This week involved:
An ear infection
Hives
A bleeding diaper rash
One rush trip to the pediatrician
3 episodes of bed-wetting (not me!)
Two motions
One 12 hour work day
One 5 hour meeting
Having to wake up at 5:30 a.m. for four consecutive days
Praise at work
Scolding at work (same day as above)
Being woken up at 1 a.m. to Jacob's night terrors (twice)
16 hours of commuting to/from work
However, all of those moments were totally outshined by this one:
Someone tell him to stop growing please! My poor heart cannot stand losing another chubby-faced baby to toddler-hood.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
GREEK NECKLACES
A selection of my favorite necklaces made with Greek pendants and beads... The colorful beads are ceramic.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Fashion Trends – Stripes
Stripes, the most classical and timeless trend and style in fashion for the past years. Whether horizontal, vertical, diagonal, thin, thick, black and white or in beautiful colors, stripes make a graphic statement, day or night. Every year of course the use of the stripes is different. For this Spring and Summer chose them in red and black for a nautical style or in white and black but with different accessories depending on the occasion. You will see showing up in dresses, skirts, blouses, cropped pants, oversized high waist trousers, knit casual tops... and of course in handbags and shoes!
Use your imagination and create a stripped appearance with beautiful accessories and you will always be in fashion! Unfortunately stripes can look disastrous if not worn in the right way. So who and how can wear stripes?
Tips
- Horizontal stripes
Perfect for the slim woman that would like to look a bit heavier or more curvy, especially the bold stripes. Horizontal are perfect to add tension to your smallest parts of your body. For example a woman smaller on the bottom can use a horizontal striped skirt with a monochrome shirt. if you’re heavier on the hips, wear stripes on tops.
- Vertical stripes
The petite woman can elongate her figure with vertical stripes. If you are petite in height, but on the heavier keep the stripe vertical, and choose a smaller stripe, don't use bold stripes. If your petite and on the thin side a bolder stripe will make you look a bit bigger.
- Diagonal stripes
Perfect for all figure types, but are especially wonderful for the plus size women, as well as tall women with boyish figures. The thin figured woman that loves to look even thinner than thin, the diagonal stripe will make you look even thinner than you are. Use clothes with diagonal stripes and “transform” your thin parts to look more curvy. Because of their schema they create an illusion, think of the direction of the stripe as arrow to your best assets. emphasize the best!
Perfect for all figure types, but are especially wonderful for the plus size women, as well as tall women with boyish figures. The thin figured woman that loves to look even thinner than thin, the diagonal stripe will make you look even thinner than you are. Use clothes with diagonal stripes and “transform” your thin parts to look more curvy. Because of their schema they create an illusion, think of the direction of the stripe as arrow to your best assets. emphasize the best!
And now that we have chosen the correct stripes for our figure, let’s see how can we combine them with accessories or colors.
For a day casual but still unobserved appearance use stripes on shirts with monocrhome pants or skirts or shorts and chain accessories.
A beautiful 60’s fashion midi dress with horizontal bold stripes combined with pastel shoes and topcoat will be just adorable for your cocktail appearance, for a coffee or a short walk in the afternoon. Put the finishing touch with minimal girly accessories in pastel colors , while a floral handbag will make your appearance more girly, romantic and unique!
And for the night… just use a stretched dress in black and white and use accessories in deep colors like passion red or cobalt blue. You will be definitely the focal point!
4.Red earrings 5.Red bracelet 6.Red ring
Stripes are forever...
Thursday, March 21, 2013
A LOVELY FEATURE AND INTERVIEW ABOUT ANNUK CREATIONS :)
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The Spotted Leopard Goes To The Doctor
This weekend I had a temporary post about some not so fun things that happened at work on Friday. Because of the sensitive nature of the post, I had to eventually take it down. But it still felt good to get everything off my chest. In short Friday was absolutely horrible. At one point, I was hiding in the office supply room silently sobbing my eyes out.
Friday was one of the most horrendous work days I have ever had as an attorney. It was second only to the day a random internet stalker copied all of my Facebook status updates and photos and pasted them in an email to all seven partners of my old law firm. The email also accused me of sleeping with cleints (FALSE!) and drinking during work hours (no comment). It's kind of hard to beat that.
Anyway, Monday I was excited to turn over a new leaf. I wanted to be productive and effecient and just obliterate my to-do list. Of course, that's the day my 4-year-old had to wake up completely covered in itchy white and red spots. I named him leopard. When he wasn't itching uncontrollably, he found the resemblance slightly amusing.
My first thought was obviously...chicken pox! But my mom assured me that kids don't usually get chicken pox anymore if they have been vaccinated. My first thought was one of disbelief. Seriously? Kids don't get chicken pox anymore? What is the world coming to? When I was growing up chicken pox was a central part of one's indoctrination into the real world. Sheesh. Kids these days!
I called to make the obligatory doctor's appointment. They couldn't get us in until 4pm. So I strapped the kids into the car, drove them to the store, unloaded them from their car seats, hauled them around the store in search of Benadryl. Then we piled back into the car and headed to my mom's house so I could attempt to get some work done. I was so focused on work that I nearly missed the doctor appointment. When I saw the time, I crazily shuffled the kids back into the car and we headed out to the clinic.
