The Beauty of Friendship

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I am one lucky SugarCookie to be friends with the gorgeous and talented beauty expert LDiva and thoroughly enjoy providing her with my photography whenever possible.

 

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She hosts the blog Divalicious; chock full of beauty tips (and not the same old tired ones) and product recommendations of only her tried and truly-tested best. 

 

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There is also plenty of fashion talk – 10 Commandments of Leggings  is her most hit-up story for us perplexed females and her observations on city girls strutting their stuff (sometimes unwisely) are no-apologies accurate:  it’s tough love from your spot-on beauty sister – not bitchy, just real. 

 

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LDiva is now providing house-call beauty makeovers; helping women to toss, retain and rethink their own cosmetics while introducing updated tips and tricks for making the most of the products and their looks. 

 

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We recently teamed up to makeover and photograph the lovely LK, a pretty girl with lots of personal style.  If I saw her on the street I would think this girl didn’t need to learn a darn thing about looking good. 

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However, LDiva was able to teach her a completely new approach to her eyeshadow technique with outstanding results!  LK went from pretty to pretty spectacular!   Here you see 2 different looks, LK chose the neutral look.

 

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And because I need to play too…here’s a glamour shot of Miss LK with her finished look…in much sexier lighting!

 

Ahhh…this is fun.  My path through life has taken me down some very interesting roads – amazing experiences, profound teachings, loving relationships and…as the case with me and LDiva…beautiful friendships.

 

PS – all photos are property of SCB.  But that doesn’t mean that I won’t share…please ask first.  :-)

Horsing Around

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I visit Belmont Park every summer and I always have a great time!

 

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For one thing, these jockeys are really intense.  Just check out this guy’s expression, he’s really stressing.

 

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And this jockey, look at that body language.  Such focus…amazing!

 

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This jockey didn’t too well in the last race…so sad.

 

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I love to scope out the horses in the paddock - this filly caught my eye – Canadian Ballet.  I love Canada and the ballet!  She’s the one for me, lucky 7.

 

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Hello Ma’am, $10 on Number 7 to Win please!

 

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As you might have suspected, your girl is a very big spender. ;-)

 

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And they’re off!!

 

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Canadian Ballet is in a dead heat!  And the happy ending…she won!  And I’m $34 richer!

 

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A day at the races with my good friends, the beautiful athletic horses, many lovely terminologies (quinella, exacta, trifecta – oh my) and all manner of racetrack characters to scream and cheer along with us – a perfect summer’s day.  :-)

Fire Escape Farm

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The rain in NYC has finally been useful for something.  It looks like beautiful  jewels on the leaves of my Fire Escape Farm.

 

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A few weeks ago, I purchased an Earth Box.  Adding pounds of heavy, wet, organic soil…and fertilizer…and dolomite…was fun, kind of.  Luckily I had a gorgeous helper.  :-)   We named her Eartha Kitt.

 

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This is her blanket which prevents her from getting weeds.  Ingenious.

 

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And here she is freshly planted.  From the back row, left to right:  basil, patio tomatoes, and cauliflower.  Front row:  jelly melon (no idea), marigolds for biological insect repellant, and strawberries.

 

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Eartha Kitt’s best child is…the cauliflower.  It may take over Brooklyn.

 

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Note the jelly melon ladder grip device.  He made that all by himself.

 

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From scrawny…

 

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To sensational.

 

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One small step towards really beautiful and really delicious…real food.

XXX,

SCB :-)

This post is part of Fight Back Fridays hosted by Food Renegade.

Stumptown Downtown

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Thank the Franks.  This is GREAT coffee and I’m not easily impressed.   I first sampled the brew at the Court Street Cafe Pedlar and learned about the beans from the well-informed staff.  They are fairly traded (some are direct trade which is even better), ethically and responsibly grown.  Not all are organic, but there’s lots of red tape and high price tags involved in the organic certification process and that’s out of reach to many of these small farmers.  And these small farms and micro batches are what yield these amazing cups.  Prices are a bit higher but I feel I’m supporting a great global cause.  :)

 

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Stumptown Coffee is being freshly brewed at the Brooklyn Flea which was held today as a sunny Sunday version under the Brooklyn Bridge.  These boys know what they’re doing.

 

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Freshly ground coffee and HOT water – what else does one want in life.  Except for some really good milk, preferably raw, but that’s a future post.  ;-)

 

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Lots of lovely things to look at and take home from the Brooklyn Flea -art and jewelry, collectibles and clothing.  But strolling around with my good friend and a cup of Stumptown…I had everything I needed.

XXX,

SCB

Farm-Fresh Fantasy

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 Fauglia, Tuscany, Italy  ♥       Summer, 2007

Well hello SCB fans…do I still have any?  Mike?  Dad!?  :-)   I haven’t blogged because I’ve had little to say and didn’t want to waste anyone’s time. 

Back to the present…here are the things I’m interested in these days:

  • Cooking
  • Gardening
  • Buddhism/meditation
  • Healthy living
  • Great books/great films

 

Here’s what I know how to do:

  • Film Production

 

So…where does that leave a girl?  If I ever made a big life change, I’d move to a farm where I could do EVERYTHING on the first list and NOTHING on the second list. 

I would live on my own home-grown food (like Michele O!) and drink raw milk all day long (does anyone have a Brooklyn hook up for this?  It’s like trying to get crack delivered).  I would have enough money from my distant relatives in outer space to pay people to work/hangout on the farm.  We would all live together surrounded by our beautiful land and spend evenings around our huge rustic wood table eating our delicious dirt candy, drinking and laughing…indoors by the fire on chilly nights with lots of candlelight and fresh flowers everywhere – and outside in the summer, under the old oak trees, just around dusk, with the fireflies lighting us up (my favorite of all flying things). 

 I would sleep like a baby and wake up with the sun to meditate on my soft cushion, followed by a nice workout before my breakfast of still-warm freshly laid eggs and um…imported Italian coffee. (Hopefully the eggs aren’t the only freshly laid things).  I would take a hot, fragrant bath with petals and herbs from my cutting garden and then use some all-natural beauty products, although I wouldn’t really need them given my constant glow of well being.

AM I DREAMING?  Or could I do this??  People have done this.  Even people who live in Brooklyn…have just up and DONE THIS!  I’ll keep thinking.

 In the meantime…if you like any of the things on my list…leave me a comment and inspire me for future blog posts.

SCB  xxx