Like a STORM

This weekend went AMAZING!!! We all had a lot of fun. Good people, good food, great mix of music and lots of love. There was not one person there who made me feel a negative vibe (bc some people still dont approve of Rob and I). It was magnificent. Between the elope and the reception... I have to say we had the BEST wedding ever!

Besides the wonderful wedding we just moved into a great new apt... in the process of making it our own, it is coming out great! We are off the main road... and hear crickets at night and I dont mean from inside.

Today is the first day of my journey to becoming a non smoker again (only smoked for about 1 month on and off but used to smoke a few years ago)... wow right now is really ruff... i want a cig... no, no, nope... not going to have one! I will have to keep busy so i dont get pissy and irritable... more CREATIVE TIME!!!

Come back soon to check the new stuff out and more pics from out wedding reception.
Oh and chaeck this link THIS ONE for some pics we recieved now.

ITS HeRe!!!!!

This weekend, Saturday, is our Wedding Celebration... OMG!!!!!! Besides it's supposed to rain... we have to make sure everything goes KOSHER for 120 ppl. This past weekend was the Bachelor and ette parties... mucho FUN! I went on a canoe trip w 8 ladies and lots o beer. Yup... drunk me tipped the canoe, oops! Rob went fishing and played soccer with about 7 guyz, then we met up at the local bar to tease the hardcore Jets fans, haha! The image to the right is Rob at our camping outing the weekend b4 when we danced with the deer ticks. More images of our good and not so good, great times can be found here... PhotoBlog check them out.

Now all this wedding planning seems to be a breeze, now that we are not doing the ceremony BUT poor Rob has been freaking out, worrying if it rains, which it says it will, and if ppl dont dance or the music messes up... anthing and everything he is worried about, running out of food, or beer. It has become difficult to be around him as he stresses and then sleeps from exaustion, I just want him to get back to normal, FUN ROB! Ha, and get this last detail about my rant... WE MOVE SUNDAY... yay! No it will all be great! Fun times in the rain and even better ones hungover moving boxes. Till next week... peace, love and happiness!!!

RIPeace

I found this site about this ROCK... pretty cool, passionate, honorable. Copy from site.. "I'm told that there is a huge rock near a gravel pit on Hwy. 25 in rural Iowa. For generations kids have painted slogans, names, and obscenities on this rock, changing its character many times. A few months back the rock received its latest paint job and since then it has been left completely undisturbed. It's quite an impressive sight. Be sure to scroll down and check out the multiple photos (all angles) of the rock. I thought the flag was draped over the rock, but it's not. It's actually painted on the rock too."
Check out the site @ The Rock
More Pictures there too!!! Puttin this on a must stop spot for the ROAD TRIP

UpDATE

My My, what a crazy weekend and going to be week. This past weekend my husband and I took my sister, boyfriend, dan and our family camping for my sisters bday. Just some local spot on the island. It was good, awesome, great! There were some ups and downs with everyone... but no one can be perfect. I was trying to quit smoking, not a good idea for this weekend. I broke down and bought a pack. I was not a heavy smoker but I have been in the past. I was not smoking in the house or anything like that just 2 at work and if I would go out... but that was enough to have an effect on me when I went to quit. We, meaning me sister hub dan and bf decided to go find the bay... we found a trail which had a sign road so we thought... down here! The trail soon became narrow and not long after that we were looking at a patch of tall grass. Dan decides to go thru it and calls us all on, saying it is clear after the patch... blah blah blah after many more patches, a slight lost camera (dropped it in the tall grass) we ended in a thorn forrest dead end... TURN AROUND... back thru the patches, found the camera along with a parade of deer ticks covering our legs and feet. Crazy! i never seen so many ticks, I though they were mites. Before we left the trail we saw some deer... BEAUTIFUL! Fully aware of us some galloped away and some stayed to look at us as we gazed upon them. Back at camp we washed off and managed to stay out of the woods... playing cards and doing some good ol fishing. Caught about 10 fish total, the whole weekend. Now... I call myself a vegan MOST of the TIME... if i catch it I eat it. Once home we got back to our ongoing reality of moving and wedding plans. We eloped in June and are haveing the reception this weekend... in 2 weeks. Music is the only really big thing to take care of and final guest list to give to the cook. Moving we are doing for the next few days... PACKING :( Siked about the new place but not the move. I might not be on here to much the next few days. Wish me/us luck!!

Holla

Really neat picture.. figure out what it says... i fot fase, sleeit, funk, pv rcini
no clue besides funk.

Beeeeeeeeee... yourself

MainBee on Etsy created this ornament... great detail! She also gives a lot of information on the process and beeswax like such "How is honey made?

Bees prepare honey from nectar which they collect from flowers and blossom of trees. They use it, as well as pollen, as food for their young. Honey is a mix of natural sugars (80%), water (18%) and minerals, vitamins, pollen, protein and amino acids (2%). Around 70% of honey's natural sugar content is made up of fructose and glucose

Varieties of Honey

Liquid or set?

Around 70% of honey's natural sugar content is made up of fructose and glucose. Clear and set honeys can be compared to ice and water - two different forms of the same thing. The more glucose a honey contains, the more likely it is to crystallize and therefore become a set honey. All honey starts off as liquid but will set eventually. The speed at which this will happen depends on the sugars they contain and the temperature at which they are kept. Both types are equally pure and contain no additives and there is no difference in the taste or nutritional value of these two states.

Is it true that honey is heated? " PLUS more... though there is a lot to read it is very informational and interesting... maybe no the best for etsy but certainly "cool!"

