Welcome to our newest Beauty & Style Channel blog, Gleaming Things!

Gleaming Things is all about jewelry, and is written by our own Chloe Findlay-Harder who you hopefully already know from Her Accessories.  Chloe has a wonderful sense of style and a great eye for finding treasures, so I know you are going to just love Gleaming Things like I do.
If you are a feed reading type, you can subscribe to the Gleaming Things feed, and if you want to go all out and catch all the latest in Beauty & Style, try out our Beauty & Style Channel feed …read more

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My hubby planned a short overnighter today (leaving in a couple of hours), so I couldn’t participate, but many of our bloggers around b5media are participating in a 24 hour blogathon today, in support of various charities.  I wanted to at least give them a link and I hope you will visit them today and consider making a pledge to their charities:
From Business:
Business and Blogging, Accounting Solver, taxgirl, Doing Biz Abroad, Home Biz Notes, Everyday Networker, One Vote Matters, Interview Chatter, Biz Chicks Rule, Buzz Networker, Digital Money World, Franchise Pick, Yielding Wealth, Small Business …read more

  We need a new name for our channel – Beauty & Style is sounding rather dull these days.  Good thing we have one on the horizon, eh?
In the meantime, we have been thinking (dreaming?) about Valentines Day over here, and have a round up of everything over at Teen Style Lounge.  Are you ready for Valentine’s Day?  I’m sure not.  I live behind these days.  Are you talking about Valentine’s Day somewhere?  Let me know in the comments – I don’t want to miss any great ideas!

In my delirium last week, I completely forgot to give some love to Shannon, and MakeupMinute, our newest blog here in the Beauty & Style Channel at b5media! You have probably seen Shannon before – I reference her other blog, A Girl’s Gotta Spa pretty often. Shannon will be writing about all things cosmetics, so if you are a makeup junkie, be sure to bookmark her, or put her in your Bloglines, or do whatever you need to do to not miss any of her daily posts. She is a hoot, and is sure to bring …read more

I just wanted to point out that I am Keeping The Castle while Maricar is off playing with her newborn son for a couple of months (congrats again, Maricar!). It is a hair lonely over there for me, so please come by and visit!! I would love to hear what you have to say about this: Women Prefer Housekeeping to Sex. I was a little disgusted, and I certainly disagreed with their poll results. Really, you should always visit over there, Maricar is a great writer and a much better domestic goddess than I am. …read more

Today we launch the first of two up and coming blogs in the Women’s channel, ShopaholicsDaily, written by SP Bragg, of AgingFabulous, and her daughter, Brittany, a new blogger here at b5media.

SP and Brittany will be chronicling their adventures as shoppers extraordinaire – telling you all of the good, and all of the bad along the way.  They are very charming bloggers and down to earth people, I think you will love them both like I do!  Be sure and visit them, and don’t forget to leave a comment and say hello!