Happy New Year 2009!

Happy New Year! May all your dreams come true!

Pass the Bubbly Please

Theirs a Bubbly dresses create in you sense approximately older Hollywood glam or just contemporary chic. I identify they are the quite easy, absolutely amazing you have seen previous to, other than converse concerning outstanding drape.

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Let´s Have Some Fun!

While I´m preparing all the things for New Year´s Eve, I would like to share with you this cute cat: "The Ping Pong Cat".

He´s in the mood for a good party!



And if you enjoyed that video, maybe you will like this one too:



Aren´t these pugs cute?

I hope these videos put a smile on your face.
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This is a best looking dressy holiday design

Dressy holiday design you find on marketplace but you don’t purchase a best Hollywood look so this is a I think best Hollywood look.

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Latest Fashion Hedonistic Heels

Latest Fashion Hedonistic Heels this is a best heel primary appear on runway of Milan and Paris in September and in this cause all hardened style editors to intake of breath in horror as crippled model tumble show just include a Prada and DSquared2.

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My Treasury made Front Page!

Days ago, I participated in a great Art Project created by HeyMichelle (Etsy´s Admin).

If you want to know more about the project, you can do it HERE.

I was very lucky and my last treasury was one of the chosen and made front page!

Here you can see it:

Congrats to all of the featured, I´m very glad you made front page because your items are lovely and you deserved it!

Few hours ago I could make another treasury, HERE you can visit it.

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Featured on Chicgalleria.com!

On 24th December, my designs were featured on front page of Chicgalleria!

Chicgalleria.com is "The go-to magazine for all personal care, beauty, and fashion-related must haves" and a great site with amazing articles and interviews. I feel very honored they decided to interview me and show my products.

So from here I want to thank the wonderful Beth Anderson for the opportunity!

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Red Carpet Look By 2008

Beginning the red carpet of the Oscar service of Anne Hathaway in Valentino, Cameron Diaz in Dior Haute Couture, Hilary Swank in Versace and this is a best fashion of 2008. The Red Carpet Look is very gorgeous.

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Short Hair Cut Fashion

Short Hair Cut Fashion look for the perfect and most excellent style style and perhaps you need a little teaching on fashion, hair care, style or how to oversee and protect the fashion hair method you before hold? If so, you have established the correct position to begin explore all the fun and in order about locks.

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Merry Christmas everyone!

This is an increase right away complete I desire to coating up with colors and scarves - I am really determined that I have too greatly black in my secret! Is that even probable? Love the new face and the braided locks.

Image source: Elle Italy by David Burton

Very Happy Christmas!

Yes, I am in feel affection for by means of red pumps! Although immediately to put in some diversity, these is not Louboutins (remember the Turkey day pumps?), other than from Stuart Weitzman.

Many Happy Christmas Day everyone

New Wrist Watch

This is a latest wrist watches are newest movement. This is dissimilar as of extra timepiece. The Wrist Watch is containing both analog and digital clock in a particular single. And the Wrist Watch is containing a blackish, silver color handcuffs and too the belts according to corresponding of timepiece.

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Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays From Leela Bijou!

Featured on PhineasandLou´s Blog!

The great woman behind PhineasandLou´s blog has written a terrific article featuring some of my designs.

Jennifer has a lot of talent writing, I really like her style and her posts. I recommend you to visit her fantastic blog, you can do it clicking HERE.

Moreover, she has a wonderful shop on Etsy: http://www.phineasandlou.etsy.com/ There you will find beautiful, high quality and eco-friendly pieces.

Winter Queen, design from PhineasandLou, included on my last treasury.

I included one of her designs on my last treasury.

Thank you Jennifer for the great feature on your blog!

The Most Beautiful And Impressive Fountains In The World

Some days ago I came across THIS BLOG and I enjoyed the gorgeous pictures of very beautiful fountains from all over the world.

These ones are a few from my favorites:

Photo Copyright Erika Tunick

Fountain of Wealth at Suntec City, Singapore listed by the Guinness Book of Recordsin 1998 as the largest fountain in the world. Photo Sengkang

Children’s Fountain by Tom Corbin in Kansas City, Missouri. Photo Charvex

A mini-version of all of the major landmarks in Rome, built so that the Popecould sit up here and keep watch on the city. Photo Ingorrr

Animated fountain in Moscow’s Square of Europe, with cascades of water jetspulsating up and down to imitate the surf. Photo Denghu

Tivoli fountain, Ovetta. Photo Antmoose

Visit lifeinthefastlane´s blog and enjoy the whole post with all the fantastic pictures.

