Friday, August 5, 2011
SWEET WEDDING ON SATURDAY!
There is going to be a sweet wedding tomorrow for a lovely young couple I just adore! Ah! young love... and this desert table is going to reflect every bit of sweetness this young couple exudes. Can't wait to show you what we have been planning for their beautiful day!
#133 Scallop Wave Top
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#132 Cut Hem Blouse
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#131 Crochet Collar Jersey Dress
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Contrast crochet collar and 3/4 length sleeves.
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Love at First Sight
- Hello I am Ava Aston and I am addicted to Vitamin Water.
It all started one day as I was walking through the hot New York City streets on my way to a Law & Order audition. My throat was parched and I had just realized I left my bottled water in my car that I just parked 3 blocks away. Like any other blonde-greek girl I was running late and had to decide, do I go back or brave the heat? But knowing how important it was to me to be hydrated I had to do something. Then I noticed one of the most amazing signs of my life. It read, "Vitamin Water".
Hello??? As you all know, vitamins are like one of the most amazing things God has ever made and I am stuck on them like white on rice. So the thought of vitamins infused into my water was like a no-brainer. So I stormed into the store, not sure what to expect as I raced past a screaming kid begging for candy and an old man scratching his lottery ticket. Then I arrived. I felt a cool chill flow over my skin as I peired through the frosted glass at what would soon become my now favorite beverage of choice.
The glass door squeaked open. Time began to slow down. A breeze from the back of the cooler wafted my sweat laiden brow. I reached in and took hold of the cold plastic bottle. Then without skipping a beat as I let the door slam closed I twisted the cap and poured the sweet Vitamin water aka nectar from the Greek Gods across my lips and down my throat. And yes, I let out an audible sigh of relief. "aaaahhhh"! It was love at first gulp.
So I strode up to the register passing anyone in my way. I handed the clerk a half empty bottle of Vitamin Water. He looked at me like I was deranged. It was either he didn't know why I was buying a half-empty bottle or that I looked like one of those girls in a Clairol commercial where you have your own luminous glow and a perfect grin as your hair flows arbitrarily around for no explainable reason. So I slapped the $5 bill on the counter, accepted my change and raced out the door.
The rest of the day was a blur but I was in love and I was hooked. The only problem was it was the only thing I wanted to drink. This sent my head spinning. So I had to do something to avoid paying $2 for each bottle. This sent the Greek girl on a hunt that turned up a goldmine solution. I found a local distributor who agreed to sell it to me for $.80 per bottle if I bought 10 cases or more. So, I did. Now because I am a little Greek Girl I didn't want to go alone, so I hauled mom along for the ride (just in case), because no one messes with my mom.
We arrived at the distributor out in the middle of nowhere in my Volkswagon. The Vendor was looking at me like I had a hole in my head. I told him I had a hole in my heart and that only Vitamin Water would fill it. By the way, I don't think it's a coincidence that two of my favorite things in the world both share the same initials, "VW". Just sayin'
- This is a never-before-seen image revealing my secret stash. Sssshhhh!!! Don't tell anyone!!!
Since then I have continued to hunt out deals. I also must add, that I have since switched exclusively to Vitamin Water Zero. Even though, they have to date not broguht my absolute FAVORITE flavor in the world "Energy" to the Zero line yet... It was so bad at one time I literally traveled with a case in my suitcase wherever I went. This was in case I couldn't buy it at my destination. Then one time I actually bought 20 cases before moving to Los Angeles and loading up the back of my Penske truck with them. That is a story for another day. Trust me you want hear that one. Until then, drink up my friends! Drink up & get your glow on!
Love, Blessings & Music,
Ava xo
Ava xo
Thursday, August 4, 2011
"THE RIFLEMAN" - THE MISSUS AND HER BROTHER
'THE RIFLEMAN'
"The Brother-in-Law"
Johnny Gibbs, Lucas McCain’s brother-in-law, visits the McCain ranch. Gibbs, a rodeo rider wanted by the law, begins stirring up trouble.
"The Vision"
Mark comes down with typhoid after disobeying his father and drinking some polluted water. Lucas fears that his son may die, and a visitor in Mark’s dreams may be the only hope to save him.
From The Rifleman Episode Guide
"The Brother-in-Law"
Johnny Gibbs, Lucas McCain’s brother-in-law, visits the McCain ranch. Gibbs, a rodeo rider wanted by the law, begins stirring up trouble.
"The Vision"
Mark comes down with typhoid after disobeying his father and drinking some polluted water. Lucas fears that his son may die, and a visitor in Mark’s dreams may be the only hope to save him.
