Quote: "You where once wild~ don't let them tame you"
Location: Las Vegas
My Crafts:
~collage ~assembledge ~altered books
My Inspirations:
Things I love.....God~ The smell of lavendar fields~ velvet~ rust~ music that grabs my soul~ artists' that leave me breathless~ gothic castles~ dark art~ the ocean~ old houses~ new fallen snow~ candlelight~ love~ dreams~ lovely perfumes~ chocolate~ hugs from my precious family~ David Blaine illusions~ Starbucks coffee~Art galleries~ museums of the unusual~odd curiousities amuse me~Addicted to reading blogs~ Altered arts~ mixed media ~collage ~creating altered books and art cards ~antiques ~shabby chic~ Anthropologie stores~ traveling~ staying at expensive lush hotels with dreamy beds~ playing at the beach with my family~ listening to loud music ~reading great books ~driving fast cars~ reading zines~ eating at expensive resteraunts~ photography~ shopping~ vintage and antique stores ~doing art with the kids ~cooking organic~victorian houses~rickety squeeky wood floors~ willow trees ~surreal photography~ day dreaming~insomnia~tears~dark clouds~rainy days~lines on faces~long beautiful hair~poetry~artists~people who take my breath away~
My Movies:
oh so many to list!
Pan's Labyrinth, Lord Of The Rings, 300, Fearless, foreign love films, All The Mornings Of The World, Amelie, Enchanted April, Girl Interupted, Edward Scissorhands, The Matrix, Lost in Translation, Far and Away, Dead Calm, Cold Mountain, Moulin Roughe, What Dreams May Come, It's A Beautiful Life,Thelma and Louis,Chronicles of Narnia, Wizard of Oz, Chocolat, Secondhand Lions, Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind, Il Portino, The Lost Boys, Vanilla Sky, The Godfather, Scarface, Johnny Brasco,The Very Long Engagement, The Motorcycle Diaries, Phantom of the Opera, The Count of Monte Cristo
My Books:
See my bookshelf on Shelfari
http://www.shelfari.com/izabella777
My Magazines:
Somerset~ Foreign Fashion Mags~ Cloth Paper Scissors ~Anything that has to do with art
My Music:
Music is my lifeline!!
I love music that pulls at my heart strings, I couldn't live without music~Sixx AM, Sevendust,Garden of Hedon, Haste The Day,Schnitt Acht, Audioslave,Alice in Chains, Thousand Foot Krutch,Dead by April,Ministry,Zoe Keating,Skillet,Judgement Day, Break of Reality, Apocalyptica, Martin Martini and The Bone Palace Orchestra, Thomas Net son Orchestre, Idiom of Sad, Stained, Evanescence, Evans Blue, Sisters of Mercy,Lincoln Park, The Cult,Plumb, Nine Inch Nails, Jonahh 33, Creed, Kutlass,P.O.D., The Melvoskys, techno...industrial..dance..classical, depends on my mood~
Check out my split personality of music...playlist~
http://www.playlist.com/user/17282234/view
My Other Hobbies:
learning magic tricks with my kiddos~ treasure seeker of vintage goodies~ traveling & exploring ~photography ~racing at Vegas Speedway ~garage sailing on the weekends!
I am not quite sure how Lily found my email address, but I am so happy she did...one day I received this intriquing email & found myself so inspired by her note, followed the links to her sites & wowed by what I read, it is an amazing story, I wanted to share this with my beautiful friends, hope you are inspired as much as I ;)
The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal by Lily Koppel
Rescued from a Dumpster on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous, forgotten world of an extraordinary young woman. For more than half a century, the red leather diary lay silent, languishing inside a steamer trunk, its worn cover crumbling into little flakes. When a cleaning sweep of a New York City apartment building brings this lost treasure to light, both the diary and its owner are given a second life.
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Dear Friends, Colleagues and Bloggers, I am writing to you about the forthcoming publication of my book, THE RED LEATHER DIARY: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal (HarperCollins, April 8, 2008) about my discovery of a young woman's diary, kept in the 1930s, and its return to Florence Wolfson Howitt, its owner, at 90. Please visit the website: www.redleatherdiary.com Recovered from a steamer trunk in a dumpster outside of my apartment building, while working for The New York Times, the journal painted a vivid picture of 1930s New York-horseback riding in Central Park, summer excursions to the Catskills, and an obsession with a famous avant-garde actress. Its nearly two thousand entries, written in faded black ink, captured the passions and ambitions of an intensely creative young woman interested in carving out a place for herself. From 1929 to 1934, not a single day's entry had been skipped. Brief, breathless dispatches filled every page of the five-year chronicle. Compelled by the hopes and heartaches captured in the pages, I set out to find the diary's owner, my only clue the inscription on the frontispiece-"This book belongs to ...Florence Wolfson." A chance phone call from a private investigator led me to Florence, a 90-year-old woman living with her husband of sixty-seven years. Reunited with her diary, Florence journeyed back to the girl she had been, rediscovering a lost self that had burned with artistic fervor. What's equally inspiring is the coming together of two women from different eras but with many things in common, on the same quest to discover themselves through painting and writing. Florence and I, although strangers at the time, were kindred spirits half-a-century apart. I am a 26-year-old writer, born and raised in Chicago. I have been writing for The Times since I graduated from college, starting off doing celebrity reporting, going on to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and eventually carving out my own beat, which is covering the hidden characters of old New York, such as Manhattan's last typewriter repairman and the sleuth who helped me find Florence
This is such exciting news!! I am so thrilled to share this with you~ since starting my group Creative Souls~ we have had some amazing connections with people there and one of them is this exciting news~
I am looking forward to attending this years first ZNE convenzion & one of the highlights will be, viewing the documentary produced by Andrea!! ~here is cross promoted writings from Chelise of ZNE & Andrea of 1000 journals~ here is what they wrote....
ZNE IS THRILLED TO ANNOUCE THAT IT WILL BE SCREENING THE INCREDIBLE DOCUMENTARY FILM - 1,000 Journals DURING THE ZNE CONVENZIONE EVENT! We are proud that filmmaker Andrea Kreuzhage will join us for a discussion afterwards. Come, watch the film, see the journals up close, and be a part of this incredible event. All ConvenZioNE attendees will receive their very own journal, to launch that weekend, starting our own ConvenZioNE Journals Experiment, in honor of the film! REGISTER FOR ZNE CONVENZIONE 2008, TODAY! http://www.ZNEConvenZioNE.com
With many thanks to Creative Souls member Chelise, the powerful artist behind all things ZNE, and Creative Souls initiator Izabella, I'm more than happy to announce that 1000 journals will screen at the upcoming ConvenZione in Pleasanton, Northern California, on August 22nd. Register for an amazing mixed media art weekend, and see the film!
ZNE is one of the largest mixed media focused art groups in the world, with over 1,000 members worldwide. ZNE actively promotes member artists, and has ongoing art contests, art and ephemera swaps, art production theme weeks, discounted mixed media art related products for members only, and for the first time in 2008, a convention with workshops.
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