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Gift Wrapping Ideas

Gift wrapping idea found HERE

If you already have started wrapping presents for this Holidays or if you are about to start, maybe these ideas could be useful. I´m always looking for new ways to surprise my friends and family, so I collected some tips to make more appealing the gifts for them.

Gift wrapping idea found HERE

1) Use laces and ribbons.

2) Tissue paper is a great option that can embellish the present and there are many colors to choose.

3) Vivid and rich colors.

4) The combination of two matching colors is very elegant.

5) Drapery tassels can give it a "Victorian" look.

Gift wrapping idea found HERE

6) Strong single colors, offset by white, are dramatic and very effective.

7) Using things related to the gift can be a great idea.

8) Mesh fruit bags are very handy.

9) Add little figures, like small trees or stars.

10) If you know the colors that the receiver likes, that´s a plus and you can use them to wrapp the gift.

Gift wrapping idea found HERE

For more wrapping ideas, you can visit the links above and also HERE.

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Little Black Lace Dress

FASHION - You don't want a lump of coal for Christmas, but a little black lace dress and the accessories to match might be on your list this year. Its sort of an old-fashioned Victorian Christmas idea, but don't forget black lace suffers from a Madonna/whore complex in fashion.

When done in white and in a voluminous form for wedding dresses, lace is considered innocent and pure. In black and in the boudoir – lace is sexy, racy and risque. With the colour of flesh underneath there is also underlying simmering sexuality.

Miuccia Prada, in her fall/winter collection, managed to marry the two personalities of this fabric with guipure lace dresses. She took black lace and made it look austere and prim and by adding dickies at the neckline – they practically look like something a nun or Mennonite might wear, a naughty one.

Prada believes in lace so much that she reportedly bought the entire stock produced from a Swiss factory. Small surprise, whatever the highly influential Prada does, it usually sends shock waves through the fashion world.

This holiday season, any chain store worth its fashion credentials is in on this trend and has lacy little black dresses for the holiday. They're perfect for the festive season and beyond, ladylike and classic, but also suggestive and sexy.

Best part of all, accessories to match are really easy to find. See Long Gloves and Fingerless Gloves.

A Nice Surprise: Featured on Shespeakz´sBlog!

Today, my work has been featured on the wonderful Shespeakz´s blog!

I feel very honored because this blog is fantastic. In her blog, you will find a complete selection of articles about current events, fashion, etc.

Shespeakz is a very fresh site with nice articles and I totally recommend reading her posts. They are really entertaining, dinamic and funny. Moreover, she has a lot of talent writing.

You can enjoy her posts HERE.

And if you want to read the featured she made, you can do it HERE.

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Thank you so much for this feature ;)

My Soaps Arrived!

Today these soap bars arrived to my studio from LilyBaySoap ´s shop and I love them!

The smell is very rich, specially of the "Lavender Mint"one, I love it.

I´m very glad because I wanted them for my relatives this Christmas and they arrived just in time! (I´m hoping none of my relatives will read this o_0 , hehe).

Misty, the owner of LilyBaySoap, is super kind and I invite you all to visit her shop: http://www.lilybaysoap.etsy.com/

Great quality and nice prices!

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Working, Working, Working...

When it´s almost one week left for Christmas, my working hours have become crazy and I have to finish the "last minute" orders.

That´s why I haven´t been around the forums too much these lasts days, neither twitter or facebook.

One thing that really surprised me is that I have made a lot of pendants like these ones:

Many of them were made with Amazonite Quartz (like the ones in the pictures), but some others were made with Red Coral, Lapis Lazuli and Aventurine Jade. I hope I will have time to take some photos of them before the owners will come to pick them up.

This pendant is also available on my shop, if you want to take a look click HERE.

I´m aslo working on some custom bracelets and I hope to finish them soon.

Happy Holidays!

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Holiday Parties Hairstyles

Here I bring you some ideas to look fabulous at this Holidays parties.