From The Rifleman Episode Guide
Lucas McCain's late wife was Margaret McCain, and her brother Johnny was a rodeo rider wanted by the Law. After he settled his debt to society, Johnny may have started a family of his own, and his lineage may have led to Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a forensics investigator for the Navy (as seen in 'NCIS'.)
Most of Mark's memories of his mother Margaret may be based more on any pictures of her kept in the McCain home, but she seems to have a basic similarity in appearance to her brother. But when Mark had a fever dream in which his mother urged him back to the world of the living, she looked more like a "worldly" woman named Hazel who was part of a wagon train heading west.
"In case you haven't noticed,
Gibbs is a man of more questions than answers."
Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard
BCnU!
AS SEEN ON TV: JIM BOWIE
JIM BOWIE
AS SEEN IN:
'The Improbable History Of Mr. Peabody'
AS PLAYED BY:
Paul Frees
From Wikipedia:
On September 19, 1827, Jim Bowie and Sheriff Norris Wright attended a duel on a sandbar outside of Natchez, Mississippi. Bowie supported duellist Samuel Levi Wells III, while Wright supported Wells's opponent, Dr. Thomas Harris Maddox. The duellists each fired two shots and, as neither man had been injured, resolved their duel with a handshake. Other members of the groups, who had various reasons for disliking each other, began fighting.
Bowie was shot in the hip; after regaining his feet he drew a knife, described as a butcher knife, and charged his attacker, who hit Bowie over the head with his empty pistol, breaking the pistol and knocking Bowie to the ground. Wright shot at and missed the prone Bowie, who returned fire and possibly hit Wright. Wright then drew his sword cane and impaled Bowie.
When Wright attempted to retrieve his blade by placing his foot on Bowie's chest and tugging, Bowie pulled him down and disemboweled Wright with his large knife. Wright died instantly, and Bowie, with Wright's sword still protruding from his chest, was shot again and stabbed by another member of the group. The doctors who had been present for the duel retrieved the bullets and patched Bowie's other wounds.
Many historians and even members of Bowie's own family believe that it was Rezin Bowie who actually invented the knife, but it was the "Sandbar Fight" that brought it fame.
However, in the Tooniverse, it was Mr. Peabody who invented the knife in 1825 so that Jim Bowie would have the proper utensil to cut the steaks at his Mississippi restaurant, "Bowie's Beanery".
BCnU!
Most Censored in Indian Country: The Corporate Polluters
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Photo: Marisa Joseph, Yankton Sioux, stands with Gerald Danforth, Oneida Wisconsin, before the solar panels and wind generator providing power to the Earthcycles. Photo Brenda Norrell.
NEW TOWN, North Dakota -- The 16th Annual Protecting Mother Earth Gathering revealed the most censored issues in Indian country, including the corporate polluters who are protected and promoted, under the guise of economic development. From Peabody Coal in Arizona, to BP on the Gulf Coast, and tar sands profiteers in Alberta, Canada, corporations destroy the land, air and water.
The Gathering of the Indigenous Environmental Network attracted Native Americans from throughout the United States, First Nations in Canada, Wixirika from Mexico and Maya from Guatemala, July 28-31.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Cheyenne River Lakota, delivered a powerful address to Gathering of the Indigenous Environmental Network, as it opened its four day conference on the land of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations, now being destroyed by massive oil and gas wells.
Chief Looking Horse is the 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle of the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate. Chief Looking Horse spoke of his own early days and the guidance he was given for spiritual leaders. Although it is now a time of ceremonies for the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate, he said he came here to speak because of the importance.
“When I was young, we had no cancer or diabetes, and people kept their word. When they said they were going to do something, they kept their word. Today, the leadership is not good. People are speaking out of hurt and pain.”
Chief Looking Horse spoke of the pain and suffering of the people and of Mother Earth. While speaking of this difficult time, he shared his vision that the people, with the help of the Canupa, Sacred Pipe, and a return to a spiritual way of life, will make it through.
“We know that Grandmother Earth is sick right now," Chief Looking Horse said. (Read more at: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/07/chief-looking-horse-speaks-at.html )
Kandi Mossett, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara, urged those attending to call the Fort Berthold BIA and oppose the finding of 'no significant impact' on the plan for 3,000 oil and gas wells here over the next five years. Mossett described the death of a 23-year-old friend killed due to the heavy truck traffic. She urged calling Earl Silk, Fort Berthold BIA, 701-627-4707, tell him the lands of the Three Affiliated Tribes, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara, are already being destroyed by oil and gas drilling.
"I want my warriors back. I want our men back," said Wahleah Johns, Navajo, of the Black Mesa Water Coalition, as she described how Peabody Coal has drained the aquifers for coal mining and power plants in Arizona, and how the Navajo elected leaders cater to the corporations.
