Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Monday, January 30, 2012

Valentine's Day, 2012

a collection of some L ♥ V E day goodies

outfits
sweets
cards

jokes

gifts
♥
flowers



















Monday, January 23, 2012

oh, Barbara!

Oh my! Oh my!

Barbara Palvin by Hunter & Gatti for Vogue Spain: February, 2012









white(s) + color(s) = come home Spring, 2012


When it rains in Los Angeles ...

We are reminded that we are far worse drivers than we realize and far more blessed with the sight of the sun than we appreciate.

Here's some uplift for a down shift in the weather*

*rest assured the weather man promises clear skies and highs of 70 tommorrow





Most importantly .. feel free to replace "GOD" with any other spiritual being, or none at all for that matter. Just give yourself the ability to find some form of humbleness where you are allowed to thank someone other than yourself for all that is beautiful around you. Thank Buddha, Allah, Jesus or Mother Nature, or a table lamp for all that it matters. Just know that something, somewhere in some realm of time was responsible for 99% of the beauty in life that you (probably) neglect 99% of the time.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

The do's are easy the do not's .. NOT so much!

10 Things You Do Not Need To Be Doing

10. Do not try to buy happiness: we live in America, the land of the GREED, do not give power to a piece of cloth, leather or metal, it may be cliche, but it couldn't be more true when they say "the best things in life are free." Once you separate out the type of emotion you feel from buying something expensive to the type you feel from receiving something free, you'll realize all the money in the world couldn't buy happiness (NO MATTER WHERE YOU'RE SHOPPING). Do not allow money to substitute for dignity because if you do then you'll find that you can only afford a piece of gum.

9. Do not lie to yourself: you may have the entire world fooled as complete fools, but you can not escape your own mind. Self-progress only starts once we are willing to be honest with ourselves.

8. Do not try to be a superhero (to everyone): we all want to save the ones we care about, but you may have to accept that trying to do so may only end up with a burnt out you and result with only a partial success rate. Narrow your focus, you can't be everything to everyone.

7. Do not forget to count your blessings: today may be good, tomorrow may be bad and vice versa for the rest of your life, but the mere fact that "the rest of your life" is a thought to be had, is enough to be grateful for all you have. Someone out there is waking up and fighting with imaginary skills to be able to envision a day where they can go back to thinking they have the "rest of their lives."

6. Do not allow other's gravitational pull to lower you: just because someone refuses to advance in their own life does not mean that you have to lower your standards to accommodate their lack of enthusiasm for a better life. Keep floating upward and remember there are foot prints on the moon.

5. Do not convince yourself that you are not ready: you will never wake up with the feeling that you are a hundred and ten percent ready for something. Self-growth comes from being put in situations that force you to get ready. Engineers never woke up one day and said they were ready to formulate high rises, somewhere along the path they were forced to take pre-algebra that lead to algebra that lead to geometry and so on and so forth. Get out of that comfort zone and note, you are far more ready that you realize. Remember, will-power is like a muscle the more you use it the stronger it gets.

4. Do not get involved in relationships for the wrong reasons: it may take days in coming or even months and years, but do not allow a "time lapse" to be the reason why you enter into a relationship with someone. You are far more better off in the company of just yourself than bad company. Society will have us thinking we need to conform to many expectations of other society members, but the most self-damaging action is to allow this (wrong) reason be the (only) reason you enter into a relationship. Be it a career-related relationship, friendship type or most commonly a romantic one.

3. Do not hold on to the past: no matter how good or how bad, it is only self-sabotage if you do this. The idea of life is to move forward and you can not write the next chapter of your life if you are stuck re-reading the last one.

2. Do not spend time with the wrong people: no matter how blindsided you may be, there is always a tiny person inside of you yelling at you when you are surrounding yourself with people who you shouldn't be. The beauty of life is that we are blessed with making choices. Time flies and the last thing you need is to be spending it with people who don't make you happy or encourage you to be better.

1. Do not run from your problems: no one is saying it's easy, nor is it fun or anything else that would encourage you not to run, but sometimes you have to do what's not fun to end up having some fun. It won't be the time of your life and you won't be able to solve them over night, but the more you look your problems in the eye, the more closer you'll get to having days of fun.



When people say their really mean ...

... And you look at yourself and their angels in comparison.

Vent Session no.1 (period)

You'll hardly hear me complain unless it is to myself about myself. I don't tend to care what most people around me do or don't do. As a matter of fact, I relish knowing I have this type of carelessness about myself. Hence the fact that I will call this "vent session no.1 (period)" because frankly the chances of the numbers exponentially increasing are rare.

Since my introduction is complete, I may oh so pleasantly begin my venting session. I've noticed lately that I'm witnessing a lot of garbage people claiming a lot of what they are surrounded by, uh huh you guessed it ... GARBAGE. Obviously as human beings none of us like to feel threaten by any type of stimuli, be it a living organism or a non-living piece of matter. All violent dangers to living life aside, I find myself surrounded by (yes back to the wasteland) weak, silly, ugly individuals who would love to convince themselves and others that they are tough. I giggle when I use the term "tough" given that we all know where garbage ends up, but nonetheless this distorted idea in these distorted humans creates this distorted anger that affects my carelessness (and as mentioned before I adore my carelessness).

So what is one to do when encountered by these little people, not in size, but in substance? Normally, the old, extremely mean, extremely ruthless, extremely harsh me would say show them what they came knocking for .. show them what tough actually looks like, but instead I will advise all my readers to be above that and not only take out the trash and toss them where they below, but try living as far away from the wasteland as possible. After all their stink isn't of a floral descent.

So just,

IGNORE
IGNORE
IGNORE


Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Love me tender ... or else


The secret is out and it's not about Victoria!

While this Valentine's Day, many uninformed boyfriends, husbands and other untitled males hit the typical mall outlets such as Victoria's Secret/Fredrick's of Hollywood, other well informed (blog reading individuals) will take a twirl into a new realm of seduction with Agent Provocateur.

Above is my ultimate favorite commerical with my ultimate favorite angel, Rosie Huntington Whiteley.

Despite the price tag*, it is sure to make any lady feel like a woman and any woman feel like an extrodionary one at that. So, you heard it here first boys

*right now you can save up to 70% online with their Winter sale: Reduce & Seduce

Ed-licious







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