JD122712 - Hummels

***  there was an exhibition of Hummels in the National Christmas Museum. We have several of them at home.

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JD122612- Snow

*** It has been snowing again.

*** I drove to my office and with drizzle snow and rain in the downtown, it felt like home <smile>

JD122512 -Santas

Santas of all times
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National Christmas Museum

JD122412- Christmas Eve

*** First snow on Christams Eve

*** Santa has been here already

JD122312 - Dutch Wonderland

*** National Christmas Museum
*** Dutch Wonderland

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Мир принадлежит тому, что ему радуется

(французкая мудрость)

 

JD122212- Italian cooking

*** I have been cooking all afternoon today. Few weeks ago we bought a new cooking book by Buddy Valastro. And I love his recepies, they are simple and tasty.

JD122112 - ColdPlay

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I used to do cross-country ski during high school  and I was on a cross-country team at the University. I missed it.

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"One of the biggest benefits to cold-weather workouts, however, may be psychological. Studies have long shown that exercise is mood-boosting, but research has also found that working out outside may actually help fight seasonal affective disorder (SAD). The combination of the sun's antidepressant-like power and the endorphin-high of exercise can trick your body into believing spring is already here. And then there's the motivational factor. "it's a lot easier to run an hour outdoors than it is to run an hour on the treadmill", says Chris Grover, the head coach of the U.S. cross-country ski team. There's more to see, more to do". Grover views battling the elements, nature's and mankind's, as a better workout overall... read more".-- Robert Sullivan, Vogue Jan 2013

JD122012 - Preen

*** I love this Preen by Thornton Bregazzi color-blocked dress.

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Savannah Guthrie, Vogue 2012

JD121912 - Dovima

*** I love tunic style, pared-down silhouettes like Dovima Paris, but you can buy them through invitation-only private trunk shows.

Anne-Catherine Frey wears a Dovima Paris dress, Vogue, Aug 12

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*** I love this blanket and a white knitted pillow. I have no idea what kind of niddles I need to knit the blanket <smile>, but I can knit the pillow.

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dust jacket attic

JD121712 - SnowGirl

*** My daughter painted this charming SnowGirl.
Snowy is a fancy girl, she has her nails done <smile>.

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*** Holiday Concert at the Symphony

 *** During the intermission

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*** In the morning my daughter and I painted a box with the grandma's Christmas gift. It's huge and we don't have a space in the house to hide it. We decided to make it more colorful  <smile>. We have not finishied it yet.

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"Whatever you can think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Acton has magic, grace, and power in it".

-- Goethe

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*** It was a good, calm day. I worked all day long and it the evenong we went to a music lesson.

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*** During lunch time I went to a shop and there is a little creek next to it.  I stopped for a minute and took a picture.

*** Corporate Christmas Party

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*** I'm knitting a scarf for my daughter. It is soft and fuzzy (on the right).

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*** the same place- today and yesterday.

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 *** It was a warm, wet and foggy morning.

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*** Michaels craft store

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*** Jo-Ann

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Иришик

Little Irina

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*** Beaded Collors. I want to do one of those.

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JD120412

Valentina Zevyalova is a face of Raulp Lauren for most a decade

"Vogue", Nov 12

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*** "Cake Boss" Show. I don't watch the show on TV, but my family does.

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*** BSO

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*** I've finished my new paint: "Tulips" 

JD112912

*** Music lesson. Love it, love it, love it. It's my Fridays huge joy dot!

*** In the morning I painted a picture in a cubism-minimalism style :D

JD112812

*** Пока я ждала дочку, я решила заглянуть в библиотеку. Идя по коридору я сфотографировала собор из окна. Я не захотела ехать на лифте на второй этой и решила пройтись по центральной лестнице в фойе. Там очень красиво. На полпути я услышала звуки оркестра. Дверь была открыта в центральный конценртый зал. Репетировал студенческий оркестр. Я быстренько сбегала в библиотеку и вернулась опять слушать репетицию оркестра.

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The George Peabody Library

The view from a window

Students orchestra's rehearsal

 

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"Freedom and independency are a necessity of creativity and imagination".

--Albert Einstein

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***I've finished my knitting project - a beautiful turquoise pillowcase.

JD112712

Art Provides relief to Parkinson's parient

As in all Parkinson's patients, Vono's brain no longer effectively produces the chemical dopamine, which helps control muscle movement. Without dopamine, his brain cannot send messages to his arms, hands, legs or feet. .....Stanley also saw how painting helped Vono deal with his illness. ..."He became completely still when he painted, and he could focus on the painting," Stanley said. "And the tremors would just stop."

Dr. Liana Rosenthal, a Johns Hopkins doctor who specializes in neurological disorders, said exercising the brain can help patients with disorders like Parkinson's cope with the disease.

It's not exactly known what happens in the brain, but keeping it active helps improve motor skills, said Rosenthal, an instructor in the neurology department at the Hopkins School of Medicine..... read more

Vincent Vono

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How They Discovered Their Dream Careers
When a health condition left her bedridden, Athelia Woolley finally got to tap into the right side of her brain.

Woolley had hoped to earn a PhD in neuroscience, but abandoned the pursuit in 2006. Three years earlier, she'd been diagnosed with Addison's disease—a disorder that interferes with the production of adrenal hormones—and her symptoms were worsening. "I constantly felt disoriented, like I'd been woken up at 3 A.M.," she says. When doctors told Woolley she required intense treatment, she moved in with her parents in Salt Lake City.

"I needed a project to keep me sane," says Woolley, who had loved clothes since childhood, and had even written "fashion designer" as her desired profession on an eighth-grade career-matching exam (the results said she was best suited to science).
Read more: http://www.oprah.com/money/How-Real-Women-Discovered-Their-Dream-Careers/5#ixzz2DQTNo6kP

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Shabby Apple

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***  Figures In Bloom by Mattye Hamilton at Minas gallery

*** At the boutique next doot I bought a little black dress ala Coco Chanel.

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Fashion changes, but style endures.

-- Coco Chanel

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*** Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Festival of Trees. We go there every year. We all love it.

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