I already explained briefly about the structure of Eden, now I will speak about the gardens.

Eden is in the center of the realm of time and space. From a point of view of the third dimension, Eden would be a huge mass of hydrogen. Is pretty cold there.

Eden is built in a dimension that cannot be seen by human eyes. It is a sonic dimension.

All around Eden are placed the gardens. Each garden is what we call a Universe. Each Universe is a garden. Humans call as Universe the whole, but we Angels use the word Universe for each garden, in the singular. Each Universe is separate from the other by a black hole layer, therefore the beings from one Universe hardly can see the other. Some can, but is rare. In this Universe for example is possible to see our neighbor Universe from Orion ( the Universe of green lights), but this is because we are in the very corner of our Universe, in the very very corner.

Each Universe has a particular way to work and different physical rules, the only ships that can cross the from one Universe to another are the Elfic Spaceships, what means, Angels and smugglers only ( who sometimes steal our ships, and travel with these stolen ships). I don´t bother about them because they are under the crown of the Dark Prince, my brother, they are apolitical and there is a silent agreement between me and the Dark Prince, that he supplies the planets that are too far away for my logistic to go, so, although they are criminals, they are totally necessary, because they are a parallel vein that supply mainly tritium and communication for the darkest corners of my Principality.

I could do it, but I love the Dark Prince, and I think that he does the job well, so I do not intend to take his job. There is space for everyone to grow in my Principality, since the person respect the populations, so I respect his fire of doing things on his own way, as long as he remains away from Michael´s policies and for exploiting the populations, and in this case there is another silent agreement, the price of his products are lower that the official products, however he sells mainly to the poorer populations, so he is an important branch for me to fight the Michaels´s system that made happen a sick distribution of resources, and this way I can be sure that everyone gets the necessary to live.

So, as I was saying, each Universe is apart form the other by a black hole ring. Each Universe has a Princess, a Dark Prince, An Ambassador, a Melquisedec´s office, at least.

The Princess distribute the land and establish the lineages of the kings, plus built the structure, choose the philosophy and even can order a changing in few physical rules to the Graal, if that would be good for the populations. We can also destroy or order new planets, change the routes and so on, but generally this things are chosen before there are populations in the Universe.

The Dark Prince is the one that will host under his crown all sort of criminals, and organize them to the minimal damage ( to Eden). He is an Angel too. In the case of this Universe, the Dark Prince is my brother from the Diamond Family ( in the Black Diamond stage).

The Ambassador is always a Lucifer, he takes care of the Eden´s citizens and of Edens business in the Universe.

Melquisedec´s team collects the taxes – the Princess don´t touch the taxes. He also liberates the resources that I need to run the Universe. We work very well together, his team is wonderful, they are usually hosted at the Embassy, because they are citizens of Eden and the Embassy is the best protected place in the Universe.

How do I run the Universe? Theoretically, through the royal lineages. But now the Universe is not being run, it is more to something chaotic because Michael attacked and killed my Kings and Queens and placed impostors in the thrones of all major planets. As a royal lineage takes generations to be done, because of the genetic adjustments, me and Lucifer had to invent the democracy to fight back the thieves, but it makes our job much more complex.

Democracy is a condition, not a choice, as it may seem. We establish it, with a lot of sacrifice, after a kingdom has been taken by Michael´s barbarians, so to protect the population against their exploitation, but it is not the ideal system. The ideal system is the kingdom with a king from the celestial lineages.

Why? Because then we can distribute the resources better. A royal family from the Angelic lineages have something that others are not supposed to have – the genetic that allow what in English is called “channeling” or “paranormality”, this way the royal family can be all the time in contact with the Principality, receiving our direct orders and placing their kingdom in tune with our organization for all the Principality, making the resources flow smoothly among all planets. Presently, without the true royal lineages placed in the right positions just as hubs of communication and flow of resources, the contact among the planets and with us in the Principality is almost non existent.

A paranormal cannot be loose among the ordinary population, as it is happening now, because he suffer, he is delicate. Now they are born everywhere without special protection, but to spread the genetic was the only way to protect the royal lineages from been completely terminated by the Michael´s hunters. A paranormal must be protected inside the walls of a palace, by a guard of beings of his kind plus a guard of Angels. Why? Because he is a telephone, a precious and rare tool, a gem whose genetic took millenia to be prepared.

