blogging break

My life has bumps in the road, treasures, great love, and complications, just like yours.
Due to the energy these things consume,
I'm taking a break from blogging.

Left: Me in Dec 2012
Middle: Me in Dec 2011
Right: Me in Dec 2010

These are some runway looks that I think would work for holiday celebrations.

Left: Escada Fall 2013 RTW
Middle: Emilio Pucci Fall RTW 2013
Right: Juicy Couture Fall 2013

In Texas we've been snowed/iced in since Friday.
That means everything has been closed.
We are ready for the sun to warm us up again!

Our view from the backyard window.
My guy shoveling snow/ice in our front yard walkway.

My nephew Speed Racer with his train Christmas 2012,
Speed Racer's first Christmas 2010,
Speed Racer looking at his Frosty book 2011.

My twin nieces looking out the window in Dec 2011,
My twin nieces in santa hats in Dec 2010,
My twin nieces and nephew with santa Dec 2012.

My art journal page from
January 25, 2013

Sometimes I discover,
what I thought knew before,
was no longer relevant.
Things change,
people change,
I change,
ideas change,
Life changes.
Sometimes there's an end.
Sometimes there's a beginning.

Dear blog friends, I'm sending you fabulous wishes of grand moments with family, friends, good food, wonderful music, and joyful fun!
Keep creating, or doing whatever it is that makes you happy.
All the best to you, with peace and love,
Teddi :)

It's that season

For wearing colored tights

There I am sporting mine.

My skirt and moss green boots were thrifted.

Anna Sui Fall 2013 RTW

It's that season for picking pumpkins.

My nieces EJ and Lil Bug, and my nephew JJ,
at the pumpkin patch.

My nephew Speed Racer choosing his pumpkin.

It's that season of the witch.

"When I look out my window,
Many sights to see.
And when I look in my window,
So many different people to be
That it's strange, so strange.
You've got to pick up every stitch
Must be the season of the witch"...Season of the Witch by Donovan

Rain Season
My guy in our hotel West Palm Beach, Florida August 2007

Yes, we went to Florida during their rainy season.
No, we did not pack an umbrella.
Yes, the rain pelted fast and furious.
Yes, we bought this huge umbrella at an art museum.
Yes, we actually used it then.
Yes, my grandma believed that opening umbrellas indoors was bad luck.
No, I don't believe that.
Yes, we still have this umbrella.
No, we never use it now.
Yes, my guy will pose for me.
Yes, I want to bite his toes. ;)

kitties and puzzles

When I was about 6 or 7 years old, we had a kitty cat called Puzzles. We didn't have her for very long.

Obviously this hot blonde chick isn't me.
She's a model.

Left: Cool Cat Beanie F21
Right: Cool Cat Spiked Top F21

Little me was told that Puzzles ran away.

This is me at age 6 or 7 yrs. old. Back then I believed whatever my parents told me.

Here's another hot model wearing cute kitty clothes.

Left: Charlotte Olympia Velvet Embroidered Boots
Right: Black Shirt with White Cats Etsy

 I didn't find out until I was an adult, that Puzzles, (the kitty), didn't run away. Instead, she was taken to a shelter (or something). Yeah, apparently she made a mess. My mom doesn't like cats.

Left: Black Cat Tights on Etsy
Right: Cat Tattoo Tights on Etsy

My twin nieces, nephew, and their grandma, with actual puzzles, not Puzzles (the kitty), from December 2012.

My nephew Speed Racer with his puzzle, this past Summer, 2013.

Years later I grew allergic to cats. I don't know if I still am, because I take allergy medicine everyday.
 I just know that now, when I'm around cats that belong to my friends, I don't seem to have problems. They sure like to come up to me, and want my attention. I don't know why.

At my friend's house that has a cat, in 2011.
(I wish someone would have told me to adjust my blouse
 because my breast was hanging out. Jeez).

In 2011, I would tutor at a, mansion like fancy house, twice a week. I would sit in their formal dining room, where I would help their children read.