Further, coal fired power plants, including the Navajo Nation's coal fired power plants in Arizona and New Mexico, are a leading cause of global warming and climate change, now causing the ice in the Arctic to melt, with Alaskan villages crashing into the ocean and polar bears, walruses and other wildlife dying.
The devastation to both the environment and the local economies was described in the US and Canada, from New Town, North Dakota, to Alberta, Canada, as transit workers' high wages make food and housing unaffordable to local families.
The resistance to the dirty tar sands announced plans for civil disobedience in Washington to send a message to the Obama Administration to halt a plan for use of the dirtiest oil on the planet, which threatens natural resources and humanity in North America, including Indian country.
Clayton Thomas Muller, Cree, said civil disobedience is planned for Washington to challenge the Obama Administration and US State Department, now presiding over a key decision regarding dirty oil from the tar sands pipeline, the proposed TransCanada Corp. Keystone XL pipeline.
Muller said if this pipeline is allowed to proceed from Canada to the Gulf Coast, it would cross sacred lands and endanger Indian country resources, including the Lakota aquifer.
“It is an absolutely insane plan, especially in a time of climate change,” Muller said, adding that already Gulf Coast industries are getting ready for this dirty oil.
Shell and BP are among the corporate polluters pressing for more dirty oil. (Read more at: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/08/indigenous-peoples-civil-disobedience.html )
Native Americans in Alaska and Louisiana have both suffered from the nation's largest oil spills, which have devastated Native communities who depend on subsistence from the land and oceans to survive.
Faith Gemmill of REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands) said oil spills and climate change should serve as a wakeup call in North America -- but this has not happened.
Gemmill is a Pit River/ Wintu and Neets'aii Gwich'in Athabascan from Arctic Village, Alaska.
Gemmill joined local Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara fighting massive oil and gas development here in North Dakota, and First Nations activists fighting dirty tar sands development in Alberta, Canada.
Gemmill spoke of the similarities between the devastating oil spills in Alaska and Louisiana. She pointed out that climate change further wrecks Native villages on both coasts, where land is caving into the ocean.
"We all have the same story."
Houma Nation Chief Brenda Dardar Robichaux was among the presenters at the Protecting Mother Earth Gathering in North Dakota, July 28-31, 2011. The Houma were hard hit by both Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill.
Gemmill said when the oil spill devastated the Louisiana Gulf Coast, she was a member of a delegation from Alaska that traveled to Louisiana. They shared with the Houma, their own struggle in Alaska to recover from the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Gemmill said she described to the Houma the years of litigation and the years of impacts for Alaska Natives, years of heartbreak that Louisiana Natives would now have to face.
"Years later we haven't recovered. The species haven’t recovered. There were a lot of similarities," Gemmill said. (Read more at: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/08/natives-in-alaska-and-louisiana.html )
Indian country leaders are now being courted with "greenwashing," as corporations attempt to profiteer from the Green Movement which seeks to halt global warming and create alternative energy sources. The scam of carbon credits, and waste incinerators disguised as renewable energy and recycling projects, are the latest corporate hoaxes.
Indian country has been targeted for decades as America's waste dump, with coal-fired power plants, massive oil and gas wells, uranium mining and toxic dumping.
Native Americans are now being duped into the carbon market, entering into the carbon credits scam, which allows the world's worst polluters to continue polluting. The carbon market scheme also seizes Indigenous Peoples forests and other resources around the world. Already Indian Nations in Idaho and Oregon have been duped by corporate propaganda to become part of the carbon market.
Bradley Angel of Greenaction described the latest Greenwashing scams. Angel said an action alert has been issued because of companies targeting Native Nations with proposed waste incinerators disguised as renewable energy and recycling projects.
On the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin, the Oneida Seven Generations Corporation is promoting a project using pyrolysis technology. The pyrolysis incinerator is proposed in Green Bay, after their initial plan for a site on Oneida Indian Nation land was dropped.
"Not only does the Oneida Seven Generations Corp. want to have a facility in Green Bay, but it is also promoting this to other tribes, a potential disaster," Angel told Indigenous Peoples gathered from throughout the Americas.
Greenaction evaluated the project and advised the Oneidas to halt the Oneida Seven Generations Corporation Proposal in Wisconsin for a pyrolysis gasification facility. (Read more at: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/08/greenwashing-corporations-target-indian.html )
The Gathering began when Western Shoshone Chet Stevens brought the fire from the 15th Annual Gathering. Scott Baker, Hidatsa, accepted the Fire and lit the Sacred Fire for the 16th IEN Protecting Mother Earth Gathering. Keeper of the Calendar Mayan Tata Cecilio Tuyuc Sucuc from Guatemala was among those gathered for prayer. (Read more at: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/07/listen-live-today-ien-protecting-mother.html )
The four day Gathering was broadcast live and on the web in New Town, North Dakota, and rebroadcast on Crow Voices Radio at Wellknown Buffalo, Montana this week.
