Like oh my god, Truth must have woken up in 1984 this week because I seeing flashbacks to Lizzie’s high school hair in his latest offerings or else he found my high school yearbook haha.  It was like a trip down memory lane when I unpacked these goodies and let em tell ya, I am in hair SLove!  I am always thrilled to see a creator go a bit left of center and come out with something so very different that it makes want shout “Hey Bud Let’s Party”, LOL.  And yeah “barf me out” dude there’s going to be total fangirlage all over this post and guess what?  I don’t care cause I am having such fun with this hair in this post and the outfit I put together to celebrate the 80s at Truth, YAY.  So get your hair permed ladies, pull out the ankle socks and plastic day-glo earrings and  lets take a look at my flashback to the 80’s courtesy of the Hair Dude, Truth and his new totally 80’s looks – “Molly”, “Cyndi” and “Grace”.  And oh btw, at this moment the new hair are not out yet but should be out later today I think or last I heard, LOL, so let’s take a look shall we?

Hello Molly!  OH MY GOD – this hair is sooo Lizzie sophomore year and its so RADICAL dude.  But I personally think this hair should be named Deb cause ya know didn’t everyone have Deb in at least one high school class in the 80’s.  The name Deb is sooooo 80’s AND it was also the name of Napoleon Dynamite’s lady with the high side pony as well, ha.  Or if you were in the UK in the 80’s maybe this look should be called Sharon, LOL (oh hey Larimar).  But “Molly” fits too – total perkiness I say!

Hello Lizzie AKA Madonna wanna be in her junior year of high school.  Loved the perm I had then and I love the perm on the new “Grace”.  This hair is so bitchin’ that I wanna wear it 24/7.  Junior year was the beginning of Lizzie’s punk chick years, that is until she realized she didn’t like drugs for the most part or the casual sex, LOL.  So she became a fashion punk princess instead of the full on, rebel rousing punk chicks she knew in her high school, ha.   But hey the fashions in the 80s were totally tubular weren’t they?  And with hair die in hand and good hairdresser that could fix her hair screw ups, Lizzie emerged as a punk princess that lasted through remainder of her high school years and a good part of her college years too, YAY!

Hello senior year haircut, HA!  Ladies and Gentleman meet “Cyndi”, not Cyndi Lauper but “Cyndi”, LOL.  And let me tell ya, the Cyndi is one “righteous” look in this nerd girls eyes.  This really is the style that inspired me the most to go totally bitchin’ 80s for this post and I am in in total hair love.   Geez Truth did you lurk my Freshman Sorority Rush pics or what?  Well mine was bit longer on the curly side but I was in asymmetrical bob heaven in the mid 80’s, LOL.  And this look for me continued on through my first semester in college AND was the one that inspired many a blonde permed hair Chi Omega’s to say to Lizzie on more than one occasion “Oh My God, You are such a Punker!”  I thought I was so cool back then that I intimidated myself at times, ha.

And no 80’s post would be complete without at totally Rad punk princess look as well.  The dress from Emery, the jacket from Aoharu and the ankle sock from Naive really pulled this look together.  And oh the poses, let’s talk about poses, LOL.  Katey Coppola of Glitterati has revamped her sim and has come out with a ton of new fun individual poses for your photo taking pleasures – so YAY for Glitterati!

Okay so I tried to make a collage of  the new releases this week, um, erm kind of.  And yeah my photo editing skills really leave much to be desired but I wanted to show all the new releases that are being offered this week.  So here we have from left to right clockwise “Molly”, “Cyndi”, “”Kenzie” and Lizzie’s fave “Grace”, YAY.  And remember they should be out later today just in time for your Black Friday shopping pleasure!  Okay so that’s it for today, so take care my friends and have a great second life!

• Hair:  >TRUTH< Grace, Molly, Cyndi and Kenzie – night

• Skin:  *blowpop* N2 Elizabeth -tone C- 7.2 Periwinkle 2

• Eyes:  [Curio] Tragic Eyes – Sky

• Lashes:  [LeLutka]-Photoshoot II Lashes(NOSE)

• Jacket:  AOHARU_BT_RollupRidersJK_WithDenim_Black

• Dress:  Emery – Dress Rock&Glam #9

• Leggings:  Oh Mai !O: Basics Sheer Leggings [BARBIE]

