Art Quilting Studio Premier Copy

I have been following Jude Hill's blog at Spiritcloth for quite a while now. She is my stitching angel. She inspires me to take a stitch each day. About two months back she announced on her blog that she was going to be published in the new Art Quilting Studio magazine by Stampington & Co, the premier issue coming out it June. One of her commenter's was Jenny Doh, the Editor-in-Chief & Director of Publishing. In her comment she said she was really looking forward to Jude Hill's work in the premier issue of the Art Quilting Studio. Knowing that I would not be able to get a copy here in Australia, I jumped on the net and pre-ordered a copy. The premier copy is supposed to come out in the US on the June 1st., but 2 days short of June my copy arrived! I have only leafed through it, but I know I will read it from cover to cover this weekend! 

Here it is my premier copy of Art Quilting Studio. Jude's article is on page 16 entitled What if. I am so delighted to also learn that Jenny Doh is also a quilter. There are some photos of her quilts on the Editor's page. The magazine featured many other talented art quilters there as well. Because I am branching into art quilts, this is a great magazine for me. I will have to subscribe to it for sure.

Other magazines I read from Stampington & Co. are SEW Somerset, Belle Armoire and Artful Blogging. The only place I have seen them in Australia is Borders bookshop in the magazines section. Up until now I have been ordering my copies directly on the internet. If you love art quilts or sewing art and of course blogging art, these are the magazines to look for. 

Robert Pattinson - Kristen Stewart Passionate Kiss in the New Moon, the Movie Sequel to Twilight

Credit: Italypress News / Splash News
Kristen Steward who plays the part of Bella Swan runs through fountain in New Moon, the movie sequel to Twlight

As thousands of extras dress in red advance on a medieval castle in Montepulciano, Tuscany, Kristen Steward who plays the part of Bella Swan in the New Moon, the movie sequel to Twilight quickly races through a fountain in front of a medieval castle.

Emerging from the fountain-dripping wet, Steward continues racing to the shirtless Robert Pattinson who plays the part of Edward Cullen in New Moon, the movie.

Credit: Italypress News / Splash News
Kristen Steward and Robert Pattinson embrace in a passionate kiss

Pattinson flings Stewart into the air as they embrace, an embrace that leads to a very passionate kiss between the co-stars, a kiss so passionate it's hard to tell if they are just acting.

Although New Moon, the sequel to Twilight is still filming, it is already slated for theatrical release on November 19, 2009 in Australia and New Zealand and November 20, 2009 in the USA and Canada.

More pictures from the New Moon set.

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Australia's Biggest Morning Tea

The Australia's Biggest Morning Tea is one of Cancer Council's leading fundraising events and the largest, most successful event of its kind in Australia. The official date is Thursday 28 May.

My friend Fiona has been an organiser for the event at the library ever since I started working there 5 years ago. I have always been helping in both baking for it and helping out on the day. It has been the most successful event of the year for the library.

Last year's photo of the helpers at the Australia's Biggest Morning Tea

We had to wear aprons and gloves when we were dealing with food and beverages.  I urged everyone to line up for photo shoot before the crowd arrived.

This is my contribution for this year, four dozen chocolate chip cookies and I thought it is a good chance to give you my favorite chocolate chip cookies recipe here as well:

125g (4oz) butter

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 egg

1 3/4 cups self-raising flour

dash of salt

125g (4oz) chocolate chips

60g (2oz) walnut pieces, I sometimes use macadamia nuts in place of walnuts.

Cream together butter, two types of sugar and vanilla. Add egg beating well. Mix in shifted flour and salt. Add chocolate chips and chopped nuts, mix well. Shape teaspoonfuls of mixture into small balls, place on lightly greased oven trays, allow room for spreading. Bake in moderate oven 10-12 minutes. 

It is not a morning tea without homemade scones. I was given this never fail scone recipe by a quilter friend and I can assure you, you do not have to be a good cook to make them:

3 cups self-raising flour

1 cup cream

1 cup lemonade

Combine the above ingredients, roll and cut with cookie cutter. I brush the top with a little milk. Bake at 200'C for 10 mins or until done. Serve with strawberry jam and cream.

Sexiest Lingerie in the World?

Which young designer will create the sexiest new women underwear design?

Well, the competition for the best new designer of women lingerie is well underway.

