Scarlett Johansson

♥For Dolce & Gabbana Rose the One Fragrance♥

So beautiful and sexy, I can almost smell her right here looking at the picture. It's amazing I have never wanted to go smell a perfume more then right now. It just proves that good advertising works.

one summer day...

we learned how to fly
we learned how to fly
we learned how to fly

Happy Birthday My Love

You can always make me
laugh
cry
feel good
cuddle
desire
joy
trust
anger
anticipation
surprise
awe
Adoration
affection
love
fondness
liking
attraction
caring
tenderness
compassion
sentimentality
Arousal
desire
lust
passion
infatuation
affection
longing
amusement
bliss
cheerfulness
gaiety
glee
jolliness
joviality
joy
delight
enjoyment
gladness
jubilation
elation
satisfaction
ecstasy
euphoria
i love you
happy birthday

Inspiration

Photographer
Denise Boomkens
http://www.deniseboomkens.nl

Could this be the modern day Frida Kahlo?
I am so impressed with Denise,
what an amazing eye for seduction.

stylist
photographer
lighting director
make up artist
digital retoucher
brain stormer

YOU ALL ROCK!!!!

Let's celebrate my man!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgbalancesrocks/337654444

Getting ready to celebrate Andy's birthday in a few days.
He's 39
and
he's
6'0" tall
I am so in love with him!

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affair.tumblr.com

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45 lessons...

This was written by Regina Brett from Cleveland, Ohio. This list was published in a local newspaper in honor of her 90th birthday.

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:"

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch. 5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else. 20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ''In five years, will this matter?".
26. Always choose life.
27. Forgive everyone everything.
28. What other people think of you is none of your business.
29. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
30. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
31. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
32. Believe in miracles.
33. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
34. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
35. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
36. Your children get only one childhood.
37. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
38. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
39. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
40. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
41. The best is yet to come.
42. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
43. Yield.
44. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

OK, not sure what happened to #45.

Oh no!!!!!

I can't believe our summer is almost over- a few more weeks until the kids go back to school- it flew by! It was a great summer, filled with a lot of lazy activities. We didn't do much but had a great time doing it. Next summer will be easier with Sasha turning 3 in May, maybe we could do away with naps- they sort of ruined all of the fun we had every day. I will always remember this great summer!!!!


day's filled with

boating
waverunners
lot's of sunblock
cute swim suits
adorable summer clothes



accomplishments

josh

• read 5 books
• went to book club
  
• got 2 strips in karate

lola

• learned how to play soccer
  
• learned how to swim
• go down the water slid alone
• jump off the diving board

sasha

• use bigger words
• started sleeping in big girl bed
• still working on many more!
  

Where we roll...

Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com

We live in Minnesota

{places where we visited from april-today}

andy--->
Las Vegas (2x)
Chicago
Boston
NYC
Maryland
D.C
Michigan
Sacramento
Scottsdale
Fargo
Wisconsin lake house

zhanna--->
Las Vegas
L.A.
Fargo
Wisconsin lake house

lola---->
San Francisco
Sonoma

Inspiration

Phillip Newton
photographer

{www.philipnewtonphoto.com}

Things I...

a) in charge of or
b) very involved in and
c) fun stuff that I want to spend more time doing

- driving kids to activities
- working 1 day a week for Miles Franklin
- PTO in the fall
- pilates
- deciding kids futures
- organizing our home
- keeping up with the laundry
- tennis
- trying to keep the house in some kind of order
- mahjong
- encouraging husband
- looking for a house
- antiqing
- scrapbooking
- social director
- estate manager
- flikr
- blog
- shutterfly
- scap in style
- friend

Inspiration

You Are Behind The Wall
photographer
Elif Sanem Karakoc
{www.flickr.com/photos/elifkarakoc}

What's amazing and so inspirational is Elif is 18 years old.
I looked at her work when she was 16 and it was just breath-taking.
If this is the work she produces at such a ripe age, what does the future hold for her?

Inspiration

{www.brandywineboutique.blogspot.com}
{www.etsy.com/shop.}

I discovered this amazing etsy shop.
Brandy is the proprietor and designer and her work so so wonderful!
I think I may go shopping at her etsy store and buy the crow tag-
just in time for Holloween.

Today was wonderful because...

{The Komboh Bureau of Visual Investigation}

-sasha has slept in her big girl bed now last night, this afternoon, and now this evening.
-my boy made dinner for us.
-my mom is spending a few days here.
-decorating is fun.
-i cleaned out kids toy room.
-i bought new supplies today.
-i made 4 pages in two days.
-my dream felt more alive today than ever.

Mosaic Monday Green

{www.flickr.com/photos/glamandglitterz_peepshow}
Click above for photo credit

I {heart}

{www.etsy.com}

Hand painted by Maner, he's from Guangzhou China. I wish they had kid sizes...blah!

100 best books of all time

Patenlairs – Pilllpat – 2008

{www.flickr.com/photos/taffeta}

According to www.randomhouse.com this is the list of the all time favortive 100 non-fiction books of all times. I will attempt to read each book off this list in the next serveral of years. I am not sure which order I will start, perhaps I'll just bounce around the list. How can I expect my children to read them if I don't at least try. Maybe I'll see if my girlfriends would like to do a book club...any excuse to get together with friends.

READERS LIST

1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand

3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien

5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee

6. 1984 by George Orwell

7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand

8. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand

9. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

10. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard

11. ULYSSES by James Joyce

12. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

13. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14. DUNE by Frank Herbert

15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein

16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein

17. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute

18. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

20. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

21. GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon

22. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

24. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell

25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

26. SHANE by Jack Schaefer

27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute

28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving

29. THE STAND by Stephen King

30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN by John Fowles

31. BELOVED by Toni Morrison

32. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison

33. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

34. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

35. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint

36. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner

37. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham

38. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O’Connor

39. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry

40. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies

41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint

42. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

43. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

44. YARROW by Charles de Lint

45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft

46. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane

47. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint

48. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf

49. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy

50. TRADER by Charles de Lint

51. THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams

52. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers

53. THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood

54. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy

55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

56. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute

57. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

58. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint

59. ENDER’S GAME by Orson Scott Card

60. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint

61. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis

62. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein

63. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

64. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving

65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury

66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson

67. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

68. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

69. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

70. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling

71. THE MAGUS by John Fowles

72. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein

73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig

74. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves

75. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O’Brien

77. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury

78. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis

79. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams

80. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs

81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy

82. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton

83. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein

84. IT by Stephen King

85. V. by Thomas Pynchon

86. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein

87. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein

88. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh

89. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner

90. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST by Ken Kesey

91. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

92. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles

93. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey

94. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather

95. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint

96. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy

97. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock

98. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach

99. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies

100. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie

beauty

Sophia Loren
via
josephzohn.tumblr.com

beauty

1958 - photo by John French

Inspiration

Alexandria LaNier
fashion stylist, clothing/costume designer
{www.flickr.com/photos/alexandrialanier}