All you need is love – the Friday afternoon Sassy feature o’ love that includes items, links, people, quotes, places and pictures of things that fill us to the brim with all that amazing love stuff – please share yours too, let the Sassy love-in begin!

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J’adore kissing. Kissing should be compulsory EVERY day.

It’s no secret that I adore love, and this movie is love personified, which is why Moulin Rouge is my favourite movie. EVAH. It was also the first movie I saw with the only boy I’ve ever loved… sigh.

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Come to the Edge

Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It’s too high!
Come to the edge!
And they came,
And he pushed,
And they flew.

It’s already known that I have a LOT o’ love for Love from Hetty & Dave – we interviewed the lady behind the label last year – and it’s no wonder when she makes bee-you-tiful heart-shaped loveliness like this, is it?

£25, lovefromhettyanddave

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Looking for love just got a whole lot easier. www.spacetobe.co.uk is bringing fabulousness to all the single ladies this V-Day with the launch of the Single & Fabulous hypnotherapy track. Whether you’re recovering from a broken heart or you’ve been single for a long time, this 25 minute hypno track will help you to appreciate that you don’t need to ‘couple up’ to feel terrific and get the most out of life – you’ll be doing that naturally. What’s more, when ‘the one’ does happen to cross your path, the more intuitive, confident you is far more likely to spot ‘em!

This is like a big full-fat bar of chocolate for the soul, all the good stuff but without the calories – I love it!

MP3 – £9.99 CD – £13.99 www.spacetobe.co.uk

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This year, Miss Aimz is baking red velvet cupcakes and icing them for her beau, but she would also recommend making them for a love-in with your friends. He doesn’t know it was the wedding cake in Steel Magnolias, but this pink-tinted vanilla-chocolate treat is the trailer-trash of cakes and frankly, they rock!

Try this recipe from Xanthe Clay, foodie on The Telegraph

Red Velvet Cupcakes

* 5oz/140g self-raising flour
* 2 tbsp cocoa
* Half tsp bicarbonate of soda
* 4floz/110ml buttermilk
* 1 tsp vinegar
* Half tsp vanilla extract
* 1 tbsp red food colouring
* 2oz/60g butter at room temperature
* 6oz/170g caster sugar
* 1 large egg

To decorate:

* Cream-cheese frosting (see box) and fresh cherries

Preheat the oven to 170C/325F/gas mark 3. Line a 12-hole cup cake tin with cases.

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, bicarb and a pinch of salt. In a mug, mix the buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla and red food colouring.

Beat the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Beat in the egg a little at a time. Mix in a third of the flour mixture, followed by half the buttermilk mixture, then another third of the flour, the rest of the buttermilk and finally the last of the flour mixture.

Divide the mixture between the paper cases. Bake for 20 minutes, until risen and springy – don’t overcook them.

Cool on a rack.

I never realised the importance of the saying ‘if you don’t ask, you don’t get’ until the very end of last year. And ask, I certainly had at the beginning of 2009.

My list read a little like this…

I want to be a success as the head of a lingerie brand
To finish my novel
To write for a fashion publication
To find a boyfriend who is nice, funny and passionate but who also looks after me as an equal
Maintainance of a body that is pleasureful
Health that is healthy
A smile that laughs consistently
and finally – phew! – to meet new people that are genuine, inspiring and honest, whilst maintaining the friendships I already have.
 
I didn’t know if any of it was going to happen, but I wanted it to and I was willing to take whatever action was necessary for a success-filled 2009.
Nothing, however, could have prepared me for the joys, the sadness, and the changes that occurred in me as a woman in the space of a year. 2009 was a year of honesty and truth for me, even if that truth, cliché as it sounds, bloody hurts sometimes.

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I can’t believe it’s been 2 whole months since Miss Aimz and I hit New York and we’ve not even shared our sassy adventures with you…Well, it was a whole lot o’ awesomeness, but you’d expect nothing less when the minxes hit the city that never sleeps, right? Here are some of our highlights, must see’s and total NYC must-dos…

Fred Flare, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
I have been a fan-girl o’ Fred Flare and their gorgeous merch for years now, they’ve now got a pile o’ bricks in Brooklyn and the Fred Flare shop sure is location cutesville! We hung out with the fabu Bilgin and Bee, purched some merch – well, it’d be rude to go all that way and not, right? – and had a mini photoshoot with the girls starring on their very own blogginz! Head out to Brooklyn on the L train and go find the cuteness!

