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Soon Come
We love what is Soon Come.
Who and what is next is always our thrill. Over the years we have been so lucky to have worked on creative branding, marketing and PR for the best clients. All of them on the forefront of their field, full of fresh creativity and bettering the planet.
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Upon the last northern evening ebb of Rome’s Fiori delle Alpi honied dew and her fragrant-bursting blooms of Pittasporum, Mulberry, and Jasmine…
sliding off the volcanic mountains
and tucking in to sleep …
Buongiorno arrives!
Good Morning to a Sister-Sistine-Chapel-Dap …a digital authentification protocol (DAP) of the Universe and sun’s energy to every dewy dreamer.
Why Italy. Why Abundantia. Why Now.
Pick head up. Look at the Sun. It sees You.
In honor of Rome’s Goddess of CREATIVITY, Abundance, and Prosperity, our gal whose very name, Abundantia, gets her voted Miss Sunshine, let’s DAP with HER. Feel her warm, loud sing-song ciao! to every awakening, pulsing cell of citrus-fruit flowers, espresso machina steam, and morning sunbeam!
Ciao to her and YOUR vastness! I’m sharing the behind-the-scenes story of my illustration and story of Abundantia, she of the Mediterranean’s beloved Italy, one of the total 12 goddesses in my adult coloring/comic book, Immortal Beloved: The World’s First Goddess Perfume + Coloring Book.
ahem. You ask why Italy? Ha!
Ciao! to every roaming, spiraling, bright smiling, curvy, Botticelli-bod, Mama Madonna goddess rolling over to wake up, huge smiles and stretches from last night’s romp with her lover! Ciao! to goddess Signora Abundantia here, all comfy centrale, cuddling baby amidst La Strada traffic zooming and That’s Amore! lovers meeting bods beneath sparkling fountains!
“Shake it awake,” says Italy, “Shake until gorgeous!”
Almost all goddesses everywhere in myth and legends are aligned with the energy of CREATION, being Mamas or archetypes for everything fertile under the golden sun. (like my best-ever favorite Prada ad above!) If we look at the globe of Mother Earth herself this goddess’s belly is the Mediterranean (Middle Earth) area, an arching fertile crescent, aligned with the center of our own bodies. In the ever-churning flow of nutrients and sensory impressions which rule our experience, creation cycles our inner processing landscape of feelings and emotions of gut intuition, and like a sun, WE CREATE. Our center is symbolic of our guts, will power, strength, courage and visceral expression. Creation is a central core aspect to our health and vitality!
This energy is located in the third chakra, highest earth chakra of the body which is known as our
“solar plexus”
of nerves, called Manipura in Sanskrit. Translating, man or mani means “gem, mind or thinking mechanism” and pura or puri means “city,” translated literally as the “city of jewels,” or as science is lately affirming, our gut is the “second” brain of our body. I go further and call this area the third “Star Gate” of your body, home, and our Earth’s sacred body in space.
OK wow, right? A Pure Power and Prosperity Sync Up!
here’s the background story…
Once upon a time, pondering what really is the being of our sun, besides being a ball of fire and the whole of Creation here on Earth, I wondered why it wasn’t a woman who actually got the dap from God?
I drew this:
which became this:
Of course, Abundantia’s receiving the DAP, from a male/God projectile to fill her famous horn of plenty, the cornucopia, is the must-have handbag of fertile goddesses globally. The multiple legends, depending upon the myth-teller, say Zeus/Hercules (strength) broke off a horn from the head of either the moping River God (sad flow) or a nourishing Goat Goddess (Mama’s breast of ever-flowing milk) who was suckling him as a baby. A horn (or a finger) of course is a spiraling projectile that amplifies, cornu in Italian, + copiosus root of the word copious, for plenty. The water nymphs (light hearted emotions) stole it then from Hercules and gave it to the goddess Abundantia to see what she would do with it.
Hmmm.
Strength over moping …
becomes Emotion moving …
and then becomes a gift to Wealth.
That. There. Is. My. Golden. Goddess. Girl’s CREATION!
