Enjoy!

Here’s her performance of the song Stormy Weather. It’s one of her most well known performances.

Rest in Peace Lena Horne, you will be missed but your inspiration and light carries on.

I learned about the National Food Bloggers Bake Sale on twitter. The Georgia coordinator of the event was this lovely lady named Tami Hardeman who is an Atlanta-based food stylist who runs the blog, www.runningwithtweezers.com. She posted about the bake sale and said they were looking for food bloggers or bloggers who like food. Since I fall in the second category, I volunteered to make some vanilla chocolate cherry cookies and help out day of the event.

It was a beautiful day in Atlanta for the sale and the goodies that had been donated were wonderful. This was definitely not your typical bake sale. There was fresh baked brioche, pumpkin bread, rosemary shortbread cookies, cocochip doodles, red velvet minis, chocolate sheet cake, chocolate candies, chocolate chip cookies, rice krispy treats and so many more goodies. It was all very beautifully packaged and all of the proceeds went to Share Our Strength, an organization dedicated to ending child hunger. I made a lovely slide show with some pictures from the event. Check them out!

I spent the morning with some lovely food bloggers with equally lovely blogs.

www.theteachercooks.com
www.melecotte.blogspot.com
www.anatomyofadinnerparty.com
www.atlantadish.blogspot.com
www.cakehag.com
www.wewhiskaway.blogspot.com

There is a lot of planning and organizing going on behind the scenes here at Clueless Fashionista. I’ve made some changes to the look of the blog and I will be adding some new segments in the coming weeks.

One segment I’d like to start running is a beauty product review segment. I haven’t found a cute name for it just yet but I will when the time comes. If any of you are interested in joining my beauty panel, send me a message through the contact page.

I hope all of you are enjoying the weather change and starting to wear your lovely fall boots and sweaters!

I saw this one and thought it would be a great way to introduce you to some popular clothing brands while giving you the opportunity to win a Marc Jacobs accessory. Here are the contest details:

1. Join Shop It To Me. Click the picture below and sign up to be a member. It’s free and you’ll love all of the bargains that will come to your email inbox from them once a week.

2. Leave a comment on the Shop It To Me blog post listing your favorite brand from each match up, #1 – 4. The blog post to vote on will be posted every Monday. Here’s the link to this week’s blog: http://blog.shopittome.com/2009/09/21/battle-of-the-brands-heats-up-with-round-2/

3. For an extra entry: Follow Shop It To Me on Twitter.com, if you’re not doing so already, and tweet this sentence: Just entered the @ShopItToMe Marc Jacobs giveaway at http://bit.ly/cRnt9 #ShopItToMe

4. Make sure your vote is in by this Friday, 9/25 at 5 pm PST

And that’s it! It’s an easy contest to enter and Marc Jacobs is a wonderful designer. I would suggest you take this opportunity and do a web search for each designer listed in order to learn a little bit more about them. This is a great way for you to learn about hot designers with different design aesthetics and what makes them hot while having the opportunity to win some free accessories. It’s a win/win!

Happy voting!

Keep coming back for more Cluess Fashionista and remember fashion should be fun so happy shopping!

Please forgive my designing skills.

I started this blog with no idea of how it would pan out and it’s done really well.  I have some great things that I’m working on implementing in the new year and I look foward to sharing more of my insights with you and receiving more of your insights into the world of fashion and beauty.

Be on the look out for more posts about fashion trends, tips and tricks as well as posts about health and fashion shows.  If you would like to see something that I’m not addressing, please send me a comment.  I welcome all feedback and suggestions.

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

-Coco Chanel

That’s not a good way to make sure that your total look is all pulled together.  One simple way to start improving your wardrobe is by increasing your awareness of how you look before you leave the house.  A full length mirror is a must in any fashionista’s arsenal to looking fabulous.

I must admit it, I’m guilty of getting dressed from the neck up myself.  I don’t currently own a full length mirror so my goal for the next week is to go out and buy one.  That should be your goal as well.  If you don’t own one or the one you own is in disrepair from years of use, get a new one!  The great thing about these mirrors is that you don’t have to spend lots of money on them.  You can go to Walmart, Target, Kmart or even the Salvation Army and pick up a reasonably priced full length mirror.

So go!  Buy a full length mirror!  I’ll post a picture of mine when I get it and I invite you to do the same with yours.

Wearing high heels isn’t something that always comes naturally, and that is totally understandable. For those of you who don’t feel comfortable throwing on a sexy pair of high heeled sandals, you can advance slowly from flats to heels. If you’re a rebel that throws caution to the wind, you can start out with two inch heels until you get totally comfortable in them and move up to three inch heels and so on. If you’re a bit more cautious, you can start with a cute pair of kitten heels and go from there.

Don’t shy away from those high heels! Besides, this spring thicker heels are coming back so you can make your way down the path of stilettos much easier. Once you’re comfortable wearing thicker three inch heels, you will find it easier to transition into those super thin stilettos in no time!

Plus, you may want to step into something like these babies!

I saw these beauties on this fabulous blog called Haute Mimi. This is a wonderful blog that us clueless fashionistas can benefit from. Haute Mimi will definitely expose you to a wide variety of fashion and beauty tips.