While you’re in Brooklyn, hit the vintage shops of which there are plenty and buy cute pillar box hats like Miss Aimz…

Go find Patrica Field. Step inside and indulge. Need I say more? The staff are so hip and fabulous and there’s just enough pink and leopard print to make me the happiest girl in happyville!

302 Bowery, NYC, NY 10012 – Between E Houston & Bleecker Streets

Dylans Candy Bar may be owned by a super-rich ‘it’ girl, but I don’t care, because it’s filled-to-the brim with yummy scrummy candy deliciousness that you simply have to witness, and taste – natch, for yourself. They also have super-complimentary staff – those guys do wonders for a girl’s self-esteem and if you’re lucky you’ll catch a VERY cute boy on the promo stand who may over-share about his boy exploits with you.

1011 Third Ave, New York, NY 10021

Miss Aimz and I demolishing Magnolia cupcakes in true Sex and the City style – yumz.
Magnolias Bakery 401 Bleecker Street New York, NY 10014

We got our burlesque on at downtown New York locale, The Slipper Rooms. It was a li’l bit dark, a li’l bit dive-y and a whole lot of glam-girls pulling seriously saucy moves…
The Slipper Rooms, 167 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002-2214

Miss Aimz post Bloomie’s makeover.

Me mid-Bloomie’s makeover.

The Yves Saint Laurent beauty counter in Bloomingdales. It’s a li’l bit of heaven right here on earth, and I’m not even exaggerating. We met an adorbz make-up artist called Miranda who made us both real pretty and then helped us to part with a whole lot of crazy cash for beauty prods in bee-you-tiful gold packaging…Le sigh.

Bloomingdales 1000 Third Ave, between 59th and 60th streets.

The soundtrack to our entire trip…

We’ve still got so much to share, we’ll follow up with part 2 and 3 very soon – in the meantime, we’d love to know what your New York highlights are…

Yep, I’ve said it. And I’m waving my hands in a jazz hand motion above my head as I’m saying it.

I didn’t think it was possible to love a teev programme more than I loved Ugly Betty, but it turns out that’s only because I’d not seen Glee. It’s impossible to choose a stand-out moment, although ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ is never out of my head, but j’adore this not-seen-in-the-UK-yet clip because there is nothing I love more than a diva-off – Kurt, I heart you combined with Defying Gravity – my absolute go-girl power song. Before an important meeting, presentation or workshop, I’ll play this on my ipod, and it’ll fill me with complete SASSYfication so I’m prepped and ready for any situation.

There is seriously nothing not to love about Glee. It celebrates difference, it’s quirky, it’s filled with killer tunes, I’m crushin’ on the guy with a mohawk and best of all, it makes me smile. A lot.
Yep, I’m a Gleek.
So much so, that I’m even diggin’ fan mash ups on youtube – check out this dude, he’s freakin’ awesome…

Needless to say I have the soundtrack on pre-order – it’s out next Monday, people – my ipod will never be the same again and I’m also thinking of declaring my love via tee with this li’l number…

£6.95 www.zavvi.com

Are you lovin’ Glee? Who’s your favourite character? What’s your stand out moment s’far? Fellow Gleeks, unite.

I love to play with make-up, so I’m lovin’ the fact those fabu peeps at Orange have teamed up with YouTube phenomenon, Lauren Luke to create five Red Carpet ‘Make Up Look’ tutorials – hurrah!

To celebrate five years of the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award there are five stunning make up looks to copy, from 2008 Orange Rising Star Award winner Eva Green’s statement smoky eyes to 2010 nominee Carey Mulligan’s natural English rose make up. In true Lauren Luke style, the vids are shot in her bedroom and show Lauren applying the look step-by-step to her own face in order for us to work her techniques.

FYI: The 2010 Orange Rising Star Award nominees are Jesse Eisenberg, Nicholas Hoult, Carey Mulligan, Tahar Rahim and Kristen Stewart and the winner will be unveiled on Sunday 21 February 2010 at the Orange British Academy Film Awards – exciting! We love an award ceremony – the dresses, the make-up – le sigh. We’re team Kristen!