Every goddess in our book has a fingerprint, for the ancient global tradition of women marking safe places on the Earth, above is Abundantia’s. Part cornucopia, part two spiraling opposites, and if that isn’t enough for ya, this happy little basket of all things twist-a-corner/corny/horn/horny is my inspiration for the chic Prada shoe heel in my illustration, below!
Many more Italy-deliziosos in the story and illustration. As I myself colored all the pink roads that lead to Rome and the goddess called Abundantia of Italy, I wanted to share some of my influences and inspirations in creating this goddess illustration from Sophia Loren’s 1970’s movies to…
Gucci, Pucci, Fellini to the sun/star angels of Fiorucci and to the Sistine Chapel power dap. Mantras, elixirs, essential oils, scents, flavors, myths, and other fun deep dives as always. Discovering is the fun I had CREATING and all my wishes for you to discover the same! Here’s the text my immortal beloveds, with images that inspired the illustration.
PS. If you simply cannot wait one more minute to CREATE, you can get your own Immortal Beloved book here: amzn.to/2ByEIAV
Enjoy!
STAR GATE 3 | CREATE | ABUNDANTIA of ITALY
“A woman born for love. A man born to love her.
A timeless moment in a world gone mad.”
I Girasole, Italian film poster, 1970
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love.” “Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
Sophia Loren, Actress
“I think I deserve something beautiful.”
“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Author, Eat, Pray, Love
HER STORY IN THE ETERNAL MOMENT OF NOW.
Upon the last northern evening ebb of Rome’s Fiori delle Alpi honied dew and her fragrant-bursting blooms of Pittasporum and Jasmine, sliding off the volcanic mountains and tucking in to sleep … Buongiorno arrives! Loud ciao! to every awakening, pulsing cell of citrus-fruit flowers, espresso machina steam, and morning sunbeam!
Ciao! to every roaming, spiraling, bright smiling, curvy, Botticelli-bod, Mama Madonna goddess rolling over to wake up, huge smiles and stretches from last night’s romp with her lover! Ciao! to goddess Signora Abundantia here, all comfy centrale, cuddling baby amidst La Strada traffic zooming and That’s Amore! lovers meeting bods beneath sparkling fountains! “Shake it awake,” says Italy, “Shake until gorgeous!”
La dolce vita was invented in Rome, where all roads lead. Too much is never too much for a gal like Abundantia at the crossroads of global culture. She gifts life and abundance through her creative touch, from a just-picked burst of Blood Orange zest to her ancient cities fully bursting with art and triumph. She inspires as the wind gives life to a square of Como silk fabric, unfurling it like a scarf, a map, lifting it up full of new ideas, from the depths of the Italian Riviera’s Mediterranean sea, all the way up to the highest Dolomites of the Italian Alps!
Her very essence is considered a Roman virtue. Conjuring Abundance, Good, and Plenty she is the ideal of more than enough food, wealth, and prosperity for all segments of society. She was gifted her signature symbolic cornucopia in an ancient myth, where it was first a horn popped off the brow of the River God by Hercules. The horn was taken up by the Naiaids aka Water Nymph Girls who transformed the horn into a spiral Bon Copia (Good ‘n Plenty) basket that was then gifted to Abundantia, as the poet Ovid epically rhyme-rapped. Hmmm. God guys are always giving their ribs, horns, and other similar phallic thingies to the Goddess girls … no wonder Italy is an abundant cornucopia of sexy, sensual!
HER ANCIENT FUTURE SIREN SONG FOR YOU. Feeling Basta!? Enough! Too full, empty or undone at all your edges, and all you wish for is to be is back centered in your energia? Ward off your own evil eye, open your cornicello (cornucopia) and “Create!” sings the song of Abundantia through our third chakra. Bright yellow-orange center of the body, home of our solar plexus gang of nerves, this is also our intuitive gut, where we digest the world and put our spin on it in our own soulful way. When CREATE, Star Gate 3 opens, there’s always more and more. Italy is “Manifest Centrale,” amply feeding her kids, her brilliant actors, architects, artists, designers, chefs, musicians, fashionistas, business moguls, painters, and lovers.