• Socks:  .: Naive :. Ankle Socks Pink

• Shoes:  Maitreya Neyya * Patent Leather Black

• Earrings:  ::69:: OpenStar Earring – Pink/Black -

• Poses:  Glitterati

se hotarase sa ii tradeze pe toti admiratorii ei, sa ii sfideze si sa se casatoreasca cu cel mi putin demn de ea dintre ei. nu, nu era o pedeapsa prea mare pentru nimeni caci toti aveau sa isi continue vietile lor mizere intr-un fel sau altul, indiferent de ce decizie ar fi luat ea.  nimeni nu avea sa stea in cap sau sa isi taie vreo mana, pur si simplu iubirea lor era atat de mult demna de dispret, mai ales din momentul in care i s-au marturisit pe rand toti incat simtea un dezgust crancen mai ales in dimineata aceea cand isi manca in mijlocul patului, imbarcata in rochia verde sidefiu cerealele cu lapte expirat.  cel mai mult si mai mult simtea dezamagire pentru ceva ce se anuntase atat de diafan pe cand inca asculta povestile pline de iubire ale moasei ei. nu..iubirea nu avea nimic de-a face cu frumusetea aceea miraculoasa pe care o simtea uneori izvorand dintre peretii de cristal ai palatului ei. totul era in sinea ei de fapt si tot ce ar fi putut darui si simti ea se afla in sinea ei si numai atat. in rest…iubirea aia  despre care se vorbea atat era un joc, usor de stapanit si manevrat, mai usor chiar decat stropitul florilor dimineata sau crosetatul unui fular nefolositor. si fara nci un efort de imaginatie se gandea la toti barabtii aceia ca la niste gaze pe care uneori ar fi vrut sa le striveasca meticulos. cand servitoarea a deschis usa deja fata i se crispase indeajuns sa faca doua riduri, doar la gandul ca urma o zi in care va trebui sa isi poarte masca de carnaval si sa minta suav si calm, cu zambetul ei dragalas.  cand isi punea palria si manusile simtise ca un ghiont  faptul ca urma sa i se rapeasca cateva ore momentele ei cu ea, ceea ce ii era definitiv si incontestabil suficient. caci stia de foarte mult timp ca tot ce avea ea nevoie era in ea si cu ea, toate culorile ei si atat. printesa  iesi grabita din camera si se indrepta spre scari cu pantofii ei rosii micuti si extrem de delicati. camera fu invaluita de tacere si treptat toate culorile ametitoare care o invaluiau palira, devenind alb-negru.

poza:zun zun , everything fades away

Vivaldi: Concerti per Le Solennità
Giuliano Carmignola, violin and conductor
Sonatori  de la Gioiosa Marca
(Divox)

It’s one of the great paradoxes that the recording industry is probably most responsible for boosting Antonio Vivaldi’s reputation while, at the same time, cutting it down. How? Pioneering record labels like Hyperion (the complete sacred music) and Naïve (the Vivaldi collection) have done tremendous service by resurrecting Vivaldi rarities. But the road to Hell is frequently paved with good intentions. Record labels have the habit of grouping all of the L’estro armonico or Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione concertos (12 in each collection) in neatly packaged 2-CD sets that result in some listeners smugly nodding in agreement with Igor Stravinsky’s bitchy comment that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 400 times. Vivaldi’s concertos were published together but not intended to be performed in one serving. You wouldn’t eat an entire box of bonbons in one sitting would you? Why listen to 12 concertos in a row?

Stravinsky in Venice, he should have been dunked in a canal

This stunning recording by violinist conductor Giuliano Carmignola and Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca does tremendous service to Vivaldi by presenting six of his lesser-known violin concertos for solemn occasions. The solemn occasions were the various religious festivals celebrated between 1712 to 1735 in various churches in and around the Veneto. The concertos are filled with some of Vivaldi’s most innovative writing. There are two concertos for the Feast of the Assumption where Vivaldi splits the ensemble into two choirs, the only time the composer attempted this. There’s martial pomp in the “Grosso Mogul” concerto and a lovely pastoral tone in the concerto “per il Santo Natale.”

Carmignola, just the man to shut Stravinsky up

The performances of Carmignola are revelatory. More than Fabio Biondi or Andrew Manze or any baroque fiddler on the scene, Carmignola knows how to fire things up—check out the whispery fine bow work in the opening Allegro of the concerto “S. Antonio in Padua”—but also play sweetly—like in the poignant Grave of the D major Assumption concerto. Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca provide full-blooded but always sensitive accompaniment and the sound quality provided by the consistently excellent Divox engineers is audiophile quality.

So, I promised you I would post this one up. Personally, I think I did pretty good. But what do I know. Read it. It’s interesting, and not too long. It keeps your attention. I find that anytime I write something, it is best understood when read or mumbled aloud. I dunno… I guess my brain just thinks out loud.

Here it is. The prompt was: Choose an issue of importance to you—the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope—and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your community, or your generation.

At this day and age, we see grandparents, and even parents, shaking their heads and saying, “What has this world come to?” I find myself doing the same thing, and I’m only 18 years old. What is it that makes me different from the rest of the teenage population and makes me ponder and realize things more maturely? I was raised as a sheltered and shy child. Instead of watching television, I played with race cars. As opposed to going shopping, I stayed at home and made drawings.

My parents chose good influences for me, instead of letting the media control what I believed to be fun and acceptable. Now a days, everything kids do all crumbles down to television, internet, magazines, movies, and even commercials. You name it, there is a child out there who’s life has been tainted by the dark hand, that is the media. We might as well add corporate advertisements to be a new branch of our government.

