie!

Formal fashion has men wearing a variety of accessories and one of them is a tie. No need for a tie to be boring or ugly. They can be a way of expressing a personal interest, hobby, profession and even to be funny. It’s nice to see a dash of color on usually dark colored formal suits. Check out some of these fun and beautiful ties available online. Photo, Sovereign Beck Ties

Book, “Wonderland: The Story of a Prom”

Seems like Racine Wisconsin (location of the film “The World’s Best Prom”) is not the only town that knows how to throw a Prom!

“Pennsbury High School outside Philadelphia takes its senior prom seriously. No, seriously. Hordes of people in the 73,000-strong local community come out to see the outlandish parade (fire trucks, stretch Hummers) carrying some 1,200 attendants to the school’s red carpet. The 2003 prom is the all-stops-out climax of Michael Bamberger’s deeply affecting Wonderland” EW.com”

Sometimes dreams really do come true. Check out this book about the year in the life of a high school that has at its center the preparations for their Prom. Among the stories of the lives of some of the students and teachers they have a collective dream to have John Mayer play their event. This book brought them the attention they needed for the next year’s Prom to have a memorable ending. Photo, smilez0724

“It was great to get back to the simplicity of just showing up somewhere and playing,” he says. “But the best part is realizing that not a single drop of that moment is going to be lost on these kids. It will be written on their brains for the rest of their lives. It was really exciting. I’m thinking I should start doing six proms a night.” John Mayer

Costa says that even after Mayer made his exit, the students were buzzing for hours. “People came up to me the entire night and hugged me or gave me high-fives,” he says. “The girls were crying and the guys were ecstatic. This stuff just doesn’t happen. It’s too movie-like. For those few moments, it was perfect.”
From Rolling Stone’s coverage of the event.

smilez0724’s photos of that special Prom night and John Mayer.

Purchase the book on Amazon.com

Related Links:

EW.com’s article on the event.

San Francisco Chronicle’s detailed review and article on the book.

Rolling Stone’s article about the event.

People.com’s story on John Mayer’s Prom performance.

Gregg Latterman on VH1 reveals that John Mayer did not even go to his own Prom.

Yahoo Music’s mention of the Mayer Prom appearance.

Pennsbury High School’s Website

Crown Her The Prom Queen

This is just an idea, guys, for telling and showing your special date she is Prom Queen to you whether she lobbied for votes or not. A pretty crown themed necklace may let her feel like royalty and give her a lovely keepsake to remember the magical night. Check out these beauties from artists around the country. Photo, Elizabeth Cole

Make some Holiday “Tree Fashion”

A fun thing to do with the leftover wrapping paper and cards is to create fun things like ornaments you can use next year. Trees full of handmade ornaments made from recycled paper are always in fashion. You’ll remember all over again the fun you had this year and the wonderful gifts you received when seeing the paper again as a decoration. You can give them as gifts too. Of course there are other things you can do with cards and papers, and here are some fun links to ideas. Photo, MoonlitJazz

Fashion Themed Family Holiday Gifts

Fashion themed gifts are something you will enjoy giving and enjoy seeing in use, and in some cases, give you something fashionable back! If you have a family member who is a budding fashion model, designer or fashionista, these gifts will make their faces light up. Photo, Bigbrothersisters.org

Useful Holiday Tip, How To Wrap Presents

So you look wonderful, how about the gifts you’re bringing? Here are great instructional sites showing clearly how to wrap presents. Now just don’t tape yourself to the box!
Photo, RealSimple.com

Classic Box Wrap

Diagonal Wrapping

Fancy Furoshiki Wrapping in Paper

True Furoshiki Wrapping in Cloth

Ribbon:

Tying that Bow you can never get right

Square Box Tie with Bow

Diagonal Box Tie with Bow

Creative Giftwrap Ideas:

Wrapping Ideas

Marble Your Own Paper For Giftwrap

6 Page Article of Creative Ideas for Wrapping.

Top 5 Prom Movies

A Model Gift Recommendation

Elyse Sewell the cool finalist from “America’s Next Top Model” Cycle One has recommended for the holidays (via her uber-charming Live Journal blog) a funky bag from a cute company called Queen Bee. They make adorable totes and wallets in vinyl too. Perfect for the modern fashionista on your Holiday list.

My favorite is The Ginko Truckette for $60.00. What they say: “A duo of Ginkgo leaves cascades in a drift of stitching on the flap of this bag.

The perfect bag for toting around your daily needs. The Truckette is constructed of high-quality waterproof vinyl, has two front pockets underneath flap, an additional layer of vinyl on bottom of bag for reinforcement, adjustable heavy duty seat belt webbing strap, and a silver velvet lined flap that closes with two snaps. Hand made in our studio in Portland, Oregon.
Size: 10″w x 10″ h x 5″ d
Strap Length: At minimum: 30″ At maximum: 60″
Pictured: Black with Seafoam and Grotto Leaves” Also in Metal with Aqua Grey and Sage Leaves , and Aqua Grey with Sage and Metal Leaves.