Thursday, April 29, 2010
Colourful
I love this fashion shoot featured in W Magazine celebrating admirable women in Spring attire! It's so colourful and so Bohemian and how gorgeous is that patchwork vintage style sofa in the picture above!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Black & Spiro One Day Only Sale
The last famous Black & Spiro sale was approx 3 years ago so this one is definitely not to be missed!!!
All floor stock including furniture, lamps, shades and accessories will be heavily discounted, as well as a huge range of amazing fabric remnants reduced to clear. I am also throwing in some things from my own home so make sure you don’t miss out.
Remember, the sale is only on for one day!!!
Hope you can make it.
soul mates
intothair
We first met when I was 14.
I was crossing the road, and you saw me.
You told your brother to stop the car, right there, in the middle of the road, came down, looked at me, smiled, gave me your card and said "Call me".
I wanted to, but I didn't.
The second time we met, was when I was 15.
I was with my cousins that day, watching the squatter houses getting torn down, and you were there.
You stood on the huge rock, and looked down at me.
I felt someone staring at me, so I turned to look.. and there you were, smiling at me but I looked away.
When I was about to leave, I saw you walking my way, but then the fireman that was there, came over to talk to me just a few seconds before you.. you looked at me, turned and left.
A few months later, we spoke for the very first time.
Yes, I decided to call you and our conversation lasted 2 hours.
We told each other our likes, dislikes, and found out that we had a lot in common.
The next week, I was walking back home, and I saw you on your scooter. With a girl. And you were holding her hand so tightly, it was as though you were never going to let go.
I reached home... sat down.. and all of a sudden...pain rushed through my entire body.. but I didn't cry.. all I could do was think to myself, why does this hurt so much? why did seeing him on his scooter with a girl hurt me so badly? why?
Then I realized.
Even after the first time we met, when you gave me your card, i couldn't stop thinking of you, and that smile of yours.
Did I fall in love? Maybe.
After that day, I saw you with her, everyday and so, I did what was best. I moved on.
5 years went by without thinking of you. I literally managed to block you out of my mind and my life, and life, was going pretty swell for me.
College started, new friends were made, and a loving boyfriend of 3 years was in my life. Life was a bliss.
Semester break came along, and I decided to head home for the month.. and one day, during a walk, I saw you... and you saw me.. you ran across the road and said "Hi!".. all i could do was smile.
Why couldn't I just turn and walk away? It was like my feet were glued to the ground the minute you smiled.
You asked how I was, and I said great.
The next question was "Boyfriend?" I answered "Yes".. you said "Oh" and walked away like you did everytime you heard something you didn't like.
I called out to you and said we can be friends and you smiled and agreed.
We started hanging out a lot. Movies, drinks, surfing, live band shows. You called me up one evening and said to come over to the usual place. i told you I'd be there in 10.
When i arrived, you were up on stage.. That was a normal thing, since you were in a band. You sang Faithfully by Journey and at the end, you said that it was for me.
I froze.
What were you thinking?
what was I thinking?
I had a boyfriend.
Then I snapped back to my reality.
What was happening?
We said we'd be friends. But.. did something happen along the way?
When I woke up that night, I found you next to me. I got out of bed, on to the balcony, and had a cigarette. Shit. I had done something I swore never to do. cheat. Then you came out, and we had a huge argument. the next thing you did, made me blow up.
You called my boyfriend. and told him everything.
He left me. I left you. you sent me a text saying "I hate you", i replied with "Thank you for coming into my life and ruining everything and for making me so blinded that I actually slept with you"
I never heard from you again.
All I could think of after that was what the hell was i thinking? What in the world made me sleep with you? why did I throw away a perfectly good relationship for you? but I didn't put the blame on you. I blamed myself. for being so stupid.
10 years after that day, i'm happily married, with a beautiful daughter, and by the power of facebook, you found me. I accepted your friend request and then while chatting one day, you asked me, what happened to us.
You told me you never forgot me, how my hair smelt after being washed, how I laughed, how I made you happy, how you felt complete when I was next to you.
i told you I never forgot you either. especially your smile.
You said let's run away together. I said no. you're married. I'm married. that's the way it should be.
you said it wasn't.
you said we were soul-mates.
All i said was
"We are soul-mates that weren't meant to end up together. If we had started at the very beginning, we might have been together for a lifetime"
you said maybe in our next lifetime.
i told you that in our next lifetime, when you stop the car in the middle of the road, don't give me your card. just say "Will you be mine".