As Italy’s aria, Abundantia is said to enter our casa during the night, lighting up and outlining the borders of our dreams, inviting prosperity. Well-heeled future visions always breeze through the mind of Italy’s creators in concert with the past, the gifts of the land, and Abundantia’s sunshine-beaming, gold coin horn of plenty. She is well fed and well pleased. In all our Voluptuous Nostalgia, we are Abundantia, too. We are the girl whose scarf unfurls behind her “on the back of a Vespa, swerving through the ancient, teeming streets of Rome with her Italian lover, flashing his brilliant smile around every curve.
Together treasuring secret love trysts at Piazza Navona, gelato licks at the Trevi Fountain, and orchestra tix for Teatro dell’ Opera dressed in Fortuny velvets.” Attenzione! Find abbondanza jewels in the illustration from Fellini, Gucci, and Fiorucci;
Princess Audrey in Roman Holiday to Mama Sophia in Her Own Story;
a Sistine Chapel finger dap and to di Chirico’s metaphysical vistas.
In The 9-Star Passport, the energy to create is at the center of a building’s space, just as it is in our body’s architecture and the Earth’s core. The chakra is called solar, and in traditional feng shui the gate is called Health, echoing the idea that our digestive system is the center of all health. That health is a golden center of light radiating and synched to our feelings and openness to creation itself is magnifico! Alchimia, sì?
HEAR HER, SENSE HER, HEAL YOU. Ciao, Bella Star Gate 3, radiating gold sun, buzzing yellow and black bees on sunflowers, the I Girasole of my eye! Ciao, bella organic, homemade ravioli, hills of Lemon and Olive trees for healing oils! Ciao to dancing the Tarantella in the village square, ancient scents of Ambergris, and heady notes of Mughetto and Gardenia pulsing at every Prada step and then zipping from villa to villa via a Riva speedboat on Lake Como! Ciao Bella Futura to the visionaries at 10 Corso Como and architect Stefano Boeri’s “vertical forest” building. Bellas! Ragazzo! Desire the whole Eat, Pray, Love sync? Check the center of your casa, add some oro (gold) and pronto! Bada bada boom, change the room, change your self!
HER MANTRA TO TRY ON FOR SIZE + FIT. Mmmmm! Create me, Make Me! I am that Diva, Abundantia, fertile and abundant by nature; sweet, and a brilliant sun goddess! I am centered in my body’s pleasure and creativity. Stamp me a laughing, sparkling fountain made for granting wishes, Fortuna Centrale!
~fin~
Extra notes! I’m adding this in as a look back to an old college illustration, loving Italy back then, having lived there one summer. Notice I’ve got this beauty leaning on a spiraling column of history!
I’ve also always adored the folky, corniness of souvenir travel scarves, which of course, were a major inspiration to the illustration of Abundantia!
I was once told by a medium that I worked closely with Michelangelo. That always felt very right to me and like many others in the world, it seemed as if the stone was breathing and alive when as a wee person I looked up at the statue of David.
Including my photo from way long ago to arc to my latest favorite depiction of an Abundantia by painter Suzannah Martin. It’s got the gold spiraling horn-of-plenty in a modern sense, these girls are such knowing-floating-water nymphs and their nude bodies should not be seen any different than that of David above!
If you agree, my work in healing our ideas of “goddess” has found its home!
Ciao! Bella!
Thank you for coming with me behind-the-scenes. I hope my art and words have inspired your CREATIVITY and of course, your CONNECT to the ever shining and healing energy of our golden sun.
There are two ways to get your own copy of Immortal Beloved, The World’s First Goddess Perfume and Coloring Book:
Get it now at Amazon by clicking here.
Get an autographed copy from me by clicking here. You can also find the matching perfume here!
Note: Immortal Beloved was inspired by a same-named perfume by House of Cherry Bomb and I am grateful for their collaboration!
Note: Credits for images given happily.
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With little lit minds and gurgling hearts, our newborn 2018 selves give a tip of our tiny top hats to the start of a new year.
