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Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely love wearing high heels, I’ve been wearings them since 18 years old. Plus, when I worked at Salon Shoes in Nordstroms Paramus, New Jersey, all I wore were high heels, five days a week and on my feet for 8 hours a day. Don’t ask me how I did it, but I did, for the sake of style, feeling mature, sexy and dolly. My shoes were expensive and sexy and made me feel taller with great posture. For me… high heels are a must. And even after I left my job at Nordstroms, nine months later working at the front office of the Glenpointe Marriott in Teaneck, New Jersey, even with our cheap gray pin striped uniform with name badge, I mostly wore high heels for the first couple of years and I felt like sexy employee of a high end French boutique. Again, wearing heels gave that great posture and height boost.
However, years later, once I entered my forties, something switched and I became a flat shoe, open toe sandal lover and it’s all I wear now, mostly. I can’t believe I’ve even become and UGG and Crocs lover. These brands are just sooo super comfortable, regardless, if they like trendy styles, which is is perfect with me, because I am your least trendy stylist.
Soooo….. now, as you all know I am a newly mom and comfort is top property for me. However, I can’t help but to wish to attend some fancy gathering, just so I can feel that sexy booster again. Do I miss wearing high heels daily? Absolutely not. Do I fancy wearing high heels? I bet I do. But, will never again trade comfort for style. This is the switch many mothers adjust too.
With that said, by January 2022, I will find new comfortable footwear brands that will still give me a little sexy booster while hanging out with my son. Cannot wait to discover them and share them with you.
For many this comes as a shock that I play golf. Golf is one of my favorite sports ever. Thus, it is not very relaxing for me, It is fun, adventurous and I deeply concentrate in my game, I take it vey seriously. I am very strategic, me against nature, accuracy, plus my opponent, I get very competitive, so, yes, not so relaxing for me, but greatly enjoyable.
My ex, whom is American Korean, introduced me to the sport back in 2001. We took classes at Crystal springs resort in New Jersey, we attended private golf classes with (Ed Healey, teacher to many notable names in the industry) twice a week from Brooklyn. And practiced all week long at either Beth Page or local Brooklyn ranges, but for tee time, usually Beth Page close to home, we played on the Black course many times at twilgiht.
We went on many golf vacations around the country. It’s an amazing sport. And soon, I want to start my ladies leave.
Aside from our formal practices, we became such golf addicts that at night we would have serious tiger woods pga tour matches on our xbox. And honestly the gaming was beyond real, it was a serious thing for us and extremely educative and increased our ability to play a great game always. I miss golf sooo much, I honestly have not played in a few years, but will soon get back into it. A sport I cannot wait to play with my son. My other favorite sport is tennis, then volleyball, both which I play extremely well, also very competitive.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA
We flew into Scottsdale, on America West Airlines, does that airline even exist anymore? Anyways, we stayed at the Four Seasons Troons Resort for a week. The purpose of our trip was to play golf. And, yes, I play golf, I took private lessons, I am extremely competitive and went on many golf vacations, by bag is dangling tons of tags.
This resort was one of the most beautiful resorts ever and thinly one I’ve visited so far. The resort itself was a magical Arizona dessert beauty, the room simple yet, very beautiful and elegant. Every night we sat outside the restaurant to watch the most beautiful sunset you can imagine, while they played live music, the day transitioned into a colorful night full of vibrant orange hues, then darkness came, accompanied by the dimmed outdoor lights, surrounded by cactus, warm nights that transitioned to cool nights, so dark you can barely see ahead, thus you know the terrain is there. But even more beautiful was looking up to the sky and seeing all the star lights, millions of stars so clear, you feel close to them. Something very magical about Arizona.
We booked the best golf courses the resort offered and boy did we enjoy our golf hours, until one day, we felt these spikes shooting at us and till this day, I am still traumatized from the jumping cactus. Yes, cactus attacked up daily. The first time was surreal, we were in so much pain, had no idea what was going on, we called the clubhouse, who sent for us and then, only then, did they tell us that passing by certain cactus, they sense our electrify and shoot then split inside you. We screamed, we cried, we burned, we felt close to near death, the feeling was both shocking, traumatizing and painful. The first experience kept us from golf for a day, while we soaked our legs in warm milk, the only remedy they had.
The rest of our gold trips were painful to cactus spikes shooting at us, something we argued with the resort. They should have told us about that, and we would have been more cautious. We had paid for our stay in full and all the resort did was apologize. 7 months after that trip, we were still pulling cactus spikes out.