Another photo of me in 2011.
Omg, is it me, or does it look my breast is popping out again?

While sitting in their fancy chair, their cat would climb up, and sit down right behind me. Yes, on the same chair! I was like, um, okay. I didn't encourage the behavior. I just thought it was odd. I don't know why their kitty did that. Do you?

"We missed you hissed the lovecats
We're so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully
Wonderfully pretty!"The Lovecats by The Cure

What do kitties like to eat?

Here's my scrapbook page of:
Japanese Garden Florida August 2007

The other night I watched
2 Broke Girls Episode, And the Kitty Spank Spank.

Maybe somebody should have spanked that fancy kitty, that wanted to share the chair I was already sitting in. There was a huge, long, table full of other chairs it could have used! But no, that kitty wanted to sit behind me.

Y+B=G

Yellow + Blue = Green

My outfit was based on this style imitating art challenge.
That's when Salazar from 14 Shades of Grey
 chooses a work of art to inspire an outfit.

Here's my version of the look.
To see how others imitated the art
 go to:
SIA: Women of Substance.

Today's inspiration is:

Woman of Substance by Octavio Ocampo

My blouses: thrifted
My shoes: LuLu's.com (last year)

Ariunaa Suri Fall 2013 RTW

Anna Sui Fall 2013 RTW

Anna Sui Fall 2013 RTW

My guy's photos of flowers.
The photo on right was in the Spring,
when he bought me the daffodil.

My nephew Speed Racer

My niece EJ, my nephew JJ, and my niece Lil Bug

My art journal page from July 3, 2013

I've been feeling the color green lately.
On Sunday I got some ankle moss green boots
made of suede at the thrift store for $1.00.
In image I painted green nail polish, eyeliner, and shadow stick. I'm thinking I might wear my green eye make-up tomorrow.
I've been painting with green paint and ink too...

back in march

I wore my Jimi Hendrix shirt, my sister n-law's old vest,
and the purse my friend gave me for Christmas.

I wore these old boots from Payless Shoes.

My nephew Speed Racer smiled at the camera,
 chose some books, and picked his nose.

My twin nieces hunted for Easter eggs.

My nephew Baby JJ ate some cheese.

My guy and I ate strawberries with Nutella.

My guy took photos of turtles.

I read and loved the book 

...Although I was an accident,
 it worked out for me...


...I want to thank all of them and everyone else that made me laugh. There are dead people I still like,
and I want to thank them too..from My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall.

I created this art journal page on March 7, 2013

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
I wore purple pants and boots.
Two weeks ago, it was beanie hats.

  

I played Soldiers of Misfortune  by Filter on my guitar.

..."I'd like to wake up from this dream

Can't we learn from history?

Why's it such a mystery?"... 
Soldiers of Misfortune  by Filter 

just like broccoli

When I was little my favorite vegetable was broccoli. Yes, I'm serious.

My vest was thrifted.

I liked when my mom cooked it in quiche,
 or broccoli chicken casserole.


I would also eat broccoli cooked
as a side vegetable.

My purse was thrifted.

My dad would put lemon juice on his broccoli.

Left: Alice + Olivia Spring RTW 2013
Right: Betsey Johnson Spring RTW 2013

My brother is the opposite of me.
He doesn't like vegetables.

Chanel Spring RTW 2013

Now I like to eat broccoli with rice,
on pizza, in pasta, or with rice wine vinegar.

Journal my friend made, and gave me for Christmas




I have never liked broccoli raw.

My nephew Speed Racer

My twin nieces and nephew

I think of an airplane flight when I was sitting next to a woman from Texas,
 but she no longer lived there.

My art journal page from February 26, 2013

She told me she knew she was home when she looked out the airplane window and saw that the trees looked like broccoli.

photo  by my guy

Now I associate broccoli trees with Texas.
That's always stayed with me. Then I thought about when I felt like I was home.
When I looked out the airplane window and saw mountains.