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Christian Dior Spring Couture 2011

gorgeous, beautiful, feminine, ruffles, vintage, classic 1950's silhouette, fluffy, brilliant.

Monchichi Galliano wins the haute couture crown this season. The vision of the house of Dior is just magical. Someone please send me a ticket to a runway show already!

Year of the Rabbit

Year of 2011 is the Year of the Golden Rabbit

The Rabbit is a lucky sign. Rabbits are private individuals and a bit introverted.

According to Chinese tradition, the Rabbit brings a year in which you can catch your breath and calm your nerves. It is a time for negotiation. Don't try to force issues, because if you do you will ultimately fail. To gain the greatest benefits from this time, focus on home, family, security, diplomacy, and your relationships with women and children. Make it a goal to create a safe, peaceful lifestyle, so you will be able to calmly deal with any problem that may arise.

Not many people know that the Rabbit is the symbol of the Moon, while the Peacock is the symbol of the Sun, and that together, these two animal signs signify the start of day and night, represent the Yin and Yangof life. It is said that anyone making supplications for wishes to be fulfilled are certain to get what they want... and in the Year of the Rabbit, the wish-granting aspect of the Sun and the Moon combined is multiplied. The Moon is YIN and this is the Yin of Heaven, signifying magic. Thus on each of the Full Moon nights of this year, go out into your garden to gaze into the Full Moon and visualize plenty of Moon dust and Moon glow flowing into you, filling your whole body with bright white light and granting you fearlessness, love and courage. This will not only strengthen your inner "Chi" energy, it will also bring wisdom into your life.

Thanks to the stylish Fifi Lapin, we celebrate this year in style.

I love checking in on the most stylish bunny on the planet, she has her own blog and she dresses in high fashion everyday...lucky little bunny.

proud mama moment

Lola had a state-wide piano test today at Bethel College. Parents were not allowed in the judging rooms, it private test with a judge and Lola in a room together.

The competition is open to kids 7 years in older and they compete against kids in their age group. Lola was not 7 years old yet so she got to go and play and she had a chance to experience what it felt like and what to expect in the years to come.

We received this letter from the judge who Lola performed for. Bella our piano teacher told us that kids don't receive letters like this but Lola made such an impression on the Judge that she was compelled to send it to us.

Not only did Lola do such a great job but she won in her age division!!!!!

We have worked hard this past 1 1/2 years with piano and it has been so worth it to not only me but to my little pianist. I'm a very proud mama today and I hope that Lola goes on impressing audiences everywhere.

sunday list

loving: pounding on the door while my hubs is in the bathroom and listening to him scream

feeling: like that i should tell my kids how much i adore them

thinking: i may need to stop at the fabric store to get lost in the rows of goodness

dreaming of: a warm sandy beach while watching my children play in the ocean

listing to: grateful dead...once a deadhead

wearing: pajama's

eating: trying not to eat...still working on new years plans

planning: taking a shower, brushing my teeth, feeding my kids

realizing: im so lazy

anticipating: a day when i jump out of bed, excited to start the day

enjoying: thoughts

wondering: if 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

weather: winter, sunny

house envy

The Esquire House (2007) in the Hills of California. Every year renowned high end designers are invited to create the ultimate bachelor pad. I prefer a bit of masculine design in my home. It's a bit sleeker, richer, and more plush then a home designed for women.

Porta Bella Design for TAG Heuer

Sami Hayek for Louis Vuitton

Natalie Addis for Ray-Ban

Woodson & Rummerfield's House of Design for Versace

Campion Platt for Hugo Boss

Woodson & Rummerfield's House of Design for Versace

Idea Space Design for Montblanc

Michael Lin for DKNY

Chimera Interiors for Asics

style envy...

Giovanna Battaglia is a smashing beauty which was once a former Dolce and Gabbana house and runway model and now L'Uomo Vogue editor. Her timeless chic has landed her all over major fashion houses. She is seen in fashion blogs, parties, and sitting in a lot of front rows of runway shows. She is elegant and sophisticated, hot, cool, and uber stylish! I want to spend the weekend with her. She is one of my favorites.

