Hope all of you get lots of yummy treats. Go here for a creepy treat from me. (Courtesy of one of my creative heroes).
Paloma sent me this and I had to share! Its too funny. Its especially funny because I really am a part of that supposed "Small sliver of the population". I know for saying that, I probably will get this kind of hateful treatment. I would hope that people who consider themselves open minded and progressive would allow for others to have varying opinions, but if not... I guess I'll survive.
Second, it is also time for the Houston AIA Home tour. This is one of those events I look forward to all year. Third, is the Bayou City Art Festival. This is always so much fun because there are so many great artists who participate. Fun, Fun. But my jam-packed week of fun starts tomorrow, because...
Well, I decided to make a birthday registry for myself. One that can be found in a place called Fantasy Land. Only there would anyone buy me these gifts. Well, while in Fantasy Land I decided my house could use a makeover. These items would be just right. Like the cast concrete light fixtures, how wonderful. The Marimekko wall hanging and the Chair Couture dining chairs add some great color to the dark dining table. Finally, I love the collection of nose casts. For a girl who has always been self-conscious of her nose. My nose is still better looking than these.
So now that my fantasy house is looking so good, I hope all of you come to the party:)
When I was a kid growing up in a small town, I was often the target of mean kids because of things about me that they found to be "too different". I remember taking pan dulce in my lunch box and kids literally gathering around me to make gagging sounds and to tell me how "gross" my food looked. Or listening to Spanish music and getting strange looks. Okay, so take the same exact music and have it recorded by an American artist, and all-of-a-sudden its genius! Have someone change the shape of the pan dulce, and give it a French name or something...now its a delicacy. I have often found this baffling. When you grow up as part of a minority, you learn to hide a lot of your cultural traditions while in the "Anglo" world, because otherwise you often run into discrimination. But if a well known artist or whatever, blatantly copies those same cultural references they are hailed as original and truly creative. If you are wondering why I'm on such a soap box, its because I was scrolling through the web, when I ran across this article about the latest Hermes collection. I admit that I chuckled at the details of the collection, because it all looked and felt suspiciously familiar to me.
My intention is not to be divisive because I love where I live and my parents had to sacrifice a lot for us to be here...and I am very grateful. I guess I just wanted to point one of those curiosities of life. My point of view is of growing up Mexican-American, but I know anyone who grew up here with a family from somewhere else has experienced the same thing.
So there is yet another of my random thoughts that has nothing to do with interior design...I know, I have a lot of them.
P.P.S. Anyone reading this who isn't from the U.S. probably doesn't know what I am talking about. These clothes are a reference to a part of Mexican culture known as Tejano or NorteƱo. It is basically a fusion of Northern Mexican and Southwest American traditions.
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