As a delicate tool, if he is unprotected, he will be used by evil spirits, because a telephone can be used by those who have access to the line, while he was prepared to serve only the Angels. There should not be evil spirits in my Principality, they are also a result of the distortion and mess that Michael created, because he destroyed the perfect system of collection of the souls that we had, since he placed into the hearts of the creatures the wish to meet God. This way, these souls are out of tune, and our systems are not capable to collect them decently, and then they suffer of hunger and thirsty, because there have never been created a place for them in this state, they should not exist in this state, and then they become evil and take control of the semi-sacred sensitives.

I did all right in the beginning, I placed my Angelic genetic in the best individuals of all species, I turned them into Queens and Kings, and there was no famine, pain, cold, or lack of education or lack of development, all in time.

But then Michael come, hired barbarians to kill my Kings and their families “in the name of God” with his brainwashing, called the real Kings as barbarians and placed in the throne the corrupt brute of his court, that started to exploit the people. As his “kings” were not paranormal sensitives, he kidnapped the paranormals of my celestial lineages, the original heirs, because they had special capabilities ( the one of being capable to talk to us in the Principality), and enslaved my children at service of his brute corrupt “kings”.

What could me and Lucifer do? Well, we asked to the Department of Philosophy, and some of our friends in there come up with this brilliant idea of democracy. We finally took the power partially back with the democracies, but this system is not perfect, because we have no way yet to protect the sensitives, our direct children, who are still exploited, and there is no way to assure the fair distribution of resources, and there is still corruption. But is better than the Michael´s barbarians.

Michael could not take all the Kingdoms, so he had a great idea. He established a parallel spiritual power, that he called religions. In the original kingdoms there were no need of religion, because the Queen and King are in contact with the Angels all the time. There is no need to maintain a second expensive structure, because the resources, if remaining in a kingdom, must be applied for the education of the children and in structure, not in keeping an expensive structure to supposedly please God, deceiving people. People does not to have to think about it, the royal lineages are doing the connection for all. This is the most pragmatical and economically optimal way.

Because in the original kingdoms there were no religion, Michael called them barbarians, but the contact with the Angels were much more intense and effective in that times than now.

Well, with that, Michael took some Kingdoms, that we turned into democracies later, but he kept the control of the minds through his parallel religious structure, that is not at all tied to Eden, it is only tied to the Grays and run by the Grays, because me and Lucifer are the ones with the original power of attorney of Eden, only we have the official channels to Eden. The connection of Michael and his religions with”God”never left the borders of this Universe, at least not officially. About GOD herself, yes, she does speak even with ordinary people, She can speak even with a flower, but She does not accept intermediates. If She is to speak with someone, She goes directly and speak, and differently of us, Angels, that need a sensitive to be our voice for the populations, GOD does not need it, She speaks directly to the person, so the religions does not have anything to do with Her, at all.

In my Principality there were originally one function for each kind of person, and all could live and be happy. But now is all messed up, people´s minds are full of the burdens that they don´t need, and everyone suffer in one field or another.

Me and Lucifer, we look at this with horror, but we honestly don´t know what else to do. I continue my endurance for the Alchemical Marriage in human bodies, but there is not much for me to do from here. Democracy was our last shot, but in this places it seems that the religions of Michael prospered too. Well, we will continue thinking, and one day we will find a way to set the minds and hearts free again, and to undo the genetic mess that Michael did to assure a way to enslave the populations in his own purposes.

Unbelievable? See the results, then. See the results, Grays, look what you did with your betrayal, look at yourselves! See the results, Eden! Look at the populations that remained loyal to me, there is no famine, no pain! Look at the populations that carry the dragon and the Elfic symbols! They are not so numerous, but there is no under-education! They are the top in life style in every single planet of my Principality!

One think is vital to reveal.

The humans were not supposed to be our masterpiece. The Grays were. The Grays received the best minds that we had in stock at the Graal Industries. The Grays received bodies immune to radiation, and they were given the Stars to live, the Grays were given originally the appearance of Cherubims, and most important than that, they were the only ones in the Universe given the possibility to feed with the most noble of the food, the gas tritium, placing them in the evolution hierarchy closest than any other species to the Angels.

