Hey! Chill Out with These Wednesday Tunes

It's time for that mid-week tune up (pun intended), and California girl Laura Samuels has just the playlist to make you stress less with this week's compilation of chilled-out beats. Happy listening!Comment and let us know what kind of music you want to hear next week! Oldies, newbies, rock n' roll?

3 Things To Do This Weekend

1. Create a harvest doorstep! Make your front porch feel as welcoming as the fall. Shop at Terrain for some cast stone pumpkins and iron hay racks.2. Download the Honest Label free barcode-scanning iPhone and Android app! We all know those "all natural" food labels can be deceiving, so stop guessing if something is truly healthy by searching over 250,000 grocery products on this app. You can customize the settings according to your goals and concerns, such as vegan, nut allergy, gluten free and more. Download at the iTunes App Store here or for your Android phone here.3. Go see Ides of March, a Washington political thriller starring quite a hunky duo, Ryan Gosling and George Clooney. That sentence alone should make you run to your closest movie theatre (duh).Photo

Listen Up! Free Fall Tunes Inside

It's that time of year when our summer playlists are past their expiration, and a new season calls for new tunes! Lauren Hall, our musical expert, has created something special for you LOLO readers. Ranging from the current band craze Foster the People to a Britney Spears classic, this lineup is sure to be your new season obsession. Listen on for a new jammin' mix, and rock on!Photos

Spotted: Celebrities at NYFW

A bonus to the wonderful week of new designs, trend forecasts for the upcoming season and seeing the top dogs of the fashion world is playing a little game of "eye spy celebrities". Arriving backstage or taking a seat front row, we snapped some shots of the celebs who emerged from all over to see their favorite designers. Take a look at who we saw under the iconic white tents this September.[galleryview id= 60]

Going to ACL? Enter to win a Camelbak Waterbottle!

With Austin City Limits on the horizon, a top line water bottle is always in need! No brainer: Skip the pricey bottles of water and instead, drink up on free H2O from the CamelBak filling stations available throughout the park.On that note, CamelBak is offering their limited edition 10^th anniversary Austin City Limits CamelBak water bottle to five of you lucky music lovers who "like" our snazzy Facebook Page and commenting on this post. Be green, stay hydrated, and start liking!Read on for some fun CamelBak perks at this year's Austin City Limits.Filling StationsCamelBak, the go-to source in personal hydration products, will provide free freshly filtered water at 3 strategically positioned hydration stations throughout Zilker Park.Contribute to a green earth: CamelBak Filling stations served up 4½ million ounces of water at Lollapalooza and eliminating the need to purchase 270,000 reusable water bottles. We plan to exceed those numbers at ACL.The ACL CamelBak bottle facts: Limited edition design, BPA-free, includes CamelBak’s Big Bite Valve technology, which studies suggest that it allows you to drink up to 24% more water (cool!)Did you see our guide to ACL? Check it out here!Photo

3 Technology Tune-Ups for Your Fashionable Adventures

Lady Gaga+Technology= the coolest headphones on the planet. What better than to give your iPod such a gift? Tuning out the real world never looked so good.

Heartbeats by Lady Gaga High-Performance In-Ear Headphones from Beats By Dr. Dre and Monster, $129.99, available online at BestBuy.

 The day has come where photog-gurus are not the only ones who can play with filters on their fancy-schmancy cameras. Thanks to these fun plastic and acrylic stick-on lenses from Jelly Lens, you can become a pro in a snap (literally) with your iPhone. Choose from wide-angle, kaleidoscope, or starburst.

Jelly Lens iPhone filter, $8 each, available online at Fred Flare.

 Now that our Apple phones can do everything in our imaginable mind, can our batteries keep up? It seems the charge bar is disintegrating before I can even conclude my HD video outtake. Exaggeration? A little. But in all reality, we have all been in that inconvenient situation where we are praying for the red sliver to hang tight. Don't fear, the Mophie Juice Pack is here! Yep, it's true. No worries about your camera dying on you…this iPhone jacket doubles your phone’s battery power and also comes in a super cool neon case.

Mophie Juice Pack Plus for iPhone 4, $99.95, available at Barnes and Noble.

Inside Punkie's Place: A Round Top Wonderland

We had finally made it to the Spring show at Round Top highly anticipating our arrival at Punkie's Place. Walking into the tent, we realized that reality had left us. Suddenly, Lauren and I entered a world of creativity, flashbacks to different eras, fun themes and vintage-painted boots. Bold colors, disco balls, fiesta fun, glitter, clothing, jewels and antiques galore. The feeling must have been similar to when Alice entered her Wonderland. Diane Conlee, owner of Punkie's Place, had transformed the space into a junky, funky store in only one week. You may be wondering where the name Punkie came from? Well, Diane's party poodle, Punkie, was the inspiration and the rest is history.We could not believe our eyes. Each season, she has figured out a way to make Punkie’s Place better than the previous show. Punkie’s has become a hot spot at the Round Top shows twice a year, bringing in people from all over the country to see what Diane and the Punkie’s dealers have put together. Not to mention they are extremely fun to be around! If you haven’t been to this show, we strongly suggest trekking to Round Top, Texas to see the magic for yourself.We may not be able to venture down the rabbit hole like Alice, but we have captured the Punkie’s Place experience in our exclusive video interview with the mastermind behind it all, Diane Conlee. Visit Punkie's Place at the next Round Top show, September 23-October 1, 2011.

The Juice Press + New York Fashion Week

When fashion meets health-nut fanatics, something yummy is always in store. As New York Fashion Week approaches, so are the creative juices, literally. The Juice Press is creating fashion-inspired smoothies that contain all organic fruits and veggies. The menu you ask? The Banana Wintour (yes, this is real), a delicious concoction of coconut water, banana, cinnamon, agave, and ginger, or the Front Row Seat, a mixture of risky business: red pepper, garlic, cucumber, chipotle, onion, and an array of spices. What makes this the best fash-food collab ever? The week-long cleanses are discounted with proof of attending a show.Source

A Flowery Undertaking for Dallas-ites: DIRT Does Classes

Calling all floral-adorers, hobby-seekers, or those of you seeking out something new, indulge in the Big D's coolest botanical design classes, taught by the one-and-only owner of DIRT, Sonya Eudaley, a mastermind in the plant world.

From fun and funky easy courses to bridal bouquet lessons, these flower design classes will add an ounce of happiness to your skill set. So let your talents blossom alongside light hors d'oeuvres and wine, a laid back group of people, and garnish your adobe with your very own take-home arrangement. Read on for details, and sign up here!