Most are impractical and the others you just have to be careful you don't throw them away or shove them in to a pile with your other knick knacks!
I'll leave you with this one...
Monday, April 11, 2011
Modern Presentations
Thursday, April 7, 2011
UP
Restaurants go UP and down in Houston almost as frequently as the weather. I make it a habit to be "in the know" about these things, for personal reasons and for work!
For a while I had been keeping an eye on a development in Highland Village on the south side of Westheimer at Drexel above the Cole Haan store...particularly because I noticed they were using NanaWall...which happens to be what RA Sushi across the street has as well.
Anyway, it had been a while, but all of a sudden there's a restaurant...one I have heard NOTHING about.
So, I guess it is called UP and there's not much info about it yet...
Open Table has the most info.
Let me know if you go and what you think!
For a while I had been keeping an eye on a development in Highland Village on the south side of Westheimer at Drexel above the Cole Haan store...particularly because I noticed they were using NanaWall...which happens to be what RA Sushi across the street has as well.
Anyway, it had been a while, but all of a sudden there's a restaurant...one I have heard NOTHING about.
Open Table has the most info.
Let me know if you go and what you think!
GAME
When I was in college I was obsessed with this Retail Alphabet Game...that and Snood!
Currently there are 5 editions.
Each edition is a version of this:
Currently there are 5 editions.
Each edition is a version of this:
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Passion
Sometimes when I am bored or need a "breather" I go to nursuries...seriously.
Once, I came across this flower that I'd never in my life seen and have never forgotten...I'm obsessed.
I recently saw one again. This time growing wild in Houston, so I researched it to found out the following
(which is pretty timely for the Lenten Season):
Popularly, passion flowers and especially passion fruit are frequently used with sexual or romantic innuendo, giving rise to such uses as a one-time soft drink named Purple Passion. The "Passion" in "passion flower" does not refer to sex and love, however, but to the passion of Jesus in Christian theology. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish Christian missionaries adopted the unique physical structures of this plant, particularly the numbers of its various flower parts, as symbols of the last days of Jesus and especially his crucifixion:
-Blue Passion Flower (P. caerulea) showing most elements of the Christian symbolismThe pointed tips of the leaves were taken to represent the Holy Lance.
-The tendrils represent the whips used in the flagellation of Christ.
-The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful apostles (excluding St. Peter the denier and Judas Iscariot the betrayer).
-The flower's radial filaments, which can number more than a hundred and vary from flower to flower, represent the crown of thorns.
-The chalice-shaped ovary with its receptacle represents a hammer or the Holy Grail
-The 3 stigmas represent the 3 nails and the 5 anthers below them the 5 wounds (four by the nails and one by the lance).
-The blue and white colors of many species' flowers represent Heaven and Purity.
On that note...have any of you ever noticed this?
(Forever 21 bag)
Once, I came across this flower that I'd never in my life seen and have never forgotten...I'm obsessed.
It is actually a vine. 
A mesmerizing vine.
Some species bear fruit...which is actually Passion Fruit!
(which is pretty timely for the Lenten Season):
Popularly, passion flowers and especially passion fruit are frequently used with sexual or romantic innuendo, giving rise to such uses as a one-time soft drink named Purple Passion. The "Passion" in "passion flower" does not refer to sex and love, however, but to the passion of Jesus in Christian theology. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish Christian missionaries adopted the unique physical structures of this plant, particularly the numbers of its various flower parts, as symbols of the last days of Jesus and especially his crucifixion:
-Blue Passion Flower (P. caerulea) showing most elements of the Christian symbolismThe pointed tips of the leaves were taken to represent the Holy Lance.
-The tendrils represent the whips used in the flagellation of Christ.
-The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful apostles (excluding St. Peter the denier and Judas Iscariot the betrayer).
-The flower's radial filaments, which can number more than a hundred and vary from flower to flower, represent the crown of thorns.
-The chalice-shaped ovary with its receptacle represents a hammer or the Holy Grail
-The 3 stigmas represent the 3 nails and the 5 anthers below them the 5 wounds (four by the nails and one by the lance).
-The blue and white colors of many species' flowers represent Heaven and Purity.
On that note...have any of you ever noticed this?
(Forever 21 bag)
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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