I herewith share my lit party top hat from my 2017 self :
Seeking lit ideas we often look to the world for source and ask to be adorned with its lights. Shine on me, shine on me!
This year. 2017. Inside Out is our key take-away. Re-Soul-Lusions from within. It’s one we’ll all never forget for it’s social justice, political, environmental and emotional challenges and wins, further underscoring the importance of art, beauty, celebrating design, wellness science … the fields and fruits of our daily harvest. Within our daily harvest, are hidden the seeds of future trends, always. My greatest wish is to seek this, that Lit From Within power.
I do actually feel so lucky to work with our clients, the experts, personalities, and businesses that are creating positive change in the world. Together sharing their messages in very “lit” ways bodes well for our collective future.
This year, as well, personally we’ve donned 3 new hats/adventures (besides the X-mas Hanukkah bush above.) We now look forward with new brights of 2018 to share the highlights and best times of our year, with clients and projects portending GOOD THINGS for 2018!
Before I run down some of these, looky how really lit from within I am!
“My biggest Top Hat Tip is this Tony Robbins‘ quote that almost flashed by me on Instagram earlier in the year:
“Begin to live as though your prayers have been answered.”
By Jove, I tried it! It works! Here’s a peek at some of what’s new going into 2018 so y’all can hopefully be inspired, connect with me, and see about some play time/work time/adventures/and oh! Lordy! answered prayers we can share together in 2018.
My newbies:
1 A new book of my illustrations and stories is now published entitled Immortal Beloved: The World’s First Goddess Coloring Book + Perfume. Click here on Amazon or see the post previous to this one, here. Goddess cocktail events, workshops, and retreats anyone?
2 New clients, some public, others private, with private clients including those forward-thinking companies and individuals utilizing to great effect our 9-Star Passport, a life and design navigational system for people, brands, and places. Planning some brand re-thinks, commercial, or residential refreshes? I’ve got a passport for you.
3 We welcome new clients and events for Slow Luxury, our home for sustainable beautiful stuff! Goods and experiences that celebrate indigenous and heritage materials through body and home goods, and travel adventures ya don’t say? El Shoppe is in development for 2018, and … Got some sustainable product development in mind? Call me, call me!
Our basic biz is still in full effect and we will always love sharing our 20+ year agency experience in creative direction and public relations for lifestyle brands. Being in touch with the leaders of today and tomorrow is the thread that runs through all our work. Doorways to help our collective lit dreams coming true.
Take a tour by month here to see the highlights of our 2017 work, the trends we see on the horizon (in bold and pretty in pink in honor of pink hats whose impact opened the year that was.)
Connect with us to discover more over coffee, a matcha latte or perhaps a hot toddy wrapped in an actual holiday sweater courtesy of one of our imaginative clients. Find the recipe here on a lit blog named Tools-2-Tiaras.
JANUARY
1 Mental Wellness … The “Flawless Foundation” revolution will be televised!
The awareness, measurement, healing and non-stigmatizing of the degrees of mental wellness is a vast frontier today. Finding the perfection in every child and normalizing the conversation around mental health, Janine Francolini, the founder of the Flawless Foundation, regularly calls on us to help her perfect her media appearances. This year she presented on CBS News 12 in West Palm Beach, see the clip here.
We adore coaching Janine and the kudos from her board, say it all:
“You are the BEST spokesperson for mental health and … health education! You are an amazing natural on camera and your openness is very compelling.”
FEBRUARY
2 Meals That Heal. Bravo for Gal-Approved Valentine’s Day Aphrodisiacs
More stamina between the sheets? We are all about Meals-That-Heal. We pitched a Valentine’s Day menu of healing aphrodisiacs at our brewery/restaurant client, Paulaner on Bowery, for a seduction-test-taste by TV-personality-also-foodie, Delaina Dixon and her mystery man. Mind that Goat Cheese and Red Beet Terrine with Poppy Seed dressing you two! Looks like the beets and poppy seeds are already at work on the sex hormones and that Champagne-Mousse-with-Carmelized-Mango is well-known to give a love blush.
