Mixed Marriages

Mixed marriages come in many forms. We are all aware of the racial divide. Just this May Mildred Loving passed away at 68. Her marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws. Cultural, religious differences, and racial differences can make for a very dramatic results.

There are more humorous approach to a diverse union, read "Surviving My Mixed Marriage"

Mixed Marriages are common place today and it has always been said that opposites attract. Below information about the theatrical production of Platinos and Collard Greens, that tells a story of differing backgrounds that find love.

Platanos and Collard Greens

Written by David Lamb and directed by Summer Hill Seven, tells the story of two college students, Freeman, an African-American man and Angelita, a Latino woman, both forced to confront and overcome cultural and racial prejudices while defending their bond from the biases held by family and friends. From Website Platanos and Collard Greens

Another play about the complicated story of Cultural and Racial Unions.

South Pacific

Time.com

Nellie, a nurse on a Pacific Island during WWII, falls in love with de Becque, a local planter. However, when she learns he is a widower with 2 half caste kids, she cannot accept the sitution. Meanwhile, Cable falls in love with a Polynesion girl named Liat. Cable and de Bacque go off together on a spy mission and the two women wait in hope of their return. From Website Broadway Musical Home/South Pacific

Just My Cup Of Tea

Jazzabon Creations

Last Saturday was Dance Africa's Annual Festival (now in it's 31'st year) of events which included Dance (Duh), Music, and the long awaited Craft Festival. For me it was like a family reunion. Meeting up with old friends and new vendors. One of the great finds was Jazzabon Creations. A friend had pulled me over to see these beautiful teapots, bowls, and serving platters and more. These unusual shapes were accented by vibrant colors, Afrocentric images and designs.

Joyce Lomax is based in Atlanta Ga., but she and her artwork is a must see at art shows around the country. Read more about Art by Joyce

When creating your gift registry be sure to add any one of Jazzabons fabulous pieces to the list. My friend purchased an over sized cup (not pictured) for her morning cereal. That's the best way to enjoy these incredible pieces, use them everyday and everyday is extraordinary.

Jazzabon Creations


If you like more unusal ceramics please read my blog Let's Dish

13 Children and Still Happy

This weekend was the kind that families gather up their appetites and memories. And you begin meeting everyone before the big day. Take mental notes of who everyone is. The uncle who is a grabs too much, the cousin that's a secretary or a stripper (she likes her spandex), a nephew who is bound for a career in crime, and then his saint of a mother, who always makes a remark that makes you think "Wait a minute, I think I've been insulted".
But not all gatherings are filled with a cast ready for the carnival. This weekend I met a couple with 13 kids. YES, I SAID 13, no steps, no adoptions, one set of twins. She's even proud to say she is a grandmother (NO SHE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE A GRANDMOTHER!). It was remarkable, there wasn't any wear and tear on her body or spirit. She is beautiful, enthusiastic, passionate, and even after 13 kids (which she home schooled 6), she is still happy.
We all asked how, why, what the hell!?
Her answer "I guess am madly in love with my Husband"

Stay madly in love it is the best beauty treatment you cannot buy!

PS: I apologize for not having any pictures of this women, I was in shock I couldn't reach for the camera.

Wedded Bliss

Of course we all have seen swans used as symbols of wedded bliss. They are among many animals that mate for life. Swans make for a more beautiful imagery you can use in your invitations but there are quite a few more animals that fit this category.
These animals below may surprise you:
Gibbon apes, wolves, termites, beavers, bald eagles, brolga cranes, golden eagles, condors, pigeons, prions (a sea bird), angeler fish, black vultures,

coyotes ,
barn owls ,

French angel fish ,

sandhill cranes ,
pigeons, prions (a seabird),
red-tailed hawks ,

ospreys ,

prairie voles (a rodent)

A great artist can create a beautiful rendering of any of these animals so they can be used creatively in your wedding material. Even rodents and termites can be pretty.

Dancing Your Way In Shape

Dress by Cassandra Bromfield

Photo by Meredith Andrews

It's just about crunch time and you've got to get moving, litterally. Every bride vows to loose at least 20 pounds. And many of you are resorting to some extraordinary tactics, like diet pills, starvation, and even buying dresses a size smaller ( read more from Susan Lang's article).