You agreed but said "I'll just say Will you marry me"
We laughed.
Yes. we are soul-mates, we're not together, but we never forgot one another.
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston also gained critical acclaimation as she performed very well, the movies were independent in 1996 she came with She's the One. In 1999 Office Space and the year 2002 brought her with The Good Girl. Well she has done very successful and commercially hit comedies like Bruce Almighty (2003), in the year 2008 Marley and Me, she gave a fantastic performance in romantic comedies also.
Jennifer Aniston's roamantic comedies are Along Came Polly (2004), in 2006 it was The Break-Up and 2009 she appeared in He's Just Not That into You .her movies have earned a gross more than $900,618,847 in U.S, and world wide it is $1,508,048,564, isn't it amazing. Her latest work is Just Go With It with Adam Sandler and it is going to release in February 2011.
She got married to actor Brad Pitt her five year romantic relationship resultd in divorce in the year 2005,it was a highlight of every entretainment media.Aniston is 10th richest woman in the entertainment world, as per the Forbs report year 2007, she was behind J. K. Rowling, Mariah Carey, Oprah Winfrey,Jennifer Lopez and aheads Christina Aguilera, Olsen twins and Christina Aguilera .
Forbes listed Aniston as the 10th richest woman in the entertainment industry for the year 2007. She was behind such powerhouses as Oprah Winfrey, J. K. Rowling, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez and is ahead of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and the Olsen twins. Aniston's net worth is approximately $110 million.[39] Aniston was also included in the annual Star Salary Top 10 of trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter for 2006.[40] According to Forbes, in October 2007, Aniston was the top-selling celebrity face of the entertainment industry.[41] In 2008, Aniston landed the seventeenth spot on Forbes Celebrity 100 list based on "earnings and fame."[42] Forbes listed Aniston's earnings as $27 million.[43]
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The Iron Man 2 Premiere in Hollywood
Last night was the Hollywood premiere of Iron Man 2. Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, and Scarlett Johansson were among the stars out and about on the red carpet supporting their soon-to-be blockbuster sequel. If you haven't yet seen the original, rent it tonight! Iron Man 2 hits theaters on May 7.
Photo: Alex J. Berliner, Berliner Studio/BEI Images
Monday, April 26, 2010
what is love?
unknown
I have been in and out of relationships since I was 15 years old. Whether they lasted a year, a few months, or 3 years I have experienced all different kinds of relationships. My first boyfriend,
cared about me a lot and I could care less about him. My second boyfriend, my first love, the person I lost my virginity too, who cared about me as much as I cared about him but in the end it just didn’t work out. My third boyfriend was my best friend since 5th grade and I was the one that cared a lot more than he did me. After that things start to get blurry. I was with guys for a few months at a time and now I’ve realized that I don’t know the difference between
lust and love. How I feel is different than what makes sense logically. My head and my heart can never seem to come to an agreement. When I ask married women how they knew their husbands were the one, they all come up with the same answer, “You’ll just know, you’ll feel it.” Well thank you for that answer, however it doesn’t do me any good. What does that mean? I find myself thinking about my feelings and my thoughts on love constantly. It consumes 95% of my thoughts and about 50% of my time. It’s something that people have constantly wrote about, talked about, and dreamed about so why is it that no one has the same answer let alone the correct answer? It’s something that people will continue to try to figure out and I just hope that in this lifetime I will experience it and hold on to it forever. I will continue to jump from relationship to relationship trying to figure out what it all means and if anyone has the slightest idea what Love is, True love, if there is such a thing please inform me.
-LR
Bret Michaels suffers from Brain Hemorrhage
Bret Michaels has been through many C.T Scans, an angiogram and MRIs,as per the reports made the doctors decide to keep him in the ICU a and to conduct more tests , they are trying to figure out the cause behind. He would be under observation for few more days so that all the required diagnose and tests can be carried out properly to provide better cure.
Bret Michaels has got the wishes of every one and people are looking forward for THEIR favourite star to come out of this typical time successfully. Everyones thoughts and prayers are for him. Some sources say that he a got a slight recovery as he has hit this on her blog. Even he discussed the severe conditions he had been through , before surgery.
