You can’t see my face right now but I’m smiling ear to ear. Yesterday my kids went back to school! My husband and I did our yearly ritual by embarrassing them both at the bus stop by snapping pictures and me doing my cartwheel then heading off to breakfast to celebrate.

My son is now in the 6th grade and my daughter is a freshman in high school! I can not believe my kids are getting so big. I cry every year and my hubby holds me and says, it’s going to be ok. We went back to school shopping and picked up supplies and clothing. We mainly purchased hoodies,hollister tees, jeans and tennis shoes. They were pretty easy to please this time around.

I was sent a few new fragrances to try and two of them I thought suited our tweens well. I gave my daughter the new fragrance by Paris Hilton called, “Passport” which is part of her trio collection. My daughter got a chance to review the Paris Hilton in Paris. She loved the packaging and graphics on the bottle. She sprayed the fragrance and said, “Mom this is my second fragrance from her, I love it!” The perfume is young and flirty with notes of sparkly mandarin,red berries and golden peach,arabian jasmine, honeysuckle and velvet peony.

My son on the other hand, tried out the new fragrance from Mark Ecko simply called, “Ecko”. It’s an inaugural from the fashion designer and my son’s first bottle of cologne. My son instantly felt “cool” for some reason. He said, “yes mom, I’m growing into a man now, thanks for this”. I chuckled as he started to spray the fragrance heavily when I then yelled, “hey thats way too much!” Lawd, kids I tell yah!

The notes include iced ginger,white grapefruit,liquid lightening accord,hyper citrus accord,violet leaves,cool black licorice,wild artemisia. My son thought the bottle design was nice and loved the grown up smell,lol. I can see our kids wearing them everyday.I like both fragrances and glad NYC-RR Pr Co. sent them to us to try. They were right on time for back to school. xoxo

Tarina Tarantino’s Barbie Line

I think we all know by now that I have two luvs! Pink and Barbies,yes the girlie loves her dollies and Pink is my fav color! Who knew ha! Well this week has been very good to me because I have been surrounded with all things Barbie! First I get to talk to Tarina Tarrantino’s(www.tarinatarantino.com) publicists and she says that Tarina was flattered that I mentioned her on my blog.They want to work with me,shut up… I cant believe it!

Super -Sized Lucite Barbie Heart Earrings

Paris Hilton in Earrings 

They sent me out some jewels that she created for Barbie. I almost passed out when they arrived! Here is pics of the pieces she sent to me and from my understanding, Paris Hilton has my earrings and Heidi Klum sports my necklace. I was too excited to recieve this in the mail.

Barbie Heart Locket Necklace

Heidi Klum in necklace

Then I was at the Mall of Ga and I run into this fab club kid that was wearing a Barbie Shirt, Betsey purse and Pink Ballet slippers! He was too fierce and I quickly stopped him in the mall and asked who he was. He said my name is Carlos, well Carlos I was too jealous that you had on everything I love and I need a fashion lesson stat because you were working it at the biggest mall in Ga lol.

Then it gets better you guys. My new Bff hits me up on twitter and guess who it is? Its Stacey McBride creator of the AKA Barbie and the new So In Style Barbie! I was in Barbie heaven all week, I cant believe it! She said she will be coming to Atlanta and I will get to meet her in person,I cant wait!

Stacey McBride and the So In Style Barbies

Then I was picking my son up from a birthday party. The mom and I got to chatting and I noticed she had a Barbie catalog! My heart starting racing and I said, with a deep breathe, are you a Barbie collector? She said,yes! I said omg can you show me what you have? She went in this room and came out with all the Byron Lars Barbies he has ever made! In Rachel Zoe’s voice,”Oh- My- God”! She talked about how she has been collecting for years and they were in immaculant condition. I love when someone else shares my interest,its so Pinktastic. So I had a fab Barbie week and if you have any pics of you and your Barbies please send to me so I can post!

My Barbies I collect..Pepper(Byron Lars sent it to me),Southern Belle(porcelain) and 50th Anniversary Barbie Collector. I would have had more,but my mom threw my Barbies out when I was a lil girl! So I had to start all over! Smh

www.barbie.com www.tarinatarantino.com www.barbiecollector.com

TalkingWithTami: Hello Dr.Diana Kirschner please introduce yourself to my readers.

I got to meet Tammie when I was running the 90 Day Love Challenge over 13 consecutive weeks on Fox’s Morning Show with Mike and Juliet– where I helped a 37 year old, size 14 woman named Amelia, go from 0 dates to dating 12 great guys to finding the One. My book is Love in 90 Days: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Own True Love, which is based on over 25 years of clinical and research practice as a psychologist helping thousands of women create romance, love and fulfilling relationships. You may have seen me on The Today Show, Oprah, Good Morning America or Access Hollywood. And I really had fun starring as the Love Specialist on The Simple Life, where I mentored Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and helped 5 troubled couples!

TalkingWithTami: I met you at the The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet in NYC.You were giving great advice to a young lady on how to find love in 90 days. Can you really do such a thing?

Even if you are over 45, overweight, super successful, have problem kids, or other problems– you can turn your dating and love life around and potentially even find the One in just 90 days!! You just need to know how. Amelia succeeded on the Fox show–and that was harder than everyday life because we had to find guys who were willing to go on the show!

TalkingWithTami: Why do you think soo many females have trouble finding a healthy relationship,especially in the African America community?

I have a whole section in my book devoted to African American women. And I was truly fortunate to be able to have Susan Taylor, the legendary founder of Essence help shape this portion of the book. I believe that the problem for African American women is that they have been subjected to a whole lot of bad press about Black men–how many have been incarcerated, unsuccessful, are players or on the down low, etc. So sometimes they feel hopeless about meeting a great partner who is their equal. The positive reality is that there are successful African American men who are single and available. As Susan Taylor (who is married to the noted author and playwright, Kephra Burns) puts it, There are good, beautiful African American men out there for you!” I have had a number of African American women find great success with the Love in 90 Days program.

TalkingWithTami: You have a great book out called,”Love in 90 Days: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Own True Love”. Why did you decide to write this book?

I am a psychologist who has been studying dating and love for over 25 years. I use the research on what actually works to help women create real, lasting love in their lives. And through my clinical practice, classes and workshops I have succeeded in helping thousands of them to be successful at love. This book contains all the powerful secrets I have learned, with tips on how to use search engine secrets to have hundreds of guys to choose from online, to how to seal the love deal and the deadly dating patterns you simply must avoid.

TalkingwithTami: For my single readers out there,can you give them so words of encouragement or good dating tips?

You have to wade through a number of DUDs (Definitely Unworkable Dudes) to find the STUDs (Seriously Terrific, Utterly Devoted Dudes). But the Studs are out there for you!!! Don’t give up. Envision the love you want and go for it. You will succeed.

www.lovein90days.com

Paris Hilton

(Pics  by Ewing)

Here are some of my fav fashions from Bravo’s Alist Awards. I really loved Paris Hiltons Dress and Kim Kardashians black velvet number, they both looked great. Tim Gunn suit and signature silver tie always looks nice lol. Which celeb outfit do you like?

Patti(millionaire matchmaker)

Kelly Rowland

Kim Kardashian

Tila Tequila

(click on pics to enlarge)

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Here are more pics of celebs and me at Bravo’s A-List Awards in Los Angeles on sunday. The award show was held at The Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. Everyone looked so nice and was so easy to talk to I really appreciate that! They made my job so fun and easy lol.

A list Awards:

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