Everything has changed so drastically over such a short amount of time, so most of us have not notice how it has affected our country. Commercials shove new styles and ideas of beauty on to young girls, making them feel insecure and uncomfortable about their own bodies. Reality shows and even innocent-looking sitcoms on childrens’ networks show that you need to be popular and constantly be going out with a boy in order to be successful in life. Young teens should not have that pressure on them. Growing up is hard enough. They do not need this negative outward influence.

It does not just affect girls either. Boys are shown this facade, where being muscular and “sexy” means that your life is perfect. All of the year’s teen boy hearthrobs are immensely handsome and rich guys. No one ever mentions that intellect is much more attractive than a brainless brute. Boys are raised to be tough and to never show their feelings, because sensitivity is a sign of weakness. Misconstruing this idea, young boys decide that being careless, mean, and selfish is the only way to make it in life.

But when did this all start? We’ve had our freedom of speech for a long time. Then why is it that all of a sudden, our generation has become the most unintelligent, lazy, and rude of its kind? I think slowly, companies and businesses have realized that they can slip in seemingly subliminal messages in their shows and advertisements that will persuade children, teens, and even adults, to change their normal mode of thinking and leave all their choices up to what the media says is the new up and coming.

Money makes the world go ’round. And who makes all the money? Huge corporations. Money is power. If you have that, you can do anything you want. You could make a commercial, starring emaciated girls walking the runway, while they say that in order to be beautiful, you need breast implants and plastic surgery. And the sad thing is that many would believe it.

There are many examples I can mention, but this is one that does not affect the easily-molded minds of children, yet the “mature” minds of adults. I remember seeing this on television. It was an advertisement by a pharmaceutical company, which basically created a fictitious disorder to make money from selling this medicine. The disorder they created was known as restless leg syndrome, or RLS. Well, I can say that the majority of humans have had an urge where they can’t stay still and just want to get up. It’s called not being lazy. But this company fueled itself off of the stupidity and brainwashed minds of viewers, and they made millions of dollars. It probably wasn’t until a year later when the company got sued for creating this fake disease and coning thousands, maybe even millions, of people in buying their product.

They wouldn’t have had to sue them if people were smart enough to realize that not everything you see on TV is the full and utter truth. People need to figure out how to think for themselves again, without any bias from the media.

But there has been an invention that has somewhat helped combat this. Around the year 2000, the internet had found itself in homes, which opened people’s minds to the world. In this day and age, the world wide web is full of free-thinking radicals and great non-conforming minds who think far and beyond the normal capacities of what people ordinarily think. Blogs and videos from thousands of countries can be viewed by anyone with the initiative. Unlike magazines and newspapers where stories are highly edited and revised, the internet’s borders are very wide when it comes to what you can and cannot say.

Of course, most people do not see the full potential of the internet and just use it for Myspace, Facebook, or little flash games. But there are many avant-garde groups on the web, discussing problems around the world, dealing with police brutality, the recession, drug wars, and how the media effects all of those. There are things more important to think about, rather than fashion trends, diet fads, and reality TV.

So, how can this issue be fixed? People need to realize that this country was created in rebellion. America was never supposed to be a place where everyone just sat around and let things fly by them. This land was created due to the unjust. But somehow, everyone forgot the difference between what’s right and wrong. For the everyday citizen, the right for freedom of speech is all lost. Parents, children, teenagers… everyone needs to test their borders and do what they think is right; not what is shown to them on television. If everyone realizes the power that we all have as individuals, this world could be a much better place.

-angel-

P.S. please comment. constructive criticism would be awesome.

Lima Centro seen from San Cristobal

I’ll postpone the final part of the Roman Jews writing and will speak about Pedro today.

Pedro is a 49-year-old Peruvian emigrated to Italy long ago. He has created a small construction firm that takes care of everything  – masonry, electrical and plumbing infrastructure etc. The work done is professional and accurate.

I find Pedro’s personality impressive. Here are bits of his life story, told trying to use his own words.

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His father died when he was 8 so his mother had to roll up her sleeves. She has been a great woman. Pedro as a boy was busy doing any possible job in the streets of Lima, washing windscreens, polishing shoes – he had to be ingenious in many ways.

When coming back to Lima years later and meeting again his former street pals he found out many had ended up in drugs and some had died.

In Peru too, he says, there’s this street children problem and the cleanup squads that murder them. But he committed no crime on the street. It’s his mother – he says. She raised him the hard way. Iron-willed she borne them all completely by herself, tied to a rope fastened to a beam, with the babies being brought to the world and she cutting the umbilical cord with her bare hands.

She is over 80 and sick now. Pedro’s brother phoned him to ask him to come back for next Christmas or he won’t see her again.

Topographic Map of Peru. Wikimedia. Public domain

Pedro’s parents were from the Andes. They weren’t native Liman. You’ve got the plains over the ocean, the big mountains and the jungle in Peru [see the picture on the right.]

They teach humility, honesty and hard work in the Andean mountains, he says. That is why when this folk get down to the plains they are too naive and get easily cheated. These people meet a world where cunning and dishonesty are winning. This creates confusion in their heads, he says.

The Andean is more active, has a tougher character and is most resistant to fatigue. At the big markets in Lima lots of them manage the stands. Their bodies are smaller and their skin darker. The native Liman has lighter skin and a bigger body instead.

