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I wish that you will all find a guy or girl who will give you these feelings.

Everyone loves a good romantic-comedy. Even better when it celebrates love. :D

Well said.

Images sourced from Lovebot
Title is a line from  The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

This is one of, if not my FAVORITE fashion advertisement EVER!! It's a bit old I remember first coming across it in high school. BUT I LOVE IT STILL!!! After a computer crash a few years back I hunted all over the Internet to find this image. I love how she's looking at him and he's looking at the camera confident in his posture yet pensive and gentle in his facial expression.

If I had to think up a love story based on this picture it would have a long distance love element. Hence, I think these quotes would accurately capture the feelings of the couple for one another.

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that it, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decided what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you ill spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love and it will decided everything. - Perdro Arupe S.J. (1907-1991)



There are some feelings that fill you up that dig their roots into your skin and never let go. They swell and blow you over like wind and waves. - Lovebot

There are many kinds of love out there but today is my youngest brother's 15th birthday so I'm choosing to celebrate sibling love.

Happy Birthday Guelli!! I love you!!!



To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.   ~Clara Ortega

Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.
                     
                                                        ~Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings," U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994
 

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way.  ~Pamela Dugdale





A brother is a friend given by Nature. ~ Jean Baptiste Legouve

By my reckoning there are 14 days left 'till Valentine's Day and for some reason (partly because I've been rereading bits of the Twilight Series) I feel like doing a Valentine's project/gift to you all.

So from today until Valentine's Day I'm going to try and post something about love be it a quote, image whatever and I hope you enjoy it. For today it's this one




and while I'm at it this line too, which is of course from one of the Twilight books :)

This has had me laughing out loud every time I play it!! :D

Enjoy and have a great weekend!!



P.S. If you're following Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Fingers crossed I will try and get a post up there sometime this weekend.

Hello! I've got some exciting news (well for me it's exciting) to share.

I've started a lifestyle (fashion, travel, food, interior design and architecture, whatever else strikes our fancy) blog with my cousins Rosie and Chiara. It's called Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Do check it out, spread the word and leave comments. We'll all be posting which should make things very interesting. Rosie and Chiara are talented girls with a great eye for things.

So that's my big new for this week. :)

If you're wondering why the blog is called Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. It's because of something Steve Jobs said at the closing of his 2005 Commencement Address to the graduates of Stanford University.

The speech is a good one. Short but with a great message about following your heart and doing what you love. I highly recommend watching it , especially if you're panicking over what your life will be like after college and what are your going to do. The text version is available here. 

Enjoy!! :) Happy Monday Everyone!!

I haven't done one of these in a while and I figure it's time for another because I really have much to be thankful for.

( The list... )

My Abulita (great-grandmother) has been popping into my mind randomly over the last few weeks. She passed away this past August. My brother and I wanted to splurge money to fly south and attend her funeral but we planned too late. We visited her grave this past December while were down South. It's sad when I think about how we originally bought the tickets to visit her because she might no longer be well enough to travel to see us for Christmas, but by the time we got there she was gone.

Walking around her house is wonderful and very comforting. When I was younger we use to spend every summer there. She live right by the sea and we would walk down to the beach from the house, our brightly colored plastic pails and shovels, in hand to spend the afternoon catching fish, collecting seashells and making sand forts. From her balcony you could see the ships sailing by, ferrying people from the nearby islands.

I guess that's why she comes to mind when I think of this poem:

The Dead / Billy Collins
The dead are always looking down on us,
they say,
while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich,
they are looking down through the glass-bottom boats,
of heaven as they row themselves slowly through eternity.
They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth,
And when we lie down in a field or on a couch,
Drugged perhaps by the hum of a warm afternoon,
They think we are looking back at them,
which makes them lift their oars and fall silent and wait,
like parents,
for us to close our eyes

I'm sick of stuffing my face and expanding my stomach constantly. I want to love how I look in my clothing. I want definition in my muscles and an over all sense of well being. The goal for 2010, get toned. Guys, hold me to it if you see I start slipping. 





