Cuff Seaux Hard + Dude, Where’s my Gus?

  

Laura McClendon cuffed me. I was way too out of line at Art. Wine. Design. last week and something had to be done at LD Linens. Nothing can quite compare to a one of a kind dime piece flossed on one’s wrist (see Bracelets to the Biceps by Martha Gibbs to get a better understanding of this concept), and I was stoked while stacked to the triceps with her druzy stone and snakeskin cuffs. I needed them all, but had to settle for just one. Trinidad James says, “One gold watch, 2 gold chains, 6 gold rangs, it’s nothin’.” I believe James is referring to all of these wearable gold items being in fact nothing at all, without a swanked out gold cuff. To live by this motto, I purchased just that: a swanked out All Gold Everything gold cuff to complete my Trinidad James inspired signature look that included one gold watch (Louis Bolle), two gold chains (vintage Chanel + McClendon’s “O” collection), and six gold rangs (2 of which were ear-rangs, McClendon’s Druzy hoops, and 4 vintage gold rangs). Her price range is $30-$140. She hand makes all of her pieces besides the cuffs, which she designed and had made for her line. You gotta check this girl’s swag! www.mcclendondesigns.com / FB: McClendon Designs / Insta: mcclendondesigns / email: [email protected]

I’m so stoked for The Dude, the pit bull I recently fostered for 5 days. He has been fittingly renamed Gus by his present foster mother, 20 year old Madi Mahaffey. Mahaffey is a junior at LSU and on the volleyball team. She’s the daughter of a veterinarian and has been taught everything she knows about animals by her mother. Gus is her 7th foster this year alone, and she doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. “I’ve loved them all as if they were my own kids,” Mahaffey confessed to me. She explained that sometimes the fostered dogs get adopted very quickly, and sometimes it takes several months. Like the other dogs Mahaffey has fostered, Gus will go to the PASS adoption house daily to be visited by potential owners, and hopefully get adopted soon! After adoption, Mahaffey likes to keep tabs on her previously fostered dogs through pics and visits. Mahaffey was pleased to inform me that Gus got fixed yesterday and is very clean and happy, chewing on his rawhide bones on his memory foam bed. What a boss.