Delaina’s review for Bravo TV‘s lifestyle vertical and film for her blog, Diva Gals Daily made V’day v-tasty, however, on another note, our hearts also went to …
Matt Abramovitz‘s goofy angel wings interviewing Paulaner’s brewmaster Justin Meyers, for New York City’s best-loved classical music station, WQXR (The Classical Station of The New York Times) and their Classical Beer Jam: Valentine’s Day Edition, a live webcast event at Greene Space. All in good love vibes, we were happy to make the connects where Paulaner served beer at the invitation of Heritage Radio‘s Beer Sessions. Craft beer, geeky-humor, classical music, angel wings … what’s not to Love?
MARCH
3 Food is Medicine. Get it on with a Happy App.
Happy as always to style and coach our long time client, advocate for healthy eating and living, Dr. Vincent Pedre …this year for the introductory video for his new Happy Gut app debut. Transforming a bare corner in a Tribeca loft studio into a green, vibrant kitchen was Part One of the evening for me. Part Two involved a Chelsea art exhibit of a nude woman with tattoos all over her body … and then a wine-n-dine on delish fish tacos at Hotel Americano. All in a NYC day’s medicine (I mean work!) my friends. As you well know.
APRIL
4 New/Old Food Rituals. Have you Herb the one about Bouley Botanical?
A chef and a doctor walk into an herbal wonderland for some kombucha and…
This spring we again welcomed new/old Wellness with a return ritual engagement of the Chef and Doctor series, in the spectacular Bouley Botanical, downtown Tribeca. Helmed by starred and award-winning Chef David Bouley and selected top docs this is where getting real dirty in earthy meets diagnosis. Chef Bouley’s passion for healthy ingredients paired with our client Dr. Vincent Pedre‘s extensive gut, microbiome and state of agri-business knowledge plus a … multi-course wine dinner gave a packed house much to chew on!
This year’s dinner featured passed happy canapés, a health tonic cocktail, and fungal magnificence like the dish below. Here’s last year’s lush pics and prophetic dinner from our 2017 trends blog.
We get lit imagining more actual hands-on doctor-chef collabs and farm fun, kitchen-cooking and communal dinners in 2018.
MAY
5 Commune Across Lines. Our International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) Panel
One way-too-early Sunday in May I pulled together my favorite design people for a chat on all things new in design for our panel, Across Perspectives: Design Futures, to open the annual ICFF trade show at Javits Center. We were very happily surprised as an audience of at least 200 filtered in, up early!
Waking up fast to deliver spot-on trends were Suzanne Slesin, moderator of the panel and founder of Pointed Leaf Press, with panel members, Scott Sanders, Interior Designer; Ellen Fisher, VP for Academic Affairs and Dean at New York School of Interior Design; Ingrid Abramovitch, Features Director, Hearst Design Group (ELLE DECOR, House Beautiful, Veranda); Rio Hamilton, Design and Fashion Blogger/Marketing Strategist plus me, and in absentia, Chad Oppenheim, Principal Architect, OPPENHEIM.
We designed this perspective cross-section which gave both panelists and audience much to think and opine about. A great success measure. Happy to say that our talk was also enthusiastically covered by industry heavy, Editor At Large!
I adore speaking and presenting to groups, about design trends! Hint, hint 2018! Which brings us to …
JUNE
6 So what is this 9-Star Passport of which you Speak?
Just as the golden triangle, Fibonacci sequence and funky fractals represent the pattern of growth and alignment in nature and art, we ourselves can echo these patterns for optimum success in the design of our days, spaces, and creations. That is The 9-Star Passport.
Two new “private” business clients, one A Notable Interior Designer and the other A Mystery Architect with international hospitality, commercial and residential projects came to me for 9-Star Passport consults, intrigued by this new way to look at feng shui, sacred space, and intentional design.
Re: the plans for a stellar Beverly Hills home perched high that we reviewed, The Architect’s Team Project Leader said:
“The insight was great. It was a bit of a relief that we were headed in the right direction. Thank you for the solutions to the issues we did have. We find the concept of Feng Shui very interesting and found it very helpful to speak with someone who knows about it.”
