About We Covet
We Covet is a blog written for women by women about consumer goods, services, design, and style -- the good, the bad, and the ugly that we all encounter on a daily basis. Here we review products and product design, heralding the greatness of things we love and thumbing our noses at things we don't -- from makeup to toys, clothing to cameras, furniture to cleaning products, you name it. We want to share our finds and findings with you, have a few laughs, and make life prettier, easier, and more fun for our readers. Better living through consumerism! HUZZAH!
We Covet was created by two ex-academics turned stay-at-home Moms and bloggers, Tracey Gaughran-Perez of Sweetney, and Catherine Connors of Her Bad Mother.
Catherine Connors, aka Her Bad Mother, thought that she had grown up and recovered from being a covetous, consumptive whore. Then they upped her credit card limit, and it was all over. When she's not searching for the perfect pair of cunning little ballerina flats to squeeze onto her swollen pregnant feet or the latest innovation in espresso-delivery, she's either wrangling her two-year old, navel-gazing at her blog, or slinging gossip at MamaPop.com.
Tracey Gaughran-Perez, aka Sweetney, once thought consumerism, like, totally sucked, and that TV was a mind-control tool of The Man. Thankfully, she has since grown up quite a bit, and now cultivates a quirky and humorous sense of style, one with definite
leanings toward the handmade and unique. She loves creative
contradictions and juxtapositions of styles, bizarre fusions of the
popular and eccentric, the cutting edge and the nostalgic. That said,
she can't seem to stay out of H&M or Target, and doesn't consider
her hours spent gazing longingly at Anthropologie catalogs something to
be ashamed of. She also writes of the gossip at MamaPop.com.
JenB of jenandtonic.ca has always loved the stuff. We Covet enables her shame spiral. Online shopping has becoming more than a hobby, but she is choosy. Finding things that she hasn’t seen everywhere else or items that are functional AND decorative make her feel ALIVE, ALIVE! Having a kid in preschool has also turned her into a connoisseur of kids stuff – toys, clothes, shoes! Buying items that support a good cause and are useful or attractive or pretty are also a turn on. Jen loves a bargain, but will pay top dollar for quality and shoes in her size.
Jessica McFadden, aka A Parent in Silver Spring, grew up in a small California farming town where Mervyn's and Miller's Outpost were the only places to shop, thus beginning a violent coveting of the stylish and unique that shall never be quenched. She has worked as a personal shopper at Nordstrom's and stylist for a U.S. Senator, but now believes pantyhose are an agent of the devil and individualism rules. When not Windows shopping, Jessica can be found chasing after her two preschoolers and rambling at APISS or the DC Metro Moms Blog.
