Happy Happy NEW YEAR

Resolve to take more risks.....just include a Plan B! :)

Just Could Not Resist Letting You See This

from DSQUARED2

the Ice Skate Pump

Ummmmmmm......NO!

But it does make you stare.

REMEMBER This.....

Happy Christmas

My Wish

Christmas Traditions Around the World

How "Merry Christmas" is said .....Afrikaans: Geseënde Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Milad Majid
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Bosnian: (BOSANSKI) Cestit Bozic i Sretna Nova godina
Brazilian: Feliz Natal
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian: Pace e salute
Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian: Sretan Bozic
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
English: Merry Christmas
Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian: Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi
Ethiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet Beaal
Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Galician: Bo Nada
Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Haiti: (Creole) Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri'cho o Rish D'Shato Brichto
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags
Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Lao: souksan van Christmas
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian:Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar
Luxembourgish: Schèine Chreschtdaag an e gudde Rutsch
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papiamento: Bon Pasco
Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philippines: Maligayang Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese:Feliz Natal
Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele or Craciun fericit
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibh
Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tamil: (Tamizh) Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym or Z RIZDVOM HRYSTOVYM
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!

Bob Rankin A Raleigh North Carolina Artist At His Christmas Opening

The Real Meaning Of Christmas

HEADLINES:

Secret Santa's are popping up to pay off customers' layaway bills all over the country.

Lovely Christmas Centerpiece Idea- From Shop Beyond This

go to www.shopbeyondthis.com 

A Great Find And A Project That You Can Do Yourself- O'verlays

                           Decorative fretwork panels

 

                                          by O'verlays

O'verlays are lightweight, decorative fretwork panels that come

 in several patterns and sizes. 

They are paintable and easily attach to furniture, mirrors, walls and glass. 


I like this product a lot!!

Where to find and order-

www.danikacheryle.com

The $5 Cupcake/Chocolate Heaven!!

and THAT is a deal!!!

IT IS SO AMAZING!

This is a triple chocolate brownie with a semi-sweet ganache

icing and a special melted chocolate candy bar inside.

It IS A Wonderful World...

Happy Holidays from ADORE magazine

Australian's Adore Home's Dec/Jan 2012 issue

 is packed with all things beautiful. 

Since their summer is our winter this issue is a sizzling summer edition full of great entertaining ideas and colourful homes. 

Click-adore magazine and enjoy yourself!

Have A Great Weekend! Be As Good As You Can!!

A Christmas Present Idea For Anyone Interested In Making A House...A Home

I love watercolor illustrations 

and

I do judge a book by its cover!

So there you go-

a peek inside.....

This is Deborah Needleman's brand new book.  She is the founding editor of the much missed Domino Magazine.

What she conveys in this book is that your home can look stylish and inviting and still look like real people live there.  With the darling illustrations giving a visual of the tips she offers, it makes it a book you want to spend some time with.

The Phillips Collection....

...rep, Sydney, stopped by the studio to show me

what accessories and furniture they have to offer.

I love this 45" diameter silver leaf mirror that I am

going to specify for the living room ceiling for a customer!

Thank you Sydney!

World's Largest Christmas Tree....

out of cardboard.

I KNOW!
From Giles Miller Studio-
a London based interior and surface design studio.

You must visit their website and see other

AMAZING creative projects- Click-giles miller

The bird is part of the tree.

I put a bird on the top of my tree every year too!

Mine is blue with long tail feathers.

HUBCAPS!!!!! Who Knew??

 The Landfillart Project, is an international exhibition with 1,041 artists from around the world creating art on hubcaps.

The hubcaps are from old cars from the 1930’s through to the 1970’s. Each hubcap, having been cleaned and primed, has been transformed by an artist using oil or acrylic paint, fabric, or welding.

It's the brain child of Ken Marquis who has persuaded artists from every state in the USA plus 52 other countries to transform these ugly and beaten-up pieces of metal into something creative. His goal is to get people thinking about the amount of garbage they generate -- and, perhaps, to reduce it.

The idea came to Marquis at a car show where he had stumbled on a cache of 41 rusted disks. "It was one of those eureka moments," he recalls. "I saw a hubcap and I thought, 'I think I can get this repurposed.'"

AND repurpose - he did!

Have A Fun Weekend!

For years I have wanted and old, old red pickup truck that backfires,

only when I want it to.  

This picture reminds me of that wish

and lets me pretend.... that this IS me!

Happy Weekend!

Wonderful Ways To Display Art

New York Photographer Jefferson Hayman

Film Projector with accordion arm wall  The photographs are handcrafted silver gelatin & platinum prints paired with unique frames, mirrors, and vintage objects that make beautiful compositions.