The Peruvian from the Andes in Italy aren’t usually working in the Italian families for housework. They set up construction, cleaning or transportation firms. Pedro always tells his compatriots to learn a job well instead of trying to figure out how to make money quickly. “It’ll be your wealth” he says.

He is happy when there’s problems to solve. “I love le grane! [trouble]” he keeps saying while shaking a head a bit too large compared to the body. Difficulties do not discourage him. They make him more resourceful instead.

He has learned both from his mother and from the street.

Peruvian woman and child in the Andean region of the country. Wikimedia. Some rights reserved. Click for credits and larger picture

His mother Maria was a strict woman and when she wanted to punish her children and they fled away like lightning she caught them while asleep in the deep of the night and beat them up soundly. I didn’t ask him whether his mother remarried or not. He told me that, with the years passing, life had become a bit easier for his family. This made his brothers different. They didn’t have to fight as much as he did.

Having a good head is all that matters in life, he says.

He regrets not having had any education, nor having read enough  – he saw the piles of books in our apartment. He’s glad his children had the opportunity to study. One of them will soon be an engineer.

His sons and daughters ask him:

“Papà, had you been born again, what job would you do?”
“The mason.”
“Papà, the mason again?”
“Yes, the mason. That’s the thing I love most.”

[to be continued]

[sl à porter – angelllina tedeschi] click here for read all

James Bond and hot girls!! I had the idea to dedicate a post about 007 films when I bought MIMIKRI’s last release of capes and immediateley I had Grace Jones on my mind jumping down the Eiffel tower….

Hello!

A whole week dedicated to internet research looking for  James Bond casts, characters and accessories (like guns! I had not ONE in my inventory –.- and found these on Xstreet as freebie…)

I want to show you the female side of James (hahaha) , and fashion interpretations of Bond girls like Famke Janssen, Grace Jones, the famous Golden Girl Shirley Eaton and others !

Really hope you like!!

Skin – LeLutka, Eclat light 1

Hair (+Hat) – [OH] , Oh My Boy gold

Shirt – Crazy , Lex Top

Coat – COCO , Trenchcoat Gray  NEW

Tights – *LINC* , Wool Panty Gray south west  NEW

Shoes – TESLA , High Oxford black

Earrings – Paper Couture , Faceted black diamond set

Shades – [ e l y s i o n  o p ti c ] – Vajrasattva Silver  NEW

Neckribbon – M A I I K I , part from Poof & Puff black outfit

Gloves – Lunas Boutique , Group gift

Glove Cuffs – M A I I K I , part from Poof & Puff black outfit

Bag – Null , Gainsbourg bag (colour and texture scripted!!)  NEW

Skin – LeLutka , Eclat Umber

Hair – MADesign Hair , Army Crop

Bodysuit – PIG , Sheila Bathing Suit black

Leggings – &Bean , Slick n’Shiny Silver

Cape – Mimikry , Helena Leather Cape black  NEW

Boots – Bax , Ankle Boots black patent

Necklace – Shampooo , Chain necklace black

Glasses – Ermmm… made by me  *o*  (couldnt find the one I needed for this outfit)