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Giovanna seamlessly combines elegant, classic looks with slightly off-kilter originality. Sometimes that comes in the form of an over the knee boot or bright yellow pant tempered with a ladylike fur, demure black tights or simple gray turtleneck sweater.

It's also refreshing to see that the fashion powerhouse repeats (gasp!) certain items. Her Chanel boots, structured bags, long gloves and many other staples are on regular, yet inspirational, rotation.

dress for pre-k success

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I think I am going to redo my kids closets. This is what I am going to start dressing my little fashionista's like. Why can't there be a Zara store near by. I don't even know if this is from Zara because it didn't specify on someone's pinterest ping (so annoying).

I love this look for the winter, I wish we lived in an area like S.F. that had a mild winter so I didn't have to dress my babes in a 15 layers, gloves, hats, etc. Sasha calls her gloves GLOBS, do you think I should correct her? Naw...so darn cute.

Have a stylish day!

new year 2011

yummy

These are my babies. Lucky mommy

sweetness

sasha...

you make me laugh.

you have made me cry with your stubborness. your tenacity. your refusal to back down.

i try and teach you that sometimes it's okay to just sit. and chill. and listen.

you taught me that there is indeed a good reason to baby-proof.

you are my wild child, my beautiful girl, my fearless one.

i love you so much sasha.

xoxo

mama

swing

little white girl

and sasha enjoying a swing

little white girl

throwing up all over sasha

mama not having anything to clean up mess with

fall

crisp
warm
earth

Pet Peeves

• When someone leaves their phone number at the end of a long message and they say it so fast you can't understand it and have to listen multiple times to figure it out.
• People having obviously PRIVATE conversations on their cell phone in public places.
• Clipping your nails in public.
• People who don't pick up after themselves.
• People who use the word "gay" to mean "lame".
• No toilet paper or paper towels in public bathrooms.
• People who can't complete a sentence without saying "you know".
• When people don't clear the microwave numbers.

My feet

{{{I'm fabulous in my new shoes}}}

Thoughts...

Open mouth, insert huge goddamned foot.

Bed

My ladies love to cozy up in bed and watch TV under the warm covers all nuzzled up. The mornings are my favorite time to be in bed with the girls... I think that I'll miss that the most when they get a little older and don't want to cuddle with me anymore. Don't grow up too fast...mommy's going to miss these times.

Thoughts...

Hug me without the gratuitous back patting.

Sick

the hole in my heart when i have a sick baby is big

Mosaic Monday Seafoam

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Pet Peeves

• Drivers who don't use a turn signal.
• People who drink directly out of the milk/orange juice containter.
• People who blame anything but themselves for THEIR failure.
• Noisy eaters.
• Going through the drive thru, then having to go back when they screw your order up.
• Using speaker phones in public areas at work.
• Finding a shoe and not finding its mate next to it
• People with bad table manners.
• People who read the paper while driving.
• Drivers who won't turn right on red.
• Couples that own a dog together and call themselves mommy and daddy.
• People who ignore yield signs.
• Being asked my telephone number/account number AFTER I already entered in using the keypad on my phone. I thought I was supposed enter that info to "better assist me".
• Not washing hands after using the bathroom.
• When your spouse/roommate uses the butter to put on their toast, and leaves crumbs in the container.
• Guys who leave the toilet seat up.
• Dining with a picky eater (they can never order off the menu without customizing every aspect of the meal).
• Men who insist on sitting with their legs spread wide like they got something there.
• When ice cream drips out of the bottom of a sugar cone.

Pet Peeves

• Dirty keyboards.
• People who don't cover their mouth while sneezing or coughing.
• Dirty dishes in the sink.
• When something I've been into for a long time becomes popular.
• People who clear their throats in a disgusting way.
• People who invite you out somewhere then cancel.
• Relying on someone else to take a picture because I want to be in it, and it ends up coming out off-centered and out-of-focus.
• When you order a salad at a restaurant and they bring it to you at the same time as your dinner.
• Hand prints on the windows in car.
• When you can't tell if someone is male or female.
• Sick people who cough near you.