You can find more styles like these at becomegorgeous.com plus some good recomendations.

This kind of hairstyle was found at latest-hairstyles.com , where you will find a lot of tips for different sorts of hair: short, long, curly...

Another good site for very detailed hairstyles is ivillage.co.uk.

I enjoyed these three sites very much and I hope you will enjoy them too.

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New Youtube Video

Today I finished the edition of this new video on my Youtube channel.

If you would like to watch the rest of my videos or my Youtube channel, you can do it HERE.

I hope you like it and thanks for watching!

Black Supermodels being left behind

Last year during the January 2008 fashion week...

'There should be more than one spot for a black model," says Yordanos Teshager, 21, a reed-thin, nearly 6-foot-tall model from Ethiopia who is represented by the prestigious Elite agency. But despite going on 85 cast calls seeking work during Fashion Week last season, she says she often left feeling that "they were going to hire a white girl."

Teshager walked in only 11 of some 200 shows last September, a season in which, overall, women of color were glaringly absent. Of the 101 shows and presentations, more than a third employed no black models.

Models were a homogeneous bunch - overwhelmingly white, bony and often blond. Along with the obvious - and serious - issue of racism, some wondered whether it wasn't all becoming just a little boring. When Fashion Week comes to town observers won't just be looking at the clothes - they'll also be looking for a serious change in who's wearing them.

"I would hope some of the designers would mix it up this season. Unless you were Eastern European, white, extremely skinny ... you didn't fit into the shows last season," says Nigel Barker, the photographer and judge on TV's "America's Next Top Model."

"Some shows had just one black model," Barker says, adding that he found the shows monotonous, visually unexciting and depressing. "Fashion is about fantasy, and everybody's fantasy is not to be 6 feet and white."

"I think designers will be more mindful," says Jasmine H. Chang, executive fashion editor of O, the Oprah Magazine. Chang says the absence of black models last season made her feel "uncomfortable. Here I am seated in an audience with every ethnicity in the world, and I did feel it was wrong."

Efforts from the inside

If there is a change, it will be in no small part because of the efforts of former model and agent Bethann Hardison, who has organized three panel discussions since September on the lack of diversity on runways. And it's a problem that's been building, she says. "It's not just a bad year, it's been a bad decade."

Who does she blame for the runway whiteout? "I blame us all - the designers, the agents, myself. ... But for me it all starts with the fashion designer," Hardison says. "They've gotten very 'Stepford Wives,' lost in commerce, very conservative. ... Where is the glamour? The avant-garde? I'm trying to get designers to stop following the yellow brick road."

Though she particularly advocates for African-Americans, Hardison says the problem affects all races and she vehemently objects to the apparent new taboo of looking different. "Forget even a white girl with style and personality. ... Fashion is going backwards." Bottom line, Hardison says, "The fashion designer no longer relates to the model, and I believe this is where I can raise consciousness and generate a sense of responsibility. It's race-based, and race conscious and that makes it unconsciously racist."

John Mincarelli, a longtime professor of fashion merchandising at the Fashion Institue of Technology in Manhattan, who takes a sociological view of fashion, agrees. "There's a complete lack of personality and that has to come from the designer. It's a dictate. Black models always bring personality to the runway."

Designer Carmen Marc Valvo, who dresses plenty of women of color including Vanessa Williams, Jennifer Hudson and Queen Latifah, says he's well aware of the issue and makes it his business to include a variety of ethnicities in his show. "It's almost as if the industry dictates this blond, blue-eyed ideal. We are very cognizant of this and always include women of color. I think it's almost criminal that one-third of the shows were all white."

Blaming the agencies

But casting agent Jennifer Starr, who is also a judge on Bravo's "Make Me a Supermodel" and is casting for Ralph Lauren, J Mendel, Alice Temperley and Carlos Miele, believes the problem stems from the modeling agencies.

"It's not the designers' fault ... at least the designers I work for," she says. "Ralph Lauren, especially, is constantly asking me why there aren't more African-American models he can put in his show." Starr says the agencies don't seek out African-American women of the same level as the white women they take on. She says she would hope that designers would want diversity, but, she adds, "I don't feel anyone should compromise their aesthetic just to be more representational. They should use the girls they love, whether that girl is white, black, Hispanic or Asian."

