I'm so proud of our spring fashion shoot. It should be showing up on newsstands next week. Our theme was Alice and Wonderland and the staff at Red Tree took on the challenge of creating eight sets for this shoot—in the midst of a buying trip to Atlanta. At times I think they were sorry they ever said yes to me (ha! ha!) ... but wowowowow they just blew all of us away with their creativity, craftsmanship, and work ethic. Plus, they all work so well together and I don't think I've ever laughed so much on a shoot before. They literally had 30 minutes or so to change over to the next set while we changed hair and makeup and redressed our beautiful red head. I'm lucky to work with so many amazing people from our hair and makeup genius (Dean Krapf) to my uber talented styling assistant (Kim Chewing) to two great interns (Kaitlin & Becca) ... and of course our art director (Amanda White) and photographer (Dave Colwell) ... wow, this is starting to sound like an acceptance speech. Anyway, I think what you'll see in the March issue of the...

So, we had our April photo shoot today for UpFront shopping. Our Objects of Desire is all about the circus. We found so many wonderful items around town—I'm really excited. I went to the grocery store last night looking for Cracker Jacks but instead found Animal Crackers and Circus Peanuts. Remember those? They are a creamsicle orange and smell like banana cream pie (according to my intern.) They look like they should be marshmallowy but are dense like actual Styrofoam peanuts. I tasted one (for research!) and they just kind of taste like paper mache sugar. A little to chewy—if you catch my drift. My favorite is the Circus Peanut Marshmallow Ambrosia recipe on the back. All this to tell you that the April OOD is going to be fantastic. —JED