Flowers on Monday
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
The Back-Up Plan Is In Theaters Today
Jennifer Lopez + Alex O'Loughlin = Fun, chick-flick! Can't wait to see it... Have a great weekend! xo
The Back-Up Plan Is In Theaters Today
Jennifer Lopez + Alex O'Loughlin = Fun, chick-flick! Can't wait to see it... Have a great weekend! xo
Kari Byron
She devoted herself totally into art work, she travelled to South East Asia in fact she has worked as a secret shopper for a well known liquor company, Kari Byron has done a T.V reality show Myth busters the main concern of the show was to break the myths and prove them with active scientific tests, that show became very popular as the hosts were Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman.
Kari Byron always believes that she is a true artist by heart she finds herself very close to the sculpture in which she uses wood, metal, acrylic gouache and so many materials, in the year 2004 she made a solo art debut named Stray Doll, the exhibition took place at famous Anno Domini,of San Jose California.June 2006 brought her on the monthly men’s magazine FHM and she was called up by David Letterman for his show.
Kari Byron is a vegetarian and has pierced tongue,also cited the renowned SECCA Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art award winners they took inspiration from her work.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
White with a touch of navy...
i wish
overclouded
I have known this boy for four years. He's the most incredible, loving person that I've ever met in my life. I love everything about him. We've had so many ups and downs that most of our friends believe that we're completely insane and are inseparable despite harsh words and the rash decisions we make. We broke each others hearts over and over and fell in and out of love with each other. We were together for about two and a half years. We were crazy in love with each other without a doubt. But the twist was, our love was through school. Our relationships were hidden from our families. I'm chinese, he's pakistani.. meaning we could never be together in reality. Everyday that I got to see him out of school, I cherished. He's my first love and I'm his. So what do you do with that, you move on to find your next love, right? No, everything's always going to be complicated in a girls life. Over the years I've learned to love his family even though they hate me. It's hard to believe that's possible considering how many times our relationship has been ruined because they disapprove of me so much. At one point his family hated him because he was with me. I felt terrible everyday but he wouldn't let me go. Of course over the years they came around because we are no longer together. Lately we've been acting like we're together, no PDA because he has a brother in the school. But through our minds and hearts, we're sweet and loving like a couple, and I'm really happy with that. I've fallen for him all over again. A few weeks ago he broke down to me. He didn't know what to do because he loves me and wants to be with me but he can't. I wanted so much to say just be with me.. He's getting an arranged marriage some day. It breaks my heart but I respect that his family traditions will continue. I just need a long time to accept it. Everything between us is over now. I miss him so much. I don't know how to let him go. I wish that they took the time to realize how much I genuinely love their son and arranged for us to get married, i wish.
JL
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Fun Chair & Update
We will then be closing the shop for approximately 1 month from the 10th May to complete the renovation and expansion of the shop downstairs. So it is all systems go with a big re-opening party planned for mid-June! Oh and in amongst that we are moving house and having a baby so it is very full-on in my little world at the moment!!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Vin Diesel
In 1994 he directed, produced a short film Multi Facial that portrayed the struggle of an actor who had been through so many auditions but couldnot get success. In 1998 he came out with an Oscar Winning Performance in Steven Spielbrg's named Saving Private Ryan, in 1999 he earned critical acclaimation for an animated movie called The Iron Giant.
Vin Diesel performed major role in the year 2000 in the movie Boiler Room, well the year 2001 brought him action stardom with a wonderful movie The fast and the furious followed by XXX in 2002, after that he performed in The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift he reprised his role. Vin Diesel also get a chance to reprise his role from XXX to XXX State of the Union but he didn't accept the offer .
In 2006 he worked on the sequel of The Chronicals of Riddick , in 2007 he planned to produce and star Agent 47 unfortunately could not work out, in April 2009 he came out with fourth series of The fast and the furious named Dominic Toretto.
gone rogue
luuhtrindade
to my best friend.
im in love with you, it happened abruptly and out of nowhere but nonetheless it was clear as day while i was laying in you arms that i am indeed in love with you. you proposed to me when we were three years old, and i turned you down. i ran away from you with hot tears of embarrassment fleeting down my face hoping to never see you again. but yet here i am. fifteen years later. in love with you. you have no idea, and well to be honest up until now i myself have been in denial about it. im scared. im scared to lose our friendship. im scared to lose my best friend, my trustee, and my cuddle buddy. im sitting here writing this, not even planning on doing anything with it, just getting it out of my head. finally making it real, enabling myself from further lying to myself about it. i cant imagine ever telling you how i feel. i continue to torture myself with your presence, i should end our friendship right here and now, and finally free my self from my self inflicted torment. but i cant. i cant imagine my life without you in it. i cant imagine not being able to laugh with you about the air head things i did today or make fun of how immature you are. im terrified because i know what it feels like to have your best friend be in love with you, but to just simply not reciprocate the feeling. i now officially know what it feels like to be on both sides, and let me tell ya their both miserable. thats the funny thing about love, you cant control it. you cant control who you love, or when you love them. love has seemingly gone rogue. or has it always been?