Gloves – GL Goodlook Design , part from Sexy Girl outfit

Skin – LeLutka , Eclat Light 1

Hair – Boon , JPN670 blonde  NEW

Coat – B@R , Empress  NEW

Body – SK Design , SLIM 2,0 snake  NEW

Boots – J’s , Western Boots light grey

Gloves – LeeZu , Nif Nif gloves

Hat + Arm fur – YIP , part of Yip’s Snowbear  FREE

Skin – Dutch Touch , Cleao Coffee punk 2

Hair – ETD , Juliana brown

Top – Vassnia , Wet Chupacabras , wet Shirt 1

Jacket – Aoharu , BT Short Riders Jacket black  NEW

Gloves – Naive , VIP Hunt GIFT

Pants – Adam n Eve , Leather unzip pants (What’s new group gift)  NEW

Boots – Storm Schmooz , Over knee Boots

Necklace – (NS) , Grenade Chain

Bracelet – Sn@tch , part from Backstage outfit, Croc spiked cuff

Earrings – Glow Studio , KOS Silver  NEW

Skin – SkinTight , Molten Golden

Dress – Mimikri , Blossom black

Hair – !Lamb , PoppySeed tacky gold  NEW

Socks – Zaara , part from Nishar Leggings dirty black  NEW

Shoes – Stiletto Moody , Bare Lauren bronze V1,24  NEW

Hair Bow – LaGyo , Simply A Bow black  NEW

Necklace – LaGyo , Memories, my old car  NEW

Bracelet – Ryca , Chain Bracelet gold

Panties – Baiastice , Culotte gold

Poses – Dare , right one from the BLACK set  NEW

Ar fi trebuit sa citesc aici cat de proaste sunt femeile. Din “pacate” autoarea s-a axat doar pe femeile indragostite, dar nu e nicio problema, ma incadrez. Nu vreau sa creada Andra ca am ceva cu ea, cu articolul ei, doar ca eu nu pot sa spun ca toate femeile sunt nelimitat de proaste, asta ar insemna sa o jignesc inclusiv pe mama mea. Nu ma consider proasta nici pentru ca sunt femeie, nici pentru ca n-am stat cu un baiat doar pentru ca ma iubea, nici pentru ca sunt indragostita, nici pentru ca exista termenul de “misoginism” sau cel de “emancipare”. Consider ca femeia indragostita nu e proasta doar prin faptul ca iarta, trece cu vederea anumite aspecte, indura si spera. Femeia indragostita, aparent proasta, stie exact cand i s-a depasit limita, stie exact care parte a paharului e mai goala, stie exact cand o sa puna punct, astfel incat sa nu o doara (poate doar in cot), stie exact de cate ori i-a zis iubitului in gand: “e ultima oara cand iti tolerez asta” si totusi, ilogic, o sa si-o zica inca de n ori. De ce? Pentru ca e proasta? Nu. Vorbeam cu Alina ieri despre faptul ca noi, femeile, suntem mult mai puternice decat barbatii, avem puterea sa trecem peste aproape orice si asta nu pentru ca suntem naive sau proaste, ci pentru ca fie vedem alternativele, fie avem un scop. Nu stiu cat de proasta a fost mama unora din dintre noi cand tatal i-a dat o palma iar ea nu si-a facut bagajul si nu a plecat, nefiind nevoie ca tu, copilul, sa ajungi sa iti urasti tatal, sa iti compatimesti mama si sa traiesti calvarul unui divort doar pentru ca mama ta a fost desteapta. Sa nu se inteleaga ca sunt de acord cu violenta, nimic nu-mi provoaca mai mare scarba cand e vorba de a se ridica palma. Una insa e sa ai ochelari de cal si alta e sa poti sa si dai din copite.

Daca femeile indragostite nu ar fi atat de “proaste”, multe-muuulte din cuplurile pe care le stiu eu n-ar mai exista. Sau poate ca ar exista, dar in alta formula combinatorie. Ma bucur pentru cei care se inteleg de minune, care au o dragoste perfecta, care se iubesc de nu mai pot. Un lucru stiu:

 nu e mierea atat de dulce si nici dracu’ atat de negru.

There’s a new hair maker in town and her name is Mae Liamano. This is the first time I’ve seen her store so thank you sister for showing it to me. She currently only has three hair styles in her shop for now, and for 95L a hair I couldn’t resist picking up all three. What I like about the store is not only the cheap price, but you’re only paying for one color of hair you like. Instead of paying 300L for different types of brown when you only really wear one, you’re paying a fraction of it here for only one hair color. I chose to go with Deep Cinnimon.

Mustache – Ashley

Mustache – Dalia

Mustache – Sabrina

The cardigan I’m wearing is the new release from .:Naive:. she’s also released them in three other colors. What’s so good about .:Naive:. is not only is Leah’s skill is getting better with each new release that comes out, but the prices are AMAZING. That Saquito Lulu is sold for only $65L.

You can find the other things Leah has released for the weekend at the Naive website or you can teleport there and check it out yourself. Mae also has her items on Xstreet if you’d like to check out the demos and hair at home.

Here are the SURLs to both amazing and relatively cheap stores.

Mustache and Naive.

Hope to see you there!

“Osborne,” said the duchess to a household employee, “how long have you been with us? According to my records, you were employed to look after the dog.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Mrs. Bellamy tells me the dog died twenty-seven years ago.”

“Yes, ma’am. What would you like me to do now?”

-James Unger, Universal Press Syndicate

Two little birdies, sitting on a wall.

One named Petey, one named Paul…

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Much like Santa,  it would be years before I learned this trick of the fingers.  Some of you know what I’m talking about, the rest…  be patient…  after all, if I got you here in one piece, it can’t be all bad now, can it?

This is a little rhyme that my cousin used to pull on me when I was little.  This was around the time that the only way I got to see any music videos was when I was watching the CHUM FM 30.  When “Thriller” was number one, week after week and each time it came on, my brother, my cousin and I would hide under a bed and watch in morbid fascination.  It was always my opinion that Michael looked much better as a Zombie than his normal self…  this was long before became a ghost.

BTW: When I asked my Father about that… I mean, what’s the big deal?  Who cares what he does with his skin, hair, nose, whatever?

My father told me in an earnest, calm and meaningful tone:

“People just don’t understand that how a good looking guy like that, would want to change anything…”

But then I thought to myself:

“Well, just because other people tell you that you are good looking, doesn’t mean you’d believe it!”

This is a truth that has never left me…  when it comes to appearances, I have always been insulted far more than I have ever been complimented. 

I’ll try and keep the more mundane slurs and such out of this project but I think you can figure out what growing up in Beeton Ontario meant for the little black boy I was (am?).

___ Baby

Mr. Midnight

Blackberry Boy

Space Cadet…

Oh… these were what family members had called me over the years….  Remember what my parents look like…  Life would have been simpler had I taken after my Mother.

