Easter Eggs Art - Deliciously Wicked!

On Easter morning, so many children wake up, eager to discover the Easter Eggs left behind by the Easter bunny. Early Christians adopted the egg, a symbol of the rebirth of the earth in celebrations of spring, as a symbol of the resurrection of Jesus.
Traditionally, dyed or painted chicken eggs were used for Easter. But over the years, chocolate eggs, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery, have become popular Easter treats. But the most unique trend to have taken prominence over the past few years is the Easter Art Eggs. From bizarre to beautiful, these eggs redefine the tradition of the Easter eggs. And add a whole new dose of Fun!



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Zombies come calling on Easter morning! SOURCE



Gordon Brown, Victoria Beckham, David Beckham, Lily Allen and Prince Harry are "Eggcited" to be turned into Egg Art by Thorton's! SOURCE





Makezine.com gives Egg Art a fun twist! SOURCE



And finally, it's Star Wars, Egg-style! SOURCE

Good Eats Wednesday

Easter Coconut Cake

We Take The Cake bakery was featured on a CNBC special

about The Oprah Effect awhile back.

When Oprah originally featured this company on her show,

the next day the small mail-order operation was a booming success!

(Oprah's favorite - the Key Lime Bundt Cake.)

Luckily this bakery is less than a mile from me,

and I'm thinking about trying one for Easter!

Yum!

Otherwise this recipe by Paula Dean

looks just as fantastic!

 

Bon appetit!

Way Back When

Image via Flickr.

Growing up, I had a view like this from my bedroom.

Whenever I woke up I looked out at my very own wisteria tree.

It was my mom's pride and joy.

She posed me in front of it every year when it would bloom to take my portrait.

I have been yearning for my own garden the past few weeks more than anything in the world, and to be perfectly honest, today was one of those days when there is nothing more I want than to curl up in that old bedroom and gaze out the window at that wisteria tree in full bloom.

Script Frenzy Days are Here!

Writing Challenge for April

For those of you who followed my blog last November, you were aware of the NaNoWriMo writing challenge which consisted of frantically writing a fiction novel containing 50,000 words within 30 days. A few of you may have even participated. For the month of April, there is a new challenge for script writing. The challenge is to write 100 pages of script in the month of April. For more details, or if you would like to participate, visit Script Frenzy. This could be your chance to be the mastermind behind Hollywood's next biggest hit.

Will you be the next Oscar winning screen writer?

NEON HEARTACHE... THE LOVE OF MY WARDROBE

I promised I would do a piece on the much loved label Neon Heartache.. but regretfully, no images of their latest collection as yet. However I can say, I had the pleasure of adorning a Neon Heartache ensemble....not quite sure what you would call it,,... but lets just say, many appreciators of fashion approached me to stroke the black bird....xoxo.

A mini creation lathered in dark slick black feathers............GORGEOUSxo.

Amelia Duncombe, the beautiful brains behind Neon Heartache.. a little label propelled into existence only a few years ago.. but I believe is just about to peak in presence right about NOW!.
Fashionista's there is no webby..., but coming soon.... so till I get my hands on their recent collection images... you will just have to take my word for it!!! xo.



Style rating: Neon Heartache.... a label that is just about to become HUGE.


Love me or hate me


Madam Alexandra E.(k)

APOLOGIES

Apologies... apologies to my loyal readers..............., I have been busily off on assignment...putting together a show and all....finally, the makeup, models, hair lights camera and action have ceased.. but alas... I need to recoup and just have a chiller... so till Monday.... my thoughts will air about a label I can't beleive I left only till now to discover!!!!!!!!.. I LUV NEON HEARTACHE xoxoxo.

NEON HEARTACHE.... MONDAY... I promise....xoxox.


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Madam Alexandra E. (k)

Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

A months ago I finally picked up Eat, Pray, Love to read the back of the book jacket. It has been all over the book stands for some time now. I was very intrigued and spent a good five mintues debating whether or not to purchase it. I set it back down because I had a few other books to get to first, but took a mental note, that I should indeed consider it again shortly.

When I learned a movie based upon the book and starring Julia Roberts will be released in August, I immediately pushed this up my priority list to a must read. (Too see the trailer and read more "delicious details" about the movie visit Pop Eater.)

The memoir is written by Elizabeth Gilbert, who after a bad divorce decided to travel abroad for a year. First to Italy, to eat and enjoy life, then India on a quest for spirtuality, and lastly to Bali in search of balancing both spirtuality and love.

Gilbert grew up in Connecticut on a small family Christmas tree farm and knew she wanted to be a writer as early as she could remember. She wrote an article for GQ years ago about her bartending days in Manhattan, which ended up being the basis for the movie, Coyote Ugly. She has written five books, but her memoir Eat, Pray, Love has earned her the most popularity with over 7 million copies sold,  and translated in 30 languages.