EM
Another Windmill
Monday, April 19, 2010
The Box-Office Beat
How to Train Your Dragon is back in the top spot... Want to know what other movies made the big bucks this weekend? Check out the box-office beat.
1 - How to Train Your Dragon: $20 M
2 - Kiss-Ass: $19.8 M
3 - Date Night: $17.3 M
4 - Death at a Funeral: $17 M
5 - Clash of the Titans: $15.8 M
6 - The Last Song: $5.8 M
7 - Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?: $4.2 M
8 - Hot Tub Time Machine: $3.5 M
9 - Alice in Wonderland: $3.5 M
10 - The Bounty Hunter: $3.2 M
Daniel Radcliff's musical debut with How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
He is going to come up with his Broadway musical debut in 2011, in the new version of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Well this new version of play is going to stage in the next spring and this is going to his first stage role since Equus in 2008, in the city New York. It is an entertaining musical satire and Daniel is going to perform as a young mail room employee who emerged on the top. In 1995's broadway revival there was Matthew Broderick.
For the very first it was seen as in 1961 and became so much popular that it won the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1962. Year 1967 bring out its film version featuring Robert Morse.
Daniel Radcliff is working on the second part of his outstanding outcome Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and this going to be final version. In New York last december Daniel took part in reading the musical, so lets for this new avatar of everyone's heart favourite.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
From The {Old} Files
Whilst visiting Mum and Dad on Saturday night for a lovely home-cooked dinner, my mother handed me a pile of old magazine tear sheets she recently found in the cupboard of my old bedroom. They must date back to my early twenties. I pulled a couple out to show you as above. Isn't the last one interesting - I obviously loved blue, white and pink way back then and in actual fact, I think I might have pulled this one out of my mother's files originally!! I remember the top image as one from a story on Donna Karan...I remember obsessing over that table vignette for a long time...
how good it makes us feel.
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I have never felt as much pain in my heart as I did during my fifteenth birthday. I had been looking forward to that day for as long as I could remember – I was the last one out to turn fifteen and my first love wanted to see me. I had been waiting for him the whole day and I was so curious about how he was going to surprise me. The sun was slowly fading and soon it was hidden by beautiful pink clouds – the kinds that only show themselves during lukewarm summer nights. I met up with what I thought was the love of my life and he surprised me, he shocked me so bad I lost my breath. And in that very moment I honestly believed I was going to die. When I finally was able to breathe again, without knowing what I was about to do, I ran away – from the love of my life.
I just kept on running not knowing where I was about to go, but I found a park bench and I sat down for a while. I tried to think clearly, but I couldn’t, what had just happened? Why couldn’t I breathe? Had I been running? Why? I tried to remember what had happened, and then suddenly a lightening rushed through my chest and I remembered what had just happened – it was my fifteenth birthday and my first true love had left me.
I don’t know for how long I was sitting at that park bench, but I remember I watched people walking by – they all seemed so happy, how was that possible? I heard the sound of my phone ringing time and time again, but I didn’t have the strength to answer, I didn’t have the power to move a single muscle. I was thinking about how to get home, if maybe I would have to go to the hospital, though the pounding pain in my chest never seemed to give in. I was thinking and thinking and I found it all rather ironic – me, Isabelle, had been dumped on my fifteenth birthday, what a goddamn karma. I had never been God’s greatest child, but I never figured it would turn out to be this bad.
All of a sudden I saw my dad standing right in front of me, when I saw his face I knew that he knew what had happened. He grabbed my hand and led me to the car which was parked a few blocks away. When I came home I went straight to bed, where I spent the following days. I wanted to know why my first love had left me, I wanted to hear his explanation and I wanted to know exactly what he had told me the day he left me, because I couldn’t remember anything.