This is why the betrayal of the Grays is so bitter to me, it is what more hurt my heart, I cannot look to a gray without feeling betrayed, except for the reduced branch of Grays that remained at mine and Lucifer´s side. They are Michael´s motor, the only reason by which Michael prospered.

From our favorites, the Grays become the army that took our legitimate power, and place it in the hands of the thief Michael. The Grays were the ones that performed fake miracles for Michael to impress the populations. The Grays were the ones that killed my direct sons, the original Kings, and all my heritage. The Grays were the ones that killed my daughters, the original Witches. The Grays were the ones that established for Michael a parallel spiritual power, apart form the administrative power, and pursued and tortured my direct lineages, the true celestial lineages, since the beginning of Michael´s betrayal.

What did the Grays got? Human meat. Michael promise to them fast progress by the ingestion of human meat.

So, the Grays of Michael, that once depend only of the Angels and of the noble gas tritium, now become slaves of Michael and depend of human meat to exist, being completely powerless at the hand of Michael that uses them mercilessly until they die of work. These Grays teared apart the spiritual power from the administrative power, giving even more room for excess of public expenses and corruption, because now there are two structures for this to happen. And the people, that should only be happy, develop the mind and technology and leave this things of “God” with the royal family, now is confused believing that they have the fake burden of contacting God directly. This will never happens, because the genetic of the paranormality is necessary, and this fake psychological burden takes the focus of what is important: create their own spaceships, power sources, feeding endless sources, and enjoying thrills of happiness with never ending new discoveries.

In my administration there in no fast progress, I don´t believe in this. Usually is only a waste of time, because the hurry guy must go back all the way in the future. Michael as everyone know is a great speaker, and a lawyer. He fascinated the Grays with the promise of fast progress. He told that the Grays should not depend of Eden to receive Tritium, that they could get their own food and become independent. All wonderful words. The Grays despised what we legitimate Angels in power gave to them. What did they got with Michael? Just look at them! That appearance and slavery is the price of their betrayal, and there is no much I can do to help! Although this fact, we still do what we can for them.

MICHAEL RUINED MY CHERUBIMS!!!! HE TURNED THEM INTO UGLY FEARCE MEET HUNTER DOGS!!!! HE TURNED MY FIRST HELPERS AGAINST ME!!!! I wish to cry when I see the Grays with this present appearance, that is the direct result of their ambition, their lack of trust in me and Lucifer, and they betrayal. Now they can just eat pieces of meat thrown to them under Michael´s chair, and obey without question, always near the starvation.

I spoke with a military General Gray few years ago. He asked me if I knew the purpose of life, because for the Grays the only purpose is to work. Of course there is a purpose, the purpose is to be happy. Of course he could not know this, because once the Grays were conceived to be free and noble members of my Principality and of the Realm of Eden, and now they become, and this is the only condition that the new generations know, they become slaves and dogs of Michael, of course that there is no purpose in slavery. That is why they just know work. When they are tired, they are drugged to work more by their own superiors, that are drugged to work even more by their superiors, that in the end are pressured by Michael to put them working until they die. And they are pride to live this way!

Me and Lucifer could save, with a lot of personal sacrifice of us both and our teams, few hundreds of Grays, that are presently called Yellow Grays, but the Cherubim genetic is lost. Michael´s technicians messed up so deeply in their genetic to adapt them to eat matter that presently they have so few traces of the original beauty that there is no way to go back. The few communities of Grays loyal to us are trying to go back, but the result is few and slow, and demand a degree of sacrifice of them almost unbearable. The new generations of Grays are only victims, they don´t know anything about this, and they buy the silly stories that Michael tells them with passion and high tones in the voice, as is his style of hypnotizing the audience.

Is said in legendary registers of the Grays that they went through a long period without receiving the cargo of tritium, and that they were forced to find an alternative. But at the same registers we can also find their hunger for fast progress, at any price, and, also, we know pretty well that Grays don´t die without food, they hibernate, so is hard to believe that they really went through a life or death situation. Hard to know what happened, because it was far before the episode of the planet Tri, far before the human kind of Gaia was even though of as a possibility by someone at Eden, and involved small colonies of humanoids that do not even exist anymore in this timeline.