Visit Gilbert's website HERE to learn more.


Happy Friday!!!

Travel Thursday

Cruise Antarctica

Images from CruiseNorway.

Cruise Norway offers 10-19 day cruises

from Buenos Aires

through the Drake Passage

to Antarctica for $5,500-$9,500.

So, if you can swing the cost

and crave something different than a tropical vacation,

get on your way to the depths of the earth

to see penguins, elephant seals, humpback and killer whales.

Book your trip on the Prince Albert II at CruiseNorway.

Happy Traveling!!

Books on Antartica...

Anaikka - Fashion Jewellery Goes Forward

Combining architectural shapes with vintage aesthetics in bold “statement jewellery” is Anaikka. Their stall at the Lakme Fashion Week took my breath away. Metallic grey and gold neck pieces, shoulder pieces and shrugs stood tall, beckoning the independent new age woman, who isn’t afraid to flaunt her strength and her grit. A unique blend of the edgy and the luxurious, these pieces are as modern as jewellery can be, while at some point finding their origin in tradition. The stall was a delight, giving form to that clichéd but not often followed term, Fashion Forward.

Good Eats Wednesday

Foodie News
& Dream Jobs

Ego Anton, the Food Critic from Disney's Ratatouille.

I am extremely excited to announce that I will be the new Fort Lauderdale Ethnic Foods Restaurant Reviewer for Examiner.com. I have been wanting to write about food and review restaurants ever since I obtained my degree in magazine journalism. I can now dig out my dusty book Will Write for Food by Dianne Jacob, which I bought upon graduation.

I 've always been known as a dreamer, but with patience and preserverance, things sometimes do work out.

Here is another example... in kindergarten when told to draw what I wanted to be when I grew up... I drew a Disneyland worker. Sure enough when I was in college, I applied to work for the summer at Disney World in their college program, and even though I humbly served Pineapple Dole Whip, or eggrolls in Adventureland (depending on the day), I fulfilled my dream. It wasn't until my mom pulled out that old drawing that I remembered what I once wanted. While my experience at Disney was nowhere near what a child would dream, with the minimal pay and laborous schedule, it's the fact that I had achieved one of my dreams, learned a tremendous lesson about finances, and it led to me to where I am today... currently living in South Florida.

Modern Replica.

Don't Laugh.

I'm not sure if that's Mickey Mouse, or the Easter Bunny.

I think I did a better job drawing when I was 5.

So brace yourselves,

I will be sharing my future reviews with you.

Thanks to Mel @ Reverie-Daydream,

I found out about Examiner.com because of you.

If you would like to become an examiner on in your local area and share your expertise or passion...

APPLY HERE. Referred by Nicolette Fisher.

Bon appetit! 

Ahhh Spring...

~ Daily Deal ~

Yellow Tulips 5x7

20% off on my Etsy today.

(Reduced from $10 to $8.)

Taken in the beautiful Keukenhof Gardens

of Holland last spring.

Happy Tuesday!!

~xoxo~

Happy 2 Year Anniversary to my Sweetheart!

We celebrated this weekend at Benihana...

nothing beats a good Hibachi dinner!

Also, my Etsy store is now fully re-stocked.

Stop by and have a look!

Hope you had a good weekend!

MERCEDES BENZ FASHION FESTIVAL: FINALLY XOXO.

The best news waffled its way into my ear yesterday.. and of course publicly declared today. The best news to even take me away from my extreme duties of commentary
The best news that could even take me away from lacquering my nails with smokey grey Yves Saint Laurent....xo
The best news that could even stop me from sipping my tea
The best news that momentarily stopped me from touching up my lippy!!!!!

And the best news is of course the announcement that Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival ( Brisbane ) has found a new home!... and I am so proud to hear that the MR BENNETT team will be feeding fashion to the fashionably hungry.. by way of a Marquee.. in Southbank. ( I can just so see the vision:.. big and grand marquee, set up in a very plush New York with an Aussie flavour environment...runway show!)

My gosh, finally it has happened! The Brisbane offering of Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival is finally measuring up to its sister cities of Sydney and Melbourne!!xo. ( even though we will have to still wait to witness the fashion offerings and etc...).

Last year.. I recalled a penned review from Madam me.. myself, Alexandra E... a review which spoke of the brutally honest truth on Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival....... this year.. I hope to do the opposite... for some inkling of a feeling,, I think I will achieve just that! My fashion conscious tells me that this year.. Mr Bennett and his team are out to do some serious fashion rubbing!!, out to impress and make Brisbane shine within the fashion stakes for that momentary week!xoxo.

