Tiger Lily

Her friends call her Tigger, the few she has. You see, Tiger Lily is really a loner. Her best friend is her albino snake that she calls Mercury. During the day she paints in her live-in studio flat, two blocks from the boardwalk in Venice Beach. Her work is mostly abstract. She loves using her fingers to splatter paint on the canvas because she likes the unpredictable outcome. At night she works as a dancer ~ something she started at right out of high school, and like waitressing, once you've done it for a while, sometimes one gets the idea in their head they can't do anything else. Her dream is to show her work one day, but not quite yet.

Postcards from Deirdra

Growing up in Waterford, the oldest city in Ireland, Deirdra was often lonesome as an only child.  She spends her days by the sea where she is most at peace. In the evenings, she spends hours laboring over her favorite hobby ~ building tiny ships to fit inside of old bottles (a craft she learned from her grandfather). She prefers to walk rather than drive, she always dresses for dinner and still sends hand written notes to her friends. Someday she'll travel the world - but it could only be by sea, for Deirdra will never leave the ocean ~ it is her truest friend. 

Meet Donatella

Donatella grew up like Italian royalty, the granddaughter of Federico Fellini wanted for nothing. She moved to the Big Apple when she was eighteen in hopes of working with her hero Woody Allen. Now she spends half the year in Singapore where she lives with her on-again off-again architect boyfriend at the Fullerton Bay Hotel penthouse suite, because, quite honestly ~ you can't beat the view. Plus Singapore airlines still serves in crystal and Donatella appreciates those types of little details. She tells people she watches what she eats, she just doesn't tell them it's usually steak frites! She hasn't exactly given up on her dreams of starring in a Woody Allen film, however at the moment she is quite content to be in front and behind the lens of her own camera creating moving pictures & writing her story!

Star gazing

Thrift shop score!!!

There is nothing better than perusing your local thrift shop and discovering a treasure for next to nothing ~ right?? Well, I found this aqua blazer, bejeweled with champagne sequins for $5.95 last week! How cool is that!! This unique piece by True Meaning was in perfect condition and made so nicely. Oh happy day!

Let's Pretend!

Today ~ let's pretend it's not Monday! I won't tell if you don't ~ just go have fun!

Sunset Boulevard

Taking photographs of exquisite sunsets is one of my greatest pleasures! I feel so blessed to live near the Pacific and to be able to watch the sun set over the ocean on a regular basis.  Here are just a few of my favorites from the past few months.

Keep your light burning bright

I love light, it's brilliance, speed, power! It is primordial, magical ~ yet it is as abundant as the air we breathe. You can focus it, flood it, dim it, or shine it. It warms our backs and grows our trees. Shine your light extra bright today!

The fascinating Lana Del Rey

If you have not yet had the chance to experience Miss Lana Del Rey ~ you are in for a treat! Her sultry, throaty voice and unique feminine charms leave you with a sense of wonder (well, at least that is what they did for me) :} Enjoy! 

in hot water

I like to get in hot water from time to time, it helps to wash the dirt away!