Musing of a fabulously fifty-ish Babe with (P)lenty (H)ips (A)nd (T)highs living a fit, healthy life-style, while giving this aging thing a run for its money. Here is where the Grown & Sexy meet. The language may be a little 'tart' at times, but we're all grown folk here.
Making the proper cuts can make the difference between seeing food prep as a chore or as a joy. Proper cuts can mean the difference between unevenly cooked dishes, poor flavor development, and standing ovation meals!
Who knew? *head scratch*
The art of properly holding the knife and producing uniformed cuts of food is so vital that knife skill is usually the first skill course that culinary student learn.
Try as I might, I just can’t seem to get my hands coordinated enough to ‘make it work‘ *blink! blink! *. The whole knuckle-thing is so unnatural. My fingers have a mind of their own and staying tucked is not ‘on the menu’.
Okay, raise your hand with me, if you are too through with all of this snow!
This weather mayhem has gotten in the way of maintaining any normalcy to my workouts!!
Want to go to the gym, can’t get through the mounds of snow….
Finally able to wade through the snow to make it to the street, the gym closed early * Forecast calling for several feet of new snow. Like. Right. Now.*
Another very, very cold night! Stocked up yesterday on all of the essential creature comforts for another day of ‘being snowed in’.
Not going to spend too much time complaining about the meal that nature has served us.
That’s it. I’m over it.
The weather, that is.
I decided to spend the day nested comfortably in my favorite loveseat, surrounded by as many creatures comforts as could reasonably fit,
watching movies on the cable channel and rifling through magazines.
My movie pick, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’. Couldn’t pass up a movie with the following description –
“Sex. Money. Power. Drugs.
Brace yourself for an outrageous true story from legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese that critics are calling “a masterpiece for a new generation.”
* Leonardo DiCaprio delivers “the best performance of his career”** as a young stockbroker hungry for a life of non-stop thrills,
where corruption was king and more was never enough. His rise to power earned him the title The Wolf of Wall Street.
Together, Scorsese and DiCaprio deliver a story of American excess that is “an absolute blast from start to finish.”
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Haven’t Seen it yet?
You’ll be hooked after this two minute trailer…. guaranteed.
It’s Leonardo!
Right!?
Love the trailer?
No way could I pass up this much fun and frolicking!
I’m snowed in, after all!!!
Loved the movie! – It didn’t disappoint.
It’s Leonardo! Right!?
Not only that, quite unexpectedly, the movie gave me the idea for today’s Tuesday {Shoes}Day Theme. You see, according to the premise of the movie, the relationship between Jordan Belfort and Steve Madden, landed both of these men – eventually – in the slammer! It took a minute or two to believe that the Steve Madden that was referenced in the movie is Steve Madden – THE shoe mogul! …. sometimes I’m slow like that …
Without further ado, here are a few pictures of my Steve Madden Favs!
Love the leopard print and the red croc bow. Real ‘Betsy Johnson’-ish
fore-{E}dge painting, believed to date back to the 1650s, is the artful technique of hiding a painting on the {E}dge of a book. There are two basic forms: (1) paintings on the {E}dges of a book’s leaf, that, reveals the fine work of the artist’s rendering when the pages are fanned and, (2) paintings on the {E}dges of a closed book’s pages. In the closed book form, because the painting is on the closed {E}dge itself the book’s leaf do not need to be fanned to view the artwork.
Winter by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa
The intrigue of the first form is that the fanned painting is one that is not visible when the book is closed. Another basic difference is that a painting on the closed {E}dge is painted directly on the surface of the book {E}dge.
For the fanned painting the paint is applied to the top or bottom margin of the book’s leaf and not to the actual “fore”- {E}dge itself.
View the beauty of the art fore-{E}dge painting demonstrated in the videos below:
The above two forms are the most common forms of fore – {E}dge, this is another form where, the book’s leaf are doubled fore-{E}dge paintings, where a different image can be seen by flipping the book over and fanning the pages in the opposite direction.
Musing of a fabulously fifty-ish Babe with (P)lenty (H)ips (A)nd (T)highs living a fit, healthy life-style, while giving this aging thing a run for its money. Here is where the Grown & Sexy meet. The language may be a little 'tart' at times, but we're all grown folk here.
Love the leopard print and the red croc bow. Real 
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