Pet Peeves

• People who no matter what relate to something you have done and try to "one up" you.
• Rappers who thank God at awards cermonies.
• The noise styrofoam makes when you rub it together.
• People who blow their horn at you the nano-second the light changes to green.
• People who don't use deoderant.
• Ice cream with freezer burn.
• When you first meet someone and can't remember the person's name by the end of the conversation.
• People who take forever to leave a parking space while others are clearly waiting for it
• People on airplanes are using armrests on both sides of you.
• People sitting at a red light and continuing to sit there when the light turns green because they're on their cell phone.
• Grocery clerks that want to bundle the receipt with my change. Hand me the money separately so I can put it in my pocket, and then hand me the receipt or place it in the bag.

What I am dreaming of...

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im dreaming about

crystal chandeliers

laying in a field

piano music in the background

Spring walk

Went on a walk today.

It's just getting nice out, trees have some buds, grass is getting green, sun is warm.

Laying on the ground staring up at the sky.

Sasha fell asleep in her stroller.

Good day.

Pet Peeves

• Conversational High-Fives: High-fiving at any time other than when one is actively playing a sport
• When you are asleep at a hotel and the alarm clock goes off in the middle of the night because the person who was there before you set it and never turned it off.
• People who don't look at you when they are talking, or you are talking to them.
• When you're driving down the road and a cigarette butt comes out the window of a car in front of you and it bounces off your car.
• People who use the phrase "110%" (or even more % sometimes).
• People who put their feet up on the seat in front of them in movie theaters.
• People who say the time like "Eight AM in the morning".
• When people inturrupt you.
• Forks whose tines don't stand up in a perfectly straight line
• The sound of too much spit in someone's mouth when they talk.
• Athletes who point to the sky after scoring.
• Someone opening a cabinet door or drawer and leaving it open.
• People who ask "Can I ask you a question?"
• People who leave farts in elevators that I subsequently enter. Then the next person thinks it's me.
• Commercials in movie theaters.

Dusty

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I wish I could look up and glitter would fall from the sky.

Pet Peeves

• When the toilet paper roll is backwards.
• When you are hanging out with someone and they make plans to do something else right in front of you.
• When people scratch their fingernails on a blackboard.
• Wet, dirty, stinky, slimy dishrags left in a heap in the bottom of the sink.
• Walking into spider webs.
• When the cashier gives you the change with the coins on top of the bills and for a moment you look like a fool jamming a large wad of cash into your pocket.
• Waiters/waitress who put their fingers on the top of the glass (where you drink from) when they deliver it to you.

Pet Peeves

• Adware, spyware, popups, viruses and other things that download themselves and install automatically
• People who make you take off your shoes when you go into their house for a party.
• I hate slow people walking in front of me...we call them mini-van drivers.
• People who stop at the top or bottom of an escalator.
• People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.
• Dog poop on the sidewalk.
• I know they have to do this, but I hate having servers recite the specials to me. Because I have never ordered a special, and hate having to feign interest in them.
• Men who refer to "babysitting" their own children.
• Pee anywhere other than in a toilet.
• How commercials are so much louder than the TV shows.
• When you get out of the pool and your bathing suit sticks to you and exposes your crotch.
• Double dippers.
• When people don't pick up their feet to walk and you hear the scuff... scuff... scuff.
• Trying to get assistance over the telephone, only to be directed to "press this number", umpteen times.
• People who say I can't, without even trying.
• People who leave their pets in their hot cars in the summer.
• Speed bumps.
• Dogs running around on a flatbed truck, which is going highway speed.
• Parents who have their children on leashes.

Pet Peeves

• Babies sitting on laps in cars.
• People who bring their babies to the movies.
• People who stick their USED gum just about anywhere (under a table or chair, on the ground, etc.)
• Dried toothpaste in the sink.
• Junk mail.
• People who talk on their cell phone at the movies.
• When someone blows their nose in your presence and then proceeds to look at what just filled their tissue/handkerchief.
• People who don't accelerate fast enough at a stop light, especially if you're in the left lane.
  

Pet Peeves

• People who stop right infront of you when your walking through town.
• People that do not flush the toliet in public restrooms.
• I hate people who have no idea what "personal space" is.
• Pants on men that are too short.
• Dirty restaurant bathrooms. It makes me wonder how clean the kitchen is.
• People who don't stop at stop signs.
• Air Guitar. Don't do it. You look like a dork.
• Dull pencils.
• Getting behind someone that will not drive up to the speed limit.
• I hate it when people tickle me.

