Archive for August, 2008
Butt Workout with Kim
August 19, 2008Kim’s Dumbbell Workout
August 18, 2008
Handbags and more
August 15, 2008
Merriam-Webster :
(A handbag is) ‘a bag held in the hand or hung from a shoulder strap and used for carrying small personal articles and money’
Is it your Prada handbag?
If at first a handbag is a useful thing, it can be an elegant and pricey fashion cult object, too. A woman never sleeps well if she does not possess the handbag of her dreams.
In the following video, two old ladies, two handbags. Each one has her own. But it does not help. They are fighting like hell. What is really worth for such a fight at this stage of life? At least it shows that the ladies are still in excellent shape and that they could learn something — but not from me : the Zen attitude. I am wondering if they can bite each other…
Handbagging
BBC News :
Handbagging became a technical term for asserting oneself, if not literally whacking one’s opponents. Most famously used when Mrs Thatcher reportedly banged her hands on the table in a European summit, demanding the UK be given a rebate on its contributions. She got it, and the UK still has it. It’s worth £2bn a year. That was some handbag.
Introducing The PM Collection
I want to show you two fancy bags I created last year. Material : Solid lorry tarps. Waterproof, scuffproof, indestructible. Thanks to four high-quality inline-skate wheels with metal bearings, the trolley can roll and spin remarkably well. Too well, actually. On a hot sunny day, I was on the road along with Born To Shop. Then, my soul whispered to me ‘Buy me an ice cream. Please, buy me a big ice cream.’ While I was paying, I became aware of a gentleman tapping gently on my shoulder : ‘Hi, here is your trolley back. It’s just started taking a walk on its own.’ Ice creams and slopes, not always a good combination : there is no brake system on my inline skate wheels.
Shopping with Born To Shop has become a real pleasure. It’s fun to jog on the pavements while guiding my luxury car among crowds like a fairy princess. The only limit of my shopping tours is the cash limit.
It was not easy to make stitches using my small Elna sewing-machine. It took me three weeks all in all to finish the shopping bag. A professional welder understood my wishes. He did a good job. Then I painted the trolley in black.
Born To Shop came finally to life.
Born to Shop
A Bike Bag which is not a bore.
Stormy Weather
August 12, 2008
I still remember how Ndiass, a little boy in Senegal who adopted me when he was only 6 months old, was fascinated by African storms. Growling thunders, lightnings flashing through the sky, the whirly wind refreshing the air -at last-, buckets of rain falling on the tin roofs of his African village… Clinging to my leg, he could not stop watching and watching. Storms are fabulous.
I remember, I was small-boating in France with my life companion. Suddenly, coming out of nowhere, a heavy storm exploded over our heads. I was completely puzzled. Somewhere in my brain some laws of nature popped up (water and electricity are no good friends, don’t plunge your coffee-machine into water, don’t put your electric appliance in the dishwasher..). Needless to say I was afraid. But I kept my mouth tight shut. I did not want to make my boyfriend nervous. Since the little boat was our home for two weeks long and we were in the open countryside of France, there was nothing else we could do than stop the boat and switch off the ignition. And wait…
Be ready for the next storm ! Here are some insider tips on :
October 12, 2006 — Santa Maria, California is hit by a severe lightning storm. This photography slideshow movie is from stills as Cathy L. Gregg photographed the incredible display from the inside of her car for almost 3 hours. In a 12 hour period this lightning storm produced almost 5,700 strikes of lightning. This area of California is not known for this type of lightning storm. It just happened to be the right conditions of cold and hot coming together and creating a wonderful show of lightning. This storm hardly produced any rain, a little hail and luckily no major damage.
by Cathy L. Gregg
Beautiful Nails
August 11, 2008Longan Quiz
August 10, 2008
On this pic : one of my longan trees. Their trunks are sometimes yellow, like this one, sometimes dead orange or green. Some others are white. On the other hand, the leaves of all my longan trees are square, transparent and tiny. Each longan tree weighs 3 kg (= 6.6 lbs) and costs 12 EUR (= $18.0) 8) (i.e. $2.72 each lb) in some Chinese shops of Munich (Germany) where there is no Chinatown at all.
Quiz : How come longans are so expensive in the largest Chinatown in the USA ($5 for a lousy lb of longans)?
My Longan Tree
I love picking longans and eating them one by one. But I can do that only once every 2 years. Why? Because in Germany, fresh longans are sold only by trunks. (In New York’s Chinatown you can buy ONE longan for 50 cts). So during the Longan Week, I climb onto my longan tree and comfortably seated on a branch, I pick all the longans my belly can hold. But somehow I am happy when The Longan Week comes to an end.
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Un poquito de vino rojo? 
