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 I'm happy to share with you all, my newest project where I will combine Art & Fashion in my outfits. I teamed up with Lulu's.com who was so kind and let me chose 4 looks from their online site, each one representing one artistic current. This month, you will see 4 outfits, one outfit each week. The most inspirational artistic currents for me at this moment are: Art Deco, Impressionism, Fauvism and Baroque here presented today.
 Baroque is probably one of the most featured artistic current these days in fashion. Dolce & Gabbana, Aquilano Rimondi, Marchesa and Ralph Lauren are just a few that translate this extravagantly ornate style into the fashion. Opulent ornaments mostly in black and gold, rich and delicate materials as brocard's, lace or silk are hard to resist when you want to obtain a dramatic look. You don't have to go all the way baroque, just take the elements that you like the most and incorporate them in your every day look or just add accessories instead of clothes.
Here is my interpretation of Baroque style and I will like to hear your opinion !



                                                                          Dress: Better B thanks to Lulu's.com/Here
                                                                          Heels: Fahrenheit Zara thanks to Lulu's.com/ Here
                                                                          Coat:vintage/ option Here
                                                                          Bag: vintage
                                                                          Leather gloves:Echo/ similar design Here 
                                                                          Sunglasses: thanks to zeroUV

This is a glimpse into me, and I perfect example of my non-blogging life. I forgot my blog birthday. It was two weeks ago (better late than never). I am not at all good with dates and not big on birthdays.

But I DO want to take a minute to thank all of you. I had small but specific plans for this little blog - a chance for me to get back to writing and a photo album of this house that I love so much. I know everyone says this but it is true - I really didn't expect anyone, except my mom, to read this.

However it has turned into far more. I have made some great friends and met so many wonderful and TALENTED people. You all keep me inspired and I thank you.

So happy blog birthday to us! May the next year be full of great ideas, fun projects and all things wonderful.

via Real Simple

A monochromatic palette is what you will see today in my outfit, created with nude, ivory, different shapes and different textures... All the pieces blend greatly together and I think the key piece of this look is the lace top, received from Sugarlips.com. I love wearing head to toe white or nude outfits. They are chic, no matter the season, and give a glam spin, no matter if you wear a dress or a suit.
What do you think ?
Have a wonderful Tuesday everyone !



                                                                           Blazer: vintage/different color Here
                                                                           Top: thanks to Sugarlips.com/ Here
                                                                           Pants: Ann Taylor/another great pair Here
                                                                           Clutch : Diesel /similar Here
                                                                           Ring :from my friend Tarhuna Bijoux 
                                                                           Sunglasses: thanks to zeroUV
                                                                           Heels: Aldo/ option Here

I never said I would be quick about this whole living room update right? Good. Because it is painfully obvious that I'm taking my own sweet time with this room seeing as I first posted about it in August. The beginning of August.

So I could apologize for my laziness and give all sort of excuses as to why this little room is taking so long, blah blah blah. Or, I could just get on with it and given an update. An update you say? You are so positive, I knew I liked you!

Now if you are anything like me, you will need a refresher on the original to do list.

And actually, now that I'm looking at it, I have gotten a lot done. Go me!

The walls have been painted one of my very favorite colors - Arrowroot by Pratt & Lambert. And the ceilings are a very pale blue (I can't remember the name at the moment) that seems to change color several times throughout the day, which I love.


And I have a serious crush on my prints from The Pink Pagoda as well. That little lady looks so good! And so does her hubs, hanging on the other side of the room.

I'm still playing around with pillows and some other little things.

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny

The race is close, very close, with the momentum shifting to Romney. However, my take is the shift, as significant as it has been, came too late and too little.

Progressives no doubt are biting their nails because as much as they prefer not to acknowledge it, this one is a real cliff hanger. Reminiscent of 2000.

It is true if Obama loses this one progressives throughout the land will be wailing and gnashing their teeth. For them it will be a great undoing of their greatest hopes and dreams. Of course the other fifty percent of America will view it quite differently.

So, as the polls close tomorrow, and the tabulating of the vote goes late into the night, we can be sure of a few thing... The nation will remain polarized, the puppet masters behind the curtains will continue calling the shots, the debt and deficits will continue, no mater who wins. And America will continue to ask why.

Tomorrow, as I visit my polling place and cast my ballot for Gary Johnson I will be wearing a very big smile. Regardless of the outcome of this election there are millions of liberty driven individuals that WILL live to fight another day.

Remember... Vote! It is not only the right of every American, it is also the RESPONSIBILITY of every American CITIZEN to do so.

Politico - A defeat for Barack Obama on Tuesday would be no ordinary loss for Democrats.

It would be a traumatic experience: the death of the dream of liberal realignment embodied in Obama’s insurgent 2008 campaign. And it would be all the more distressing to Democrats because so many of them fervently believe they will win tomorrow.

Unlike Republicans, many of whom have no particular love for their nominee, Democrats admire and sympathize with the president, understanding he came into office at a difficult time. If Obama were to lose, Democrats would suddenly be leaderless for the first time in half a decade and would be forced to confront agonizing questions about the viability of their party’s agenda — health care reform, most of all.

