A Few Of My Favorite Things

Every girl loves good accessories. Especially when it's jewelry -- or naughty, kinky toys.

Enter Secrets Of The Ladies Room and Butterfly Creations jewelry.

“Nice” girls Cynthia Ellefson and Cheryl Kuo – the ultimate surfing Southern California gals and founders of sex toy website Secrets Of The Ladies Room – became the best of friends while working hard in network publicity. Their shared obsessions? Sex and the City, live music, surfing, hiking, agreeing ice cream is the ultimate breakfast food and girl talk. Everything and anything under the sun was – and is still – discussed: boys, girls, life, love, sex and, of course, it’s accompanying accoutrements (Orgasm Balls and The Rabbit seem to be favorites).

Cynthia and Cheryl wanted to share the fun of their “dirty little secrets” through an online experience that felt like girl talk and shopping with friends. The result is Secrets of the Ladies Room, a website for normal, sexually-curious women everywhere looking for a place to let loose their wild side, without feeling too dirty. Orgasm balls, crazy vibrators, racy lingerie, how-to books, a Hot Mom kit and the absolutely adorable Friendship Kit – exclusive only to Secrets Of The Ladies Room and guaranteed to fly off the shelves – are among the carefully edited items on the site. Ellefson and Kuo know women these days are just too busy to sift through hundreds of pages of sex toys, so they’ve done the work for you.

Men are forever curious about what gets discussed behind closed doors when we take group trips into the ladies room. Maybe, just maybe we let them in on it, but sometimes secrets are best kept among the girls.

If you want to dangle pretty bauble on yourself this holiday season, look no further than Butterly Creations. Stefanie Greenberg was born loving fashion. As a little girl, she sewed together purses to coordinate with her school outfits, and when Greenberg turned 16 years old, that love translated into Butterfly Creations, through which she began selling her exclusive handiwork.

During her college years, the focus of Butterfly Creations shifted as Greenberg began learning more about beading. Gorgeous fashion-forward and handcrafted jewelry is now the main collection, with the purse design operation becoming an off-shoot run by Stefanie’s mother, Susie Greenberg, whose designs are featured on her own website. Greenberg recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BS in Art, focusing on Art Metal – these influences are manifested in her extraordinary approach jewelry-making: blends stringing, wire wrapping and metal working with semi-precious stones, precious stones and precious metals.

The jewelry coup d’etat of Butterfly Creations are its pendants. Influenced by the ebb and flow of fashion – as well as nature – each one is planned out beforehand and next etched carefully on sterling silver sheet metal. To add a unique mark to each piece, Greenberg – who currently works out of her studio in San Francisco – uses the process of oxidization, ensuring that no one will have the same pendant as you.

From fleur de lys pendants to smoky quartz and labradorite earrings to rope toggle and etched henna charm bracelets, Greenberg’s pieces will always make you fly like a butterfly and never sting like a bee.

I'm Lovin' it: Hats, hats, hats! I'm determined to make my hat collection as large as my shoe collection. Goorin, Eugenia Kim, Kangol -- heck, maybe even a vintage Phillip Treacy (and maybe usurp Isabella Blow's position as Treacy muse). The idea of managing to still look stylin' on a bad hair day sounds good to me.

I'm Over it: Having my apartment and work office feel 10 degrees colder than it is outside. I'm actually wrapped in a pink and purple fleece blanket as I type this.

Movie Pick Of The Day: "Tenacious D in The Pick Of Destiny" with Jack Black and Kyle Gass. A film for true fans of Jack Black and his band. I was introduced to The D by an ex-boyfriend four years ago -- although I might have not quite appreciated them then, I sure as heck do now. And I sure can't wait to watch this "musical, epic adventure", just as long as I don't see either Black or Gass nude. Full or semi.