Instead I have this powerful practically indestructible shield around my entire body that too few people truly understand…

I learned the hard way about hair products and what to use and NOT to use.

I learned the easy way about skin products and how to avoid Zebra legs.

So much effort for one so small.

Little did I know, that things would only get harder as I got older…

Kinda like how drinking a glass of milk or two would truly put me in the 6’ and over club…  argh!

I digress…

The mysteries of life were complicated when I was small, but as the years went by, I realized something:

Most things are better left – regarded and then discarded.  Enjoy them for what they are, because their mystery and mystique, will leave all too soon…

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Fly away Petey! Fly away Paul!

Come Back Petey! Come Back Paul!

-fin-

And we all know what that means!  The best day of the week, 50L Friday!  For me, this week, it was about vests and winter accessories and some fabulous jewelry by Miel.

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~These vests are by Pig and I just love them.  I got one in the Trapped in the 80’s Hunt but hadn’t been able to work it into a post.  I love it, but it is bright blue and it just hadn’t worked with any of the outfits I was blogging.  These two colors were easy though! 
~The jewelry on the left is from Miel and it is wonderful.  Beautifully textured chunky wooden pieces and leather cording.  These will be so versatile!
~The scarf on the right is from artilleri and you get two colors.  I am so in love with scarves lately so I was psyched to see this offering from artilleri.   

On a side note, Perion is going to give all sorts of crap for my belly showing in that second pic.  But I swear!  I couldn’t find a shirt with an underwear layer that worked!   *hides*

Jewelry:  Miel Cue Set  50L
Vest:  Pig Draped Vest Arizona Mud   50L
Jeans:  Fishy Strawberry Equinox Jeans Siena (previous 50L Friday)
Tank:  Armidi Sheer Ribbed Tank Beige 
Skin:  Belleza Jesse Deep Tan 15 Cleavage 
Hair:  Truth Lucy Mahogany  25L

Vest:  Pig Draped Vest F’kin Pink  50L 
Scarf:  artilleri Taylor Scarf Stripes red/aqua  50L 
Tee:  Dreams Plain Tee Baby Blue  (review copy)
Jeans:  Naive Jeans Capri Gray 
Bracelet:  Spork silver bangles 
Skin:  Belleza Jesse Sunkiss 8 
Hair:  Truth Mavi Espresso 

In these next looks, I have some 50L Friday stuff and then another look that is completely unrelated.  I took the pics last night though, so I am working it in.  Deal.  ;p

~For 50L Friday, there is the hair from Lamb which is adorable.  I would demo though, because this is a hair that will stick in your boobs if you have any.  ;p  I love this blue vest from Schadenfreude.  It is wonderfully textured both front and back.  The adorable earmuffs are by artilleri and you get a whole bunch of colors.  So cute!
~The tartan tights are a free gift at S@BBiA that I picked up when I was getting the skirt in the next outfit.

~So, the red plaid skirt.  I think this is darling.  It is part of a group gift currently available at S@BBiA.  I just love the lace underlay.  You need to join the group and touch the sign in the store.
~I added a cardigan from [Miseria].  There is a current gift in the subscribo, which is this cardigan in a different color.  I used the previous gift because it went better with the skirt. ;p  But the current gift is also wonderful.  This is a fantastic piece, no matter what color it is!
~The cute little hat hair is from Liriope and is a Gacha prize.  The hat and the flower are both color change.  It is only 30L to play and it comes in a bunch of different hair colors. 

Vest:  Schadenfreude Danger Deep V Vest  50L  
Earmuffs:  artilleri Knit Earmuffs blue  50L 
Hair:  !lamb Say Twix/Highlighty  50L 
Tights:  S@BBiA Gift Tights Blue   Free 
Sweater:  MichaMi Pippa Jumper in Black  
Skirt:  Jill Lucky Board Prize DR Black/Orange (Skirt only)  Free 
Bangle:  Dark Mouse Heavy Metal Bangle  (review copy)  
Skin:  Dutch Touch Special no2 Caramel (former subscribo gift) 

Skirt:  S@BBiA Group Gift No. 5 Skirt Only  Free 
Cardigan:  [Miseria] Ash Cardigan Mulberry (there is now a different color in the subscribo)  Free 
Sweater:  MichaMi Pippa Jumper in White 
Hair:  :Liriope: Gatcha MOG plum  30L 
Necklace:   Bliensen + MaiTai Ottobre Necklace (former Juicy Sim Gift)
Tights:  Mischief **Mis** Fire Side Tights (part of outfit) 
Skin:  Dutch Touch Special no2 Caramel (former subscribo gift) 

Poses:  Long Awkward Pose  and Peppermint Blue   

relatarile unui eschimos naiv:

dragaomule alb,

unele dintre bucuriile mele aromate din saptamna asta a fost ceaiul de iasomie care a inflorit chiar sub ochii mei. if this is not magic then what is it?