Other than that, the food in Arizona was super delicious, it was the first time we tried chipotle sauce and I got high as a kite from it. When I asked the waiter if my dish had drugs or alcohol in it, they told us no, but the chipotle was strong and gave me a reaction.
Driving to the resort, we were able to see all the native Arizonan beauty, the mountains hosting the most beautiful dessert brown stucco homes, with blue water pools everywhere. Something out of a magical book. I was impressed at how uniformed the homes were, how brownish reddish the area was and most importantly, how clean it was.
We ate mostly outdid the resort, we wanted to try Arizona’s local cuisines, which is full of American Mexican exotic flavors. Arizona, is an amazing place for both couples and families. A resort I highly recommend.
“Style is about having fun, being bold, making statements and establishing your own unique look that identifies with how you’re internally feeling at that moment. Style is about being comfortable and feeling good, it’s being uniquely you.” Giselle Trujillo
THE GREATEST 16TH CENTURY VENETIAN ARTIST
TIZIANO VECELLIO aka TITIAN
1488/1490 – AUGUST 27, 1576
Tiziano Vecellio aka Titian (1488/1490 – August 27, 1576) was one of the most important and greatest 16th Century painter from Itlay. Vecellio had worked under two great Venetian artist, Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione, both whom died within six years apart. His actual birth year is yet to be confirmed. Vecellio was born in the town of Pieve di Cadore in the Republic of Venice. He was married to Cecili, the daughet of a barber from his village Cadore. Cecilia was his housekeeper and mistress about five years. They had two boys together Pomponio and Orazio, in 1525 Celia fell seriously sick, wishing to mary her to legitimize their children, he married her, they had two more kids, two daughters, only the girl Lavinia survived in 1530, however Cecilia died giving birth to her. Vecellio decided to move to a new home with his two boys , convincing his sister Orsa to take charge of the household, which was a mansion in fashionable suburb in Biri Grande, at the edge of Venice with beautiful gardens on the sea facing Murano. Vecellio was known to be one of the most versatile painter of Italy with a profound use of colors and strokes that contributed from mythologies, painting altarpieces, renaissance art, portraits to landscapes with figures. backgrounds. Vecillio established a place as a leader of painting when he was commissioned for his first public masterpiece for the Assumption of the Virgin for the high altar of Santa Maria Gloriosa di Frari church in Venice, which took him three years to complete from 1516 – 1518. Vicellio achieved notability and international fame though his many portraits of Pope Paul III, Emperor Charles V (whom did not wanted to be painted by no other artist) and many others. While alive many fake copies of his work was being produced and sold. His paintings portrayed depth and psychological dimensions. During his last years Vecillio mostly worked for Phillip II as portrait painter. Vecelio died from a fatal plague in Venice on August 27, 1576. He was the only Venice Plage victim to have been given a church burial, was interred in the church he wished, the Frari. Vecellio rests close to his very famous painting, the Madonna di Ca’Pesaro. Unfortunately, no memorial marked Vecellio’s grave till Austrian rulers of Venice commissioned Canova to provide the large monument until much later. Sad to say, his favorite son Orazio, who was also his assistant, immediately died after his fathers death, due to the same Venice Plague. Vecellio’s most influential altarpiece was burnt in a fire at the SS. Giovanni e Paolo church in the 19th Century. His work has been an influence to many artist around the world. Tiziano Vecellio “Titian” is know as the Italian Renaissance Master.
Check out some of Tiziano's masterpieces:
The Venus of Urbino 1538
Portrait of Pope Julius II
Diana and Actaeon 1559
Diana and Callisto (detail 1)
Venus with Organist and Cupid 1548
Venus and the lute player
Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke of Urbino 1536 -38
Venus and Adonis
Federico Gonzaga, Duke of Mantura
The Andrians (Bacchanalia) c. 1525
Portrait of young girl with feather hat – a young women wearing a reddish burgundy (possibly leather) hat with a large feather to the left. She is removing formal wear off left shoulder and exposing her right shoulder in undergarment. She seems to wear a pearl necklace.
Portrait of a girl 2 – an elegantly dressed lady with braid in her hairs and elegant beige outfit.
Portrait of Empress Isabella of Portugal 2 – A women dressed either in silk or velvet brownish Burgundy elegant dress, with a long pearl necklace that drapes from the middle of chest from an oversized jewel.
Portrait of man in rec cap c. 1516 – A young man with an overused slouchy hat and oversized shoulder cape that seems to be of cheetah or henna fur. He also wears a sword which rests in front of his chest and seems to be wearing fitted off white leather gloves.