However one thing I know, nobody ever starved in my Principality, except those who give themselves voluntarily to the exploitation of Michael, so I may speculate that, if really there was a long period without tritium, perhaps Michael stole the cargo directed to them, to force their choice, and probably he killed the Queen, King and all the heritage, so the Grays could not contact the Principality in time. But still this story is not very likely, first because I would know about the stolen cargo, and second because I can feel anyone from my lineages with serious problems even billions of Stars away, so probably Michael just corrupted few Grays to hide the Tritium, blame the Princess and Lucifer, and deceive the others. Yes. It may be so. Corruption is Michael´s style. That if we decide to believe that there was really a long period without Tritium. Another answer is that it was just mere ambition. Anyway a Gray leader back in the far past made the choice to join Michael and consequently to change their genetic to eat human meat, anyway, anyway, it has nothing to do with the new generations of Grays that are paying a bitter price for that choice.

Last week I received someone from Michael´s political party at my courtroom, and the guy said without any shame that I don´t fit to politics because I do not allow corruption, which is a necessary method to run politics. Imagine that! This guy is sitting at Eden´s Low Chamber! ( the equivalent to a parliament).

I wonder why I am writing all this truth and Michael is not moving. He has more power than me presently. I don´t like at all of this silence, I know that he will not drop the bone easily. I don´t know what is going on in my original dimension, but I must continue telling the real history of the cycle that we lived while away of Eden, before something happens, like for example the remote possibility of having the communications with Gaia forbidden again.

Now, many may ask why this happened this way, and maybe think that me and Lucifer are weak. I am not painting myself and Lucifer as victim, I am just telling the story as it was. Why we did not react? Because we never believed. And still now, is hard to believe. Michael is my youngest brother. Do you know, that baby little brother that a teenage girl hold in the arm? The most loved in all the Diamond family, the young baby boy over cared by all of us. God, my mother in the realm of formless, where Michael is also my brother, said me once that Michael became this way because we older sisters over protected him. Of course that our over care does not justify his cruel string, but even after all this cruel actions and betrayals is very hard to me not to see him as that lovely baby.

By another side, Michael was Lucifer´s best friend, “Lucius” then, near since the birth. As close cousins, they went to pre-school together, they stole together the girl´s underpants when they become teenagers ( metaphor…), they did everything together. This guy, who betrayed us to the last of the possibilities, this guy who turned my Principality upside down, hunted my descendants, took part of my legitimate power, spread corruption and famine among the populations that I love, only to assure his place in the top by fear and pressure, this guy, is our Michael. That baby! The brilliant child of the Diamond family that were even invited to conclude his studies in Satania, where most of us even dream to enter once in a lifetime ( I never entered)! We older sisters were so proud of him! We had so much hope in him! We dedicated so much love to Michael! How could me and Lucifer and our relatives of Eden ever believe that he was behind the falling apart of the Principality. It took ages for us to believe.

Beside, I have never been prepared for sabotage. We do not learn this things in the School for Princesses ( read Department of Philosophy of Eden).

In the planning, my Principality would be perfect. And it would really have been prefect, if was not for the betrayal of someone so close to us. Nobody is ever prepared for this level of betrayal from a younger baby brother and best friend, there is no way to prepare an essence to this situation. There is no way to deal with someone so close easily.

But Michael did not care about our familiar ties as we did. All that he wants is power, power, power. He does not care about the welfare and real expansion of the populations, he just makes nests of corrupts that go the the top and leave the rest of the populations behind. He distributes the resources in a bizarr way. He needs the famine and pain to maintain himself in power, because he is not the legitimate heir of this Principality and not of Eden.

Me and Lucifer become almost powerless without the Grays, for many dimensions, including the most rich and resourceful ( and wished) of all, the third dimension, because the Grays were our primary army. Of course we have the Angel´s army, but the Grays ( Cherubims) are the ones genetically suited to travel among the dimensions, this is their primary function, to be the bridge among the dimensions for the Angels. The Angels are not capable to touch the third dimension easily, we must do it through the few species that are capable to naturally migrate among the dimensions.

The Reptilians can migrate too, but the Reptilians have remained neutral. As it seems, they noticed what was going on before everyone else, including us. I don´t quite understand their position, but they are so few in number that maybe they really assumed the most safe position for themselves, besides, they are older than the rest of us in terms of inhabiting this Universe, so maybe they still know something about this war that we don´t know, and I guess that they will not tell. Our side don´t push someone against their wish, what makes to govern sometimes hard, but this is our principle, so we cannot force them to tell us what else they know.