se numeste blooming jasmine tea si vine din China, reproduce intocmai natura, adica mai exact momentele pe care noi le vedeam la teleenciclopedia sau pe discovery cu florile care infloresc atat de frumos si viu chiar sub ochii nostri. tin minte ca dupa ce am vazut o astfel de imagine m-am uitat fascinata vreo ora la o floare sa vad daca se misca. si nimic…

magia aceea aveam sa o retraiesc peste multi ani adica saptamna asta, mai exact miercuri cand am primit chiar din China ceva induiosator de mic si urat dar care avea sa se transforme in ceva uimitor de frumos.

m-am simtit ca si cum as fi nascut un copil, acelasi sentiment pe care l-am avut cand am copt paine acum doua saptamani, moment atat de fascinant pentru mine incat aproape ca nu-mi vine sa povestesc nimanui.

ceaiul de iasomie este preferatul meu, iasomia ma innebuneste, sunt sensibila la arome si la amintiri legate  de copacul de la bunica care era un fel de arbore sacru, de fiecare data cand inflorea simteam cam ce simteau oamenii din alte timpuri si culturi care venerau copacii, bineneteles, ,,boala” mea era profunda caci cel mai mult si mai mult imi iubeam ciresul.dar acum in Echimonia nu cresc copaci si mai ales e prea frig pentru ciresi si iasomie.

sa revenim…

jasmine tea…aproape ca nu am vrut sa mai beau..caci cum era sa sorb ceva atat de frumos si delicat…

camera (iglu-ul) se umpluse de mireasma si am uitat de frig si de tot, m-am maimutarit in jurul paharului vreo 30 d eminute, i-am facut poze, am vorbit cu floarea aia nascuta din pantecele bulbului negricios si apoi simtind ca a venit momentul prielnic am baut tacuta licoarea.  aroma e perfecta, gustul sublim… si am fost fericita, mi-a indulcit o luna de vesti triste si frig.

well , cam asta e povestea ceaiului de iasomie infloritor,

mican nu va rezista frigului, e aproape uscata de frig.

mama mea a gasit un sticlete pe balcon, va avea grija de el, nu-l mai lasa afara si e foarte fericita, si-a gasit un nou prieten. are pene verzi pe spate si mananca malai.

fratele meu ii zice sa ii dea drumul pentru ca pasarile trebuie sa zboare si ca daca vrea sa isi ia un caine in schimb dar ea nu vrea, zice ca o sa fie mancat de o pisica, e mai bine cu ea.

mi-e dor de voi.

pup

zun zun naive eschimoe

Und mal wieder bin ich auf ein brilliantes Cover gestoßen, diesmal von der großartigen Lily Allen

Origninal – The Kooks – Naive

Viel Spaß beim reinhören!

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Love.

A stupid thing it is, I say ‘thing’ because there is not just one definition. Love is viewed differently by everyone.

I personally, cannot live without it. I need affection.

I am frightened of being lone. I am afraid of losing who I care about, and for those that love me to leave me.

Love, is said to be to overused and over-rated. Maybe it is, I love it all the same.

It has caused much pain in my life, this you must already know. I’m not going to deny it. It has lead me to do things I regret and i’m not proud of any of it. I have thought about wear my life is going, why I am still living it, and why I even try anymore. It’s just to hard when you are all alone.

Naive of me, i’m aware. Though I am more than happy we worked things out. I am still hurt. I rely on him with more than I should. Will I ever change this? Possibly. Am I settling? No. I love him. I mean this, I am not convincing myself. I took him back because he tried to fix things, a while after the fact. But he’s been a changed man ever since. But I will never forget. .

I am no longer the person I was over a year ago. I was happy, I was in a long term relationship and I had many friends around me. But, people change. You don’t know who you are as a person until you are truly alone. Not ‘you in your room with the door locked’ alone. The ‘no one is there for you when you need them’, alone. I have grown up a lot since then. I want to change the path I am on, yet at the same time, I do not.

Love is a difficult thing, your constantly making up for mistakes you have made and things you have said. Marriages rarely ever last anymore, love isn’t anything like it used to be. Loving yourself is hard to come by these days. What a shame. Girls especially change their public image in orde rto be more accepted by their peers. Only for a while that is. I don’t change myself for anyone. Well, I try. Society gets ahold of you sometimes, stupid tv and such. Making me want to be more than I could ever be. It gets quite overwhelming, but I have been strong so far. Go me!

I have been blabbing for to long. Comment if you have any more to add. =)

Each month author Lucy Harmer dedicates her journal entries to the theme of “transformative and inspirational living” – finding the fun, magic and laughter in everyday occurrences! She explores ideas, thoughts and quotes from her two books, Discovering Your Spirit Animal and Shamanic Astrology.

November 2009

Shamanic Astrology
Exploring the Personality of your Spirit Animal Sign

© Copyright 2009 Lucy Harmer

Last month in my journal (October 2009), I gave an overview of what Shamanic Astrology is. This month, I am going to explore the twelve spirit animal signs of the medicine wheel a little deeper, so that you can begin to discover the special qualities each sign possesses.

