Minggu, 28 Februari 2010
Tattoos Looked Upon Differently If You Are Famous
I abhorrence to accept that I feel like back they are acclaimed and accept bags of money that some bodies accord them an chargeless agenda to get tattoos and not be hounded about it. But we all apperceive if David Beckham or alike Tommy Lee wasn't as acclaimed as they are, they would added than acceptable be ridiculed about their tattoos and added than acceptable affected to awning them up.
So I anticipate this is aloof addition abundant archetype of how bodies appearance bodies with tattoos. If it is ok for your child's so alleged role archetypal to be covered in tattoos and not get fabricated fun of than what is the aberration of us accustomed bodies accepting tattoos? I alone don't anticipate there is a aberration except for the actuality that their job doesn't attending bottomward aloft if they accept a little or a lot of ink.
Tattoo Lettering
Wrist Tattoo
Megan Fox Tattoos
Sabtu, 27 Februari 2010
WWE Mohegan Sun Arena Tickets
Bill Cosby Treasure Island Tickets
Jumat, 26 Februari 2010
Have a wonderful weekend.
The top ten mispronounced foodie words.
Wow, holy bedroom makeover!
What a lovely wedding (with orange shoes).
Oh, Nutella snack drink, where have you been all my life?
Good to know when climbing trees.
Grace Kelly would have liked this pencil skirt.
Flower pinata.
Funny shopping moment in the UK.
Loving J. Crew's "real models" series.
Beautiful bookstore cafe.
Loving these old-school toys.
Another adorable Olympics commercial. What a great song.
The cutest cross-country road trip proposal story.
Plus, five Cup of Jo posts you may have missed.
* A well-dressed autumn.
* Wine tip.
* Venice underwater.
* A quote to remember.
* An Ode to the Indie.
(Illustration by Adrian Tomine, whom I spotted in a record store once. I awkwardly trailed him around but was too shy to say hello)
Jeff Foxworthy Tickets Mystic Lake Showroom
Cheap Gophers Womens WCHA First Round Hockey Tickets
Barenaked Ladies Orpheum Theatre Tickets
San Diego Roller Derby
The Five Winter Olympians You Could Probably Outrun
Comics Dropping Pounds Like Jokes
Rib Tattoos
Skulls Tattoos
Tattoos Design
Fourth Station--Jesus Meets his Afflicted Mother
(From the Stations of the Cross by Brother Mickey McGrath, OSFS)
Fourth Station: Jesus Meets his Afflicted Mother
Leader: O holy Christ, we worship you, we adore you;
People: Your blessed Mother wept at the sight of your pain.
As your mother saw your bruised, bloody and scourged body, she thought of an angel that spoke to her over three decades ago. "Greetings, favored one!" the angel had told her. What favor was there in this? How could the crowds who cheered triumphantly upon her son's entry into Jerusalem now mock him? Her son had fulfilled the angel's words--he had lifted up the lowly, and he had filled the hungry with the hope of good things--love and trust in our eternal Maker.
"O Adonai!" she must have cried. "Come to the help of your servant Israel! Where is the promise--the promise you gave to Abraham and our fathers? Where is the promise you made to me, that my son would reign over the house of Jacob, and where is his kingdom that has no end? All I see is my beloved son, who suffers unspeakably. Why have you deserted him, O Lord, and why have you deserted me? My son will either die on the cross that he carries or die on the streets like a beaten stray dog. I beg you to come to the aid of my Son, my Lord, my rock, and my Redeemer."
Leader: Not only did the whips and spears pierce your Son
People: But each mark upon him wounded his mother's soul.
Leader: Let us pray.
(a brief period of silence is observed.)
Eternal God of power and might;
We so often think of you as "our Father."
But you are both Father and Mother.
As we think about how the Blessed Mother of Jesus
longed to cradle her hurting son in her arms,
and spare him his fate,
teach us in our most desperate moments
to be unafraid to cling to you
like a fearful child clinging to a mother's bosom.
May we always feel your nurturing love, O Lord,
even when the world seems turned upside down.
People: Amen.
Holy God,
Holy and Mighty,
Holy immortal one,
Have mercy on us.
Kamis, 25 Februari 2010
Lent and Love as illustrated by the Velveteen Rabbit
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?" "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
From "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams
I bumped into this quote via a Lenten devotional set using this book as the focus, written by Andrew Dotchin. It's being posted this Lent here.
