Vaclav Havel was the dissident and Czech writer who had a way with eloquent dissections of Communist rule. Some believed he was the rockstar president with a heart. His way of expressing gave voice to a powerless people under communists and helped to destroy it in revolutions that brought down the Berlin Wall. The New...
Alain Delon is a French born actor and businessman. His stern face and amazing good looks have gotten him casted in over 40 pictures. He is known as the French James Dean and has been dubbed as a “Heart Throb”. So for your enjoyment I decided to create this post to showcase a couple of my favorite photographs...
Jen Osborne is an independent documentary photographer. The primary goal of her work is to share important feature stories about the rest of the world, in this case the Ukraine. Jen’s work has a social aspect and has been published in several leading magazines. In July 2015, Jen started a new body of work documenting many of Ukraine’s female soldiers....
Hollywood has always had a distinctive look. The world over, people flocked to the cinema to emulate their favorite movie stars. In this collection we look at the beautiful and popular faces of the day. Note how contemporary many of them look almost 100 years later, could even be the girl next door. 1. Maude...
There is no doubt that Sophia Loren has always been an iconic beauty. What amazes me most in seeing these photographs is how contemporary she looks 50+ years after they were taken. Talk about a living example of timeless beauty! Look at her sense of peace and natural beauty as she picks roses from her garden at...
Vinohradský hřbitov (Vinohrady Cemetery) is located in Prague 10. The cemetery was established in 1885 and has grown, expanding in size 3 times over the years. Currently the cemetery sits on 25 acres. It contains the largest crematorium in Europe, Strašnice Crematorium. Antonín Turek was a municipal architect in 1897 and he designed the chapel which is near the...
It’s been quite a bit of work but we did it. We’ve taken dark and dreary house and gave it a complete make-over. Welcome to our light and peaceful home. From pulling up the nasty shag carpets, to pulling the horrible thick curtains and saggy blinds off the windows. We pulled up and changed toilets, opened and...
The first thing we bought was new toilets. Of course we wanted to completely remodel and update the bathrooms, but because we’re not even sure of the outcome of the house, toilets and sinks were enough, for now. Here is what the bathroom looked like after we removed 3 layers of carpet and matting, discovered...
If you have read Our Dining Room Remodel then you know about the room behind the room at our house. The strange place that had an outside window and door connecting you from the inside to the inside. Read it so you can see what the space looked like before we bag our guest room transformation....
Thankfully there are three of us. That means 3x the (wo)man power to get things done. Especially this living room. When we got the keys to this house, we worked pretty much non-stop to transform it into a temporary place we would be comfortable to call home. While Zanna and Zynnia tackled the seemingly never...
Now that we’ve moved the dining room into the sunroom, what will we do with the space? The answer is easy. Leave it empty. But first it has to be cleaned and that entailed many days on our hands and knees until we finally had a dear friend loan us one of these… If only...
The first place we had to conquer was the kitchen. One just cannot live in a house where one cannot prepare food, especially if one loves to cook as much as we do! And especially when the house looks like this… Enter Project Kitchen Remodel. We began by pulling out the appliances and knocking the 1950s...
We inherited a house. Well, kind of. It’s still working it’s way into whatever it is supposed to be. But that doesn’t stop us from making it what we want it to be right now. Grow where you’re planted right? In other words, make wherever you are now be as close to the dream as you...
Even though it has been over 15+ years, I still get asked about my mother’s 21 day fasting experience and while this has been shared on some of my other sites over the years – I am also sharing it here for those of you who wanted the information. I wrote this in August of...
