Can You Work With Your Girlfriends? You Bet! | Girlfriend Advice from Colette Marx

September 30, 2011 – 6:21 am

Are you BFFs with the people you work with? Do your girlfriends see you everyday at work? Most of us aren’t that lucky!

September is a special month around Girlfriendology – it’s International Women’s Friendship Month (aka: #FriendshipMonth) and we’re celebrating with 30 great guest blogs filled with fabulous girlfriend advice and wisdom.

Today is our last Friendship Month guest blog. ): We’re sad to see the month end but happy to share one more guest blog with great girlfriend advice from guest blogger COLETTE MARX who shares her story of working, playing, and shopping with girlfriends.

I love my girlfriends, in fact I enjoy them so much I Read More »

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How to make yourself a ‘Keeper’ Friend | Irene Levine, Guest Blog

September 29, 2011 – 8:01 am

Are you the kind of friend who’s a Keeper? A friend that is there for your friends? Do you have ‘keeper’ friends?’

September is a special month around Girlfriendology – it’s International Women’s Friendship Month (aka: #FriendshipMonth) and we’re celebrating with 30 great guest blogs filled with fabulous girlfriend advice and wisdom. Today we have great girlfriend advice from guest blogger IRENE S. LEVINE, author of Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Read More »

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Girlfriend Gifts & Fall Fashion – Stylish Gifts for your BFF or Yourself!

September 19, 2011 – 5:35 pm

Fall! The perfect season for Friends and Fashion! And today we’re combining them with Girlfriend Gifts too! JOIN US!

That chill in the air, the sound of football on TV or at nearby schools, and the intense longing to go shopping for tights, boots, sweaters and skirts.

After the HOT Summer and having our toes exposed to the world, with the coming of school season, starts the process of layering and finding socks and tights hidden away from last Spring’s closet re-organization/cleaning.

We’re all about inspiring you to show your girlfriend gratitude with girlfriend gifts and this week we’ve taken a turn for the season and ‘fallen’ right into some of our favorite, fashionable gifts for our girlfriends and Read More »

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The Art of Girlfriends | Insights and Art from Rachel Awes, Girlfriendology Guest Blog

September 5, 2011 – 10:20 am

In this delightful guest blog in honor of International Women’s Friendship Month, artist Rachel Awes shares her story of finding new friends. We think you’ll love her art as much as her words!

When I first began my blog, “all I did was listen” in October of 2009, I had no idea that a new world of girlfriends was about to open up. I had set out to share my art and words and further blossom this part of me. Additional flowers and trees and worlds of wonder met me here in the form of beautiful women.

In the fall of 2010, Liv Lane (of the blog Choosing Beauty), and I co-hosted a retreat at my family cabin in northern Minnesota and there were 8 of us for a few dreamy days of getting to know each other, creating art side by side, cooking together, taking walks, lots of pictures, and becoming dear friends! During this time, I Read More »

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Best Friend Day: 10 Ways for you to celebrate June 10th with Your BFF

June 6, 2011 – 8:15 am

We celebrate imaginary characters and silly holidays – shouldn’t we celebrate our best friends?! Like with “Best Friend Day”?!

It’s Best Friend Day! (Okay – on June 8th – so we’re giving you a little time to plan/prepare!) And at Girlfriendology, we have 10 great ways for you to celebrate. More importantly, we want to hear from you about how you celebrate Read More »

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Wordless Wednesday: Patricia’s Bridge Club / Girlfriend Group

April 13, 2011 – 8:22 am

Well, it’s not completely WORDLESS Wednesday, but it is a great reason to feature the beauty of girlfriends!

We’re started a new feature on Girlfriendology on Wednesdays to feature YOU and YOUR GIRLFRIENDS. Every Wednesday we’ll share a photo of a girlfriend group and tell you a little about them. We’re hoping it inspires you to spend some beautiful moments with your girlfriends and to share with Girlfriendology. (To submit your girlfriend photo, check out Wordless Wednesday/Girlfriendology.)

Author, PATRICIA SANDS shared this about her girlfriend group:

This (photo below) is my “bridge club” during a one-week reunion on Vancouver Island last September. Friends for over 45 years! My recently published novel, The Bridge Club, is based on this amazing friendship that has Read More »

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Wordless Wednesdays – Featuring Favorite Photos of Female Friends

April 11, 2011 – 2:38 pm

Is it just me – or do you also feel more beautiful when you’re with your friends?

Announcing Wordless Wednesdays featuring you and your girlfriends’ photos!

The photo to the right is me with my girlfriends Julie and Anne. (Yes! I’m the one with the BIG ‘friendship flower‘ on my shirt!) We seem to take a lot of photos together whenever we see each other. Why? Because it’s fun when you capture happy times with friends and I always feel more beautiful when I’m with my friends. (Actually, feeling more beautiful is just one of the benefits of female friendship! And friendships keep us young!)

I love taking and seeing photos of friends. Each tells a story of love and laughter, of caring and concern, of support and sincerity.

So, we’re starting a new feature on Girlfriendology – Read More »

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GFF – Girlfriends Forever | Bumpersticker, Laptop Sticker …

March 1, 2011 – 4:58 pm

Thanks Laura from VPG Printing for making our GFF – Girlfriends Forever – sticker a wonderful reality!

You know the girlfriend who’s more than a ‘girlfriend?’ The forever friend who has stuck by you in good and bad times, who makes you laugh when you thought you were going to cry, the sister you wish you had?!

That, my friend, is a GFF – Girlfriend Forever.

Thanks to our Twitter girlfriend Karen, aka @HandCraftKaren, for coming up with GFF.

And BIG thanks to Laura of VPG Printing for making the extra effort to making this sticker GREAT!

Great for your car, scooter, laptop or whatever – they’re very cool! PLUS – you can even get it on a t-shirt or mug! (Perfect girlfriend gift for a GFF!)

If you’d like one for you and your GFF, send a stamped/self-addressed envelope (make sure it is stamped and will fit 4×6 stickers) to Debba/Girlfriendology, 3780 Aylesboro Avenue, Cincinnati OH 45208-1708 by May 1 December 31, 2011. EXTENDED

And, if your girlfriend group or book club would all like stickers, let me know how many and I’ll try to accommodate. (& would love to publish a photo of your group with your stickers!)

And celebrate the GFFs in your life who will be your Girlfriends Forever!

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Why your DH is not your #BFF

January 27, 2011 – 2:12 pm

Consider your DH (Dear Husband) your BFF (Best Friend Forever)?

Hopefully we marry (or date) with a foundation of friendship, right? We couldn’t happily share a home, much less a life, with someone unless we were really, really good friends. Friends who respect and support each other. Friends who bring out the best of each other. Friends who are committed to each other.

So doesn’t that make them (aka: him) our BFF?

Consider a girlfriend’s story recently shared with me:

Carolyn, a college student ‘nanny’ from Europe, has Read More »

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Seeking BFFs – Courageously!

June 30, 2010 – 3:06 pm

Have you reached out to find new girlfriends? Just guessing – why not?

As much as we KNOW we need friends – they provide support, laughter, community and much more, it’s not something that we busy females seem to do. And, before we can ‘be a better friend,’ we need to find the friends to be better to!

Here’s a guest blog by RACHEL BERTSCHE, from MWF Seeking BFF, on finding new friends (and listen to us interview her this FRIDAY, 2pm EST/11am PST on BlogTalkRadio!):

A few weeks ago, a fellow book-clubber asked me how my friend search was going. I told her Read More »

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