Have a great holiday weekend!

Frontgate Elitre Sunlounger



Frontgate Elipse Relaxer

This is our weather forecast for the next four days. We have had a week already of about the same (hotter if you ask me).

Today: Sunny, with a high near 95
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 94.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 94. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 94.

It continues with pretty much the same forecast through Labor Day.

Enough with the heat!!!
I am going here.

The Ice Hotel

I want to sleep here.

An ice bed!

Anyone want to join me. Meet you in the village Jukkasjärvi, 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. I bet I beat you there.

See you. I am off to find a fan.

A day at the beach

Yesterday we took a little daycation down south. We spent the day at the beach, relaxed a bit and played California tourist. It was a beautiful day.

So add a little beach decor to your life and take a daycation.

Beach Country

Oh, what a cute little boy, how did he get in here. ;)

Have a great day and a nice daycation.

Amani rug from CB2.

Some black and white loooove.

I found a Big Yank button while perusing my vintage button stash. I was curious about it's history so I made a quick trip to Google.

Big Yank was once one of the nation's largest manufacturers of work clothing, operating 24 plants in the 1940's. Like many clothing makers, it has watched revenues slip over the years as it lost business to factories overseas. It was bought out buy a Fortune 500 conglomerate in the late "80's and it is no more.

Buy American.

Some art? I created over the weekend. Experimenting, kind of fun.

Meh?!

The Gap has the cutest bags right now. I am usually not a fan of the Gap but these are really cute for summer.

...the red one too.

of course!

My friend and the creator of this vase turns another year older today.

Happy Birthday Karen! I love you. Hope you have a great day!

New Storage Idea

Hit the jackpot again! I found another cool treasure and acquired some additional storage.

Vintage Samsonite luggage, I think they are maybe late 1940's or so. I certainly would hate to have to use these to travel, they are really heavy, even empty.

I have filled them with fabric to store, I can barely lift them. I have disguised them as home decor for my entry. Also, if I ever have to leave in a hurry they are right there by the door. :)

Black and White

I love this! I am a sucker for anything black and white (and red too). I wish I had somewhere for it.

I just perused Smart Bargains (http://www.smartbargains.com/), you never know.

Classic Mirrors

Mirrors reflect your good taste.

An ad from the May 1965 edition of BHG. A designer, Ruth L. Strauss, demonstrates how to use different styles of mirrors to achieve different effects. Colors and patterns may come and go, but a few classic pieces will last a lifetime. The mirror, chair and table would work with almost any trend of the last 40 years.

I really love, love, love is the red wingback chair. Reeeeaaaallllyyyy!

Welcome to my "Studio"

Yeah sure. This used to be my living room. What a beautiful mess. It is kind of driving me nuts. I have to think of some ways to stash it, but still be able to be somewhat organized and aesthetically OK, plastic bins make me as crazy as the mess. Oh well. To have such problems!?

Still stylish

Yesterday, as I was searching for some fabric inspiration I found something equally exciting (to me at least). I found some vintage (1965-1968) Better Homes and Gardens magazines. I haven't had the time to look through them all, but I flipped through a couple of them last night.

I think this room is fabulous! It is from the August 1967 edition. The cost of the magazine was 35 cents AND it was still the larger (12" x 9") size format.

I may have to come up with a better way to get the pics on my computer, but I just can't bring myself to tear out the pages. I cannot wait to share more of these awesome treasures.

Pre Grand Opening!!

Hi everyone

I have linked my Etsy store to my blog. I would LOVE it if you all would take a look at my store. It is just in it's first stages, I will be working on new items to add daily. The link and a few items are listed to the right of the page, just click on any and it will take you to my store. The web address is http://www.beauteousdesign.etsy.com/

Please let me know what you think. I am really excited so I am kind of all over the place putting it together. I may be missing something, I might think something looks good, but everyone else may not.

I REALLY appreciate all comments and input. I have never attempted anything like this before, so like I said before, I am kind of all over the place, learning as I go.

Thanks again for all of your input and support.

Finals Week

I'm almost done for the term. I have two finals this week. The hard one is today, only because it involves remembering so many terms and their use and meaning. The other one is just going to be time consuming, because it involves using a bunch of equipment and preciseness and neatness.

