After sitting down with your Mr. Numbers to figure how to feed Uncle Sam his yearly four-star dinner on your income —

A side of stock earnings, topped with a pinch of your interest from CDs, with a main course based around your salary, and dessert could be the cream of your mutual fund you had an itch might have better fit your IRA.

— You’re left with some skinny green for spare spending for the next few months, and a reminder to stop using some high-rate plastic money.

So make a meeting with this Juicy Couture silver money clip — when you’re stripped from that mini filing cabinet of a wallet, you’ll be carrying only bare bones.

Maybe really bare bones —

Juicy’ll take $75 for this clip.

Slip on some glammy shades, doll. You thought that bling thing was over - that actual word actually is - , you were waving tah-tah to tin-foily accessories last year, trying to remember why you bought a shiny shiny clutch and then forget what you spent on it, and now -

“In spring you expect to see the same old fashion standby’s like cream, pastels, and floral prints, and this year is no different,” says Fashion IQ.

However, doll -

“However, this is also an exceptionally shiny year!” says Fashion IQ.

Exactly. Because whlie - 

”- Metallics never went out, they have also never been more in! Almost every designer exhibited some metallic piece in their show, and most did multiple pieces, sending models down the runways in head to toe gold and silver,” continues  Fashion IQ. “Elie Saab even based an entire show on gold alone. Although some designs were questionable (such as the super baggy gold pedal pushers by Dolce and Gabbana)…”

...continued: A Blingy Spring

The dollar’s going down - time to return to the gold standard, or -

Invest in the less obviously luxe precious metal, silver. 

A little lady  named Tiffany def helped make steriling silver more than just the stuff of a cheap date. Check the high design of Tiffany & Co. Frank Gehry Designs silver bracelet. “Tiffany & Co. Frank Gehry,” says Laura Sweet. “Need I say more?”

Nope, I’m totally with you, doll. 

...continued: Ooh La Love: Sterling

It seems only like last season metallics were tres five minutes ago, but virtual fashion bible Style.com is hailing the return of heavy metals.

To be sure, for the most part current metallics are more shimmery than shiny, more a ladylike pearl than an overblown bling, more -

More like toMAYto, toMAHto.

Forgive me for sounding more like a Kristopher than a Krissy, but golden is golden is golden, and metallics are a pretty timeless, seasonless way to add subtle statement to your clothing.

...continued: Ooh La Love: Metallics