So proud am I .. as a fashion commentator, identity, critic, stylist, brain... whatever you may know me or refer to me as......that this is finally happening..a bigger and better showcasing of Brisbane's finest fashion event.

Now all they need to do is set it up like a very exclusive showing where front second and third row seats are reserved for VIP's within the industry.. I'm talking about the editors of Glossies, the voices behind the fashion bloggers..., the iconic fashion identities of celebrities and muses. Hang name plaques over the seating and take a snap shot of it.. just to tease the curiosity of fashionista's who just might be curious enough to want to attend the event purely for a glimpse of the VIP's...???.

Create a real New York'ish flavour.... This will only be achieved if you see a fashion blogger seated front row at an A-list designer showing in Brisban'es Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival.. blogging madly away.. beaming the information world wide to fashion lovers INSTANTLY!! If the team at MR Bennett's head quarters are clever and on to it... this is the new marketing flavour tactic to push the sales.... hmmmm I think I am a very clever fashion brain...xoxo.

Terribly excited with this years event... I predict it to be the best one yet for the Bennett team!!!xoxo. I'm shouting this to my overseas fashion lovers..... keep an eye on this little independent one.

www.mbff.com.au And it's happening in a different date slot.. early August... and it's appearing ahead of Sydney!!! can you believe it??? ahead of Sydney.. literally opening it.. for Australia!!!!! xoxoxo.

Love me or hate me


Madam Alexandra E. (k)

OLIVIER ZAHM.SOFT CORE - COUTURE

www.purple-diary.com

He is: OLIVIER ZAHM the latest talked about independent fashion King

He is: editor in chief of Purple Fashion magazine....... the independently obscure, weirdy magazine sweeping the art and fashion culture in flurry.

He is: offering artistic, porn like - high end fashion and creative ways to connect brands with "its peculiar readership" - purple.fr

He is: attempting to bridge the worlds of art and fashion

He is: the latest must have 'face' @ any and every art OR fashion, art AND fashion event

He is: the eccentric who believes that the cyber world will never replace real magazines...." does anybody really want to see a photo shoot on screen????" - Olivier Zahm.

He is: always in his signature Yves Saint Laurent leather jacket, tear drop sunglasses, mop tousled hair and stubble.

He is: yes, he is bizarre

He is: King of soft core - meets couture.............. think Cha...l chain bags draped over a feverishly naked feminine form shaved in every form........?? yes that is what they mean by soft -core meets couture....

He is: that man who always gets his own area @ VIP parties to take pictures.

He is: FRENCH

He is: A VERY BIG THING IN THE WORLD OF FASHION!!!!

http://www.purple.fr/


current issue of Purple Fashion Magazine.



Love me or hate me


Madam Alexandra E.(k)

Travel Thursday

Sorrento, Italy
Sant' Agata Sui Due Golfi

A lovely little rental

in Sorrento.

(via Vacation Rental By Owner)

Ahh... breakfast anyone?

How about a ride along the coastline?

A lazy summer's day at the beach awaits...

Charming...

Or relax by the pool...

Or make home made pasta in this kitchen!

And if you aren't a master in the kitchen,

sign up for a lesson with Mamma Mia

cooking school.

Visit VRBO to book your vacation at

Sant' Agata Sui Due Golfi!

Happy Traveling!!

Good Eats Wednesday

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Yes...

I always make sure I get my way...

 when it comes to food.

I am big on tradition.

That's corned beef taken via the iPhone at lunch.

It tasted a lot better than it looks.

And...

the afternoon snack!

I knew McDonald's would come through!

I will be in Ireland tonight...

well ok...

the book I'm reading,

In The Woods,

(see side caption)

takes places in Ireland,

so I've been there mentally

 for the past few weeks if you can't tell.

If you are celebrating any fesitivies tonight...

Have Fun & Be Safe!!!

Lacquered, sheeny, shiny leggings from Black Milk Clothing.

In complete perfect timing............the whole leggings, tights wardrobe swap over is music to the ear of the creator of Black Milk Clothing!. Specialising in slick tight leggings.. Black Milk Clothing is shining in the moment of the arrival and survival of the leggings!!!xo.

If you couldn't possibly imagine how creative a pair of leggings could reach to??? then you obviously haven't tapped into the leggings of Black Milk Clothing.

I am especially impressed with the oh so sheeny and shiny lacquered look of the leggings entitled "The Black Wet Look"... so divine that it looks almost lacquered onto the footforms of fashionistas!!xoxo.

Black does not stop there! or here or anywhere.........prints, chains, zips slits and cuts you think of it, and it's most likely incorporated into a pair of Black Milk Leggings!!!!

As I said... just in perfect timing for Autumn/ Winter 2010......xoxo.

Style Rating: Black Milk Clothing - Loving it!!!

www.blackmilkclothing.com

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Madam Alexandra E. (k)