Anyway, this is not finished yet, and there is a lot to happens along the next 100 years, because the end of the endurance period for the Alchemical Marriage is approaching. Things will heat up, and still is impossible to foresee the result.

The future will tell.

Enough for today.

I love you all, truly. If it was not for the love that I feel for you, I would just go back to travel freely, but I cannot let my beloved ones in the hands of my brother, this is why I am accepting this harsh fight. I don´t seek power, I like freedom more. However I love you so much, Universe and Eden, that I cannot allow myself to stay away from power, what would mean, to leave my beloved ones unprotected, at mercy of a policy that I don´t trust.

Talk to you tomorrow, Eden.

Princess Veronica Ab Thule

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This is a cartoon style design of the beautiful color patterns. Light gray background, dressed in black and white clothes and white swallows mouth dangling from a variety of shapes pink flower pattern with yellow, orange, beige combination of curve pattern soil, very special, fashion, cartoon colors

Because I so often get bored of the colors on this blog (though I seldom see them) I found a theme that I think would work much better, but it requires a little more work on my part.  It changes with the picture, and (if you were wondering) is called Monotone (not so ironically).

I think it’s nice, you get a little bit of different with every post, so long as I post a picture with each and every post.  This does take a little work or else I’ll have to start stealing pictures off of the big ole’ interwebz, most of the pictures– rest assured– would have to come off of photobucket, though, because that’s easy, and it’s already stolen to begin with.

As many pictures as I can, though, will be my own, which will take a rather large amount of effort.  I’ll do my best, though.

So, by the way, that’s why I have pictures.

But, I will not be editing all of the old posts, there are just too many of them– so if you read any of those, you’ll just have to get over all of that lame gray crap.

I nearly forgot.

The picture above needs an explanation, and I’m willing to give it.  My mom came in and DEMANDED a picture, so I ignored her to the very best of my ability, while reading something about something, because it was taken so long ago I have no idea what I was reading.

Judging by the fact I’m wearing glasses I’d figure that was taken early this year.  Not that I use contacts now, though, I’m just too lazy to wear glasses, though I do still have that pair (I think).

Last week was rough. Thinking about the approaching holidays, I got suddenly very home sick. I even checked to see if I could find a deal on a flight home for Christmas.  But alas and alack, it’s just too expensive.  I keep reminding myself that I’ll be home in March; I can wait until then.  Thinking about Christmas was really the worst part. I panicked a bit because we didn’t have any concrete plans. Rumors of invites here and there, but nothing I could count on. Chris and I checked out some bed and breakfast places in the Black Forest just to have something to fall back on.  Surprisingly, many of them had Christmas specials. But then, Asisa came to the rescue, as she so often has in the past months.  Chris and I will be going to spend Christmas with her and her family in Braunschweig. I’m excited to meet them and see Asisa’s hometown.  While the Black Forest would have been cool in some aspects, I’m much happier to be able to spend Christmas with friends.

Chris and I also are planning to do a late Thanksgiving this Sunday. We’ve invited a few friends, none of them American, so it should be really fun. I am not sure how we will get all of this cooking done and time it all correctly, but I’m keepin the faith. We are planning on having a couple turkey breasts, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans, a pumpkin pie and an apple pie. We will have one vegetarian and one who’s lactose intolerant, so we will have to make some adjustments here and there.  Can you make good vegetarian gravy? I dunno, that’s something I need to look up. Besides all of that, I’m just looking forward to exposing people to one of my favorite American holidays. : )

