Part 2 of the Post-Stress House

I am working on some new stuff so I am cruising. Yesterday, I finished the house and I liked it but I was disappointed. I felt I could have had two bedrooms instead of one roomy bedroom, so I made preparation for it in the event I may need to add a 2nd Bedroom in another version of the design.

Feast your eyes!

Psssst: Many of the lighting fixtures I designed to fit the slightly odd decor. I also design the furniture as well, since I believe that most people would like to have rare original pieces. :-).

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Amazing Creative Stuff on Youtube

Young people don't need to turn to crime to prove a point, they can get creative. Today, I have some videos that can possibly jolt your creative drive. These folks did some really great work, some as a team and others by themselves. Its remarkable what hard work can accomplish. These are here, because they have received the CafféLatté Magazine© Must See 'Cause It's Completely Awesome stamp!

Amazing Bottle Cap Poker Table
TheQuestionDMI

If a team of you and your best buddies can cometogether and do something like this, you are friends for life!

Resin Jewelry-July
sjemmie79

There are countless resin jewlery artists on Youtube, but this one is simply beautiful and almost glasslike.

Beer Bottle Glass Concrete Counter Top
doninKirkland

This is something I would not mind having. It is eye-catchingly unique and looks so simple, but i am guessing it would take hours of polishing to get this sheen. A very good conversation starter that will not end.

LZF Hand Made
lzflamps

When I first saw them I was in love.

Carol Z's Recycled Bottle Lites
kayakkurt

Children would love to own these. Kayakkurt also gives you a little shot on how to bore a hole into glass bottles, remarkable stuff!

Trees, Trees, Trees
897473

Artistic Welding, and you learn a bit about metals and customizing them to your taste.

Concrete Bar With a river of Fiberoptic Sideglow Lighting
hardtopix

Fiber Optic cables are pretty versatile, but they are also expensive, when they are used for art, the results are beautiful. Hardtopix's work would really fit in with a Contemporary designed home, and of course for a bar.

Recycled Bottle Lamps
jwpeachey

Instead of having to buy a lava lamp, you can make these! One of each colour please thank you.

If these don't get you to the drawing board, keep scanning the internet you may find something really remarkable!

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Returning to Strong Emotions

Why do we return to the very things that upsets us? When you bring it up, you bring back the emotions, and the pain. Sometimes its better to let them lie and die... really.

In more positive news...

I am not one for lending out books, but I may have to practice. My sister's friend loaned me a book:

Justice by Dominic Dunne. It is fantastic, beautifully written and I can't get enough! So much goes on behind the scenes of the rich, famous and the truly blinging! I won't say more, but it certainly feels good to turn paper pages rather than turn iPads!

Anyway, get it its worth the price!

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I heart New York - Real thing

I was looking through some images I took in NYC, trying to imagine the smells, sights and lights. It was a lovely experience, though it my not happen again, I'd again  love to see/feel what being a New Yorker is all about. Its one of those places I personally feel you must visit before you die... oh and bring lots of money, trust me you will need it... and always, always have your Metrocard, it will be the most valuable piece of plastic you will ever own there.

Church Avenue

If you must know I believe it is the Q train to Manhattan

A poster I made, it is VOID!

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Last year, we went up North Coast Road which is a couple of minutes away from where I live. From there you can see most of Diego Martin and some of Westmorings.

Unfortunately, greed is driving Trini's mad, and they seek to hoard the everything for themselves. What we saw before in 2006, can no longer be seen now. Fortunately, I have some shots, its not really going to make a difference, because even if I shot raw, there was not much I could do, the area is being spoiled by crappy houses. Sigh.

Petit Valley on your left, and Diego Martin on your right.

Sad. I had to shoot this pic between a crappy house, that was not there before.

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Simple Quotes

Some of us simply talk too much. Locally, we call it "Run yuh mouth!" I will give it a science name Runyomouitis. It is a term used to describe a condition that affects the majority of us. It can happen in happy or angry moments. However, I think it would be best used for sad moments, because talking out your problems can help you.


The following is some quotes I found on the internet. They are pretty simple to understand and they don't take up much space. Some of them are pretty hilarious. I am starting off with one of my most favourite persons, Eleanor Roosevelt. She may not be a beauty queen, but in my book she can win the crown on brains, bravery, and loyalty. I am referring to the the person Eleanor Roosevelt, and not the politics.


In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt


I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou


We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt


We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.
W.H. Auden


Hollywood is the only place you can wake up in the morning and hear the birds coughing in the trees.
Joe Frisco


She doesn’t not understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought World War Eleven.
Joan Rivers


Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou


Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein


It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou


Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius



Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Muhammad Ali



And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.
Steve Jobs



Taken from Wikipedia: 
When a well-known Washington senator was discovered to have been having an affair with a young woman less than half his age, Alice Roosevelt Longworth (italics ours) quipped, "You can't make a soufflé rise twice."



There are so many quotes in the world, and there is only so much CafféLatté magazine can put. I hope these have perked you up in some way.


