Great gift idea!!

So I'm always looking for great, unique, fun gift ideas!! Something no one has or has even thought of wanting! Some might call these useless gifts.... lol.... but I think they're extra special because someone took the time to find something and customize/specialize it for the recipient!

With that said, my boyfriend is the luckiest SOB I know!! I've given him all sorts of great gifts! But the one below was one of my faves! Through a website called MyDavinci (www.mydavinci.com) I got this 4 panel Andy Warhol inspired pic of us for Christmas!! I knew this was his favourite picture with the 2 of us in it, so I got them to make one up for me on a 14X14 canvas! For an extra $5, they sent me a copy of the artwork before mailing it to me and

I was allowed to make any suggestions or comments until they got it exactly like I wanted it! And delivery was quick! It was absolutely beautiful! I couldn't have been happier with the product! I highly suggest it!

This website gets my thumbs up!!!

Don't piss off Mr. Big!!

that's right.... the chicken pissed him off.... look what happened! That's it's head between his legs!! Grrrrrr!!!!!!!!

Where can I get some of this?

... and what benefits am I really gonna get!! C'mon... sell me!! haha!

high fashion??

How does one walk on these?? Seriously??

Men men men men manly men men men.......

If you know which show I'm talking about just from the title of this entry, well, you my friend are as big a fan as I am! 

I love 'Two and a Half Men'!  I think the show is brilliant!!  I love the cast, it's writers, their story lines and plots!  So needless to say, I was really disappointed when I heard that Charlie Sheen wants out!

 
I love Charlie Sheen!  Ever since he played "Ricky Vaughn" in "Major League" the movie!  He's funny, he's cocky, he's by no means attractive at all, but watching him play a bachelor playboy who's love of bowling shirts I will never understand, on the show for the last 10 years has made him a playful, fun, and light character!  I don't even really get how he gets all those chicks wearing Bermuda shorts and socks up to the ankle!  But nonetheless, one I like to tune into and watch make mistakes over and over again!

Apparently, after his recent stint in rehab for threatening his wife with a knife, was that it?, he decided that he wants to go back to movies and wants to leave the show!  He's reportedly asked for $1.5 million dollars PER episode!!!  

That's more then Seinfeld, Frasier and the cast of Friends!!  All those lovable characters got booted off their shows for asking for more!

Now, if he's asking for this, knowing they won't give it to him and this is a way out, ok... fine!  I suppose!
BUT if he will stay on, if by a miracle, the Emmy award winning, top rated prime time show's producers decide to take him up on his offer, well I think that's just INSANITY!!

Tell me!  WHO deserves $1.5 million dollars for a week of work!?  WHO???!! 

NO ONE that's who!!!!

I love you Charlie Sheen, but hit the road Jack......  and don't come back no more!!

RIP Charlie Harper!  You'll be missed! 

Fashion - Size 0 versus Size 12

Recently, V Magazine had photographer Terry Richardson shoot a fashion spread with two models, size 0 Jacquelyn Jablonski, and size 12 Crystal Renn. Both ladies were fashioned, styled and made to pose the same way, to prove that no matter at what size, beauty is beauty!

check out this article and the amazing photos of the photo shoot - http://fashionista.com/2009/12/does-size-matter/?img=4

I love that they did this! How empowering is it to size 12 women knowing that they can, in fact, look just as good as those size 0 girls in the fashion magazines!
Crystal Renn is a plus size model - I hate that they call a size 12 plus size! That is the standard size for a woman in North America! - who has written a memoir of her career! At age 17, she began to model and developed an eating disorder from trying to look like a very petite and unnatural version of her true self! After becoming quite sick from it, she took some time off and embraced her new body! This girl was made to be a size 12! So why fight it? She took up what the fashion world calls plus size modeling and is now the most famous Ford plus size model!

Her book- "Hungry"

Before and after pics....

She is quite inspiring! Daring to do even nude shoots just to prove to the world that bigger can be beautiful! That women have curves! and that with all the right make-up, accessories, styling and posing, a plus size model can rock any outfit as well as her size 0 model mate! It's nice to have such a powerful voice out there in the fashion world! Let's hope she starts a new trend of models.... women who look like everyday women!

Below is a pic of her and designer Jean Paul Gaultier in a dress he designed especially for her in his Spring collection show in 2006!

I just hope my size 12 butt looks as good as hers!

fun at the parking meter...........

..... ya... me too buddy!

Mutant turtle... literally!

Anyone who is a Simpson's fan will know the 3-eyed fish, Blinky, made famous on one episode when Mr. Burns comes to Homer's house and Marge feeds it to him, on which he chokes on and sends flying across the room.... the 3-eyed fish was mutated do to nuclear contamination in Springfields' water!

Blinky, served a-la-Marge

That same reason may be why this little guy below was born with 2 heads!! Literally, a mutant ninja turtle.... well, maybe not a ninja, but you get my drift........

Cute little guy? ... guys? aren't they?.... it? .... he?!???

Ta - da!!!!

Now featuring ME!! check out my stuff under "projects"!!
http://www.ubloom.com/index.php?option=com_uproject&task=list&Itemid=232

... speaking of webbed....

a shark with webbed toes???!!!

O..... M...... G!

Louboutin's I wanna look like a Thundercat!! Puuuuurty please!!!!!!!!!

... got webbed toes?!

Here's a way to "dress" them up......

Ewwwh!

.... a trip to the mall....

Recently I took a trip to Pacific mall in Markham... otherwise known as Asian central! Supposingly I was suppose to find great knock off at bargain prices... that is until I decided to go shopping with 2 other white girls!