There are candles and even honey on her shop... check it out!!
MainBee

Red Brilliance

There are so many beautiful and creative findings on Etsy. This one I found this morning and it's GREAT! (for lack of a better word this morning). The materials used are listed as acrylic... in the description it talks about laser. Not sure if she/he made each piece with acrylic using a laser or what but it is very bold, brilliant and beautiful. The pieces are held together with wire. For sure an ONE OF A KIND masterpiece. Just when you think you have seen most of etsy... think again, you ain't even close!

Another thing on etsy I noticed is that it is Spanish friendly... now I wonder if that means you have to type it out in Spanish or if the website translates it for the individual. Being in the website and graphics industry 9-5 I tend to be a little curious about these topics... ha the computer nerd in me!!

Creative & Greeeeennnnn!

This pendant is great. It is made of newspaper!
"This pendant is completely made out of recycled newspaper and magazine pages. It measures approx. 1" in diameter.

It hangs on a wire bail, and is coated in acrylic medium to protect it, however it is not waterproof.

This lovely pendant includes an adjustable hemp cord." – TOAST & TARTANS

Did you know???? Americans throw away 44 MILLION newspapers every day! That is the same as dumping 500,000 trees into landfills weekly!...!...!... CRAZINESS!

MAYBE we should all give T & T our newspapers to make beautiful original masterpiece pendants! Great idea and Kudos to T & T... One of MY HEROES!

where is this I want to go!

Image

I stumbled across this profile on etsy this morning... Costellos Photography. Great, great, great images! Some of her work you cannot tell if it is a painting or a photograph. The effects applied are soft and filled with emotion. She takes something simple as a branch and turns them into a scene of growth and beauty.

just a thought...

I wish Etsy had a bridal registry.

My Prize

Newest addition to my etsy collection. I call this MerLo after my sister Meredithe. She has this I don't care what you think of me attitude... I'm just going to keep being me, without the nastiness it tends to come with it. She also has this spicy mysterious side, without really knowing it and a kind of innocents and prize we all once had. The Bold Blues and Spicy Reds in combination with the Prize Golds and the Soft Yellows are my Best Friend and Sister in a nutshell.

Olympics

My cousin Tebben sent my Aunt a JibJab card of her and my Uncle... omg it was great! The facial expressions of the pics she chose along with the event based on their wacko personalities, PERFECT!
Here is it... hope you get a kick out of it! http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/FBl9eNYPFGbj81Fg#/view/jarwgF9ttDtjUYqv


And... here is ours (Rob and I)
http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/Q4CExQ7yhGubz4f2

Mind Googles

I have seen this on etsy about every few weeks... making designs people are able to "stick" on their walls as a design. I really want to try this out. I have mucho ideas but don't have a printer or someone to print them for me where I can still make a profit.

There are minor details for everyone. A minor detail that could change a rooms energy on the regular! A detail can tell about a person and or share a secrete in an unknown way... oh lala!

PRINTER... are you out there?!?! Well till I find my spot for prints... here are a few great Artist just going their thang... well!

Design Your Style
Vinyl Wall Art

Love. Peace. Happiness!!!

Love of Allyssa

This is my newest piece! I call is Love of Allyssa, after my sister. She is very loving... she gets herself into trouble because of her love. From falling in love with a guy who plays games to entering into some risky business for a girlfriend she thinks of as a sister, love is there. I also see Allyssa as a huge ROMANTIC... in denial. She has a tough shell but is easy to crack. She only wants to be loved, in that real–down-to-earth with occasional butterflies way... don't we all?

Allyssa is the third person I named a piece after. I want to create a piece for everyone I love and means the world to me. Check back soon... see who is next!

Visit my Etsy and check out Mary and Caralee! www.dnmolo.etsy.com

2 in 1 for less than 1!

Great Solution! Plus you can use it for sleepovers!

Hubby and I are looking for a new apt for about 6 months till we take our cross country tirp and find a place to call home. This is going to be our new table/guest bed for our new place. It is inexpensive, creative and easy to move when we find that place called home.

Spectacular!

Olympia: Oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet in the Realism style. Painted in 1863, it measures 130.5 by 190 centimeters. Inspired by Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus, Titian’s Venus of Urbino.

Olympia is a painting of a high class prostitute. The orchid in her hair, her bracelet, pearl earrings and the oriental shawl on which she lies, symbols of wealth and sensuality. The black ribbon around her neck, her cast-off slipper and the black cat at the bottom of the bed, symbols prostitution. Olympia is an independent woman and very aware of her sexual dominance over men. Manet symbolizes this in the way the wall leads to her sex which she is firmly protecting with her hand. As if she is saying, here I am, here it is and I decide if you can have it. In the background a black servant presents Olympia with a gift, probably from a client, which she ignores.

At the first exhibit in Paris this painting created a uproar. It was tagged immoral and vulgar my many. If this was immoral and vulgar I wonder what they would call Mtv today. Though Olympia was requested to be destroyed it managed to survive and is now in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, for all to view.

To me Olympia is a feminist. If she is real or not the idea of being so vulnerable is. Vulnerable as in broadcasting to the world that she is a prostitute and beautiful. She portrays a very strong independence that one could admire. Most of us view prostitutes as being “bad” but when you look at someone in this raw vulnerable light they are just like anyone else. The detail Manet puts in this painting is magnificent. From the detail of the subjects to the detail in the subjects is breathtaking!

This painting is beautiful and speaks of the time, which it’s self is beautiful. How we have evolved together, the good and bad, is art to my eyes.