So, after making plans for the holidays I started feeling a bit better about things. Alison also gave me a good pep talk last week. Sometimes you have to step back and think about the facts. Even though I’m not enjoying my classes all that much, I am enjoying other aspects of my life here.  I really look forward to my sports every week.  I play mixed volleyball at the university on Mondays with a group of really nice people.  I’ve never played mixed consistently before, but it’s a lot of fun.  Our group is mostly men, and after always playing with women, I appreciate the guys’ simple pleasure in the game and the no-strings-attached competition. Men just have a different attitude about sports, it seems. With women there are always feelings involved, but these guys just want to play. I am glad, however, that my friend Marie is there.  I, after all, can’t fully identify with the guys, and Marie is my kinda gal. She’s younger than me, but has traveled a lot and lived abroad and one of her majors is German.  We have some good stuff to talk about. After practice, a group of us often goes out to Oblomov (that restaurant and bar nearby that I’ve mentioned before).  It’s nice to just hang out, have a beer or two and speak some Deutsch.  I have also started playing volleyball on Wednesdays with a women’s club team. Volker, who runs the mixed practices, hooked me up with the club that he plays for. Despite being in a league lower than I played in Austria, the team is just as good as my Graz team, or better. I am enjoying being back in the intense practice atmosphere once a week. I just think, “oh yeah, this is how we used to practice back in the day.” It’s been a while since I’ve been to well-organized, challenging practices. I’m being pushed to be precise, which hasn’t happened in a while. That serves to create some frustration with myself because I’m out of practice, but I think it’s slowly coming back. Ah, and then there is ultimate frisbee on Saturday afternoons. It’s pretty fun and really good exercise. Asisa and I go together, continuing the tradition we started last summer.  Man, I am really glad that I play sports.  It has been a great way to meet people and run all that stress out that comes when living in a foreign country.

The other weekly event is Hansa48 Tuesday movie nights. Asisa introduced us to this. The movie “theater” is a normal-sized room that has seats for like 30 people. There are couches in the front and the rest of the rows are those travel bus seats that you can lean back. They also sell bottled beer and candy by weight (you can pick what you like out of the glass jars). It’s a neat little set-up.  It’s kind of like we are renting a cool living room once a week. Plus, it’s much cheaper than a normal theater and they show a nice mix of foreign and German films.

And now, what you’ve all been waiting for… Husum, Süderlügum and Tønder. Chris and I went on a little weekend trip with a group called StepIn Kiel. It’s a group of German students who have all studied abroad before and want to help welcome international students. We all met Saturday morning at the train station and headed northwest to the town of Husum. I was pretty excited about this part because Husum is Theodor Storm’s hometown. Unfortunately, none of the other internationals really knew much about him (most of them aren’t literature students), so we didn’t do any of the Storm stuff while there. I kind of expected that, so I couldn’t be too disappointed. I know I will be back there a few times to do research and such. This trip just served as a good little introduction to the town. It was really well-maintained and had lots of good-looking buildings. The weather made it look exactly like Storm describes it in his poems and novellas: “the gray town by the sea.”

Husum wharf at low tide

Husum library

Husum castle

After walking around Husum, eating some fish sandwiches and learning how to peel these baby shrimp things from a fisherman selling his catch, we headed to another small town in the area, Friedrichstadt. It was designed like a Dutch city with canals. There were some cool old buildings there, too.

built in 1624!

they like fish, even as door handles

Nothing much was going on around town. It was a pretty small city. Chris went in to a shop that sold bulk coffee and tea to see if he could get a cup to go. The owner said that they didn’t serve drinks to go, but offered that Chris could go sit in his kitchen with him and drink a cup! Darling! Since we had to move on, Chris couldn’t take him up on that. Too bad.

Finally we decided to move on to Süderlügum. It wasn’t really a pretty town like the two others we just visited, but there were some really cool houses around with reed roofs.

sorry, it was dusky. this one was also from the 1600s and had a tiny door.

We had to go outside of the town to get to our cabin in the middle of the woods.

Our home for the night

It was pretty old school. The only heat was from the fires downstairs. The large sleeping rooms were upstairs, and I was glad I had my very warm blanket along. We also had to go outside and down the stone steps around the side of the house to get to the bathrooms. Interesting.  We had chili with noodles/rice for dinner. It was funny to see different people’s reactions to spicy. Many Europeans are not used to it. The rest of the night we played games, danced, talked, drank, etc.

ha

We all stayed up really late and were slow to rise the next morning. This made us late for the train, which caused a big problem. So our leaders had to shuttle us there with two cars. Because of that we only got to spend about an hour in Denmark, but oh well. The town was really pretty, almost too pretty.

tasty waffles with soft serve!!

doesn't do the city justice, but the camera batteries were running out

It was a really fun weekend. We got out to see more of Schleswig-Holstein and we finally got to know some of the other internationals a bit better.  I’m sad that most of them are going home after this semester : ( I guess we will just have to make do with the time we have!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!

