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Young and Beautiful

I can't wait to see it! I love this book.
Pure eye candy.

Plenty

My friend Aubrey got this book, Plenty for Christmas. I was recently over at her place catching up over tea, when she was showing me the book and some leftovers she had made the night before of the Vegetable Tart - YUM. Not only did it look amazing, it tasted ridiculously good! It's a little bit like a quiche - which I usually don't even care for. This tart changed my mind completely. I've since made it and forwarded the recipe to more family and friends. Just google image some of the recipes or pictures of the vegetable tart. Christmas presents?

Tomboy Style

Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion

(a book, and a blog!)

bruno bisang

"30 Years of Polaroids"

 

 

Enamel Diction

What does your nail polish say about you?

I LOVE THIS BOOK! I found it at work, and my co-worker gave it to me yesterday (it wasn't merchandise) The pages are rainbows of colors, with poetry describing your enamel colour choice!

Where Children Sleep

By James Mollison

You can read it online here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 Love Languages

I guess this seems lame, and someone at work told me they heard about it on the Real Housewives of some place, but I think it's really interesting. So... there are different ways people feel loved, and quite often people are attracted to others who feel and share love in different ways! So it's important to know how your sig fig feels most loved! Yay, quizes! Find out on their site how you feel most loved! (Just replace husband/wife with boyfriend/girlfriend.)

I was a tie between TOUCH and QUALITY TIME

The Velveteen Rabbit

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a
thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

This has always been one of my all time favorite quotes. There is so much superficiality out there; it's often hard for me to seperate it from genuine, sincere, REALness. Our focus on appearance is overwhelming. One of my biggest things is to never be stagnant. The smell of stagnant water stinks. It is not enough to be merely treading water all the time. I want to be a doer and a go getter. I want to make change, I want to affect people in a positive way. I don't want to be "getting by"or "going through the motions". I also never want to be caught in a situation where I "settle" and take something that's easy, comfortable, or convenient. I want to always stay true to who I am, but I want to let others in. I want to learn from others, and not be afraid to really feel. I will accomplish this with heart, not vanity.