Pet Peeves

• People who blow their nose at the dinner table or in the kitchen when you're eating or cooking.
• Things sticking out of drawers
• Using the toilet paper down to the last few squares without getting a new roll
• People who write on dirty car windshields
• When shirts shrink in the dryer.
• People who don't hold the elevator for you.
• When you're trying to walk in the mall and there's a kiosk and they hound you.
• People that say they don't like a certain food before they try it, and refuse to eat it .
• Barbecue restaurants with happy pigs on the sign.
• Hotel pillows.
• Pieces of fat on meat.
  

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Pet Peeves

• Companies that outsource their customer service to India, but then those support reps don't have full access to all the needed info, so eventually they transfer you back to a manager in the US to deal with it.
• Speed Bumps.
• Drivers who drive slow in the left lane.
• People that fart in public.
• People who invade my seat space, like on airplanes or in movie theaters.
• Sneezing in your hand and shaking someone's hand afterward.
• Kids with baggy pants hangin below their ass.
• Women who use PMS as an excuse to be bitchy.
• People who constantly sniffle.
• People trying to enter an elevator when people IN the elevator haven't left yet.

Pet Peeves

• If you pee on the seat, wipe it off.
• Driveways that make cars bottom out.
• Barking dogs when I am trying to sleep.
• People who don't say "thank you" or even acknowledge you when you hold the door for them.
• People who bite their nails.
• When people cough in front of you without covering their mouth.
• Getting stuck at red lights, while nobody is going the other direction.
• People who whistle through their noses while just breathing.
• People that burp loudly in public.
• Wobbly tables.
• Chewing gum on the sidewalk.
• When someone tries to talk to you when you have headphones on.

Pet Peeves

• When coffee spills out of the top drinking hole of lids on to-go coffee cups.
• How commercialized the holidays are.
• People who pick their teeth in public.
• People who interrupt you and direct the conversation to themselves.
• People who make small talk with a cashier when there's a long line behind them.
• Spit flying out of people's mouth by accident.
• I hate when restaurant staff starts clearing dishes away when not everyone has finished eating -- leaving the one person at a table of four to feel bad they haven't finished yet.
• People who can't seem to understand that " red eyes" are possible to remove in photos.
• Waitors/waitresses with dirty fingernails.
• People who scrape their fork around the plate.
• Backwash.

Obscure Color Terms

This list contains 168 definitions of obscure colour terms using combinations of 'normal' colours of the rainbow and descriptive adjectives. Found http://phrontistery.info/colours.html

