Corner View - Favorite Clothes

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Over the years my fashion taste has changed dramatically.  Most of the things I wore in the 1980s have long been evicted from my closet and only live through photographs.  There are, however, two dresses from 1986 that I have been unable to part with - not because of the shape or design of either dress, but because of the fabrics.

The first dress is the one I wore to the Father/Daughter dance my senior year in high school.

The second one I found a few months later when I was job hunting.  I came home that night and told my parents that I hadn't found a job, but I found the most amazing dress at Laura Ashley and it was being held for me.  It's hard to imagine that I ever thought THIS was hot.  Ugh - look at those sleeves. (when it's ironed, those are some seriously puffy sleeves!) It came with a three inch sash of the same fabric that tied into a HUGE bow in the back.   Hideous.  

While the dresses are seriously dated, I think the fabrics are fabulous:

The fabrics would make nice pillows, curtains, etc.    And maybe before the dresses hit the "30 year mark" I will have repurposed the fabric.

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Corner View - Self-Portrait

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Last week, I took a class, Healing and Expression Through Art,  at the Florida School of Holistic Living.  It was a wonderful experience.

The instructor started with having us sit in a circle and meditate.  Then he had us paint something that we feared.  As we didn't take photos of the process, I have reproduced using a Sharpy and legal pad :-)

(1) This is me... in a box - afraid of alienation and isolation.

(2) Then he had us draw some positive thoughts.  I added a lion from my trip to Africa, poppies for Italy, Buddha for my future trip to Thailand, and the Himalayas for another future trip.

(3) Then he had us turn our fear into something positive.  I began by using the only color left on my palette at the time - yellow.  Using the yellow, I "reached: out to the past and the future. And I became a sunflower - totally by accident!

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Corner View - Wine

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane and currently curated by Francesca, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments at www.fuoriborgo.com, and be sure to visit other participants, too.

One of the many great things about having a roommate is that my little wine rack is now full.

And it's fun to have someone to work on emptying the rack... even on a Tuesday night.

In Italy this summer, the four Floridians rented a car and rode off into the Tuscan countryside.  (The two Brits decided not to join us.  I guess a carload of Americans is rather daunting.)   Wouldn't you know?  We ended up - totally by accident - at a winery owed by a FLORIDIAN!

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CV - All the small things...

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane and currently curated by Francesca, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments at www.fuoriborgo.com, and be sure to visit other participants, too.

I am easily amused - especially by small things.  Give me a cut out to put my face in and I'm happy!  

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CV - Sacred Space

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I haven't created my space, yet.  (I have a friend moving in for a few months and have been creating "Cindy Space" since the class.)  However, as I took this class at the Kadampa Center, I will be creating my own sacred space SOON :-)

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Corner View - Before and After/Last, but not Least

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Before and after - this topic came at the perfect time as my college roommate was in town last week. 

Before:  Here we are in our dorm at the University of Montevallo in 1986 or 1987.  (The hairdos give away the decade, don't they??? And great quality photo from the "disk" cameras of the '80s.  Anyone else remember those?)

Jeanny is in the yellow sweater on the left. I am two over in the blue behind the girl in the pink.

 

 

 

After:  This was last Wednesday in Orlando - not a good one of me.  My "after" looks like I've been on a bender!!  (I only had ONE glass of wine - honest!)

 

 



Last, but not least, a photo of a nursing baboon...

Corner View - Roadside

Corner View is a weekly appointment - each Wednesday - created by Jane and currently curated by Francesca, where bloggers from all corners of the world share their view on a pre-arranged theme. If you'd like to join in, please leave a link to your Corner View post in the comments at www.fuoriborgo.com, and be sure to visit other participants, too.

I took this photo a couple of months ago on my way home from the office.  The man was standing on a corner in rush hour traffic holding this sign, "Be encouraged."   It was so resfreshing and made me - and I'm sure others - smile

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