In Tokyo, on Monday, at the Bunka Fashion College young new designers competed for Japan's position in the internation competition for the Triumph Inspiration Award 2009.

One model wore a spidery deep purple panty and bra embellished with spider webs with captured butterflies and creeping spiders and spider web stockings.

Another model wore golden tree root panties with golden fruit bra top and matching purse.

A sea theme includes a bra of fish and seaweed with bracelets made of corral, panties with a coral reef look and knee high stockings with sea scenes.

For the bad girl look in lingerie, a model wore a armor looking metal thong panty and armor gladiator bra top complete with head mask.

The winner of the Japanese leg of the competition was Yukino Kurosu, a 21 years old 3rd year student at Bunka Fashion.

The designer created a green and yellow pant like combination of panty, bra and knee high stocks which the designer referred to as her lucky undies.

Her design will be entered into the international Triumph Inspiration Award 2009 competition to be held in Milan, Italy.

The online community will also have an opportunity to vote on the best design by casting their own vote between August 31 to September 13, 2009 at the Triumph Inspiration Award 2009.

If you cannot see the photos in your E-mail or news reader, just go to Sexiest Lingerie in the World?

Mother's Day All Over Again

It was our Sewing Basket of Victoria (SBOV) monthly meeting today. We set out the themes for each meeting early on in the year and today's theme was Mother's Day being May. Lynette and I are both grandmothers so we came dressed up in Grandma gear. I want to show off my Mother's Day quilt again, but this time with a real rose from our garden. I think it will be the last one for this season. We did not have any project in particular to work on, so we just worked on our UFOs hand projects. We had a lovely day just chatting about life and the world in general.

This little quilt was the one I made for Happy Mother's Day I posted at the beginning of May, but my friends did not see it before in real life so I showed it off to them again. The red rose is from our garden and I thing it might be the last one for the season.

This is me with my Granny t-shirt I made yesterday with the word Yah on it. Yah means grandmother in Thai. The full instructions on how to piece letters block is over at Tonya's blog.

Lynette rocked up in her Granny mink and her handmade hat. This is a hat for all occasions. The hat suits you Lynette.

You cannot see Lynda's Granny slippers, but she was wearing them. Lynda finished her crazy quilt bag she started in 2007 here at my house. This bag was the first stitching project I introduced to Lynda and Lynette. They have now moved on to quilts and all sorts of sewing projects.

Closed up of Lynda's CQ bag. You did a good job on it Lynda.

Thought For Days

Power To Tolerate
You have the power to tolerate anyone and any situation. But tolerance is not just suffering in silence. It means going beyond any personal discomfort you may feel, and giving a gift to whom ever you would tolerate. Give your time, attention, understanding, compassion, care - all are gifts, which paradoxically, you also receive in the process of giving. And, as you do, you will experience your own self esteem and inner strength grow. In this way you can turn tolerance into strength.

Introversion
Instead of speaking too much and wasting your energy, become experienced in the sweetness of introversion.

Patience
It takes time to change and transform those old patterns of thinking - be patient with yourself.

Transform Negativity
The energies of life come to meet us at every moment. Most come from other people who either in the same room or on the flickering, technicolour screens with which we now share most of our homes. The vast majority of these energies are not positive. So how do we handle the 'the negatives', whether it's someone's attitude, their hurtful gestures or our daily dose of world violence and mayhem. There are three cardinal rules. First, do not absorb it - don't be an emotional sponge. Second do not reflect it back. Otherwise you begin a cycle of emotional exchanges which may last a long time. And third, do the one thing which marks us as intelligent human beings - transform it. Even if the scene is a disaster there is some benefit somewhere in it. Even if you are watching two peoples beliefs or opinions slug it out to the edge of violence don't take sides. Instead offer a solution then stand well back. Even if the person hates you, accept their state of being and return the light of love. In time, with patience, it will illuminate their darkness, and return to you by the bucketful! Just wait.

Peace
Do not look for peace outside, for it lies within the soul.

Respect
The respect you earn is no lesser or greater than the respect than your own self-respect. Therefore, respect yourself and God and the world will respect you.

Treasures
Make good thoughts the treasures of your life and you will become prosperous.

