Slimming Summer Style

1. Summer Straw Hat J. Crew $34.50

2. Neile Real Butterfly Jewelry – Blue Morpho Chevron $95.00

3. Target Beach Towel $12.99

4. Tommy Bahama Sandals $158.00

5. Supermarket THQ Tour Tote $96.00

6. Poketo Blue Ribbon Wide Angle Camera $35.00

7. Day of Driving Sunglasses Mod Cloth

8. Bathing suit on sale Old Navy $20

 

I’ve been hanging out at the pool as much as possible this summer and would love to add all of these pieces to my modern summer collection! But my favorite piece is definitely this bathing suit! I got it on sale at Old Navy and it looks wonderful on a woman with curves. After going from store to store looking for a new swim suit, I was happy to find quite a few wonderful suits at Old Navy this season. The pattern gives the illusion of an amazingly flat stomach and the low cut back is really sexy, but the suit still gives enough chest support.

The Blue Angel – A New Orleans Treasure

In early 2004, I took a visit to see one of my closest friends in New Orleans. She had been living there for a few years and I always looked forward to my trips to visit her Down South, where we would feast on Southern food, visit cemeteries, wander around the Garden District, go on Swamp Tours, and just generally have a wild time of it. My favorite part though was always the days we would walk around Metairie Cemetery. There is nothing like Metairie where I grew up. The graves are all monuments to life. Beautiful marble, stained glass, shinning brass, and copper turning teal in the salt tinged humid air.

We had been to Metairie at least twice before on this trip, taking pictures and walking around, most importantly trying to get a good picture of my favorite Angel  “The Angel of Grief.”  But the doors to the Mausoleum that she is located, The Chapman H. Hyams Tomb had always been locked. But on that lucky day the doors were wide open, no lock, no chains on the doors at all. The statue was bathed in an incredible blue light, which was shining down on it from three different stain glass windows, one a beautiful floral tiffany window, the other two were simple blue abstract designs. That day it was like everything was meant to be, not only were the doors open, but the normally pale blue tinged light was a deep violet blue creating a dramatic visual effect. The statue of “The Angel of Grief” was carved out white marble, in Carara Italy by William Wetmore Story and then shipped to New Orleans Louisiana.

Treasury Roundup: Around The Farm

Fresh from the farm…

Curated By: JillianReneDecor

Featuring The Work Of: judeMcConkeyPhotos, grayworksdesign, 42things, Splodgepodge, Modred12, TheSteelFork, CalloohCallay, WithTheRain, Dprintsclayful, Antlerstuff, gazaboo, FirstLightPhoto, BootsNGus, gardenmis, FrogGoesToMarket, OneDecember

This weeks Treasury Roundup is dedicated to all of those who grow our food, the ranchers and farmers, cheese-makers, and bakers, and all amazing yummy sweet food that start’s to come out of the garden at the beginning of spring. I can’t wait to get back in the garden. We’ve been digging bed’s and laying in compost, all to get ready for that action packed time of year that is spring. Where plants seem to grow over night and flowers bloom before your very eyes. These incredible treasuries embody everything that spring is simple and clean, bright, fresh, and exploding with possibilities. Come and check them out with me.

Etsy Find: Hanukkah Shopping

I comb through the Etsy Finds e-mails everyday, looking at there beautiful choices for the holidays, and themed gatherings. Hoping beyond hope that I will be included. But yesterday, I didn’t have time, I was simply to busy.

But late last night, I noticed that my traffic had just absolutely exploded, and I had no idea where it was coming from. I looked through google analytics, and saw a mysterious annotation, called bronto. Well what is bronto, and why is my traffic coming from google bronto. What in the world is that I asked myself.

Well after doing some digging I found out that bronto is the service that Etsy uses to send out there Etsy Finds e-mails.  But alas, I had deleted all of my emails for the day, and there is no archive for Etsy Finds. I continued my search looking through my email trash can. Until there it was, the Etsy Find, Tell your Friend Veronica… It’s Time to Celebrate Hanukkah! And it had in it under the gifts for men, my beautiful, Song of Solomon Dog Tag Necklace.  Woo Hoo!!!