So hopefully this week I can start getting my stuff ready for my ETSY store. I can not wait. I also have to start working on inventory, so I can work on some venues to sell at. Can't wait.

Winding down or gearing up!?

Llama's make me happy!

Well, the school term is winding down and finals are next week. I have an exciting project to keep me busy for awhile this summer. I will be opening an Etsy shop soon, and will be adding some fun things. I hope to be using my blog for more creative avenues. Just blogging about random things isn't very interesting, although I think it does serve to stabilize your mental health.

I will also be taking two accelerated summer classes. Hope I can do everything. I still have to work at my regular job as well, you know, try and help pay the bills.

Stay tuned, maybe something of interest will be here soon.

~~~~~~Cinco de Drinko~~~~~~

Cinco de Mayo, it's kind of like the Mexican St Patricks Day, just another excuse to drink alcohol and party. I do like the Mexican food and beer much better than the Irish, Guinness and corned beef and cabbage.

Just thought I'd throw this in, Cinco de Mayo is NOT the Mexican equal of our 4th of July:

Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "5th of May") is primarily a regional and not an obligatory federal holiday in Mexico. The holiday commemorates an initial victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over French forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. The date is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride.

A common misconception in the United States is that Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's Independence Day; Mexico's Independence Day is actually September 16, which is the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico. (Wikipedia)

Is it too early to have a Pacifico and a shot of Patron? Adios!

Aaahhhhh......

I will be here, reading, for the next week.

I have to hide from foreclosures, food rationing, gas prices, global warming, insert all other craziness that's happening, I am feeling a bit frazzeled.

Ciao!

Rice Rationing?!?! WTF?!!

Bear with me, I have a rant. This is really irritating to me.

The WORLDS number one staple, the food you can feed a hungry child for "only pennies a day", again, the WORLDS number one staple?!

Food rationing hit first world countries
Monday, 28/04/2008
Supermarkets in the United States and Britain have begun rationing the amount of rice shoppers can buy.
It's the first significant sign that global food shortages of staple products are starting to effect first world countries, with riots already taking place in countries like Indonesia and Haiti.
Jim Morris from the California Rice Commission says the price for rice has already increased dramatically, and there are several reasons for short supply. "Less than 10 per cent of the world's rice supply is traded," he said.
"There have been some challenges with weather that have reduced some crops and there have also been a lot of export bans put in place in some of the major rice producing countries like China, India and Vietnam, Egypt and Brazil and that has contributed to the price of rice increasing very substantially."
Meanwhile 27 of the United Nation's key food agencies will meet in Switzerland tomorrow to put together a battle plan to tackle food shortages.
UN Chief Ban Ki-moon will host the meeting which will also consider reforms to agricultural markets including a speedy solution to the stalled world trade talks ( ABC Online)

They need a meeting in Switzerland to come up with a "speedy solution". I can save you guys some time and money, just grow some f$%&ing rice.

Looks like we are certainly capable of growing more rice, here in the US:

"The Mississippi delta has proven to be an ideal location for rice and most rice in the U.S. (we only grow about 1% of the rice in the world) is grown in that area. Arkansas is the number one producer of rice in the U.S. today. Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Missouri also produce rice. The old flood basin for the Sacramento River in Northern California has also proven to be a good location for rice, and California is now the number two producer of rice in the U.S.

About a third of all California medium grain rice (calrose) is exported to Japan. Then a large quantity is exported to Turkey and Jordan.

Historically, over half of all U.S.(remember we only grow about 1%) rice has been exported." Sage V Foods.

Hey, what a great solution for our depressed economy, maybe we could shoot for 2%!

Yes, I know there are trade restrictions, export rules and restrictions, blah, blah, blah. But seriously, a rice shortage?!

Ok, I have to stop now, I sound like a crazy person. I'm going to go in the backyard to flood my rice field.

By the way, we can produce more petroleum than we do. Ok, sorry I'll stop.

I need these....

I love the red ones, but a person can only have so many red shoes.

I was shopping for silver sandals, and happened across the red. Too bad the red do not come in silver.

The silver are half the price of the red. I wish I could have them both.

What a dilemma! My life is so complicated! I'm just going to have a pedi and go barefoot. But for the price of a pedi I could buy one sandal. Hummmmmm?!