We have exciting news! We’re shaking things up at OMFGstyle.com: Coming this January, we’ll be releasing the first issue of OMFGstlye Magazine.

In the meantime, we will be slowing down publication in order to produce the best first issue we could imagine: In the spirit of Lonny, Rue, and Gifted, we’re going online magazine page-turning style up in this joint.

We will still have a blog section of the site, and articles will be catalogued and searchable as posts, so there will still be a traditional website feel to the site, but the main event will be the online magazine.

This change will allow us to attract advertisers and will increase our readership, as well as create an even better product.

Our new format offers some great (and affordable) advertising options for businesses and services looking to reach the stylish modern woman. We will be posting information on ad options on the site soon, but if in the meantime, if you’re interested in advertising with us, send our director of advertising operations an email: diana@OMFGstyle.com.

Do you have ideas for how we can make OMFGstyle Magazine the best online magazine in the universe? Please post in the comments!

And don’t worry… More info and updates will be coming your way soon!

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The Brooklyn Skillshare is this weekend and The Beau and I are super-psyched to attend for a second year in a row. It will be held at the BKLYN Community Arts & Media HS (Francis Scott Key MS (old sign)), 300 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205 this Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM. For a $10 donation, you can take as many courses as you want. So if you’re in the NYC metropolitan area and want to join us for some knowledge on using your digital SLR camera, screen printing on fabrics, robot building, worm composting, crocheting, or one of the many classes they have available (full course list here).

If you can’t make it, I implore you to let the Skillshare mission (which is also similar to the OMFGstyle credo) inspire you nonetheless:

“Education is a right, not a commodity. We are all students and teachers, and we believe that everyone has something to teach and to learn from each other. The Brooklyn Skillshare is a communal, hands-on, learning experience that aims to serve as a jumping-off point in the construction of an autonomous, nonexclusive, reciprocal learning community.”

LET US SHARE SOME SKILLS WITH YOU:
Choose one of OMFGstyle’s “She’s Crafty” projects and let Vanessa share her amazing crafting skills with you.
Give yourself a soothing, refreshing pedicure. Skill shared courtesy of my mom! Now you know how to do your nails like a professional!
Make your own maraschino cherries—Anna shows you how. Boom! Cocktail time just in time for Mad Men this Sunday!

SHARE YOUR OWN DAMN SKILLS:
Already know how to do a bunch of stuff? How about sharing your skills with your friends? Invite a group of friends over, ask them to bring wine, and teach everyone how to make your grandmother’s amazing cookies from the homeland (print up the ingredients and directions for everyone to take home). Know how to sew or hem? Teach me! Don’t feel like hosting a group? Teach your guy or gal pal how to do something new… Share your how-to ideas in the comments section below.

Whatever you do, make a pact with yourself (or with me) and learn something new this weekend!

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Sweet! Twin Peaks rap:

Last week we saw Kanye’s apartment. This week in celebs apartments, we have a tour of Jane Fonda’s loft and hey, did you know you can live in Leslie Arfin’s apartment this summer?

Diana totes has to go see this crazy stack of houses hotel in Amsterdam.

How to make your old heels look Fendi-riffic with the additiona of some old tights.

Shameless Self Promotion: I relaunched my site this week! If you want to check out my other life of design intrigue, visit CODYmcBURNETT.

Sex and the City windows at Bergdorf Goodman, my absolute favorite department store in the world! Must get there to see them soon… And while I’m there, I’ll grab an over-priced cocktail at the Kelly Wearstler designed restaurant bar. One of my favorite things to do in NYC!

Liza sings Single Ladies:

You’ve just survived an oil rig explosion. Now follows us to this windowless room from which you can’t leave until you sign this statement saying you saw nothing. Thank you!

I take it everyone saw the Betty White SNL last weekend. Here she is playing beer pong with Jimmy Fallon:

And here she is in a deleted sketch:

Kayne West’s house actually pretty cool.

Uhuru Design’s Coney Island inspired furniture. I have to have that Cyclone Lounger and Boardwalk Console. Now.

Hey artists and creative types with no insurance… Brokelyn’s How To Barter Your Art for Medical Care.

Truman Capote’s Former House Is the Most Expensive in Brooklyn from Gawker. Hey, I’ve been looking to move myself…

Where do you fall on the anti-rape condom debate?

Ah, Kittens in Autotune. Why didn’t I think of this?

A couple of weeks ago, the Phoenix Suns basketball team dressed for a game donning jerseys that read “Los Suns.” They wore the jerseys to protest Arizona’s new and controversial immigration law. And there’s talk about moving next year’s All Star game out of the state.