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CafféLatté magazine main focus this year

Well, this year I am hoping to focus on the one topic that really made me start this blog in the first place. Yes, interracial marriages/relationships. I am still going to be giving interviews and I still going to review movies and share experiences, but the focus always was interracial marriages/relationships. As CafféLatté magazine is heading into its third year, I think its time.

What is lovely is that I found some videos on YouTube of interracial marriages, and if these couples do not mind, I would love to showcase them here, if they do, please leave me a message and I will remove the videos. They are shown here for appreciation and not criticism.

As a little bonus, I will add my very first illustration based on a photo that made me head in the IR relationships direction. I think the photo was taken by a guy named Walker, and it was done when I was studying for my degree. We had to make the magazine as real as possible, so this was my result, I even did another version, where I was able to get three experiences, such was the support maintained ever since.

Here is the last version:

Lovely. And here are the lovely videos I got on YouTube, I do not hold the rights, they are held by their respective owners. Thanks!

The only problem is I am not getting much mix of other races. I will keep searching and see what other variations I can get. Ok I got one:

If you have some more videos and would like to post, let me know.
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Can it be done...

There is a photo on the internet that is spreading like wildfire. I tried to get the original source, but I can't find it, if you do get the original source don't hesitate to tell me the site. If you are the artist/photographer: WELL DONE!

Could you actually imagine if we had crayons like these when we were small? The lessons we could have learned regarding our friends, society and tolerance in differences. These were definitely perk me ups so I am going to do a Motivational poster in CafféLatté magazine character.

The pic says Tumblair... but who?

Here it is:

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Profile Update

It is highly probable where CafféLatté Magazine is going. Presently, I am in the process of designing T-shirts. Hopefully, I would have some photo samples soon.

Still working on the island home on the Hill

What else is new? I am helping a friend with her wedding and we are looking at possible locations. If possible I will put up pictures.


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Something I'd really like to do....

Suddenly I got this epiphany. There I was, looking for some more faces to do, and I stumbled upon a blog of a guy who tries to visit 'his brothers' in Africa every year. And what he has done is document the people in his travels by means of photos. What I really love about his photos is that you don't see large eyed starving children, a la Somalia (which by the way is wrong on so many levels for preventing aid from reaching that country), but happy smiling people, which he adds are very poor, but happy. Additionally, I saw that these people from the very black to the lighter skin tones are beautiful in their own way. At one point he added that there is a part in Australia where the people there are considered 'the blackest in the whole world!' 

What I would like to do is illustrate people with very dark skin and put the finished product on my blog. The only thing is I don't have the time as I got another job, actually, one of my old jobs requested my presence and there I am. Now, I am still looking for interracial couples and the like to illustrate, but I want a more exotic feel the the art, or I will create it.

Coming to think of it, I would like to get others races as well, but I want a challenge. Something that would make me get a headache to finish. Meanwhile, I would scout around for more couples.

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Finally A Japanese poster!

I have been getting much stuff done lately, so my intended poster was being delayed. Anyway, here it is with much love and affection. Look out for some more posters in the future!

So here I am....

Trying to say something logical and I can't, because well I wish with all my heart I could leave this godforsaken country, and go somewhere else. I wanted to say something on the dangers of plastic surgery, and I even tweaked a picture of myself with my large nose, and so far I have nothing else to say. And yes my nose is large and long, which is so funny because just the other day a friend of mine said he did not like his growing up, but now he has accepted it as his big nose has enabled him to breathe huge gulps of air without restraint.

Two weeks ago, I went to a meeting, and to my horror rain started to fall. I did not have my car, so I knew I had to foot it. I was a bit concerned because so many folks were looking for a ride, and of course being as outspoken as I am, I doubt anyone would make me an offer. Plus just two days before, I got over a very resistant flu, that anchored me to my bed...so there I am, looking as though I am about to undertake a suicide mission. I counted to 5, and ran out into the seemingly light rain, in less than two seconds I was soaked to the skin, but the rain was refreshingly warm, I held my jacket together and walked all the way, passing people with their umbrellas waiting for taxis that were hardly coming. my shoes started to get slippery and many times I almost had a disgraceful fall. I entered into the Chinese restaurant and ordered a meal with Full Throttle, which is my favourite drink. After that I continued my dripping wet journey home. I thought how nice it would be to see my dream guy offer me a ride, my knight in a shining silver Porsche with chrome wheels, but alas that did not happen. One of my friends passed and she hailed me out, "Hey! What you doin there!" I replied, "I am soaking wet!" Well it made no use arguing with her because we fell out before, and she being strong willed like myself realized that it did not make any sense, I sat in the car and her husband rumbled the beige, hunking taxi to my place.

What I did not say, is that I felt that no one cared about me. The water was warm, but I felt cold, like a chill, all alone in the rain. Every step I took, I remembered all the times I drove my car and carried folks home, so you understand that as I walked home, I cursed under my breath that with my next vehicle, I would not even offer a sliver of hope to the 'car-less'. After many effusive thanks, I dripped to my wet apartment, with a warm heart and teary-eyed that there are still some kind people in the world, and like a tiramisu, they come into your life and fill you with hope, wonder, and appreciation. So thanks Johnny and Barbara for the warm-hearted drop of love.

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