Do what you love, and love what you do! :D

A LOVELY REMINDER OF THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS from the Peanuts Gang :)


It's that time of year When the world falls in love Every song you hear seems to say "Merry Christmas" May your new year dreams come true! -Christmas Waltz, Frank Sinatra





MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!

May your holidays be filled with joy!

This question struck me while listening to Kris Allen's song Live Like We're Dying

"And if your plane fell out of the skies/ Who would you call with your last good-bye?"

Who would you call and what would you say?

Picture is copyright of Betty of Le Blog de Betty. More shots of the outfit can be found here.

At first glance you wouldn't even think they were sweatpants.

Who'd have thought we'd see the day when sweat pants would look all right or at least only half-bad. Betty as pictured below takes sweatpants to a whole new level. I think cut, color, and accessories are the key here. Her sweatpants don't look baggy on her and the cut is all right. Grey is also a great choice to help keep a level of sophistication. The high heels and black jacket add oomph to the outfit and help detract attention from the sweats. It's also great that she didn't pair it with a matching grey hoodie of the same material as the pants.

What do you guys think?

Dree Hemmingway (great-grandaughter of Ernest Hemmingway) looks GREAT in these shots. I love the simplicity of her outfit, even more so because the pieces are so simple which makes any regular girl capable of recreating this look. :) I'm also loving how her hair is swept up and away from her face and how her make-up looks so simple, clean and natural.





Pictures by Tommy Ton of Jak and Jil. No copyright infringement intended.


Another thing I'm loving are these shots of different girls wearing the Girls in Glasses t-shirt by Danny Roberts. It's proof that 1) you can own a piece identical to someone else but wear it your own way and 2) a simple t-shirt in your closet can be reinvented so many different ways and suit so many different styles and attitudes. That is the beauty of fashion. :)


Picture is from Igor + Andre No copyright infringement intended.

Things I'm Loving Right Now

1. Loving Leah!!!! - OH MY GOSH!!! This movie is quite possibly turning into my favorite of all time!! I REALLY REALLY LIKE IT! My mom caught it first on TV and told me bits of it over lunch the next day. I happened to catch part of it on HBO that afternoon but was left hanging when I left to go shopping. I was so desperate to see it and find out what happens etc. that I got up at 5AM the next morning to watch it. I had a hard time going to sleep in anticipation of it!! :)) I could laugh at myself for how crazy I am about this movie. I'm planning on watching it again at 3 AM tomorrow morning as I think that's the last showing on HBO.
   
   
   
   Dr. Jake Lever is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing Jew. His estranged older brother Benjamin is a Rabbi, with a young wife named Leah. Jake is stunned when Benjamin dies suddenly, but not as stunned as when he is told that, under an ancient Jewish Law, he is expected to marry the childless Leah to carry on Benjamin's name. The only alternative is to go through a ceremony where Jake must deny his brother's existence. For Jake who idolized his brother, that's unthinkable, so impulsively he suggests to Leah that they get married and maintain a secretly platonic relationship. Eager to pursue her own dreams, Leah accepts. Their oversimplified plan to live separate lives under the same roof proves challenging. Jake's girlfriend Carol has little patience for his new "wife", and Leah's overbearing mother decides to pay a visit to check in on them. Romance and comedy ensue in this quirky tale of falling in love after marriage.
   
   I love so many things about this movie. Jake's smile after he falls for Leah!! GAH!!!!! *sigh* :D :x
    
2. This picture taken from Garance Dore
   

This is a photographer named Cedric





The heart his wife embroidered on the inside pocket of his shirt. As Garance says "Ah! Pfff. Little things like that, they just get me!"

3. These pictures makes me smile

Love this :)


This too. Kinda Max from Wild Things :)



More pictures to follow hopefully. Must dash I gotta get ready to watch a movie with my Mom! Have a great weekend everybody :)