Karen Brode of Whip It Interior Design at Christofle Galleria.
I recently had the pleasure of being invited to a launch party of Karen Brode. It was for her launch party of Whip It Interior Design in Houston. It was held at Christofle in The Houston Galleria.
I was not aware that Kristofle had jewelry as well as art and crystal.
I was impressed and I already am a lover of fancy little things that serve not purpose except to be lovely, so I was in heaven. Christofle has a factory in France and everything is made by hand there. I received a lesson in metals and high end jewelry making while I was there!
The housewares and decor items were exceptional. This horse sculpture was beautiful and although I am not a snake person, I appreciate the artistic design and detail of this snake and it would make an exceptional art piece for someone. Like, I don’t know…I see it on the desk of George Soros. The horse would be more my style, but to hear about all the hands that touch each item that is crafted in France is not surprising because you can feel the quality from across the room.
The Mood Pod is the newest craze in luxury flatware. Kris Jenner is even a partner of the brand, showing off her set on her Instagram account. You can spend over $1000 and up to $13,000 depending on the one you chose. You would think the price is crazy but then you touch them. You can feel quality. Smoothness and depth. Art.
The jewelry was the same. The necklace Karen was wearing felt smooth and you could literally feel the difference between mass produced jewelry against this.
Karen’s website is linked above and she might be just the person to call if you’re wanting a home holiday revamp and advice on home decor.
I had the opportunity in late September to go back to Los Angeles for work. I decided to stay an extra day, rent a car and have an adventure.
One of the neatest places I’ve ever been that touches my heart is Laguna Beach. My husband and I go to California once a year, and we’ve made it there a few times. I’d always wanted to stay at a certain hotel that we would eat dinner at, La Casa Del Camino.
Just outside, there are great areas for beach front views to welcome in the morning sunrise. I’d decide to get up super early, sit on a bench and breathe in the beauty. I’d remembered that they had many hummingbirds flying around the plant life on the coast. Since hummingbirds are one of my favorite things on earth…I spent an hour trying to photograph them. (Note to self…you need to go buy new camera lenses.)
I photograph for myself. To have something to feel the beauty after I’m gone.
There was a man sitting on my bench before I got there. I was probably bothering him with all my photos of the birds. He was bothering me by being on my bench, but I ignored the loud silence as we shared our sunrise separately together. He obviously had depth to have gotten out of bed so early in the cold, to enjoy the early morning. Was he depressed, divorced, broke, unemployed, unhappy….what was his story, I’d wondered as I clicked away at the tiny birds. Most people at least say hello or smile so his silence was bothering me.
Later, imagine my horror when he sits alone in the breakfast area near me at the hotel. He must surely think I’m a kooky, lone traveler. Ten minutes into my breakfast, a scruffy woman comes in from the hotel above us. As she makes her way to his table, I got it. They were on a romantic jaunt. Looked to be married for about 10 years, and they’d probably had sex for the first time in 6 months the night before. She appeared to be totally thrilled with life, he looked to be mildly content. I absolutely love people watching. I assume she was getting freshened up and putting on her favorite mom jeans, while he was pondering the meaning of life on the sunrise Laguna bench.
The terrible part of my beautiful morning in Laguna…is that I was alone. I missed my husband so much that it was depressing. I’d wanted to share this beautiful day with him. So while I enjoyed my $800 day of independence in Laguna, it really made me appreciate that I have a loved one to share my life with.
I love being alone to think, or read or work on my varied projects… but it was a weird day of escape because I saw couples everywhere and I realized that it would have been super depressing if I didn’t have someone.
I was awake most of the night reading and waiting for the early morning. I was only going to have one shot at sunrise and didn’t want to miss it.
I ate breakfast alone with couples all around me. Although Laguna is amazing, I was so excited to get home and see my husband who drives me insane and talks to much, constantly invading my space and always turning on every tv in the house , unaware he disturbs the beautiful silence that previously exists before he barrels through the door.
While I got to be an adult, and drive down the California freeway in totally insane traffic I might ad) I missed my freeways and my terrible Houston drivers. I figured out that Houston traffic is not so bad after all. All in all, it was a good day to reflect and be thankful.