Listen to the Gathering on Censored News Blogtalk Radio:
Wixirika (Huicholes) fighting the First Majestic Silver Mine in Vancouver BC, demanding a halt to the destruction of their sacred mountains.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle of the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate, describe the age in which we live and the teachings handed down.
Anishinabe Water Walker Josephine Mandamin describe her sacred walks around the Great Lakes and the preciousness of water.
Censored News Blogtalk Radio
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/brenda-norrell
More info at the Indigenous Environmental Network:
http://www.ienearth.org
Soapbox House Of Cards And Glass
"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."
( Friedrich Nietzsche)
Bryson Baby Shoot
Had the honor of photographing the adorable baby boy Bryson. What a cutie. So many expressions.
Bryson actually struck the below pose on his own. I do believe he was channeling Sears Portrait Studio.
Get on the bus, gus II
Confirmed by White House spokeweasel Jay Carney-Barker:
I am -- as you all should be -- absolutely flummoxed. The best comment over on the Ht Air post on this was by Bob in Virginia.
Some of the delusional argue that the cost is less than operating AF One but they miss the point -- like I made in the previous post -- that this bears a resemblance to the whistle stop campaigns by FDR and Truman in days of yore yet Obama is calling on all of us to pay for it. The amount being spent is irrelevant. It is bad optics. It is disgusting, unseemly, and was something that the left took no end of joy pummeling George Bush for all through out his presidency. This sack of crap deserves no less.
ADD CAMPAIGN BUS TOUR NICKNAMES: From the Hot Air article, the following have been offered by commenters as nicknames/slogans for this tour:
"Rolling Blunder" - Emperor Norton
"Obama ’12: America Under the Bus" - Preshone
I am -- as you all should be -- absolutely flummoxed. The best comment over on the Ht Air post on this was by Bob in Virginia.
Most tone-deaf administration, evah!! Didn’t he hit up folks for a $35,800/plate rubber chicken last night? Wants to be the first LAME DUCK president to raise $1Billion for his campaign and now has the unmitigated gall to pick the pockets of the taxpayers for this 3-day CAMPAIGN tour!!! He’s not fooling anyone by saying this is ‘business as usual’ and he’ll gain more embarrassment than anything else because of it. Amateur!
Bob in VA on August 4, 2011 at 12:07 PM
Some of the delusional argue that the cost is less than operating AF One but they miss the point -- like I made in the previous post -- that this bears a resemblance to the whistle stop campaigns by FDR and Truman in days of yore yet Obama is calling on all of us to pay for it. The amount being spent is irrelevant. It is bad optics. It is disgusting, unseemly, and was something that the left took no end of joy pummeling George Bush for all through out his presidency. This sack of crap deserves no less.
ADD CAMPAIGN BUS TOUR NICKNAMES: From the Hot Air article, the following have been offered by commenters as nicknames/slogans for this tour:
"Rolling Blunder" - Emperor Norton
"Obama ’12: America Under the Bus" - Preshone
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"THE RIFLEMAN" - S#!T CARSON
"End Of A Young Gun"
When Will Fulton was recovering from a broken leg at the McCain ranch, he told Lucas how his parents had been killed when a man named Carson stole their farm.
If it's the man I'm thinking of, I don't think this Carson would have done the job himself. He probably had men working for him to do his dirty work. Everybody would know that they were Carson's hired thugs, but there would never be any proof to that fact. It would have been these outlaws who committed the murderous land grab, but it would have been on Carson's orders.
And who was this man named Carson?
I think he was the former Senator from Nevada, perhaps related (at least in Toobworld) to Kit Carson after whom Carson City, Nevada, was named. He was seen in the 'Bonanza' episode "The Iron Butterfly".
Carson was a bitter, brutal man by the time he ordered his men to kill the Fultons, having lost his son in 1871 during an altercation with Hoss Cartwright over an actress. Carson served as one of the state's senators at some point between 1864 (when the state was founded) to some time after the events of "The Iron Butterfly" took place. (Although it could be he was already retired from Congress by 1871; Ben Cartwright would still have addressed him as "Senator" as a formal courtesy.)
By 1881, when Will Fulton arrived at the McCain ranch, Senator Carson was apparently focusing his energies on building his personal wealth and his own private empire - by stealing the land of his neighbors.
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