Pink sweater with distinctive details – Camisolão rosa-velho com detalhes distintos

This pink sweater has a peculiar shape: a slanted slit on the front, and some shirring embellishments (both front and back). I’m a sucker for distinctive details like these. The raw crystal ring was an online purchase, I first saw it on Style of a Fashionista blog; Giselle kindly revealed where she got it from (it’s from Margie’s Etsy shop, also check out her blog).

In this outfit I made:
The brown pants
The crochet bag
Hope everyone is having a great weekend; I’m taking some time to rest, I really need a break.

Este camisolão rosa-velho tem uma forma muito particular: uma abertura assimétrica na frente e uns franzidos (estes na frente e nas costas). Não resisto a detalhes diferentes como estes. O anel com cristal em bruto foi comprado online; a primeira vez que o vi foi no blogue Style of a Fashionista. A Giselle simpaticamente revelou onde o arranjou (veio da loja Etsy da Margie, vejam também o seu blogue).

Neste conjunto fiz:
As calças castanhas
A bolsa grande
Espero que toda a gente esteja a ter um óptimo fim-de-semana; eu por cá vou aproveitar para descansar, que bem preciso!

Made by Tany from head to toe – Tudo Tany dos pés à cabeça

All garments that I’m wearing were made by me:
The black sweater with pleather sleeves
The pleather skirt
The Vogue Paris Original Christian Dior coat
Feeling sophisticated today…

Todas as peças de roupa que estou a usar foram feitas por mim:
A camisola preta com mangas de napa
A saia de napa
O casaco Vogue Paris Original Christian Dior
Hoje o tom é sofisticado…

When the Museum Becomes a Kiddie Park

There’s a lot of talk about the commercialization of museums and the arts in general. The Art of the Steal tells one story – the destruction of the Barnes Foundation, the last great private art collection – about self-congratulatory patrons and money-hungry politicians and trustees bent on sacrificing educational vision for a quick buck.

For other institutions, bigger (or more) is better. Quantity, overcrowding really, whether in Beethoven-padded concerts given by a local symphony orchestra or in Degas ballerina sculptures cluttering the local art museum, is appreciated more than quality. Snappy captions so poorly worded as to make English teachers cry entertain with trivia more than educate visitors about artifacts. Most docents are, at best, well-read amateurs. (I’ve been one and talked with plenty of others.) Gift shops proudly market gaudy jewelry and expensively-priced cheap reproductions to willing buyers. And all of this is done in the name of promoting the arts.

All this commercialization, the cheapening of the arts, is disheartening, but what has increasingly bothered me over the years is something similar but what may very well be more damaging: what I’d call the juvenilization of art, museums, and other institutions. If you go to any museum during the day, you’ll undoubtedly see flocks of school children “learning” about art, science, and adult topics. Their teachers get to feel good about organizing fieldtrips; their parents get to feel good about exposing these young video game-warped minds to “culture.” The nonprofit gets a pat on the back and millions of grant dollars for helping out our schools and giving back to our community. And in the end, the kids only remember getting pushed by Johnny or seeing Suzy’s new sticker tattoo.

Kids like Disneyland. Museums have become little Disneylands in a desperate attempt to get repeat visits. Some recent exhibits, although cleverly designed by knowledgeable curators and education directors, have left me worrying that we’re teaching kids to expect that anything worth appreciating must be all fun and games. It’s even worse in the science museums. Thousands of years of advancement are reduced to “Interactive stations” with blinking lights and rock muzak.

And, lest you think that this can be blamed on Southern California, where jeans and t-shirts have replaced black tie and movie studios are as numerous as educational institutions, I’ve noticed this problem in many other states. It’s a national emergency. A recent trip to Boston and Cambridge proved to me how even major historical and intellectual centers can catch the bug. All the while, it’s still unclear as to why children, unwilling consumers who are not inclined to make donations, are the target audience of what should be adult industries. By “dumbing down” arts and commercializing it, merely to appeal to those it wasn’t designed to reach en masse, something precious is lost. We might very well ask, “What’s the point?”

Today, returning home after a long day - Hoje, de regresso a casa depois de um dia longo

Missy was playful and showing how much she missed us while we were gone at the office.

A Missy estava muito brincalhona e mostrava quanto sentiu a nossa falta durante o dia.

the sweet taste of crow.

MMMMmmm.... how sweet it is to eat crow! i love the tangy taste of "i told you so!", it's kind of like one of my favorites.

WHhatT! NO it's NOT! i hate it, unless i'm serving it! hehe...

but,... i am a big girl and i'll own my { wrong's }... thus, Greenfield Hill by Denyse Schmidt. I really, really didn't see this one coming. i truly thought, "OOohh... gross, WTH??"... until it arrived at my door, and then i started singing a different tune in my head!

at first... i thought it was sweet music, until i remembered all the smack i'd been talking and describing how i just couldn't possibly see this fabric line being the next big ( Modern Treasure )!!! how wrong i was. thus, here i am... eating a plate of big o'le nasty crow. touche. YOU know who you are, you were right ( which, yes... means i was wrong. i hate that! ) and for everyone else... it's a legit line, better start getting yours! ;) and if these pillows weren't enough... to sell ya... check out this! Fantastic!

and guess what!... the Lovely Miss Kerri is giving you all a chance of experiencing this heavenly line in a FQ set give-a-way of both { blues & Reds } colorways to ( 2 ) lucky winners!

Guidelines:

1. leave a comment telling me which fabric line surprised you with ultimately... being fabulous!

2. Blog about this give-a-way!

3. Get it done by February 3rd by 9:00pm PST!

Good Luck!! ;)

xo, Heather

You little lucky Ducks!

i won't hold it against you... forever. ( wink, wink )

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Lilysunshine said...
I'm having a huge pillow love at the moment and these fabrics would be perfect for a few pillows to live in our living room.
January 29, 2011 9:59 AM

Quiltin' Sandy said...
That gorgeous fabric is just wanting to become a bag, or a table runner, place mats, even soft toys if there was any left over. So pretty and cheerful!!!!
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January 29, 2011 9:38 AM


( please send me your info my friends!)

Thanks Fat Quarter Shop!! YOU're the best!!

XO, Heather

Details that matter to me – Detalhes que são importantes para mim

Still busy, still stressed… No time to snap pictures in the morning… But there are “little” things, “small” details (not little or small to me) that cheer me up; the kindness and understanding of my readers and friends for one, and the generosity of some distant friends, distant in geography but close to the heart. Thank you!
The bracelets were part of a gift set for my other blog’s Anniversary; they were handcrafted with love by a dear friend of mine.

Ainda muito ocupada e stressada… Sem tempo para tirar fotos de manhã… Mas há “pequenas” coisas (muito grandes para mim) que me deixam animada; a simpatia e compreensão dos meus leitores e amigos é uma, e a generosidade de uma leitora distante (distante na geografia, mas próxima do coração), outra. Muito Obrigada!
As pulseiras fazem parte de uma prenda que recebi pelo aniversário do meu outro blogue; foram feitas à mão com amor por uma amiga muito querida.