The mall is made up of a bunch of stores, like all malls, but they are enclosed within glass walls, which was quite different for me! Many of them, however, carried the same stuff! So when my friend Vio went into one place and asked the price of an unmarked item, they looked her up and down and said, "$75"! Blast! She came out of the store huffing and puffing... "they think cuz I'm white, they can rip me off!" I'm not sure that this was the case... but nonetheless, not to sound racist, but we all know that many cultures, aka Asians, like to bargain down the price... even when I worked at People's Jewelers, they would try! So she was mortified and applaud that they were trying to rip her off! She went into another store one aisle away and found the exact same item for $30!

Nonetheless, the mall was closing and we didn't have much time to look around... but I did manage to come out of it with a few treasures! One was a great $15 dress that managed to fit both Vio (size 1) and I (size 10)! We both bought it, just different patterns! That, and these lovely photos.....

Dildo holder? Cigar holder?? tampon can holder??? who knows......

aaah and this sign.... do they mean buy 1, get 2 at 50% off.... or buy 1, get 2nd 50% off...... hhmmmm.... *scratching my head*

..... where's Princess?!

BOO!!!!!

7 random thoughts at 4:34pm....

1 - wouldn't water from a new filter taste cleaner?
2 - I need to pee
3 - I really like Katy Perry, she's quirky!
4 - I want to see my baby!
5 - yuuummmm nutella and banana crepes!!!
6 - I haven't had a fish as a pet in a while
7 - what else can I pimp other than my phone & Ipod?!

Hot yoga!

Ever hear of hot yoga?!

It's a new yoga practice that takes your normal everyday yoga into the sauna!!

That's right... you're basically in a sauna, cooking, and doing yoga poses!! This my friend is not an easy feat!

I'm pretty comfortable with my yoga level... I mean I could use a little more practice, especially if one day I'd like to teach it.... been pondering the idea... but anyway.... one rule of thumb when practicing yoga is breathing!! Sounds simple enough, how can one forget to breathe?! But when your in triangle pose, clutching onto your toe for dear life, you may be holding your breath! And even though is is a no-no, it's an even bigger no-no in hot yoga!!

I believe it was half way through the class when I started feeling very light-headed.... started seeing little black dots in my vision.... the teacher's voice seemed lower and lower... more and more distant... this is when I said... I need to sit!!

I sat out for 5 mins.... and took the poses easy... after all, it was my first hot yoga class! My bendy pretzel yoga partner didn't have a problem though! So if does affect people differently!

Let me tell you one thing though! Oooooh boy was I drenched!!! Wouldn't be surprised if I lost 5 pounds in water weight alone!! And yes, you do get as wet as the pic below! If not more!

What an experience! Definitely will do it again... in fact, every Tuesday and Thursday at least, until April - cuz that's when my 1 month unlimited membership ends!!

Wish me luck!!

o-m-g! Really?!

Would you Vajazzle yourself?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnDwcSfL2Tw&feature=player_embedded

if so.... you're not my friend!

Cake number..... oh, I've lost count!

I like making cakes… I do! I just wish my oven wasn't broken and that there was a store that sold the fondant close by!

This particular cake was a nightmare!!!

Firstly, I went out after work one day, in a snow storm, to buy the fondant! I didn't drive though this time, I took the subway all the way out to Kipling station! Then started walking, forgetting that I was not on Bloor like I was suppose to be, but that the subway turns onto Dundas West at Kipling station!! Ughhhh!!

Twenty mins later, I arrive at the store! Thank God!! And to make things better, the fondant is half the price I usually pay when I trek out to Milton to buy some! Fantatic! So I make my way back home on the subway eager to start the cake!

9pm -

I make fresh cream cheese icing for the cake (it was a carrot cake) and layer on the parts of the two-tiered cake! Soon enough, they start sliding off eachother… I thought "greaaaat!" I probably didn't use enough icing sugar! Baaah!!

So I fix them and roll out the fondant to begin covering it and, well not much to my surprise considering the price difference, this particular brand of fondant sucks!! It's too thin, too soft and hard to roll without breaking!!

Either way, I try…. Once, twice, three times, then I'm cursing out loud!! Godammit it's not working!! The cakes are stiff shifting, the fondant is sliding off with the icing making it all drop over to the sides… it's starting to look like a marshmellow!! The fondant got so thin, you could see every bump of the cake!

The catastrophe……
11:30 pm -

Scrap that idea!! I take all the fondant off and go to Metro to buy more icing sugar, coconut, and cream cheese! I'm gonna make it look like a traditional carrot cake with coconut on the sides!!!

Thank GOD it works!!!

Finished piece……

1:30am!!

Amen to that!

Thank you to the lovely Miss Ana who so gracefully showcases the book on my favourite page!

Book Club - March pick!

I was finishing reading a book I've be mulling over for quite some time now (and yes, I actually did force myself to finish it) and thought to myself... I wish I read more... and maybe different types of books, since I'm always attracted to one specific genre!

So I joined a book club!

Every month one of us is in charge of picking a book & a location to meet to discuss it there after!

Rules are:
1 - you can't have read the book before
2 - you have one month to complete the book
3 - we meet the first Monday of the last week of the month to discuss

March is my friend Ana's month!

She has chosen a book called Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Synopsis - Nazneen is forced to marry a man 20 yrs her senior in an arranged marriage who picks her up and moves to London. There she must learn to live in a diverse city with many cultural differences. She struggles to be the obedient wife and mother but soon falls into an affair with a younger man, and must choose between her old certainties and new chaos.

Seems interesting enough... although it's a bit hard to get into! Reviews have said the same, and that it is worth the read so let's hope it's a good one!

So Ana, your choice.... where we meeting up?!