It’s truly impossible to put words on the pain I felt inside of me, but the pain never gave in, it just kept on stealing the insignificant energy I had left. The pain burned through my chest, tore my heart to pieces and my crying never seemed to come to an end. Time was running away and every day I was thinking to myself “Tomorrow the pain will be gone”, but it never was. Until a chilly autumn day in the middle of November, I unexpectedly caught myself thinking there wasn’t anything scratching like barbed wire around my heart – the pain was gone. The memories were still there though as well as the fear, but the actual pain inside my body had disappeared.
The thing is that there isn’t the moment when I was dumped in literal sense that’s putting a strain on me today. It’s when I think about the pain I feel sad, or rather scared, because if I felt like that then – then my heart will stop beating for real when the person who gives me a reason to live leaves me. I am going to cry so hard I’m not going to be able to breathe and I won’t be able to calm down or even control myself.
I think that’s exactly why we are afraid of love. Because in truth been told we do know that it’s possible to actually love someone too much, we know the possibility does exist. Isn’t that crazy – to love someone too much? We also do know love always ends unfortunate. Even if love lasts a whole lifetime there comes a time when we are torn apart by death, which frightens me a lot.
But then we got to think like this as well, even how miserably love seems to end it doesn’t mean the ending reveals the history we’ve shared together. Even though love sometimes hurt really badly we also have to remember how good it makes us feel. It makes us feel free, like we can live forever. Love is like a movie – you cannot dislike a wonderful movie with a bad ending – it’s just not possible to feel sad and angry about the bad ending if the rest of the movie felt like a dream.
/Isabelle
Lots of Dakota Part Two
Lots of Dakota
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
whenever
fudbal
There’s this boy.
There’s this boy that I thought I was over. Last night when I saw him again after two years, I suddenly realised that I wasn’t.
It's you.
Our relationship was never serious. We were never committed to one another, but still we were in each other’s lives for two years. At least you were in mine for two full years. In my mind and in my dreams.
I was never over you. I know that now.
All the breaks we had, where we didn’t talk - I was still thinking about you all those times. We were only together when you wanted us to be. The rest of the time I was just waiting for you to want me again. Longing to hear those sweet words you would whisper in my ear. Waiting for your hand to be back in mine.
Two years of good times and bad.
But then you got a girlfriend and we stopped talking. She broke up with you, and we still didn’t talk.
I was with others guys. I was over you. Of course I was. I rarely even thought about you anymore.
Then last night I saw you. I met you at a friend’s. We barely talked. But I’m used to that. We always did this. No talking and then suddenly we were back in each other's lives.
God, you are so hard to figure out. I wish I could have figured you out then. That would have stopped me from still wondering now.
Because now I've got all these feeling back in my body. Feelings I thought I no longer had - but know now that I'd just hidden away in a tiny box and kept in my heart (and maybe forgotten a little bit about.)
Yesterday, just seeing you and being in your presence opened that box, and along with the wondering came nostalgic thoughts of you and us, which have now filled up my heart. My heart pumps all these feelings through my body, and I am desperately trying to squish them back into the little box, so it doesn't hurt so much. The feelings won't go away, but at least when I keep them in one place, it's not as painful as when I have them pumping through my every vein.
I just want you to know that I still adore you and that I'm here if you want me.
You can open the box.
Whenever,
S
Tina Fey
She is very well comedian as she has taken classes from improvisational comedy group, she came up as a writer and wrote comedy show Saturday Night Live due to her outstanding talent in the year 1999 she was promoted to head writer. Tina Fey is very much talented as she has created her own T.V series named 30 Rock, as an actress she performed in Baby Mama, in 2009 she won Emmy Award for her heart touching and satirical portrayal of Republican.
Lets have a glimpse of her personal life she is married to Jeff Richmond, couple is having daughter named Alice Zenobia Richmond, born on September 10, 2005. Tina Fey has a scar of few inches long on the left side of her face well she explains that it is a childhood injury. Tina Fey is a social activist , she works for Austim Speaks it is an organisation who use to sponsor research and awareness along with outreach activities they are basically aimed at public, government and families.
She also supports Mercy Cops concerned with global relief aimed at to end hunger from society, because hunger is the main reason of all the problems, she wants to raise awareness among masses through her campaigns.
Her recent credits are: Date Night Apr 9, 2010, The invention of Lying Oct 2, 2009, in 2008 Baby Mama.