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Obesity Rates Around the World
#1: The United States at 30.6%,
#2: Mexico, our neighbor to the South at #2: 24.2%,
#3: The United Kingdom, the loins from which our American culture sprang, at 23%.
#23: France at 9.4%, trailing behind in one battle they can be proud to lose. Heh, heh...OK, sorry, that was my one obnoxious comment about France for this post. The point is, the French are significantly less obese, and considerably healthier.
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| J.Crew's Anchorage Cardigan |
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| J.Crew's Toggle Hooded Henley |
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| J.Crew's Cable Shawl-Collar Cardigan |
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| J.Crew's Wool Toggle Cardigan |
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| Ruche's Step in Time Cashmere Cardigan |
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| ModCloth's Research Assistant Cardigan |
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| Anthropologie's Outdoor Cafe Cardigan |
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| Anthropologie's Shawl Collar Sweatercoat |
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| Dover Beach Clip |
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
I found this bag at Clotheshorse Anonymous, an upscale second-hand store in Dallas, and searched around for them online. Evidently Prüne is an Argentinian leather goods designer based in Buenos Aires (thus the umlaut over the "u"), and they are difficult to find in the U.S. This is their English website. The bag is full-grain leather and this bag is great; I am a big fan based on this one item.
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| Bicycle in Taipei |
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| Vintage Camera |
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Chéri Bento Box in Mon Ami |
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| Jantzen Vamp, Buttercup |
It is bordering on the obsessive, but I have a major weak spot for companies that have an extensive history, like Ray-Bans + General MacArthur. It's the nerdy part of me. I mean, I love clothes, but frankly, I need something to spark my intellectual curiosity to really hold my interest: thus the magic of costume design. I mean, come on, Frye boots were worn by Union and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. How amazing is that?!.jpg)
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OK, so almost all of the voters of Friday's poll are like Sean and me: mismatched glasses collected from other households, roommates, and pubs...and one set of wine glasses that was a wedding present. For our sixth month anniversary, I decided to invest in some heirlooms and bought Sean these cased colored lead crystal wine glasses. These are gorgeously crafted, a little difficult to find, and definitely an investment. I have loved this style for ages, but never really thought to track them down to buy until Sean fell in love with them. He has a friend who has collected these glasses for years. The gentleman has a gorgeous cabin in the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula that makes my heart happy. I thought lifestyles of Tweed could only be found in Wodehouse, Waugh, or some crusty English club that had long since lost its vigor and stands more as a bored monument of the past. But these do still exist for leisure. The gentleman has created this cabin of wood paneling, built-in bookshelves, copper pans, and old leather furniture as a monument to civility and hospitality. In the midst of the untamed wilderness of the UP, this gentleman and his guests eat, drink from these gems, and talk of finer things, then, in the morning, work. 
Anyways, I did some research and these colored glasses are about the best to enjoy with a glass of wine. If you want to get them, be sure you get the right ones as there are cheaper versions; you want cased colored lead crystal rather than something like cut to clear glass. Cased colored means the artist hand blows the clear crystal, then hand blows a top layer of colored crystal, and that is cut through to create the design. Cut to clear glass means a layer is added after the glass has been completed. 
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| Cogs in the Wedding Machine |
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| IKEA: Beddinge Murbo |
Anyways, we usually do not buy ourselves many thing, but when we do spend money we try to get what we really like...and since we both have great taste, we are not buying much right now. We have, however, been very blessed with generous friends. We are fully prepared to just hang onto our furniture collections from college (and yes, some of those college pieces may have been found in the near vicinty of a dumpster), but a bedroom set was posing a bit of a problem for us. It is kind of difficult to feel grown up when instead of a dresser you root through a mountain of clothes folded neatly in a corner on the floor. Then, a friend happened to mention that she had a bedroom set from her mother that it was time to give away, and ta-da! we inherited an heirloom. It was purchased on November 22, 1963, which I find interesting give my birth date and current locale. It is French Provincial and in gorgeous shape, the kind of vintage pieces we could never afford from an antique mall. And I really dig that we inherited it through friends; it makes me look forward to the time Sean and I will be able to give hand-me-downs to new couples.
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