Thursday, March 24, 2011

3d Wedding Invitations

Aunt ... again!

Today
Santino was born, my first nephew of the family of Marc ...
It's beautiful, everyone was very excited, especially my mother by becoming a grandmother (?) And my brothers, uncles and finally be (?)...

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Katesplayground Full Seys

Rising stars. Bow

I've since I was fourteen or fifteen years of watching the shows most important of the major fashion weeks, the experience, years after all, have given me a perspective different from the one we sell the designers about themselves or their firms owned emporiums.

I've seen over the years up to stardom fame who now are great, I have seen the birth and the consecration of Dolce & Gabbana , his meteoric rise and his fall from grace last few seasons, plummeting into the turbulent waters of modernism capricious Chanel Karly of the twilight successful man Giorgio Armani and rebirth.


Throughout these years I have seen how, supported by large holdings or to journalists, designers and firms, a priori irrelevant, became the overnight rising stars in the picture fashion and have seen plummet big names champions of Made in Italy (signatures supported by large Italian industrial) for many years before the Great C and unexpectedly. Big names in fashion history that collapsed like a house of cards at the slightest breeze journalism. Montana , Gigli , Mugler, Biagiotti ... the list is endless and the inexorable time with regard to fashion and fashion passed.

A new world order is coming after the withering dismissal of Galliano of Dior , a falling star and another on the rise. Haider Ackermann is the star of the moment, the designer half Belgian, half Colombian, half French takes marching in Paris since 2004, meets all the requirements to become a star designer of the following seasons. Is the name that is on everyone's lips since the last couple of seasons Mademoiselle Lagerfeld will "appoint" his worthy successor.


As in the common work, "stars" end crashing into the wall power, the era of the famous designers-designers tops has come to an end. Estate holdings, the almighty that move the roost, they must have enough of that generation of artists and eccentrics capricious astronomical salaries they spend too much on scenarios increasingly large and private flights to bring the top model of the moment to parade their shows.

But what Ackermann can offer apart from a particular view and not necessarily exciting, fashion?. For me, at all humble opinion offers subservience, silence and behavior that has nothing to do with his predecessors and his proposals as a way of seeing fashion SERENA. I believe that serenity is what characterizes the propositions of this designer and is probably a reflection of his character and the times. What I saw of his proposals had nothing to do with an aggressive fashion, but quite the contrary, his garments, knitted clothes, long skirts, blouses ... are mostly soft, smooth and very mature in line with the times and the times ahead of us. There is no hysteria in their proposals or personal desire but do not knock the imagination.

Ackermann
may not make mere mortals dream we see fashion as an art, like a show, we expect the shows as entertainment, but I'm sure is going to meet the high expectations their create future leaders for him and they will be highly beneficial for something that we often forget the audience but not the entrepreneurs, business profitability. We'll see what comes of the new world order.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Can A Cat Give You Impetigo

SERVANT OF THE SERVANT

"But if the servant says: I love my master, my wife and my children do not want to go free" (Exodus 21:5). For this servant no dilemma, there is nothing to choose from. Their decision was never in doubt. His love was his world. The serf was tied to it with everlasting chains of love. He would not be able to leave your love or your home.

servant's life revolved around her love for his master, like Paul, he considered everything else as "dung" in order to win her love. He was the kind of person willing to be neglected so that others could get to know love of his Lord.

This servant valued intimacy with his master over any earthly blessing. Who could care herds, the fields, or wine and oil, when you can have an endless communion and intimacy with the master? His heart overflowed with tenderness for her master and he said it clearly: "I love my master, no I want to be free."

servant What this is saying is simply this: Christ is enough! Nothing in this world has the courage to lose the feeling of his presence. All the wealth and prosperity of all land not can be compared to having a day with him. The pleasures that are at his right hand vastly exceed any ecstasy known to man. Know him, to be where he is, sit together in heavenly places, is more than life itself. Serving, be guided by it, come and go according to its mandate, is to live life at its highest level.

Do I remember you being a child and not a servant? Then I also gently remind him that Jesus was a Son, who "being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant and the likeness of men "(Philippians 2:6-7). He may have been as powerful Prince of the Most High, destroying all enemies, however, Christ chose to come as a servant, totally committed to his Father's business.

this dedicated servant we read in Exodus, I thought I had one mission in life, and this was to serve his master. He was not looking for the inheritance, although it is written, "A wise servant shall be imposed unworthy son, and the brothers share the inheritance" (Proverbs 17:2). The love that had made him follow easily from morning till night, every moment he was awake, he lived in voluntary servitude to his master. He was driven only by love - not guilty, nor sense of obligation. No wonder Jesus could say, "If you love me, obey me."