From the monthly archives:

December 2009

A Little Something for the Men

December 30, 2009

To the five boys who read HCG: this – our first ever post directed toward the male species – is for you.
Joe discovered an amazing creation at The North Face store last night: a knit hat with little speakers along the ears.  It’s sick.  It allows you to listen to music while wearing a warm [...]

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The Party Don’t Start til I Walk In

December 30, 2009

Finally, a reason to post about party dresses – New Year’s Eve!  I love fun dresses so much I could easily write 3,000 words on the topic.  I even have a separate (albeit relatively small) closet dedicated solely to party dresses.  No, I don’t get to wear them as often as I like, but I [...]

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A Very Gina Christmas

December 28, 2009

This was a good Christmas for HCG.  CF and JDF gave me the best gift in the history of the world: Here Comes Gina business cards!  500 of them!  I’ve wanted HCG business cards for quite some time now and not simply because I want to drop them in free lunch drawings at local restaurants [...]

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Vampin’ Around the Christmas Tree

December 23, 2009

Only two days until Christmas and so much left to do – wrapping, baking, cleaning, catching up on MTV’s new series “Teen Mom” (a spinoff of the addictive “16 and Pregnant”) – the pressure is almost too much to handle.  Getting a manicure tops HCG’s pre-holiday to do list.  Today I was able to sneak [...]

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Circle of Warmth

December 22, 2009

In case you didn’t know, Philadelphia was blanketed in snow this weekend.  I had a lot of running around to do, so I wasn’t able to snuggle inside and watch movies like the rest of the East coast (you think the Rodarte stuff at Target was going to wait around until the snow stopped?  I [...]

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Gift Guide: Bejeweled

December 18, 2009

Every woman loves jewelry.  Every woman especially loves jewelry she receives as a gift.
Above, one of the greatest inventions ever created: a travel jewelry pouch (this version is from J.Crew).  I never knew how essential a travel jewelry pouch was until my friend Jess gifted me a monogrammed version when I was a bridesmaid in [...]

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