Laguna is amazing and were I to ever buy a lottery ticket and win, one of my homes would be there. In the meantime, I will settle for a quick California jaunt here and there through life to breathe in the beauty. I just need to take my best friend with me next time!
Somehow I find myself a dogmom to three furry little souls. Three dogs is just a lot of dogs. Way more than only two. It’s always a hassle to leave for a quick weekend jaunt due to having to line up a sitter for the girls. Because of this, we decided to take a Dogcation. Basically, we wanted to go somewhere in which we could take all three.
Since Jazzy can’t walk too far at once, I thought I should try buying a dog stroller for her. Luckily, all three can ride together when in a pinch! The stroller mesh zips shut, so it then becomes sort of a dog carrier for those times you want to walk peacefully through a hotel lobby or sneak them into a mall.
We decided on a quick road trip to Corpus Christi, Texas! I found a hotel there that welcomes small dogs. These are a few shots from our Dogcation! Don’t judge, because of course a few are just cell phone shots;
CORPUS CHRISTI OF course any good place has a paint wall and Corpus is no different.
2. Coastline View The view from our hotel was amazing. This cute little harbor area was across the street along the boardwalk.
3. Bird Lover. I am crazy about birds for some reason so Ken and the dogs waiting patiently as we stopped here and there to take bird shots.
4. Downtown Corpus Christi This is the view from the USS LEXINGTON.
5. VACATION MODE. The girls loved staying at The Omni Hotel.
6. THE OMNI HOTEL. We were super casual during this 3 day jaunt, but there was one night for an amazing romantic dinner without the girls! The Omni has amazing food and even a great Breakfast Buffet. We we super impressed with the food and the view from their steakhouse!
7. USS LEXINGTON This was by far the best part of the trip! There is a one hour informational movie on board the retired ship, that really explains how important our Navy is. They keep America safe. The tour reignited my respect and appreciation for all of our military.
8. DOG STROLLER JOY This silly dog stroller I bought has brought the girls so much joy! Initially, it was thought it would just be a Jazzy Transport Device, but everyone loves cramming in there for a ride. It’s good for Blanca at times because as pretty as she looks, she’s every bit as antagonistic and always looking for a fight with other dogs, no matter how big. So for times when there’s a lot of other people or dogs, it’s easy to zip her shut in there so she doesn’t cause a scene!
People always joke about zombies and the apocalypse as well as an upcoming collective Zombie Apocalypse. Newsflash… we are in the Zombie Apocalypse.
I was in a shuttle bus the other day and the driver was in shock that a grown woman was walking very slowly in front of our moving bus, as she was staring at the screen on her phone. She never even realized that we had to stop because she was waddling slowly across the street of moving vehicles. This, my friends, is a Zombie. People that do not realize that there is an entire world out here that doesn’t revolve around their digital, unreal existence.
People have been dumbed down by electronics, bad schooling, bad parents who pass down zero values and character deficits as well as the government spoon feeding ignorant people. People who don’t realize the price of real groceries skyrocketing because they buy fake frozen food for their kids with zero nutritional value. People who have an expectation of government cheese because they were raised on government cheese so now it’s just an expectation.
I have a friend that grew up in the State Welfare System and ended up in foster care for years as a youth. She would constantly mention how the government should do this or that and make things better for foster kids. She was upset about her foster families, upset about not going to college, upset about being dumped at 18 with no more checks coming in. It finally occurred to me to ask her why she was mad at the government for not raising her better, yet she forgave her mother for losing her to foster care due to child abuses and drug issues in the first place. This was a concept she had never considered. You are mad at the goverment for not doing what your parents should have done.
She asked me the other day, what Trump was going to do about ObamaCare. “First of all, Trump didn’t create the ObamaCare lie. Obama did. Secondly, if the borders to our country are not protected, ISIS and others will continue to pour in and if your head is cut off you won’t need Insurance.”
People are so uneducated on foreign policy, political history and biblical prophecy… that it’s really interesting to me to try and figure out how in the hell people can function day to day, scratch out a living, pay bills occasionally and still be so ignorant.