Word	Definition
aeneous	shining bronze colour
albicant	whitish; becoming white
albugineous	like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured
amaranthine	immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour
argent	the heraldic colour silver or white
atrous	jet black
aubergine	eggplant; a dark purple colour
aurulent	gold-coloured
azuline	blue
azure	light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue
badious	chestnut-coloured
beige	light creamy white-brown
brunneous	dark brown
burnet	dark brown; dark woollen cloth
caesious	bluish or greyish green
cardinal	deep scarlet red colour
castaneous	chestnut-coloured
castory	brown colour; brown dye derived from beaver pelts
celadon	pale green; pale green glazed pottery
celeste	sky blue
cerulean	sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green
cesious	bluish-grey
chartreuse	yellow-green colour
chlorochrous	green-coloured
chrysochlorous	greenish-gold
cinerious	ashen; ash-grey
cinnabar	red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour
citreous	lemon-coloured; lemony
citrine	dark greenish-yellow
claret	dark red-purple colour; a dark-red wine
coccineous	bright red
columbine	of or like a dove; dove-coloured
coquelicot	brilliant red; poppy red
corbeau	blackish green
cramoisy	crimson
cretaceous	of or resembling chalk; of a whitish colour
croceate	saffron-coloured
cyaneous	sky blue
eau-de-nil	pale green colour
eburnean	of or like ivory; ivory-coloured
erythraean	reddish colour
ferruginous	of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron
filemot	dead-leaf colour; dull brown
flammeous	flame-coloured
flavescent	yellowish or turning yellow
fuliginous	sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; of or pertaining to soot
fulvous	dull yellow; tawny
fuscous	brown; tawny; dingy
gamboge	reddish-yellow colour
glaucous	sea-green; greyish-blue
goldenrod	dark golden yellow
greige	of a grey-beige colour
gridelin	violet-grey
griseous	pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled
haematic	blood-coloured
heliotrope	purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror
hoary	pale silver-grey colour; grey with age
hyacinthine	of a blue or purple colour
ianthine	violet-coloured
ibis	large stork-like bird; a pale apricot colour
icterine	yellowish or marked with yellow
icteritious	jaundiced; yellow
incarnadine	carnation-coloured; blood-red
indigo	deep blue-violet colour; a blue-violet dye
infuscate	clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown colour
isabelline	greyish yellow
jacinthe	orange colour
jessamy	yellow like a jasmine
kermes	brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects
khaki	light brown or tan
lateritious	brick-red
leucochroic	white or pale-coloured
liard	grey; dapple-grey
lovat	grey-green; blue-green
lurid	red-yellow; yellow-brown
luteolous	yellowish
luteous	golden-yellow
lutescent	yellowish
madder	red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour
magenta	reddish purple
maroon	brownish crimson
mauve	light bluish purple
mazarine	rich blue or reddish-blue colour
melanic	black; very dark
melichrous	having a honey-like colour
meline	canary-yellow
miniaceous	colour of reddish lead
minium	vermilion; red lead
modena	crimson
morel	dark-coloured horse; blackish colour
nacarat	bright orange-red
nankeen	buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton
nigricant	of a blackish colour
nigrine	black
niveous	snowy; white
ochre	yellowish or yellow-brown colour
ochroleucous	yellowish white
olivaceous	olive-coloured
or	heraldic colour gold or yellow
pavonated	peacock-blue
periwinkle	a bluish or azure colour; a plant with bluish flowers
perse	dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour
phoeniceous	bright scarlet-red colour
piceous	like pitch; inflammable; reddish black
plumbeous	leaden; lead-coloured
ponceau	poppy red
porphyrous	purple
porraceous	leek-green
prasinous	leek-green colour
primrose	pale yellow
puccoon	blood-root; dark red colour
puce	brownish-purple; purplish-pink
puniceous	bright or purplish red
purpure	heraldic colour purple
purpureal	purple
pyrrhous	reddish; ruddy
rhodopsin	visual purple
rubiginous	rusty-coloured
rubious	ruby red; rusty
rufous	reddish or brownish-red
russet	reddish brown
sable	black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry
saffron	orange-yellow
sage	grey-green colour
sanguineous	bloody; of, like or pertaining to blood; blood-red
sapphire	deep pure blue
sarcoline	flesh-coloured
sepia	fine brown
sinopia	preparatory drawing for a fresco; reddish-brown colour
slate	dull dark blue-grey
smalt	deep blue
smaragdine	emerald green
solferino	purplish red
sorrel	reddish-brown; light chestnut
spadiceous	chestnut-coloured
stammel	coarse woollen fabric, usually dyed red; bright red colour
stramineous	strawy; light; worthless; straw-coloured
suede	light beige
sulphureous	bright yellow
tan	tawny brown
taupe	brownish-grey
tawny	brownish-yellow
teal	greenish-blue
terracotta	reddish-brown
testaceous	of or having a hard shell; brick-red
tilleul	pale yellowish-green
titian	red-gold or reddish-brown
topaz	dark yellow
turquoise	blue-green
ultramarine	deep blue
umber	brownish red
vermeil	bright red or vermilion colour; gilded silver
vermilion	bright red
vinaceous	wine-coloured
vinous	deep red; burgundy
violaceous	violet-coloured
violet	bluish purple
virescent	becoming green or greenish; of a greenish colour
virid	green
viridian	chrome green
vitellary	bright yellow
wallflower	yellowish-red
watchet	pale blue
wheaten	the golden colour of ripe wheat
whey	off-white
willowish	of the colour of willow leaves
xanthic	yellow; yellowish
zinnober	chrome green