Design
What to Wear
As a follow up to my art dress, graffiti and the invisible artist posts, here are more examples of what to wear — artistically that is: Chor Boogi not only paints murals, he paints lovely ladies. Evidently Lui Bolin wasn’t the first artist to make himself invisible. I found this on an interesting blog, Butterfly by Day, plus I like the name. It reminds me of casart coverings and our butterflies. I like Susan Sontag’s opening quote on this Veruschka’s website (photo link above). To learn more about Veruschka’s interesting life as a famous fashion model, click here. Finally, looking for that perfect party dress for New Year’s? Here’s one…
Christmas Creche
The nativity scene is a way to visually recall the Christmas story and why we celebrate Christmas afterall. I thought this one was unusually interesting in that it is carved out of one piece of wood. Clicking on this link gives you a little history behind the Nativity scene. This was another interesting Old World Style one: We usually put one up every year and like its meaningful message lends simple pleasure to our Christmas decor. Ours is made of terracotta and in the style of South American Santos figurines. It was given to us by my father-in-law, who is an Episcopal priest. Back in the day, when I had…
Ice, Ice Baby & Balloon me
These are just a few fun and interesting, newsworthy things worth mentioning. The National Harbor is celebrating the holidays with Christmas on the Potomac with Ice, quite literally. Click here to review the details and link to the video of this winter wonderland, made entirely of ice, complete with an ice slide. It was written up in the Washington Post as well. Not as elaborate as other ice sculpture posts that I’ve written about, and although a bit cheesy, it could be fun. National Harbor is, however, pretty dramatic, as I’ve been there a couple of times but not in the bitter cold months (previous posts). With my older boys…