I started the Worldbeat page of this site, because I continually send out news clips and videos to zombie friends that only watch mainstream news. I thought it would just be easier to post everything in one place. I have this little gig on the side that I call my full time job, so spare time to help the universe is scarce. But I try.
I heard something on the radio a few weeks ago…so I decided to use it as a test. Whenever a person begins a political conversation with me, and I can tell that they are a zombie… I tell them that they have 15 seconds to answer this question.
“Please tell me the names and current positions of the two men running for Vice President.” Do you realize that I’ve done this about 20 times, and not one person has been able to answer? When they come to the self realization that they are uneducated on the presidential race…it ends the conversation. If you do not even know the names and qualifications of the VPs, how can you know enough to vote? It’s an extremely pertinent point when you consider the likelihood of an assassination attempt on these two candidates.
There really is good and evil. Right and wrong. Heaven and hell. If you do not get these basic principals of reality because it’s too inconvenient to think about, then obviously your thoughts and growth would be limited.
Let’s make this really, really simple. Bill and Hillary Clinton have made a living off of selling America. They have taken money from foreign interests such as the Saudi Arabians and China. Just forget for a moment that Saudi Arabia finds it acceptable to enslave and beat women because after all…women are less than men, kill those who participate in same-sex sexual activity and has no law for rape. (This means it’s not really a crime.) As a woman, how could you possibly vote for her? But forget all that nonsense…we should not have a President who has sold influence to other countries. Where then, would their loyalties lie? Certainly not with you. You can’t buy influence. You are a burden. You are insignificant and oh by the way…please stop procreating. Wait, Hillary will help you with that. She supports full term abortions and the selling of baby body parts. She loves Planned Parenthood because it keeps the lower class from continuing to multiply. Oh, but if you’re a Zombie, you are ignorant and don’t care that a vote for Hillary is a vote for murder.
Hillary is paid for by George Soros. You’ve never heard of him though. You would have to stop scouring your Tinder app for suitors in order to absorb any hint of real news and the horrible position this country has been placed in by people like the Clintons being bought by purely evil people such as Soros.
Just on the simple facts alone, that Trump can’t be bought by any special interest because he’s already richer than anyone needs to be, and he doesn’t want us to continue to chop up babies… would make him a great candidate. Having been in business for a zillion years helps, and if you don’t think so…look at Obama and his total lack of business expertise and where it’s gotten us. America is a business of the world. A failing one. Wouldn’t it make sense to hire a person who has real business knowledge as opposed to someone who has only made money off of selling American policy decisions? This does not have to be a hard decision. The problem is the Zombies not understanding the big picture. Being blind.
All I can say is that everyone should pray for discernment before voting. Look at Paris. Look at Venezuela. Do you realize how much an apple costs today? Do you see the signs?
I am just a regular person so don’t listen to me. Believe everything you hear on the mainstream news. They have been filling our heads with polls sampling from sources so as to create the viewpoint they want to you to believe. Who do they even call for these terrible, inaccurate “polls” anyway? Certainly not people at work all day like me. My phone never rang. Are they calling Obama Phones? Are they calling certain zip codes? Half of the reason this election has been so emotionally draining, is because the media has tried mental conditioning and shoving a Clinton Victory Concept down our throats for months. They’ve left out very important issues such as the fact that for so many legal reasons, Clinton should not have been allowed to even run, much less win. They’ve made me feel as though I’m completely surrounded by the ignorance and blindness of the general population.
Somehow, Sean Hanity still has a job with Fox News, the morning after posting the video below. I get a lot of my news off of Alternative Media outlets such as Infowars.com and The Alex Jones Channel on YouTube, but was shocked about this appeal by Hannity. Alex Jones seems crazy as first, but then you realize how super fast his mind works, and how real he is and wouldn’t it be great if more men were like him. (Ok, admittedly he’d drive me crazy to have to live with but crazy is a little bit sexy.)
I’m posting the video below of the impressive final closing argument by Sean Hannity. Maybe you will hear him lay out the facts in simple terms and it will change your heart. Wake you up. Everything he is saying is truth and fact. If your heart is blind to truth and fact… then you have already entered the Zombie Apocalypse. It’s going to get a lot worse.