Although I read it early this morning, in my "coffee and prayer" time, it has stuck in my head all day long today--probably because of where my focus is this Lent. Every Lent is different. Some years, I haven't felt like I had much cleaning up to do. Last year, I came to the realization that there were some parts of me that needed to be cleaned off down to the bare metal. I had decades of grime simply from the wear and tear , covered with layers of paint, that would need to be stripped down before re-painting, because I felt that if I didn't, the paint wouldn't "stick."
I've done a lot of that stripping--not as much as I had hoped, in some places--but enough that there's plenty bare metal showing. But here is where I ran into one of those twisty curves I blogged about in a previous post. My first big Lenten discovery this year is that I am probably not supposed to paint that bare metal, rather, my task is to shine it up and let it glimmer with the natural gloss that it is, and for it to develop its own patina, like fine antique metal work.
But what it means is I have to work with my barest, truest, most holy self, and it means giving up a large chunk of "who I thought I was." I got used to the color of the paint. I thought on occasion, others were touching it up with paint and in reality, they were putting tar on it, allowing more dirt and grime to stick. Still others painted with good intentions, or I painted it myself, but the colors didn't quite match, or the surface wasn't prepped enough for it to stick well.
All in all, these are not bad discoveries. But they can become a bit confusing at times. Some are literally hidden surprises. Here's another way to look at it. Imagine having a room in the house that for years, had bile green or baby poop yellow carpet. There's always enough furniture and ample enough throw rugs to hide the carpet you don't like. But now imagine stripping away all the coverings and finding a gleaming hardwood floor that got covered simply because at the time, it was the fad to have wall-to-wall carpet.
Others are rotten spots in the floor you didn't know exist, and you stare at them and think, "It's a wonder I didn't fall through here." Still others need minor repairs, and there are lots of places that aren't worth fixing, and their minor defects lend character.
So, in this sense, it's a different kind of Lent for me. It is a season of imagining what the room will look like for the great adventures of life yet to come. It's about making this room hospitable for company. It's about being real, in the way the Velveteen Rabbit yearned to be real, and about letting others love me until my hair is rubbed off. It's about looking at less "protecting" and more fanning the flames of the imaginations of others, and inviting everyone over for S'mores.
I really believe when we do that, the flames of our own imaginations thrive.
Winter weather
(Top photo by The Sartorialist)
Cirque du Soleil is in Town!!
Well they ARE called Killer Whales.....
1900s Whiskey Found in Antarctica
Olympics commercial
This Olympics commercial is so sweet!
Rabu, 24 Februari 2010
Tattoo Artists Become Celebrities in the Biker World
One of the best acclaimed artists in the apple rose to acclaim in contempo years. Kat Von D aboriginal appeared on the apple date on The Learning Channel's Miami Ink series. After her breach from the show, she got her own boutique and show, LA Ink, which currently runs on TLC. Kat began her career as a boom artisan at aloof 16 years old. She acid her abilities over abounding years afore venturing out on her own. Her acceleration to acclaim and affluence has accustomed her to adventure into added facets of the industry, including an absolute boom camouflage makeup. Kat afresh appear a book alleged "High Voltage Tattoo" that chronicles her assignment and adventure through the apple of anatomy art. Bodies planning to get tattooed by Von D charge to plan able-bodied beforehand and be able to absorb a lot of cash.
Another acclaimed name in the boom and bike apple is Corey Hart. Best bodies apperceive of Hart from his outstanding performances in acute motocross sports. He fabricated his antecedent affluence by antagonism clay bikes. Hart absitively to accompany his absorption in tattoos and partnered with acquaintance John Hunting to accessible a boutique in Las Vegas, Nevada. This shop, Hart & Huntington, is the accountable of a television appearance alleged Inked that affectedness on A&E. The appearance has been acutely accepted and appearance a assorted acquisition of artists. Hart & Huntington tends to baby to the abundant celebrity crowd, but abounding bodies airing in attractive to get tattooed. If you're planning on activity to the shop, be able to carapace out a nice block of change because their aggregation doesn't assignment cheap. Although best things that appear in Vegas break in Vegas, it'll be adamantine to adumbrate your appointment to the H&H shop.