January, 2007

I love food.
I love pretty things.
I love when people make pretty things based on food.
I love, love, love Twinkie Chan.
You should too.

Who is Twinkie Chan?
Quirky. Colorful. Snack-crazy. Self-motivated Sleep-deprived!

Miss Twinkie, we heart you! What you all about?
I’ve always been a little bit crafty. When I was younger and saw something I liked in a store, my mom would always tell me to go home and make it. When I started working in an office after college, I could never figure out what to buy for my boss, so I’d make her all kinds of crazy stuff like hand-painted picture frames decorated with her favorite breakfast cereal. She always encouraged me to exercise my creativity more, but I could never figure out what I wanted to focus on.

Creativity sometimes just comes out of necessity. I needed a scarf. I wanted it to be cute. Pretty soon I had 10 scarves but only one neck! So I decided to try selling my food-themed scarves .., and I was totally surprised that people actually wanted them. I chose the name Twinkie Chan for my brand because I wanted something fun and food-oriented, and I also re-claimed my mom’s maiden name for kicks!

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Look what I’ve found! Unfortunately, it’s only available for readers in the US - boosville - but if you live in the Americano and have the skills to design a fabulous couture dress and the creativity to blow past obstacles, here’s your chance to prove it! Create a dress that will appear in an episode of ABC’s Golden Globe-winning series Ugly Betty!

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I am a sucker for all things craft.
The Pink Ladies and I love to get our craft on customising borin’ snorin’ outfits with super cute pins and stitchin’ which is why we get totes exciteable when we visit www.custommadeuk.com - Anna is all about the hand craft, we love her for that.

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If I say so myself, I’m pretty damn cute for an illustration but I can’t take all the credit, nope, the lady responsible for making both myself and the pink ladies look totes adorable is the g-g-gorgeous miss Holly Lloyd!

If you’re currently drooling over the cute-as-a-button illustrations in Think Pink, then check out the lady with the magic pens…

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Ever imagined what being the daughter of a celeb might be like? Big houses, cool clothes, super-cool parties - fabboos, right?

Well not if you’re Bliss Drew, the fabulous leading lady of Frances O’Brien’s new book, Sheer Bliss - Confessions of a (reluctant) Celebrity Spawn. This is a funny teen lit book for girls who know that all families are a little crazy - even famous ones.

Frances is fabulous, how do I know? ‘Coz I interviewed her!

Come crash our convo!
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Project Catwalk + Kelly Osbourne = Fabsville Teev viewing!

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Yep, the dee-lish people at Sanctuary, the super posh home to yumsville pampering products, have given 5 lucky Pink Ladies the chance to win a bag of Sanctuary fabulousness!

For your chance to win, you’re going to need to be a Pink Lady.
Simply join the mailing list today and not only will you receive sweet-as-sugar Lola mail filled with exclusive interviews, news and Pink Ladies-only giveaways, you will be in with a chance of winning a burstin’-at-the-seams bag of fabulous-o Sanctuary pampering treats!

The catch? You have to sign up before Friday 19th January - sign up over there on the left side the page- we’ll pick the 5 winners at random next Saturday - good luck!

Now, if ever there was a time for trumpet-blowin’ this is most definitely it.
I, Lola Love, am currently working the front cover of my very own book of pink fabulousness! Yep, Think Pink is finally out now, yep, it’s in shops and everything! And if you buy from WHSmith or Tesco it will be delivered to your door the next day, which, for all you PJ queens is just about the coolest thing that can happen like, ever.
Fact.

So, you wanna know what it’s about, right?
If you’ve ever worried about not having any friends, not having the same interests as anyone else, or not understanding those boy–types – then this is the book for you!

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Money is nice. It can buy those cute-as-a-button pair of shoes you’ve been crushin’ on for like, forever.

But what if you don’t have any? What if you try really hard to save but you end up blowin’ it all in the Jan sales on items you ain’t never-evah going to wear?
Don’t fear.
We have enlisted the help of Think Pink reader, money blogger, and all round queen of moolah, Money Miss.

Money Miss rocks.
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There’s always sparkly new releases on the bookshop shelves but how do you decide what to spend your money on?

Well you check into Read-o-rama, where me and my gorgeous girls, The Pink Ladies, share our top picks of the new releases, that’s how!

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So, I’m totally heartin’ Ugly Betty.

Betty is officially my new inspiro-a-gogo girl.

She follows the beat of her own marchin’ band, makes her own Betty-shaped footprints and I don’t know ’bout you, but I’m thinkin’ her nerdsville fabulousity seriously rocks.

Which is why I’m all over her website: www.bettysuarez.com

It has everything a fan-girl needs to find out more about Betty and her world. Much love.
Betty, will you be our BFF?

Look who I found on Myspace.
Miss Lala-a-gogo.

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Jenny Valentine (how showbiz?!), is author of Finding Violet Park, a quirky and original voyage of self-discovery triggered by a lost urn of ashes.

Sixteen-year-old Lucas Swain becomes intrigued by the urn of ashes left in a cab office. Convinced that its occupant – Violet Park – is communicating with him, he plans to gain possession of the urn, little does he know that his quest will take him on a voyage of self-discovery and identity, forcing him to finally confront what
happened to his absent (and possibly dead) father.

Cool stuff, eh?

Jenny Valentine, first-time author, tells us more about Finding Valentine Park, being a writer and the colour pink…
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Fred Flare.com is a total treat of candy-covered gorgeousness.
Based in the Americanos, it is home to dee-lish clothing, too-cute trinkets and a totes addictive blog which is my daily dose of fabulousity.

Now, while this site is the brain child of two super cute boys, Chris and Keith - we have our own FF favourite…

Meet Vanessa. She rules.

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Ugly Betty hits our screens here in the UK tonight, 9.30pm, Channel 4.
Oh, happy days.

There is nothing not to love ’bout this - I’ve had a sneaky peek on YouTube, and am crazy in crush with it already!
Basically, Ugly Betty follows the daily life of our new favourite lady Betty Suarez, she’s from a struggling Latino family and works as an assistant at super swanky MODE fashion magazine. Ala Devil Wears Prada, most of her colleagues think they’re more attractive than she is, they often humiliate and insult her because of her appearance, but the best bit? Betty don’t care.
She’s not even interested in fashion.

Her boss, the womanizing, but right outta cutesville, Daniel Meade has a serious lack of fashion experience too, but both are intent on performing well at their jobs, even though there are sneaky-types out to try and stop them…

Seriously, Ugly Betty is the stuff of dreams. Tune in tonight and we’ll do Betty chat!

Lisa Clark is a multi-taskin’ kinda girl.

She’s creator of www.pink-world.co.uk, agony aunt for the super-cool magazine, Mizz and author of a brand new series of feel-good, go-for-it guides for teen girls, Think Pink.

Join Lisa as she welcomes you to Pink World, a world where you can be gorgeous, be happy, be yourself and love who you are!

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Heidi Seeker is my new favourite thing in the whole entire world. Fact.

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Pink-world is the zine I’ve always wanted to read. ‘Cept no one ever made it, which, is really rather rude. Instead, they made a whole lot of glossy zines that tell me how to wear my hair, that size 00 is the new size 10 and that I should have serious life-envy of…well, everyone who isn’t me basically.

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Girl bands rock. Poppy and The Jezebels are a girl band. They play instruments and everything. We heart them. You will too.

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