You can watch all five videos at: www.orange.co.uk/bafta

I heart Alice and as it’s the month o’ love, it’s only right and proper that I share the love. Alice and I met in Costa Coffee, she told me I had amazing hair, she made the best hot chocolate in the world AND gave me extra marshmallows – needless to say, it was an insta-mutual girl-crush situ!

Alice is now a blog-girl and chefette, think Nigella, only younger and a whole lot sassier – check out her recipes and cookery goodness at: amourandpsyche.blogspot.com but not before you’ve ooh-ed and ahhh-ed at her prettilicious ways AND baked her V-day cookies – if you do try them, we want to know whether they woo your beau!

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This is my first All You Need Is Love – a Friday afternoon Sassy feature o’ love that includes items, links, people, quotes, places and pictures of things that fill us to the brim with all that amazing love stuff – please share yours too, let the Sassy love-in begin!
 
(Me, Lisa and Lindsey) 

My friends across the world-here, there, near or far from Melbourne, New York, Hong Kong, Nantes, Nottingham and home, the messages of love, encouragement and general chit-chat fill my world with joy – Sassy Minxes rule!
 
 
 
I have just discovered Trixie Delicious. And me-oh-my is it delicious! I love the Seven Sins,  and she has an amazing range of custom-made reworked vintage crockery including a Sassy plate that I NEED.
 

 
This weekend, Disney’s new film The Princess and the Frog is released to cinema’s nationwide. I’ve kissed lots of frogs and I’m taking my five year old cousin to see it, but I can’t wait for my inner five year old/princess to see it too.
 

 
Say it, as you see it with a Dean Morris card. Witty, rude and straight to the point, it is what I will be sending to my beau!
 

 
I LOVE to make mood-boards – they inspire me and when I look at beautiful pictures, it makes me happy and vents my creativity after a hard day – why not try it?!
 

 
Whenever I feel sad/stressed/angry or anxious I listen to this in my head and visualise one of my icons, Barbra Streisand, singing it in Funny Girl. It’s just so full of hope and determination and when those trumpets come on, I feel strong.
 
“…I gotta fly once, I gotta try once, Only can die once, right, sir? Ooh, love is juicy, juicy, and you see I gotta have my bite, sir!
 
Get ready for me, love, ’cause I’m a comer, I simply gotta march, my heart’s a drummer. Don’t bring around a cloud to rain on my parade!…”

I’m a newbie astro-girl. For sure, I’ve read a gazillion books, I’m addicted to the David Wells forecast in Spirit and Destiny magazine and I’m currently on an astrology course that frazzles my brain with talk of sextiles and sesquiquadrates, but no one makes astrology more fun and accessible than the ever-so funny and – sssh, don’t tell him – ever-so hot, US-based astrologer, Matthew Currie.

Matthew has been a pro astro-boy and counselor for 20 years, with numerous appearances on television and radio. He writes The Daily Sky at Sasstrology.com, blogs the Clueless About Dating at Astrology.com, and writes his own blog matthewastrology.blogspot.com As if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s author of a beyond fabulous e-book series, and host consultations with people across the world – I’ve got one this afternoon, I’m all kinds of excited about it! Come meet him, he’s awesome. Fact.

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I am currently obsessed with Nigella. I can’t help it, I want to cook cupcakes in high heels and wear ever-so pretty retro-style aprons while I do it. Which is why I’m crushing on the Cupcake Provocateur. A super-fabulous Americano who has a fondness for vintage inspired styles, food and music of the pin up era. She’s inspired by the June Cleaver type of wholesomeness combined with the class and glamour of Donna Reed and the sexiness of Marilyn Monroe and Betty Paige – it’s like we were actually separated at birth. Come meet her, she’s simply dee-voom.

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This is our first minx-y interview with a British music gal, and I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am to introduce you to Jessica Spencer, the creator and lead singer of Hall of Mirrors. I’m not only so immensely inspired/amazed yet slightly haunted by her songs and lyrics, but also incredibly proud of her as she is my amazing friend and has not only got herself gigs, but a publishing and record deal too – wohhoo – with bigger things to come. So, in an exclusive interview with SM, here is the very Sassy and ever-so Minx-y, Ms Jessica Spencer.

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