There are twelve astrological “signs” on the medicine wheel, which are represented by twelve different spirit animals. Shamanic Astrology teaches us that inner power derives from knowing the properties, characteristics, and qualities of each spirit animal (known as their “medicine”), and applying this in our own lives.

To get you started, here are some of the main strengths and weaknesses of each of the twelve spirit animals. It is really interesting to note that weaknesses are often just a mirror of our strengths and qualities. What we see as “weaknesses” can often be transformed into “strengths.” Take Falcon people, for example, whose “weaknesses” can be their tendency to be impulsive and headstrong. Transformed, these qualities become Falcon people’s strengths – their spontaneity and pioneering nature.

(If you are not sure which spirit animal sign you are, you can find out by looking your birthday up in the second table below – “Which animal sign are you?”)

Strengths and Weaknesses of the twelve spirit animal signs:

I always find it fascinating to look up the qualities of my friends, family and work colleagues. It is amazing how much their spirit animal sign can tell you about why they may behave in certain ways!

You can find out more about the personality of your own spirit animal and how you relate to the other signs, in my book Shamanic Astrology: Understanding Your Spirit Animal Sign. You can also discover the different spirit animal clans that you, your friends and family belong to, and your own special plant, stone, element, color and life path.

Which animal sign are you?
To find your spirit animal sign, just locate your birthday from the dates below, according to your place of birth. If you were born north of the equator (eg; USA, Canada, Europe), then look for your date of birth in the column headed “Northern Hemisphere.” If you were born south of the equator (eg; Australia, New Zealand, South Africa), then look for your date of birth in the column headed “Southern Hemisphere.”

This month, I wish you lots of fun and magic in exploring the strengths and qualities of your own spirit animal sign, and discovering those of your friends, family and work colleagues too!

Love and blessings,
Lucy

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So here are some cels that I created with the idea of having them as valuable collector’s items from a cartoon that was never made.

So I quite like them, especially the first one. Freddy Fountain as a young character (based on steamboat willie/plane crazy mickey). This naivity tries to evoke nostalgia to the days where disney was not so commercialised. Or in the case of the fountain part, a nostalgia to when art was not so commercialised.

I’m an expat living in Thailand, and I believe that this requires me to change certain behaviors that are normal and comfortable to me in order to be culturally sensitive.  When the Thai national anthem or the king’s song plays, everyone is supposed to stand (including foreigners) out of respect.  If I hear either song, I stand.  It’s a sign of respect to the country that is allowing my family to live on its soil.

In the mornings when I’m in town, I walk the kids to school, and my habit has become that I sit for half an hour or so doing my quiet time in the school’s courtyard.  At 8:00a, the large Thai school across the street from our school plays the national anthem.  I always stand, but many times, I’m the only one.  The other foreigners typically continue their conversations, and even the Thais working at our school only stop what they are doing occasionally.

Standing is a simple gesture, but when you are the only one doing it, it’s easy to feel foolish.  I look around at everyone doing their own thing, and I wonder, “Am I over-doing this respect thing?”  “If no one else is doing it, maybe it’s not really expected.”  “I wonder if they are laughing at me.”  “Maybe they are thinking that I’m being pretentious.” “Does it really even matter if I stand or not?”

After all, there are plenty of excuses for not standing.  The music is a little hard to hear.  It’s not  playing at our school.  We aren’t Thai.  The Thais don’t even stand sometimes.  No one seems to care.  I’m having a conversation.  I’m tired.  My leg hurts…

I had an experience like this today, and I spent some time thinking afterward.  Being a Christian is a little like standing for the Thai national anthem.  When you take a stand for God, you will often look foolish to the world around you.  You are standing for music they may not even be able to hear and for reasons that they don’t particularly understand.  Even some of the Christians around you aren’t taking a stand for God.

It’s easy to second-guess yourself. “Am I being too strict about the movies my kids watch and the music they listen to?”  “Am I naive to think my kids could possibly make it to marriage without having sex?”  “Am I throwing my money away when I tithe to the church?”  “Am I being pretentious by claiming that there is only one Way into heaven, and His name is Jesus Christ?”

These doubts and questions are part of the cost of taking a stand for God.  If it were easy, everyone would do it, right?  Of course, God could strike down anyone who didn’t take a stand, but He doesn’t.  He doesn’t, because then EVERYONE would stand.  They wouldn’t be standing because they loved the Lord; they would be standing out of fear and compliance.  Those aren’t the types of followers God is looking for.  He loves us too much to force us to “love” Him back.

When you take a stand for something, you have to be willing to pay the price.  Without cost, there is no sacrifice.  As King David said when Araunah offered him his threshing floor, oxen, wood and wheat for free in order to make an offering, “No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.” (1 Chronicles 21:24)  The value of the sacrifice is tied to how much it costs you.

The foolishness you sometimes feel when taking a stand for God is part of your sacrifice.  But you can take comfort in this Scripture:

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.

(1 Corinthians 1:25)

One day, every stand you took for the Lord will be seen for what it was -  wisdom, love, honor, respect, readiness, strength, adoration, devotion, courage, faith…  Insist on paying the full price.

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love.

(1 Corinthians 16:13-14)