This is of course a base of Barielle Out-Gray-Geous, konaded with plate konaded with plate 64 and Barielle U-Concrete-Me.

This is not good. I was trying for something subtle with the two different gray finishes, but I don’t like the plate, I think. It just looks…sloppy.

Grey and white.

Though anyone who knows me will recognize my love for bright! happy! saturated! color, lately I’ve been drawn to shades of gray and white. Must be because I’m gearing up for winter – even while gazing out my window at the wall of vibrant green two story holly trees. I’ve also been spending a lot of time on Etsy, spearing my lips with my favorite Smith’s Minted Rose Balm, and choosing a green bean recipe to make for Thanksgiving.

Bud vases from Grass Roots Design.

Milk glass eye wash from DK General Store.

Caramel marshmallows from Whimsey and Spice.

Chickadee print from Rocky Top Studio.

Woven shrug from larimeloom.

For once in my life I can summarize the past few weeks in one word: Lull

Defined as; to cause sleep or rest, Lull can explain every part of my life (mentally, physically, and spiritually.)

Mentally, I am already asleep. I am so over the fact of Italian papers and International Business projects. I still go to class but that is about it. I’m not failing out, just getting by. I am lulling in them.

Physically, I am rested. I have come to a point of peak capacity of rest. I have figured out that you can overstock yourself with rest. I am ready to be active, to seek adventure, to be exhausted instead of fully charged. I have lulled.

Spiritually, I am in need of rest. As much as I have needed to stay in the word, I haven’t. God has blessed with great peace with school and work but, I have neglected to praise him for it. I need to lull.

To lull is neither a good or bad thing, it is one of those gray areas. Right now, I am tired of gray. It is time to glow white with my work, with myself, and with the Lord.

As much as I yearn to use Lull in a game of Scrabble, I am ready to adopt a new word.

Any suggestions?

1. pleading with gray fabric of sky
unrolled above me
please
please let the sun come through today
please

2. yoga for those
with closed up throats
skeleton toes
split stitches
tight hips

3. breakfast in 8 million parts
white rice
roasted brussel sprouts, red peppers, mushrooms, leeks
the thought of an egg
gelato
rice crackers
the consideration of hot tea

4. needles in my head
mini epsom salt mountain on my
stomach
tears in eyes
the moment i allow myself
to lay down
dreams and body twitches
running the conduit
of this body

5. discussion of
the drawbacks of meccas

6. smell of sugar on fire

7. in four hours
we discover
everything we have in common
including
but not limited to:
interdisciplinary tendencies
scorpionic propensity
statements of purpose
inclinations towards sequins
isolation vs. public spheres
sex positivity vs. personal boundaries
school vs. not school
school art vs. friend art

8. a theory
that those who love sequins
also love the movie
amelie

9. retelling of a story involving
a gold belt and an antique shop
on the roadtrip that we didn’t break up on
the one where you said
we did good, hey?
we’re golden.
i could do this for a long time.
while we rolled along the glitter and
expanse of the columbia
just after
we assembled and ate sandwiches
on the steps of a standstill caboose
overlooking the grass and sand of a beach park

Browsing through the files on my external hard-drive looking for some Bright Eyes records, I stumble upon a whole map stuffed with old drawings. I never knew I’ve drawn this much. The best thing is  it contains all the original scans and illustrator files. Like this one:

My small slice of the world has been wrapped up in soft grey tissue paper.

And sprinkled now and then with pearls. In this case, the luminous moonstone white of the swans bobbing upside down in search of food.

And just when I think the soft grey clouds are winning, I catch sight of a splash of tinsel, a dab of gold.

We have to embrace the grey too. After all, it is a part of life’s mosaic.

And look – the soft grey pastel tones have a near-magical quality!

What greys will you embrace today?

To see other colourful parts of the world, please visit: That’s My World!

The daily, steamed appraisal waiting for
Porcelain and promise –
That I can show the plum-drum ritual of how
I think we all think of ourselves, and our lives
So well described on forearms and
Four legs.

I’d like to be remembered, at all times –
And is that selfish?
I want my eyes and cheeks longed after,
Put left-side along the brain where the gray flesh can
Exponentially warm it’s overlapping, flapping…
Flittering recollections of how I think I
Remember you.

