Rare Bird of Fashion
- Posted on September 27, 2013
- By Dottie Palazzo
- In the category Style
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One of my favorite designers of accessories is a 90+ year old woman, Iris Apfel. She is nicknamed the Rare Bird of Fashion. Thus her line is called Rara Avis. I purchased her 36″ string of very large resin multicolored beads (white, green, blue, coral, etc.) and wore it in May when we went to the Live with Kelly Ripa and Michael Struhan show. After the show when they were talking to the audience, Kelly stopped in mid-sentence and said “I love that necklace” to me. Iris’s jewelry is that kind of fabulous.
She is on HSN today. If you want to be wowed and have fun, and maybe buy some fabulous Xmas gifts for yourself or friends, as I did, tune in to HSN this afternoon at 5:00 to 7:00 pm Eastern time or go to HSN.com and search Rara Avis.
Read More»Google Glass as Fashion Accessory
- Posted on September 05, 2013
- By Dottie Palazzo
- In the category Style
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Diane von Furstenberg was photographed in the Sunday Style section of the August 25 New York Times wearing tangerine Google Glass. Seated next to her was Sergey Brin, her friend and Google Co-founder, wearing sky Google Glass. They were watching DVF’s models rehearsing for NY Fashion Week 2012. The article, Past the Glass Ceiling, reported that the following week models in the DVF runway show wore Google Glass, one model matching tangerine Google Glass to the orange squiggle on her jumpsuit.
Three days later I saw a picture in the August 28 Cleveland Plain Dealer of an Ohio State University orthopedic surgeon wearing the gray Google Glass. And a 12 page spread in the September Vogue magazine entitled The Final Frontier – Beyond the blue horizon lies a futuristic vision of fashion in which every model was dressed in minimalistic fashions wearing Google Glass.
What is this Google Glass?
Read More»Aug. 26: My Birthday
- Posted on August 27, 2013
- By Dottie Palazzo
- In the category The R Word
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Yesterday was my birthday. 39 again. Well, actually 39 again, and again, and again…. So many agains that it has made me kind of sad.
What was special about this birthday?
Read More»Fire in the Mountain
- Posted on August 16, 2013
- By Dottie Palazzo
- In the category Travel
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National news is reporting on the Rockport5 Fire near Park City, Utah. Well, we have a front row seat. Ralph and I are at Robin’s house which is on the top of the next mountain ridge, about 3 miles away from the blaze. It began with a lightening strike near Rockport State Park at about 2 p.m. on Tuesday that exploded into flames in the dry terrain. It was a very small thunderstorm that was gone as quickly as it came and did nothing to put out the flames.
Wednesday morning the fire officials reported that 1,920 acres were burned, 14 houses, 20 outbuildings and several vehicles were destroyed but there were no injuries. The fire was 20% contained. 250 homes in Rockport Estates, Bridgehollow and Promontory Subdivision were under evacuation order until Thursday evening.
We sat on the deck all Tuesday afternoon until well into the night watching.
Read More»Outpouring of Love and Respect
- Posted on July 20, 2013
- By Dottie Palazzo
- In the category Family Life
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Ralph and I went to the funeral this morning. Got to the church early and already were placed in the second line of cars for the procession to the cemetery. When the mass began the church was full of people. When we came out there were cars with flags lined up everywhere in the church parking lot. Once we finally began moving there were flagged cars as far as we could see both in front and behind, but the hearse was way beyond what we could see, and we were heading in the opposite direction from the cemetery. There must have been 150 cars in the procession. At every intersection police cars blocked traffic for us and long lines of cars and trucks were waiting for us to pass. Even at the end of our street to allow the deceased to pass his home on the way to his resting place.
We drove for 55 minutes, disrupting traffic in Westlake, North Olmstead, in Cleveland along Brookpark Road leading to the airport and on to Holy Cross Cemetery. It was the largest funeral procession I have ever seen. Not for a public official, or a corporate giant, or a priest or bishop. For a 30-year old man with a heart of gold who had helped and touched the lives of everyone he met.
Rest in peace Tony.
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