Likewise, Kate Armenta, the bookings editor at Vogue magazine, says, "The black presence has somewhat faded and there seems to be a lack of up-and-coming black women. We see some, but not enough." She adds that other racial groups are underrepresented as well.

Daul Kim, 18, a Korean model also at Elite, has felt the cold shoulder. In Paris last season, she was actually told at a casting that they were only hiring white women. "I think it was so rude," Kim says. Not to worry, though. This season, Kim was named one of the "Top 10 Models to Watch" by New York Magazine and is, according to her agent, "surging a bit in popularity."

Not surprisingly, modeling agencies don't want to take the blame for the dearth of diversity. Roman Young, the director of new faces at Elite, says, "We are doing our part. This is a blended office ethnically and culturally. I'm really passionate about the beauty spectrum." Young says that when a client asks for "the girl next door," he responds that "the girl next door to me was Filipino. ... Can I send a black girl?" Although he says he's fully aware that the client wants a white model, he notes that in the end, "It's my job to sell beauty not ethnicity."

Getting behind change

Calling for an end to all the finger pointing, Ivan Bart, senior vice president of powerhouse agency IMG models who represents black supermodels like Tyra Banks, Alek Wek, Liya Kebede and Naomi Campbell, says this should be "about the industry coming together and recognizing what the consumer wants. There's a diverse group of consumers out in America and we should be listening to them."

He is optimistic that this season's runways will feature more diversity. In fact, he says IMG has a slew of new ethnic talent to help fill the bill.

Ford Models president John Caplan adds, "Our role, and the role of the agent, is to scout for interesting faces of all ethnicities. ... The responsibility for who is successful comes down to what the marketplace wants." Well in advance of Fashion Week, Ford's superstar Chanel Iman Robinson, who was often the single black face in shows last season, was already reserved for most of the major shows.

For its part, the Council of Fashion Designers of America is taking a hands-off approach to the issue, though it did send members a letter that touched upon it by saying that "fashion can impact how individuals define themselves so it is the responsibility of the industry to take action to celebrate diversity."

Will it? Elite's Young has noticed "more girls of color on the request list this season." And that holds true at Ford, as well. Hardison is hopeful. "If I was dealing with homeland security, I know nothing would change. But I think it's going to make a difference. You got to keep on, keep on, keep on."

So will 2009 be more of the same? You'd hope the Obama effect would sink in and the fashion industry would suddenly realize black supermodels aren't just sexy, they're cool.

I have joined Wishpot

A couple of days ago, I joined Wishpot.com and I´m really glad I did.

(From Wishpot.com FAQ)

What is Wishpot?

Wishpot is a free online service that makes it easy to save all the products you're shopping for in one place while enabling you to discover and share those fabulous finds with friends and family.

How does it work?

Wishpot lets you add products from anywhere on the web with the easy to install Wishpot Button. You can share items and lists with friends and family.

I created several lists and added items that I liked from Etsy crafters. My lists are public so everybody can see my picks. I think it´s a good way to promote other artists from Etsy that have a lovely work.

I have added a new widget to my blog too. This tool will let everybody see the things I have on my lists.

Every week, I will change the theme (the widget only displays one list at the time).

If you want to see all my lists, click HERE. And if you want to visit Wishpot, click HERE.

I hope you enjoy this site!

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My Three Hearts Ring on a Treasury!

My Three Hearts Ring was included on this Treasury!

I feel very honored, the curator has made a beautiful selection.

Thanks PersonalTreasures!

You can visit the Treasury HERE.

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Delicious Brownies

Brownies are one of the most tasty desserts I´ve ever tried.

I used to have a lot of recipes of this cake, but I´m going to share with you the one I made more often.

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder

3 tablespoons butter, softened
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup confectioners' sugar

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour an 8 inch square pan.
In a large saucepan, melt 1/2 cup butter. Remove from heat, and stir in sugar, eggs, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat in 1/3 cup cocoa, 1/2 cup flour, salt, and baking powder. Spread batter into prepared pan.
Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Do not overcook.
To Make Frosting: Combine 3 tablespoons butter, 3 tablespoons cocoa, 1 tablespoon honey, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 1 cup confectioners' sugar. Frost brownies while they are still warm.

I hope you like it, thanks for reading!