But we don’t talk long enough to furnace
These thoughts, or have them
At all – but instead – and this is where my bruised skull
Has versed, traversed and gone reverse –
What we do instead: is nothing.

We shared a dream that night. A tornado pursued us. The sky was orange and the world was græy. Cars flew over head and parked airplanes from some unknown airport dragged down the street. There were flashes of lightning, blood pink as light filtered through a hand. The trees were a flurry of forces and the tornado itself was dark, desolate, void. Imminent danger filled our souls with adrenaline but our bodies stood entranced by a chilling emptiness, futility. For a fleeting moment we became death and oblivion. We passed and we awoke. We remember everything.

“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.”
~ William Cullen Bryant

Stone Clutch

The Holiday Season if finally upon us.  Of course we are all looking for the best deals ever on gifts for our loved ones.  This holiday we’re offering FREE Shipping Worldwide on all of our items in our Etsy store.  Not to mention, more jewels will be added in the coming weeks, so be sure to check out our Etsy site frequently.  You may especially want to check Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we’re certain items in our Etsy store will be discounted!  Stay tuned in the next coming week as we tell you about the wonder sales!

~Kamilah C.

The Pink Locket

The Pink Locket Etsy

via design sponge {source}

It brings you back to childhood, doesn’t it?

So, this photo is the first in a series I will be posting featuring people as subjects.  I’m excited, as I usually do landscapes/macro/anything-but-people!

I took this photo while at the Jersey Shore over the summer with my boyfriend (see previous post for more another product of that trip).  Avalon Beach was lovely, fairly empty with lovely water.  I love to body surf, so I was quite content.  Some areas had larger waves that surfers were taking full advantage of.  I was lucky enough to snap this shot, right as the surfer hit the top of the wave.  It wasn’t until I looked at the larger image of the photo on my computer that I realized he was also touching the top of the wave.  Cool stuff.

So, anyhoo, this shot was taken with the Canon Powershot G7.  Contrast was fixed with Adobe Photoshop CS3.

Surf’s up!!

You know, normally I love the color grey or silver on a car.  Looks pretty nice and professional, doesn’t it?  A bit of class?  A lot of times when I think about what color I’d want if I bought a new car, the silver/grey spectrum has been up there in my thoughts.  Well, in the sun that is.

That nice classy look all but disappears in rainy weather.  Or even overcast weather.  Then that classy silver/grey look simply blends into the sky and road.  So hard to see even with good eyes!  Especially when the roads and cars are equally wet and shiny! 

It was like that today.  Driving down the road feeling like these little cars were darting out in front of me almost out of nowhere.   Practically morphing right out of the roads thsemselves.  And that’s when I think twice about silver or grey.  I don’t want to be hit by someone in another car accident ever again in my life.  The last one was enough for several lifetimes. 

When I think about it, there is only one color that really seems to stand out in sunny and rainy weather alike.  And that’s red.  It can be easily seen not matter how bad the light.  It’s a shame red’s associated with wrecks and driving too fast.  I really can’t help but wonder if red has gotten an unfair reputation.  Because after studying the cars on the highway today, I really think I’d rather be driving something like red.

Gray fedora worn by Jack Ruby when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald sold for $53,775 at auction….. another relic that should be in a museum!

I cannot find the right words to explain and to ask for forgiveness but the truth is that this past week not only I haven’t written any post but I’ve also been lurking on the blog comunnity.I promisse to redeem myself next week and comment in your blogs like there is no tomorrow .

This past week we could not take pictures but I tried some new things and have some new ideas(maybe because I also have some birthday presents to wear).

Today’s outfit is something I wanted to try for sometime. I had bought this jacket last winter but never got around to wear it.

The bag was a present last Christmas and I find it very pretty(I’ll post a picture some other day)

Jacket – Local store in Canada

Dress – LA CITY

Scarf – United Colors of Benneton

Boots – Store in France

Bag – Le Tanneur

Also this picture was taken almost in the same place as one this summer so I tought it would be nice to show you the difference in vegetation, light, and also in my tan.

Hope you’re enjoying your weekend.

Hey all.

I am addicted to Earl Gray tea now. Actually, I’ve been addicted for awhile, but I just started drinking it again recently.