These unhealthy methods are not effective and are even dangerous. Why not make weight lose fun and dance your self into a new size and a beautiful new you.

Below are a few classes great for the mind, body, and spirit. Best of all they are cheap cheap cheap.

(These classes are here in NY, if know of any in any other areas around the country let me know cabcomp@aol.com)

Great News! Dance Into Your Destiny is having a dance session next week.

We are going to do some relaxation techniques followed by a warm-up and dance combination. Get your spot now.

Pearl Studios
500 8th Avenue, 4th floor
between 35th and 36th Streets
New York City
from 1-2 pm
Saturday, May 31st
Just $15

See Verona - The Dance Specialist in action

June 1st

Verona's dance workshop at Alvin Ailey.
Alvin Ailey
409 West 55th Street
corner of 9th Avenue
New York City
on June 1st at 5pm
Just $5

Nubian Moon Daughters

Wednesdays from 6:00p.m. - 7:30 pm

($12 per class)

Mark Morris Dance Theater

3 Lafayette Ave across the street from BAM

Brooklyn NY

It's a lot of fun, not too hard, and the teacher is excellent and a delight. Wear loose, comfortable clothing. There's no dress code, some people even had on work clothes. Please consider coming and pass the word on. It's loads of fun.

Check out the link below.

Nubian Moon Daughters

Burning Wishes

I found a great party idea at the National Stationary Show. Have a Flying Wish Paper Party,Flying Prayer Paper see video.
How it works:

• Write it on your Flying Prayer Paper.
• Roll and flatten your paper, then shape it into a tube.
• Place the tube upright on the Prayer Platform.
• Light the top edge of the Flying Prayer Paper and watch it burn down in a small, beautiful flame.
  
• At the last moment your wish magically lifts off the platform and rises to Heaven!

  Hux Creative, LLC
  8152 SW Hall Blvd.
  Suite #428
  Beaverton, OR 97008
  503.626.8784
  julia@huxcreative.com

The kit comes with all you need, just be present for the blessings.
$15.00 Kit includes: 50 prayer papers, 25 platforms, matches, pencils, and instructions
For more info log onto Flying Prayer Paper

Beautiful Weddings

Just a Pretty Picture
That I hope makes you
Smile

I got Thanked

Something A Little Different

Adinkra Online

Adinkra Online offers you a nice selection of products with many of the popular Adinkra symbols. Included are thongs and boxers, the perfect item to pack for the honeymoon, or give as gifts to your bridal party at the bachelor and bachelorette parties. Better yet make the parties coed. That way you can keep an eye on each other.

Look for more Adinkra Online

Tee Shirts, mugs, tiles, keepsake boxes, and baby items

Say I Do With $10,000!

Time sensitive, contest open for entries up to May 30th 2008
must be 21 and over to enter

It's time to celebrate

"I Do" with Mirassou wines!

Mirassou, America's oldest wine making family, wants to make your celebration shine. Enter the "I Do with Mirassou" contest for a chance to win $10,000, plus an "I Do with Mirassou Dream Wedding Planning Day" with Brides.com Senior Editor Anna Pezik. Click here for video of wedding tips and trends.

The prize includes hotel and round trip airfare to New York City for two days and one night, during which time the winner will meet with Senior Editor Anna Pezik for a one-day consultation about the winner's wedding. Ms. Pezik will showcase the very latest bridal trends and offer personalized suggestions for the winner's wedding. What a way to begin planning your big day!

Tell Mirassou in 250 words or less how you envision your Dream Wedding and submit a digital photograph of you and your fiancè. Click here for contest entry.

Some restrictions may apply. Void in CA, TN, and UT.

Free Rehersal Dinner Cake

!Time Sensitive!
Offer valid with wedding cakes booked through July 2008
Some restrictions apply

Nana Pearls Wood Spoon

Invites you to partake
In some very tasty, special cake.

Let's meet, have some coffee,
you get to sample two.
call, email, make an appointment,
That tasting time is just for you.

Then once you decide which cake you like best
There is one more detail you can put to rest-
your rehearsal dinner cake - complimentary,
A gift to sweeten your festivity

212- 665-7515
lali@nanapearls.com

Sit Right On Top Of Your Cake

Picture Yourself Graphics

You just never know what you will find on the web and I thought this was so cute (found this on Black Bride.com).