Major league baseball is stepping into the fray too—their union warned that if the current law goes into effect, they will “consider additional steps necessary to protect the rights and interests of our members.” Hundreds of baseball players are foreign citizens and half of the 30 teams go to Arizona for spring training. The economic impact of teams going elsewhere is potentially devastating.

The very visible symbolic action of wearing the jerseys is important, and threatening to act with the pocketbook is one of the most effective tools around to influence policy and politics. Everyone knows that money talks.

But one of the best things about all of this, at least for me, is that these actions were a happy and eye-opening surprise.  Aren’t politics and sports strange bedfellows? Guess I’m guilty of some stereotyping about athletes and professional sports teams, some of it based on the highly publicized accusations about players behaving very badly. In this case, I give kudos and credit where it is due. Bravo to the Suns and to professional baseball for speaking out in an appropriate way and not being afraid to become involved in a controversial issue that matters to their players.

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Could this be the Brooklyn version of Jersey Shore?!? Please someone apply and let me know how it goes!

Since my entire apartment is done in blue and white, it’s no surprise I love this Apartment Therapy compilation of amazing blue and white rooms.

Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron? I’m intrigued by this stoner love! Dying for a double date…

The Esquire Survey of the American Woman. Do you fall within the majority on this list?

What would college be without the drugs? Reed College a “Crack House”?

Driving Deloreans. Hell yes!

KYLE KRONE “DRIVING DELOREANS” from Kyle Krone on Vimeo.

I love this woman. The new Beyonce video is ah-maz-ing:

“Why Don’t You Love Me” – Beyoncé from Beyoncé on Vimeo.

Diana and I went to see Hole at Terminal 5 Tuesday night:

This really creeped me out.

I love Tavi’s recent ode to Sassy.

SO much better than the original:

Can you make something fierce out of corn husks? If you have what it takes to make TIm Gunn swoon, head to the Project Runway NYC casting call on Monday…

From Cody:

Meet the Three-Year-Old Tattoo Artist from Gawker

Dogs as art… in the Sports section?

Mmmm-mmm! LOVE me some striped shirts!

And now, an octopus steals a video camera:

Yes, women still earn less than men. Do people really think this fight is over?

Chuck and Blair. The romance of our generation. Excited to see how this play out…

A sneak peek at the new iPhone from Gizmodo

Courtney Love has “come back” more times than I can count, but if the New York Times says this time is different, does that mean it’s true?

The volcano that paralyzed Europe has become Iceland’s biggest news item as of late, but let’s not forget that they are still dealing with the aftermath of financial collapse. In Iceland, Mostly Clear Consciences from the New York Times.

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After watching The Cove the other night, I was feeling pretty miserable and depressed: the slaughtered dolphins, the polluted oceans, the toxins flowing up the food chain and into our lunches… what hope is there for our rotting planet?! But Despair leads to Stagnation which leads to our planet turning into a toxic waste dump all the faster. Instead let’s focus on the little changes we can all make in our everyday lives to help slow down the rate of climate change and protect what natural environment we have left. Such as:

1. Use public transportation instead of driving a car. Better yet, ride a bike.

2. Stop eating hamburgers. The worldwide meat production industry produces more greenhouse gases than cars do.

3. Or at least, whatever you eat, eat organic. Pesticides are poison.

4. Recycle. We all do it, but it’s easy to forget why.

5. Support companies that use recycled and reused materials.

6. Live in a city. Cities are more energy efficient than suburbs and rural areas. Pat yourself on the back if you happen to live in New York, one of the greenest cities in the world.

7. Read more sci-fi. The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson will help you prepare for, and maybe even look forward to, your emigration to another planet after ours has depleted its resources.

From Cody:

The new issue of Lonny Magazine is out!

I live in the best neighborhood in NYC. I didn’t need New York Magazine to tell me that… But thanks anyway.

The closest I’ll come to being published in BUST: my ad for Isa’s Restoratives!

OMFG. Seriously?!? I was just celebrating the pending arrival of Barney’s Co-Op in my fair borough and the fucking Park Slope Coop is talking about SUING over the name? Get a life.

Interesting: Take Your Husband’s Name And Take A Salary Cut from Jezebel

From Diana:

The new KFC Double Down is the most disgusting sandwich of all time. Do they actually think people will eat this, or is just a marketing tactic?

Let’s think instead about the delicious Zucchini, Avocado, and Pomegranate Salsa I’m making this weekend.