With the New Year behind us, we are thrilled to welcome our ChickAdvisor readers to the official start of wedding planning season!  The Christmas holidays are typically the busiest time of year for engagements, and we send our congratulations to all the newly engaged brides-to-be. 

If you are just starting your with your planning, you may be seeing plenty of coverage on one of the most...

If your closet greets you to a pile of tanks that haven’t seen daylight since The O.C. was on every time you open its doors, then Honey - it’s time for a makeover! Start the new year off clutter-free with these 6 easy steps to organizing your wardrobe:


Consider hiring a professional

If your budget allows it, hiring an organizing consultant will save you the time and labour of doing it yourself....

Portion control was a buzz word of the '00s as a solution to the supersized '90s. Research showed us that when we ate popcorn from a large bag we subconsciously ate more  than if we had eaten it out of a small bag.  And when given a plate of food, whether big or small, we would tend to eat mindlessly until it was clean. The solution thrust upon us? 100-calorie snack packs.

These...

All week long we've been wearing black and grey. We didn't plan it that way, it just sort of happened.

This morning Mandy and I showed up wearing matching leather pants and grey tops (mine's under my jacket). What's with all the black and grey? Do you think it's the January blahs subliminally coming out through our wardrobes? Are you wearing a lot of grey too?

Julie-Anne Cleyn is a recent addition to the ChickAdvisor family!

The spunky Editorial Assistant was put to the test on her very first day when we subjected her to the posing wall. She took it like a pro, and so we decided to keep her. Though her editorial work on ChickAdvisor articles may be harder to spot (she makes us all look better correcting boo boos and grammatical blunders), you may...

How fitting that the one who inspired the posing wall is the first to use it in 2010. Mandy came in this morning wearing what Julie-Anne and I were both convinced was a $200 fur vest. When she confessed it was only about 15 bucks off the sale rack at Urban Behaviour, she was promptly marched over to the new posing wall, and so it begins.

Behold:

$15. Seriously? Don't be surprised if...