Here’s POLITICO’s preview of how Democrats would try to explain an Obama defeat — including some of the foreseeable arguments and spin:

Obama threw it away in Denver

At the end of September, Obama led his opponent in essentially all credible national and swing-state polling, Mitt Romney’s personal favorability was stuck underwater and the former Massachusetts governor was caught in a whirlpool of controversy around the “47 percent” tape.

And then the first debate happened.

With a strangely passive debate performance, making no mention of the “47 percent” video and even suggesting he and Romney agreed on the the future of Social Security, Obama gave the Republican a massive new opening in the 2012 campaign. Romney’s swing-state numbers leaped upward, his personal favorability surged and in national Pew polling he went from a 8-point deficit to a 4-point lead over Obama.

If Romney emerges the victor on Tuesday night, some percentage of Democrats will say that the reason is really very simple: Obama self-immolated on a single night at the University of Denver. Had the president been the fierce competitor that night that he was in the two successive debates, he could have ended the race on Oct. 3. Instead, Obama barely showed up.

The Obama campaign doesn’t buy this read on the race. It has argued in recent weeks that the movement in polls following the first debate was just a matter of Republican-leaning swing voters coming home to Romney. Those voters, they say, would ultimately have voted for Romney anyway.

Via: Memeorandum

Thinking about my many friends and the thousands of others who are still without power and will be climbing an uphill battle for weeks due to that wench Sandy.

Even if you are far away, you can still help by going to the Red Cross and donating today.

Hello everyone !
It is time for a new GIVEAWAY! Probably many of you are familiar with Canvas Land's End brand and their wonderful products. Now you have the chance to win a great prize: 5 excellent items (in your preferred color and size) shown here in the attached photo. I have also attached the links for the products, for you to check them out .






1. Follow my blog with Google Friend Connect and/or my Facebook page Here
2.Tweet a link with your favorite item, from the Canvas Land's End site! make sure you include @CanvasLandsEnd and @Sportandfashion-news in your tweets.( without this, you won’t be eligible to win)
- Leave a comment below with your name and email address.( one comment per entry)

That's it !
This Giveaway is worldwide and the last day to enter is November 19.
Good luck to all of you !

Since I have this blog I had never wore this pair of pants from Zara and I really don't know why. I loved them when I bought them and I love them now as well. Lucky me I know all I have in my closet & all I need is the idea how to wore them. So here I 'm wearing them in a grey and leopard combination  accessorized with this needlepoint bag and Vince Camuto cuff bracelet .
Have a wonderful Sunday everyone !



                                                                          Pants: Zara/ similar Here
                                                                          Leather jacket : Asos/ option Here
                                                                          Heels: Daniblack / similar design Here
                                                                          Bag: vintage
                                                                          Blouse: vintage
                                                                          Cuff bracelet : Vince Camuto/ another favorite of mine Here

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny


The mark of a desperate campaign and it's candidate. Some might even call it despicable.

CINCINNATI — A seemingly offhand utterance from President Obama has turned into a major point of contention between the two campaigns, as Team Obama tries to explain what the president meant when he told a crowd of supporters that “Voting is the best revenge.”

It happened in Springfield, Ohio Friday as Obama was discussing the economic policies of the 1990s. When Obama referred to “a Senate candidate by the name of Mitt Romney,” the crowd booed his opponent’s name — certainly not unusual reaction at political rallies of both parties. Then Obama said, “No, no, no — don’t boo, vote. Vote. Voting is the best revenge.”

It was an ugly and small-minded moment, especially for the end of a campaign when candidates usually try to stress larger, optimistic themes. Romney incorporated the “revenge” line in his speech in Ohio Friday night, saying that while Obama advises revenge, he, Romney, wants people to vote “for love of country.”

As Obama traveled to northern Ohio Saturday morning, campaign official Jen Psaki was asked about the “revenge” remark. According to a White House pool report, Psaki said Obama had been speaking in the context of Romney’s “scare tactics” in Ohio. The Republican is “frightening workers in Ohio into thinking, falsely, that they’re not going to have a job,” Psaki said, according to the pool report. “And the message [Obama] was sending is if you don’t like the policies, if you don’t like the plan that Gov. Romney is putting forward, if you think that’s a bad deal for the middle class, then you can go to the voting booth and cast your ballot. It’s nothing more complicated than that.”

The problem is, the president was actually not speaking in the context of Romney’s highly-controversial ads about bailed-out Chrysler adding production of Jeeps in China. In fact, Obama had not said a word about the Jeep controversy when he said “revenge.” His speech had touched on Hurricane Sandy, on the progress the American economy has made in the last few years, on his national security accomplishments, on the choice Americans will make on November 6, on Bill Clinton’s record — on a lot of things, but not on Jeep. {Read More}

Pathetic indeed!...

Via: Memorandum

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny

More bigotry and hypocrisy from the left. This guy gets away with the double standard at will. Chalk it up to political correctness run amok and a willing complicit and blind MSM. Ya just can't make this stuff up.

Hat Tip: NewsBusters.

Bill Maher on HBO's Real Time Friday might have said one of the most disgraceful things uttered during the 2012 campaign season.

"If you're thinking about voting for Mitt Romney, I would like to make this one plea: black people know who you are and they will come after you" (video follows with commentary):

Imagine for a moment the outrage if a conservative commentator said even jokingly to Obama supporters, "White people know who you are and they will come after you." {Read More}

Indeed, indeed!

Via: Memorandum