It wasn't until we landed into an exam that I caught my breath and assessed the situation. In my rush to get the kids out the door this morning, I let Jacob put on the clothing and the shoes of his choice. The result: he was wearing sweatpants nearly 2 inches too short, thick snow boots (it was not even raining), and Christmas socks. Mysterious speckles of leftover lunch covered his fleece sweatshirt. Was that speckle peanut butter? Was that one cream cheese? To top it all off, he still had remnants of St. Patrick's Day face paint all over his cheeks and forehead. AND my mom had decided to use a black marker to color a cat nose and whiskers onto his face.
My kid looked like a ferile, green cat that had run through a basket of dirty laundry....who was also covered in itchy red welts.
I was suddenly very embarrassed. My kid was in worse condition than one of the octo-kids. But it wasn't until the doctor tugged at my son's clothing to check the extent of his spots that I realized the worst part. He wasn't wearing any underwear! Apparently he had a minor accident at my mom's and had no choice but to go commando.
The doctor did not look amused at all. I am very lucky that she let me leave that place with both of my kids in tow!
Oh, and the verdict? The spots are an after-effect of his ear infection last week. No, not an allergic reaction to his amoxocillin but actually from the ear infection itself. This is the same ear infection that caused me to spend 4 unpleasant hours in Urgent Care with two antsy-whiny kids on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
Friday was one of the most horrendous work days I have ever had as an attorney. It was second only to the day a random internet stalker copied all of my Facebook status updates and photos and pasted them in an email to all seven partners of my old law firm. The email also accused me of sleeping with cleints (FALSE!) and drinking during work hours (no comment). It's kind of hard to beat that.
Anyway, Monday I was excited to turn over a new leaf. I wanted to be productive and effecient and just obliterate my to-do list. Of course, that's the day my 4-year-old had to wake up completely covered in itchy white and red spots. I named him leopard. When he wasn't itching uncontrollably, he found the resemblance slightly amusing.
My first thought was obviously...chicken pox! But my mom assured me that kids don't usually get chicken pox anymore if they have been vaccinated. My first thought was one of disbelief. Seriously? Kids don't get chicken pox anymore? What is the world coming to? When I was growing up chicken pox was a central part of one's indoctrination into the real world. Sheesh. Kids these days!
I called to make the obligatory doctor's appointment. They couldn't get us in until 4pm. So I strapped the kids into the car, drove them to the store, unloaded them from their car seats, hauled them around the store in search of Benadryl. Then we piled back into the car and headed to my mom's house so I could attempt to get some work done. I was so focused on work that I nearly missed the doctor appointment. When I saw the time, I crazily shuffled the kids back into the car and we headed out to the clinic.
It wasn't until we landed into an exam that I caught my breath and assessed the situation. In my rush to get the kids out the door this morning, I let Jacob put on the clothing and the shoes of his choice. The result: he was wearing sweatpants nearly 2 inches too short, thick snow boots (it was not even raining), and Christmas socks. Mysterious speckles of leftover lunch covered his fleece sweatshirt. Was that speckle peanut butter? Was that one cream cheese? To top it all off, he still had remnants of St. Patrick's Day face paint all over his cheeks and forehead. AND my mom had decided to use a black marker to color a cat nose and whiskers onto his face.
My kid looked like a ferile, green cat that had run through a basket of dirty laundry....who was also covered in itchy red welts.
I was suddenly very embarrassed. My kid was in worse condition than one of the octo-kids. But it wasn't until the doctor tugged at my son's clothing to check the extent of his spots that I realized the worst part. He wasn't wearing any underwear! Apparently he had a minor accident at my mom's and had no choice but to go commando.
The doctor did not look amused at all. I am very lucky that she let me leave that place with both of my kids in tow!
Just a sampling of the spots:
Oh, and the verdict? The spots are an after-effect of his ear infection last week. No, not an allergic reaction to his amoxocillin but actually from the ear infection itself. This is the same ear infection that caused me to spend 4 unpleasant hours in Urgent Care with two antsy-whiny kids on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Etsy Greek Street Team: Items of the week - Tuesday's blues
What a lovely surprise... a bracelet of EfZin creations to be included in the oficial blog of Etsy Greek Street Team! I am honored!!!!
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Have a wonderful day!
1. Wall decoration by Beh1ndHome
2. Bracelet by EfZinCreations
3. Ring by xeiropoihto
4. Earrings by DivineDecadance
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Have a wonderful day!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LITTLE PRINCESS!
My beloved little princess Zoe has had her birthday one of these days... and she turned 10! I can't believe how time flies... It feels like yesterday when I adopted her as a homeless kitten from Rhodes back in the summer of 2003. When I first met her at the end of May 2003, she was about 2 months and a half young... so I assume she was born sometime around mid March. A little Pisces, I guess! :) She has been filling my days with so much joy, playfulness, love and laughter!!! She is still very active and fit, and we keep... ehm, she keeps in shape with long playing sessions each day :) My little baby, thank you for all the happiness you've been giving me! Thank you for being there! XRONIA POLLA, kouklitsa mou!!!!!!!!!
You can read Zoe's story here and here.
Zoe's story on 365 Cat Ladies and Friends
Zoe's story on Planitis Gia Olous!
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