Re: our Interior Designer Client desiring a deep dive on her brand for new directions, we utilized The 9-Star Passport to unlock visual and verbal cornerstones. Within weeks she suddenly had a multitude of new design jobs!
JULY
7 Lit is Simple Good (or We’ll take a Garden Tour Rapture for 100 vs. an Urban Rave)
Know what was most precious for me this July?
Carefully and in total connect, creating a lush garden and then sharing it with fellow garden gurus. I know some of you are shaking your head, what happened to her?
When I really thought about my best summer memory, a deep dive image, it’s not me so swanky, sexy diving into an Instagrammy pool, rave, or mountaineering like a Patagonian maniac. Because, simply, I did not go there. Nope, my best summer memory is of goofy, earnest, salt of the earth garden tour goers ID’ing strange growths and prattling on in British accent delirium about Delphiniums.
Just so sweet. slow. Healing. Lit. From. Within.
AUGUST
8 We Blush + Emit Pheromones! Thrilled re: Awards and Media
Thrilled that among all the growth in interactive performance and public art … our urban art interruption project, Love Notes was selected for coverage by CODAworx magazine’s August issue for art in the environment that involved written words!
One Saturday, Love Notes, messages inside tiny golden tubes, appeared in the colorful energy riot of NYC’s Union Square Park. Interjecting surprise and an ephemeral moment into a city’s diary as people discovered, slowed down, and interacted with the notes.
Good feelings on a human scale generated! The project was a temporary public space installation, a performance piece involving the public, and a photographic essay to capture reactions as people read and played with the notes. Notes led like breadcrumbs along a path, at people’s feet, under trees, and ended at the feet of the Gandhi statue. Read more here: CODAmagazine’s Written Word IV issue.
New York Lifestyles covered us too!
Slow Luxury sensuously thanks New York Lifestyles magazine for covering our Slow Luxury scent design travel adventures with Aroma M perfumes. Marrakech is our first trip! Read more about this custom trip here in partnership with the transformative travel company, Epic Road. As creators of a new genre of travel, called “transformative travel,” by creating exceptional, mind-expansive journeys that inspire, captivate, and thrill, Epic Road has earned Travel & Leisure magazine’s designation as a preferred travel specialist. Lit, in other words.
SEPTEMBER
9 Local Royalty. Oh Hi, Oktoberfest Citizen Mayors!
Since the Mayor of Munich officially opens Oktoberfest in Germany every September, (and although I asked, Bill de Blasio sent his sincere regrets) we opted to start a New New York tradition and honor four of our favorite Citizen Mayors to tap the kegs at Paulaner on Bowery. Clockwise from left above are our honored Mayors who tapped the Oktoberfest kegs each weekend: Bryan Woody, General Manager of Tribeca’s Spring Place for NYC Mayor of Influencers; Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin of SohoMuse, NYC Citizen Mayor of Creative Tech; Julia Kaganskiy of New Museum’s NEW INC, NYC Citizen Mayor of Cultural Innovation; and Jimmy Carbone, Host of Heritage Radio‘s Beer Sessions for NYC Mayor of Craft Beer.
Like wine, the craft of making tasteful beer is all about the terroir of the local elements. Adherants of Germany’s Reinheitsgebot aka “The purity of beer law” marvel at the delicious taste New York City water gives to the 400-year old Paulaner recipe. It’s basically local royalty.
Next year, Bill.
OCTOBER
10 Rare Scents + Textile Revivals.
Slow Luxury is in serious development this year in several sensuous scent and textile revivals.
India: We are connected to the passionate people at The White Weave whose mission is to preserve rare weaving and textile traditions in danger of being lost to the modern world. Seen above is “mashru” a word derived from Arabic for “permitted by Islamic law.” It is a heritage warp face satin fabric composed of silk and cotton originally developed to allow Islamic men to wear silk while under restrains for luxury in their lifestyle. This fabric gives the rich feel of silk on the outer surface but only cotton yarn on the reverse, next to the body. We’re excited to begin working with designers here in the US to develop collections based on these rare weaves.
