Aromatic Journey: Lip Smacking Goodness

In the new Aromatic Journey post over at the Lillyella blog I posted a recipe for a handmade, all natural lip balm. This is a great alternative to the petroleum laced products on the market. Support creativity, handmade and NATURE!


This recipe will also work for a solid natural perfume. Below are links to the other contributions, just in case you missed them, Nicole has been kind enough to create recipe cards for each item posted.

Vanilla Orchid Bean + Vanilla Infused Oil base

Fragrance Families + Layered Spice Oil

Salt of the Earth + Bath and Body Salt Scrubs
Salty and Sweet
Love Notes: Scented Stationary

Image: Lip image ©Greg Spalenka, Pink Pot ©Roxana Villa

Chanel in San Telmo

Karl Lagerfeld has been spotted doing a photo shoot for Chanel with Claudia Shiffer in the San Telmo region of Buenos Aires. Being from Buenos Aires, a lover of Chanel fashion and San Telmo I feel compelled to share the photos with you, enjoy! I suggest playing a Gardel Tango while enjoying the sites. These appeared in an article at LA Nacion, an Argentine newspaper. Thanks to my mom for sending this my way so that I could share with all of you.









Images: Chanel

Ending week festvities

The past two weeks have been spent in much artistic splendor while my daughter Eve has been on her Spring break. We did a variety of creative and fun tasks together including cooking, painting, shopping, looking through old family photos, contemplating items for the house design, watching films, listening to books on tape, taking photos and drooling over pretty things at such wonder filled places like Anthropology.

Sunday morning we decided to venture once again to the Rose Bow flea market. I think this will become a monthly excursion for us. I very much like walking around looking for treasures. It's also a darn good place to people watch. During our excursion a Style Blog approached Eve to do a spontaneous film interview. They asked her about what she was wearing and her personal style, including who are her style icons? What a great question! I've been pondering how I would answer this question and will share soon.

Last month at the Rose Bowl flea market I found a small "shabby chic" type shelving unit for my studio. This time I found a sweet wrought iron bird bath that I will use as a prop for photos and events as well as in the garden. As I mentioned back in September I am shifting the style of our home and the finds at the Rose Bowl are great additions to our "Bountiful" style.


That night we choose to make "Pan de Yuca" once again, we made these delicious little rolls back in August after returning from Eucador. Yuca is a popular staple in the diet of the subtropics. While we were in Ecuador last summer we were served the root regularly. Yuca root is derived from the woody shrub Manihot esculenta, also termed Cassava. To make the Pan de Yuca look for Yuca flour at Latin markets, it can also be found at specialty stores as Tapioca flour, which is the same thing.

Ecuador: Hacienda, Into the Amazon, Amazona, Cotopaxi, Indigenous #1 and #2, Orcidarium
Bountiful in Venice
Anthrolpology
Rose Bowl Flea Market (be warned the link has a loud obnoxious ad, turn volume off or low)

Images: Photos taken at Bountiful in Venice, Anthropology in Pasadena and a clothing store in Glendale ©RVilla