Groundhog Day

Today in the US is the day when a little guy called Punxatawney Phil predicts how much longer the winter is going to last...

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This year marks the 126th time that the little groundhog comes out of his hole and if see his shadow it means that winter will last 6 more weeks other wise it will be an early spring. Since then many towns have created their own "groundhog" tradition but the original, the one from Punxatawney {in Pennsylvania!}, is the one that attracts the most amount of people.

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Even though I know many of you would love for to have warmer temperatures, I hope winter lasts a bit longer or actually decides to come because the lack of snow is causing tremendous havoc to water supply in California, birds are migrating up to a month before they have to and crops all over the country are suffering. 

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Another industry {one that I love!} suffering is hotels that rely on snow and tourists who visit them to enjoy and practice winter sports...

Have a great day and hope for a few more snowy days!

Coming Up

For weeks I've been talking about changes for 2012 and I have finally finished all of them. As I mentioned to you {and you've seen in online} the whole look of the blog changed and hope you're liking it; besides that I'm working on setting up other articles that I hope you will like as well.

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 The first project will be fun one in which I hope you will be part of. As many of you know, I'm an interior designer and have done design for different industries from offices to houses and hotels {which have a sort of residential element in them }. As you can imagine, people all the time are asking me for advice on this or that and because of that I've come up with this idea!

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I would like to invite those of you who are looking into designing a room in your house or office to let me know and we'll work together to create a great space... Due to the time one of these project would take I'll start taking one project per month. If you are interested EMAIL ME and we can talk about in more detail how this project will work out... Hope you join me in this!

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On a similar note, I will be exploring the world of color through paint and photography... the idea of this monthly project will be to find ideas about color that can be taken to reality in a very easy way.

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Finally, I am working on interviews from people to cover the topics I like to talk about in this blog... like travel, health, beauty, and design amongst other things. 

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Have a great day and look forward to hear from you!

PS... I added a blog roll tab to the blog in order to include all of you who have included me on your blog rolls... So, please let me know if I'm part your blogrolls so I can reciprocate the honor!

Drinking Chocolate

There are very few things that make you want to cozy up with a blanket and a book than a nice cup of hot chocolate. I got inspired for this blog by the multiple winter images I got to see over the weekend from so many of you.

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I have all the candy cane left over from my Advent Calendar and when I came across this recipes I was delighted to know I could put them to good use... {Recipe 1 and Recipe 2}.

Adding to the comforting and even healthy effects of dark chocolate, chiles or cayenne pepper can give this delicious beverage an extra warming kick... great for those who have a hard time warming up during winter! {Recipe 1 and Recipe 2}.

Chocolate is the by product of the cacao bean and has been part of the diet of the indigenous populations of what is today Latin America... the most famous of them being Mexican chocolate which is richer and less refined than the one we buy at the super market {Recipes 1 and Recipe 2}.

Finally, there are other alternatives to the typical hot chocolate like those infused with tea or white chocolate, which is a great alternative for those who are allergic or intolerant to the dark kind {Recipe 1 and Recipe 2}.

Have a delicious day!

Futuristic Fashion

Hope everyone had a great weekend... mine was very relaxing and had time to catch up on my reading and finally unpacked the suitcase I took on my trip {I hate unpacking!}.

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One of the most amazing collections out there today is designed by 21 year old Brazilian designer Pedro Lourenço. When I first saw the images of his collection I thought the images were computer generated because of the Matrix looking models wearing the highly stylized pieces.

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The collection is inspired in the Patagonian landscape which he printed on many of his pieces or used as inspiration for the collection's palette.

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The collection is characterized by asymmetrical shapes and clean lines with stylish details in trims, panels and the position of the pockets.

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The fur is made of mohair fiber treated to look like it... Other materials found in the collection are silk, metal and fleece.

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Have a great day and start of the week!

I Say Hello Friday

What a week is all I have to say!!! It's been filled with very rewarding moments and renewed energy to continue with the job hunt. The conference was great because there is nothing better to be surrounded by the best your industry has to offer, by the game changers and the decision makers... and to party all together. They don't call it hospitality for nothing!

For today I want to leave all of you not just with the week's links {nice to be informed again!} but with a fun song and please check out the first link where my dear friend Mary Jo featured me on her blog Trust Your Style... we had a lot of fun when we had lunch last weekend!

Censoring Tweeter

Skinny Models Health

Marni for H&M

Unusual Destinations

Cell Phones and Dining Out

Chanel Inside a Jumbo

Technology Round-Up

The Many Uses of Miso

Starbucks New Products

Davos 2012 

More Veggies Please!

Opening for the Olympics

Crazy Runway Looks

Have a great weekend and get some rest!

P.S. Finally, I want to invite you to join me on Pinterest and Twitter!

You Say Goodbye

Back in Miami from a very successful trip to LA and lots of following/catching up to do... See you tomorrow with this weeks links {need to catch up with the news today!} but for now I leave you with an image a friend of mine took of me walking on the beach in Malibu.

Have a great day... the weekend is almost here!

Take it Easy

Busy day ahead and don't want to bore you with statistics about the state of the hotel industry... but all I can say is that it will get much better in 2012 and it will certainly will keep on leading the economic recovery.

Take it easy today as I have to run fo another busy day... See you tomorrow!