Scotland: Exciting news! Gold Hart will be available in the US! Capturing the scents of Scotland ~ the amber,bramble, glen, shore, wild rose ~ and the heart of UK’s luxury retailers, we are excited to be introducing these heavenly candles to our friends on these shores.
NOVEMBER
11 Pão de Queijo! (Cheese Balls!) For Art’s Sake
Slow Luxury Festa to Benefit The Brazil Foundation
Will we support Brazil’s kids to make art vs. sell drugs? Support the inspiration of the artist JR, the award-winning international photograffeur posting large black-and-white photographic images, massive art in the environment to call attention to social justice issues? Of course!
Will we support JR’s art of a woman’s eye on a sailboat, with a passionate philanthropist at the helm racing 4000K from France to Brazil to support arts for kids in Brazil’s favelas? We said yes!
We pulled together a Slow Luxury, holiday pop up shop with our friends at Ornare within their beautiful showroom of state-of-the-art custom design solutions for living, along with SohoMuse as a fund-raising event for The Brazil Foundation and the Vivo à Beira sailboat adventure. Did I mention, the delectable, traditional Brazilian Pão de Queijo cheese balls, plus our favorite Prosecco from Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco DOCG to make the evening sparkle? So good.
Rio Hamilton hosted an expert panel with designers, Marie Aiello, Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin of SohoMuse, artist, Joana P. Cardozo and myself, Jade Dressler.
Slow Luxury pop up treasure vendors left to right clockwise in the image above: Esenshel hats; Immortal Beloved Goddess Perfume + Coloring Book; jeweler, Lorae Russo; Stephanie Seal Brown, handwovens; The White Weave pillows and home decor; Shop Zuri, dresses; and Gold Hart candles.
December
12 What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander. #Metoo!
What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander essentially means what is good for a man is equally good for a woman; or, what a man can have or do, so can a woman have or do. It figures with this being so prominent in 2017 that I’d have a restaurant client serving up traditional goose for the holidays. Thank you to Charles Passy of the Wall Street Journal for catching scent of a culinary holiday trend, goose on the menu.
With our agency ending the year for Paulaner with a total 800 million+ media views for 2017, including placements in both New York Times and this goose half page in the Wall Street Journal in the same last weeks of the year, it is kind of like the goose that laid a golden egg with lots of shiny, shiny for 2018!
*** and…
(Duck, Duck Goose…beware of a little lit within, honest, humorous trend segue here, my resolution for 2018.)
The goose. While I have been mostly a vegetarian in my life, I do understand and don’t judge anyone’s taste for eating animals. I understand that it’s all based on ancient ways, like ingesting the spirit of the creatures. Yes, I wear vintage furs, I get the hunter-huntress power traditions, I’m just not a fan of factory farmed animals vs. reverence for life.
For this next year however, personally, I’m honestly feeling a new interpretation of #Metoo or What’s Good for The Goose is Good for the Gander. In my own life, I’m seeing how I could only do good for animals, ever more sensitive, internally lit to the meek that shall inherit the earth, feeling deeply the human cruelty to other humans and other species … I’m going with Love for the small, love for all. Full veg, all the way for 2018 is my re-soul-ution. In spirit animal talk of the goose, treasure hunting ala golden eggs, being a mate for life, protective of territory and community, I want THAT power.
So here’s my trend suggest.
How to goosestep in line for what’s going to be BIG IN 2018?
Two words my friends.
Go Goddess.
And in terms of Mother Goose, aproned country-goose-lady, Mom of all songs, and speaking of equality between geese and ganders, timeless stories, myths, and legends, take a gander at my Immortal Beloved Goddess Coloring Book and get the Lit from Within Power! Order up copies for the gals (and guys) in your life! Read more here. Buy on Amazon here. Shop the collection of illustrations here.
Thank you friends! (I know, such a weird-segue;-)
I am a weird egg. We all are. And that’s immortally lovable, yes?
PS! Amazon reviews make a girl happy lit from within like an aurora!
And see? All the goddesses wrote their reviews on the back of the book to inspire you! They read the book and they like it, they do! xoxo
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