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It's Friday! Yay!
What to do that's relaxing, requires little effort AND is fun?
Go out to the country!
Go out to the country!
- No dressing fancy! {cute is good though, remember comfortable shoes!}
- No time constraints!
- Just laid back happy!
So pack your knapsack & take to the woods!
P.S. Make sure you know where you are going!
Enjoy!
Vintage 'Hello Telephone Brooch'!

Hipster Moose!

Adorable Scout II in robin's Egg blue!
My vintage knapsack!
Vintage 1950s Breezeway Hat!
Images from my country hiking expedition this past weekend!
The weather was gorgeous!
Check out the sky! Wowsy!
Start of the trail at Sweetwater Creek State Park
It was a gorgeous Fall day!
{Do not copy images without permission,
photos by Capitol de Beaute, All rights reserved}
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~Blurred Lines!!~
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#dreams #goals #inspirations #affirmations #purpose #truth
books
How to know God
~I'm Going Places!!~
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One of the cheapest, quickest means of travel is by book.
A spiritual journey? A night in Paris? Life behind prison walls? Science discovery? A miracle? A new hobby? All can be discovered by reading!
The imagination is a beautiful thing!
Kick your brain cell activity up a notch with a good read & go away!
{I prefer a real book over a tablet....I'm old school like that!}
Enjoy!
A spiritual journey? A night in Paris? Life behind prison walls? Science discovery? A miracle? A new hobby? All can be discovered by reading!
The imagination is a beautiful thing!
Kick your brain cell activity up a notch with a good read & go away!
{I prefer a real book over a tablet....I'm old school like that!}
Enjoy!
911
Brooks Brother
Family
~September 2001~I can never forget.
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{Photo by David Hirsch}
On September 15th, 2001, I stood along with my brothers, Lex & Daniel, and good friend, Betsy in the middle of the street wearing a Con Edison environmental hazard mask along with the NYPD, NYFD, Clergymen & women, lined up empty ambulances, armed Military, FBI agents, the ATF, mountains of unused medical supplies, hills of plastic water bottles, amid tons of paper shifting in the wind, various small office supplies scattered everywhere, pieces of cloth, hundreds of stunned & displaced people {most sobbing and many on their knees}, piles of dust & ashes, smoke, an acrid smell, bent metal & broken glass, scorched earth, wood & brick and looked up at a perfectly beautiful blue sky.
{Brooks Brothers became a temporary morgue for the victims}
{Curated by CDB}
Ethereal design has always been my favorite creative form.
Beautiful & delicate things that float effortlessly & elegantly, almost as if they barely exist.
Surreal.
Below are two pieces that I fell in love with today. Enjoy.
Ethereal design has always been my favorite creative form.
Beautiful & delicate things that float effortlessly & elegantly, almost as if they barely exist.
Surreal.
Below are two pieces that I fell in love with today. Enjoy.
From Christa Thorburn | Pinterest
FLOAT Art Print by Beth Hoeckel Collage & Design | Society6
#Fashion
#Style
Bergdorf Goodman
~Bergdorf Goodman Fall 2013!!~
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archery
arrows
direction
~Pointed in the Right Direction!~
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# lifestyle
#Fashion
#Pinterest
~Finally.....!!~
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creative endeavors
never bored
positive choices
~Happening Now!~
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My background is in Fine Art and though I prefer the 'old masters' to the more contemporary artist, there is something so refreshingly brilliant about Kelly Reemtsen's 'America's Sweet Heart' Series that I can not stop staring. This collection depicts, and wonderfully so, what I am sure to be the stylized 1950s housewife, she is pretty & pristine AND perhaps on the edge.
What a lovely 'do it yourself-er'.
What a lovely 'do it yourself-er'.
Artist Bio:
"Kelly Reemtsen’s beautiful, texture-filled paintings are characterized by headless and thereby anonymous female figures, clothed in vintage dresses, against vacuums of white. Though her ladies are dressed to the nines, they carry as accessories typical household, often “masculine,” items, such as wrenches, hoses and chainsaws. These women can, on one hand, be identified as stereotypical housewives, an effect magnified their dresses that evoke the 1950s. Reemtsen’s treatment of her subject shatters these stereotypes with results ranging from the quaint to the menacing, though in a vibrant and elegant manner. Kelly Reemtsen’s work will be presented at an upcoming exhibition at De Buck Gallery in New York, which opens in Fall 2013."
Exhibition in New York City at De Buck Gallery in October 2013





































