14 October 2009

Crazy thanks to Sanity Fair

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How lovely to get a Kreativ Blogger Award from Sanity Fair. Many thanks! Of course being a Scorpio- they are the natural detectives of the Astrological World- I need to know. It isn't that feminine curiosity- like who are you wearing? But more likely- why are we culturally obsessed with labels?

I investigated Kreativ Bloggers & their Award. How do Kreativ Bloggers behave? What I discovered is that some-don't actually do what is asked. I can understand-but I was surprised. Not following through with the conditions is somewhat unGracious especially if accepting. It is like that awful deadly silence when someone opens a present Not to their liking & it shows all over her face. I say just grin & bear it.

The conditions are quite simple really- tell 7 things about me that readers might not know & nominate 7 other bloggers for the award. My 7 Picks are Fabulous.


ME - 7 things you may not know

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I am not a bull shitter.


2


cupid, concord & clio
I love to make use of something I have just learned. I was sitting with a fellow designer & Scorpio this afternoon and found out this is the case (Scorpios are natural detectives).
How did I NOT know that?

SB replied Well dear I am 25 years older than You and I know more-
Yes in some cases that is true. I defer to SB-that is- when it concerns all things of the Astrological World. Knowledge is Power-& I want to Know.



3

photograph of cz guest
3- I have ruined my back over the last 25 years doing this-
Sadly- Not looking this elegant.



4

Mary Poppins is a personal Heroine and Style Icon of Mine.



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Madame Yevonde photograph
I am an eccentric-I know this because at the age of 17 -I was defined as such-
Yes-actually called out with the Webster's definition. I did know what it was-
I did not- however want to be That at 17.
I grew into it- it took a while. College was a struggle-where more than there -
Do you find yourself, or lose yourself?
In my case it was a bit of both.



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I love cookbooks. I collect them even. I've inherited them. I use them constantly. I read them-sometimes aloud to trapped friends. I love the photography, I love the poetry, I love the ingredients, I love the organization- alas I don't do that much cooking. I go through stages- trying the cuisine of the South- Edna Lewis. I can completely Do Miss Lewis' things. That gingerbread recipe is knockout. (let me know if you want it) Right not I am going through a spanking new one The Country Cooking of France. The recipes are History- by Ann Willian, the photography by France Ruffenach- Art, to see excerpts go see (here).



7

the legendary Tallulah Bankhead


I love a power Nap. At some point-I think it was after I heard the late and brilliant Peter Jennings say He was too-I felt t it was OK to come out of the bedroom and declare it to the world. I LOVE A NAP.


My 7 Kreative Bloggers

(read it and weep Ladies-for joy or otherwise,
It's yours do with it what you will!)


take time to go see their blogs-just click on the blog titles and enjoy


& one more thing- I love a quote~


VW by Roger Fry

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men
who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

~Virginia Woolf



see MADAME YEVONDE here & with more about Madame Y at HOBAC here

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21 comments:

  1. SO much fun - I love reading these things! Number one is pretty fantastic, I have to say :)
    Your cookbooks have poetry? I might be a trifle more inclined to cook if I could bank on being entertained at the same time.
    If you love Mary Poppins, you need umbrellas and parasols (J. Crew is having a great umbrella sale right now - cheetah print.)
    Looking forward to reading the blogs of the 7 new awardees!
    -Sanity Fair

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  2. SF- My cookbooks read like poetry, Yours don't? Mary does have a dark side-and I'm not talking about the rain. Thanks again. Gaye

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  3. I never know where you will lead me. I love the thoughts and Images with their serendipitous sense of adventure. You are the best.
    ThanX with a big X!

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  4. So nice to read these 7 posts to learn to know you better! Today or tomorrow I try to post my 7 things to learn to know me better.
    And thank you so much for the Kreativ Blogger Award! I was so thrilled!!!

    Greet

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  5. You truly deserve this award. I love this posted images. Thanks for some little information about how to become a creative blogger.

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  7. And there you are right in the middle of a fabulous layered puzzle. I was thinking about the wonderful name of your blog yesterday. Sometimes we see mostly one side, then glimpse another. I had put you down as a Cancer before the color game and searched July in vain. Then you come through with deep lilac, burnt umber. Now the 7 things. It's clearer now. I'm a Scorpio (ascendant) detective too -hadn't heard it said that way before!
    Loved this post and the first great oozy picture brings home a most important point!
    Thanks so much for naming me too. I'm very surprised and flattered since it comes from LA. Is this too long?

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  8. so much fun to read about you :-)
    I also LOVE mary poppins and am a bit of an eccentric...lol - I think I've been growing into it myself over the past few years and admitting my foibles!

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  9. Bravo to number 1! So much fun to learn more about you. I enjoy your blog because of, not in spite of, your eccentricity. I'd like to see dressed up as a cross between Jane Marple and Mary Poppins.Something about a great detective with a sumptious valiais. I think you handled this award with the way you are: with grace, more than a tablespoon of forthrightness, information and good humor.

    Also, I loved the seven tapped to reveal their sevens. They are all in my cluster of favorites, many I found through you.

    Have a lovely day in North Carolina.

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  10. I definitely know one thing about you, la. You're the best picture editor in blogsville!

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  11. Debra- You are so welcome-sometimes one doesn't know what to do with this sort of thing-but 7 beautiful blogs instantly came to mind and of course I will be waiting to find out more about you. la

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  12. Greet-Your blog is like a blast of fresh air. la

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  13. Long comments are the best-you actually read the post! I can't wait to read your 7 unknowns. Yes Scorpio-and Libra (doing something-ascending??) I definitely get split more down the middle.
    I do love your blog. It is somewhat, for me Birds of a feather-flock together in the best way. G

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  14. AD- Mary is the best. I love her "practically perfect" sense of all things. If you haven't you should read the books. I read you post today and saw MP's picture on another blog there-Had to rush over and see what she was up to.G

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  15. Home-many thanks, yes I believe in the first. Funny the cartoon is of a favourite bluestocking of mine- Elizabeth Montagu, I have a post lurking about. It that time I am sure the ladies were considered inflated(in all ways) I almost hated to use her so ruthlessly-but the caricature was dead on. Oh well-# * ruthless?
    G

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  16. I love Anne Willan. In her book, From My Chateau Kitchen, there is a photo of her cookbook shelves. She has one of the best private cookery libraries in the world.

    And Tallulah, one of Alabama's greatest exports!

    You can make a rainy day such a joy!

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  17. Rose!!!!!(?) I love the CZ Guest picture-that she actually picked up chairs! She definitely seems the sort that with all that privilege-she rolled up her ?couture sleeves? to get the job done. I have worked in situations where other designers would not lift a finger-I always thought it was attitude-Maybe not.Youth. I never thought about my back then. And isn't Tallulah Bankhead a Southern Belle made of steel. Love her. G

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  18. Lucinda, As you well know I love cookbooks-why I have to visit your sites everyday. Tallulah deserves a post of her own-did she do a cookery book! Rainy days make for good booking. G

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  19. My back hurts too from lifting beautiful things but I get lifted by finding them. A great post and heartiest congrats, Homer.

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  20. Homer,we do have to have balance in all things-thanks, G

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  21. GT, love your 7 things. and G, thank you. I truly am honored coming from you...

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