• CutandPaste.com is sponsoring 55DSL’s logo remix contest. Deadline for entries is December 5th, but there’s still time to create a design, vote on submissions and influence the final decision (more)
• Buy any shoulder/tote/laptop bag from S N A P Design from now through December 10th and you will get a FREE make-up and coin set of your choice! Just write your makeup/coin color + design preference in the “notes” section when you get to the paypal check out. 
• Love cashmere? Love to get cashmere items at 80% off? MinnieRose invites you to the Ultimate Winter Sample Sale. Where? NYC. 264 W. 40th St (bet 7th and 8th Ave), 15th Floor. When? December 8th through 12th. 10am to 6pm. Mention that you heard about the sale on AllChic.

Like me, my hippie daughter is not one to fuss with her hair. (She barely remembers to brush it.) However, unlike me, she has very (very!) thick curly hair. Last night she used a bit of JLife’s “Perfect Wave” on her towel-dried locks and woke up this morning to beautiful manageable curls for the first time ever.

Based on Salt Lake City, JLife comes to us from top British Stylist, Andrew Jose. His products use Red Sea Weed and Red Sea Algae as their main ingredients and are grouped according to hair type – fine, straight, curly or coarse. After a quick tour of all of the JLife products I decided to get my hair cut tomorrow and then I’d love to try the Boost Volumizing Spray.

The Serenata Pullover from tokidoki is available at Karmaloop and is now officially on my holiday wish list! 

The high point of my week: a belted chocolate-brown leather jacket with zippers at the cuffs for only $8! This jacket along with a few other “vintage finds” inspired me to take a look and see what my fellow fashion bloggers are doing with their vintage shops.

• Retro Chick celebrates her first anniversary this week. Check out her blog to find out how to get free shipping from her eBay shop now until November 23rd.
• Freudian Slips has added some terrific vintage Christmas party dresses to her shop. See some pics of their new studio just posted on the Freudian Slips blog.
• NastyGal has lots of 80’s vintage, including a red coat which brings back memories of my favorite coat from the winter of 1983.

Annie Briggs has a created a style that reminds me of my old Betsy Johnson patterns. With the peblum waist and the funky color combinations, her one-of-a-kind jackets and skirts are amazing.  The jacket shown above is a featured item in the AnnieBriggs Etsy Shop. Here’s what she has to say:

Cupid arrives early with this cute jacket I came up with. It features a yummy Chocolate Velvet and a dozen roses in the form of a Rich Bold Floral print polyester chemise in chocolate and various shades of pink and fuschia that will add zest to your love-life (or may even create one for you). There’s also pink chintz which is always a nice feminine, romantic touch.

Like many designers, Annie Briggs started her career early — crocheting doll house rugs and later clothes for Barbie. She prefers Pima cotton for the crochet trim and a variety of materials including silk, rayon, nylon, metallic, taffeta, brocade, and tapestry for her original designs. Be sure to visit her shop and let some of her creativity rub off on you.

I believe this will be the season of the scarves for me. I pulled out some from a few years ago, and I’ve been enjoying two new scarves that I received from Whitehorn Designs recently. The new silk scarves are hand marbled by Janey Smedley from Clophill, Bedfordshire. Janey studied at the Winchester School of the Arts specializing in the hand-weaving and dyeing of textiles and creating collections of blinds, wall hangings, throws and rugs.

Janey decided to take a different approach designing and making silk scarves for the fashion industry. Having always admired the century’s old craft of marbling, Janey felt that a fresher, more modern approached could be achieved by mixing the right colour combinations with simpler patterns.

In the end it was the world of cinema and the films of Stanley Kubrick in particular, that influenced Janey’s colour and design choices. Each scarf is individually made using a dye tray and a set of styluses. No two are alike!

My daughter and I were oohing and aahing over the detail in the design as she snapped these two photos of me wearing my new Whitehorn scarves.

For more information be sure to visit Whitehorn Designs and if you’d like a few ideas on how to wear your scarf I found this.