Cake toppers have been getting pretty creative. Gone are the plastic bride and groom who resembles no one at all (although it can be kind of kitchy for some of those 50's themed weddings)

Now, you can take your own images of you as kids and have a cake topper made. Picture Yourself Graphics has made you two look like childhood sweethearts. Just log on and see how they take two separate photos and "marry" you two as kids.

It's a fun idea and an item that will keep everyone wondering and creates a keepsake you will continue to enjoy for years to come.

Be sure to take a look at their other products too, equally fab.

Shower Invites With Style

Need Shower invites with the right image? Below are links to some great companies that have the perfect imagery for your shower.

Sweet Berry Lane Invitations.



For those for you who love this technology, send out an eCard Cowrie Cards





For a beautiful multicultural selection
The Paper Knot

Where's The Party!

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Wedding Dress Sample Sale

Well it's time to clean house and I am letting go of a few of my samples. Including Old Yella"
Was $2000 now $500

My studio is small and I am making room for new fresh samples. I will post the other samples, but you are welcome to call and come by to see what is available. Prices are as low as $100. All pieces sold as is.
212-502-5277

The Beautiful Search

It is considered the search of a life time. Some would consider a loving partner, with whom you will spend your life with, a search to end all searches. But, the wedding gown will make women move heaven and earth for the perfect dress. Many women can break out in hives over just the thought of this daunting task. For average size women there are racks of tulle confections, in different styles. This can still be stressful sifting through so many styles. But for the plus size bride her choices are limited in style, fabrications and in some cases bridal stores will charge an additional fee for being over a size 18. So you see why some women don't even want to shop for the dress.
Charmein Canton has decided enough is enough and has put pen to paper. Down That Aisle In Style: A Wedding Guide for Full Figured Women, this book is filled with practical advice from her many years of experience as a wedding consultant and a plus size woman herself. From head to toe you'll learn about necklines, hemlines, the whole nine yards. Every part of your wedding day should be fabulous and that begins with The Beautiful Search.

Charmein Canton
Other titles by this author
Available on Amazon.com

Not His Type


MS Doesn't Stand For Multiple Sclerosis


You're Getting Married

It's Time To Party

Bridal Teas are lovely but why not consider

another kind of Tease.

Get the whole bridal party together and have some fun.

You are Invited To attend a "Playhouse Party" -

hosted by Therez Fleetwood

Come and experience the ultimate "Girl’s Night In."

Get comfortable and learn about a variety of relationship enhancement and enrichment products that will spice up your love life and take your sensual pleasures to a whole new level.

Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008
Time: 7:30 - 9:30pm
Location: 126 West 118th Street

(btwn. Lenox & 7th Ave.) - Garden Apartment

New York, New York

Sample products will be available to touch, taste and explore - items that will help you put the spark back into your love life and add excitement to boring nights.

Some of the products that will be featured are the latest Love Potions, Adult Novelties, Couples Games, and Bedroom Toys & Accessories.
There will be an opportunity to purchase your favorite items, (cash, checks and credit cards are accepted).

It’s going to be a ton of fun and equally as entertaining.

Light refreshments and cocktails will be served.

To RSVP
PLEASE CALL (973)748-7145

EMAIL therez2008@verizon.net

Feel free to bring a friend along with you!

The Youngest Edorsement

I love my bubble bath!

A young lady of 8 years old had come to the studio for her custom designed gold jacket. She was having her First Communion and the jacket would be the icing on a beautiful little cotton dress her mom bought off the rack. She was a busy little girl in the studio, there is alot to see and touch. After we had decided on the right style I remembered J. Blossom had sent some samples (full size) of their all natural bath and body products for girls. I was happy to have the perfect client for the all natural bubble bath. She was delighted.

The next week I see her again for the final fitting. Her younger sister and a best friend accompanied her (Mom too). As soon as she walked into the studio she said "I love my bubble bath and I used it all up!". Boy, I'm glad I had some Banana Smoothie Lotion. The size of the bottle was great, they could all share it. Little sister got to hold the lotion and held it pretty tight. J. Blossom has got a real hit, just survey the 8 year olds.

J.Blossom

Fun Natural

Bath and Body Products

for Girls