Kyla Knocks It Out of the Park in This Weeks ANTM Competition

Your Jeans May Be Polluting the Earth - E. Coli Bacteria May Help Solve The Problem

Wow! It's amazing how little some of us (me) know what goes into the fabrics we wear. I had no idea that the synthesized Indigo dye used to dye jeans in lieu of the dye extracted from the Indigofera plant was a combination of toxic chemicals including formaldehyde!

Are You Getting Enough "Easy To Incorporate" Affirmations In Your Daily Life?

Using affirmations embeds positive, targeted messages to your subconscious, bringing about a rise in vibrations and guiding the Laws of Attraction directly where you want them to go. 

It is easy to run through your day not reinforcing positive emotions, thoughts or energies to our subconsciou, due to being busy and focusing on what is at hand in our daily lives.

Twice the Power Punch - Two Affirmations - One Cup

"I Am Confident" and "I Love and Appreciate" Affirmations

Are you using affirmations as often as possible throught your day?

"Today, I Have Strength" Two Affirmations - One Vintage Mug

Beautifully designed high-quality mug with two different affirmations on the front and back.

Inside the Charles James: Beyond Fashion Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

This would be an amazing exhibit to be able to attend. 

The Art of Fashion!

“Charles James: Beyond Fashion” opens to the public this Thursday, May 8, and runs through Sunday, August 10, in the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

600 - 400 B.C. Gold Neck Ring Weighs More Than One Pound

A Bit of History

If you like jewelry, then you probably appreciate the history and beauty of the jewelry of the centuries prior to today. 

Being a fashion designer and artist, I love to delve into the past brilliant minds for inspiration and culture details. Can you imagine someone wearing this four or six hundred years before Christ? And it weighing more than one pound? Just Imagine!

The Gold Neck Ring that is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a beautiful and coveted piece of jewelry weighs more than one pound.

Byzantine Jeweled Bracelet 500 - 700 AD

A Bit of History

These elaborately decorated bracelets have richly jeweled exteriors and finely detailed opus interrasile patterns on their interiors. The luminous beauty of pearls was highly prized in the Byzantine world.

Billie Holiday’s Fashion Style Going To Jail

“What would you wear to the police station if you were arrested in San Francisco in 1949? If you were the iconic singer Billie Holiday, you would swath yourself in a vast mink coat with enormous sleeves, wrap your head in a perfect turban, and view the entire degrading affair through a pair of chic dark glasses.”