Trustee Consciousness
We all have a relationship with everything. Obviously the relationship we have with the people and objects in our immediate vicinity is more intimate than the rest of the world. For most of us the most common relationship is possession. In our minds we think we own and possess things like cars and houses and carpets and golf clubs etc. This thinking easily spreads into jobs and tasks and positions and perhaps even other people. "I want you", and "You are mine alone", is the essence of many romantic film scripts and song lyrics. What we forget is that this relationship is wrong. It is not possible to possess anything. Care for..yes. Use...yes. But possess...no. You can't take it with you when you go, so we say! And yet it's the idea of possession which lies at the heart of all fear, war and conflict. Can you see it? Fear of loss, fear of not acquiring what we have already decided is ours in our minds. So what is a better relationship we can choose which takes all the fear away. Be a trustee. Everything comes to us in trust, for us to use and then to set it free. The consciousness of trustee sets us free of the tension of grasping and guarding. To see ourselves as trustees of everything that we receive, including our bodies, encourages our innate capacity to 'care for with dignity'. It is a much more relaxing way of relating to the things which we are privileged to receive in life.

Thinking too much
The biggest disease of the mind is over-thinking, especially too much thinking about others. Thinking too much is like eating too much. The heaviness makes it impossible to remain light and flexible.

Introversion
The ability to enjoy one's own company is one of the greatest gifts life has to offer. Learning to turn my thoughts away from all my responsibilities at the day's end and take my mind into a state of peace and benevolence enables me to carry greater and greater loads without feeling the burden. When my inner landscape is full of beautiful thoughts, everything I do is a pleasure. Gently, I calm down chaotic situations and offer solace to troubled minds.

Treasures
All human beings have a place inside which is filled with treasures; be still and you will find it.

A Moment Of Solitude
When I start the day with a moment of solitude and contemplation, even the most crowded schedule runs more smoothly.

True Peace
True peace can be experienced only when we stop giving and taking sorrow. In order not to give sorrow we need a clear heart that has no ill feelings and for not taking sorrow we need a big heart that can tolerate and help other souls to get over their weaknesses.

Higher Than the Sky
Keep wearing virtues as your ornaments. Keep loving others. Keep giving regard. You have to go beyond the stars. Keep thoughts higher than the sky, and abundance of patience like the earth. Keep spiritual love in your eyes.

Clearly Visible
Be so contented that the happiness of your mind is clearly visible on your face.

Let Go
Just as the bird has to find the courage to let go of the branch in order to fly, so we also must let go of our branches if we are to know the exhilaration of soaring to the highest potential of our life. The branches we hold to are our inner attachments - our beliefs, ideas and memories. And then there are the outer attachments - people, possessions, positions and privileges are a few. But as long as we hold on to them we will live in fear (of letting go and loss) and we will never be free. And just watch those birds, by letting go of one branch they are able to spend the rest of their life alighting on a million other branches, and they enjoy the view from each. Are you flying and soaring in your life, or are you stuck on one branch, cursing others as they fly past. Go on, try it ...let go!

The Wealthiest
The wealthiest of all are those who are pure hearted.

Mempercepat dan Meningkatkan Kinerja Computer

Mempercepat dan Meningkatkan Kinerja Computer
Klik kanan My Computer,
Pilih Properties.
Pada tab Performance pilih Virtual Memory.
Pilih Let me specify my own virtual memory setting.
Pada bagian Minimum dan Maximum, isi dengan 2 atau 3 kali RAM Anda. Jadi jika Anda punya RAM 32 Mb, isi dengan 64 Mb.

Catatan :
32 Mb itu Memory yang kita punya... ok

Komputernya gak bisa akses Jaringan?? Virus Conficker alias Kido tuch...

Komputernya gak bisa akses Jaringan?? melalui Run \\191.168.x.x tapi kalo ping bisa koq aneh ya...
Pasti deh kena virus Conficker alias Kido jangan khawatir ada antivirus punya Kapersky semacam Removal Tools gitu deh...
Tapi jangan lupa update update Windows km..ada 3 Patch :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-067.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-068.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-001.mspx

ini linknya Removal Toolsnya.
versi DOS
http://data2.kaspersky.com:8080/special/KK_v3.4.7.zip
atau pilih yang Versi Windows
http://data2.kaspersky.com:8080/special/KK_v3.4.7.zip

Nah ini perintah tambahannya

Description

-p


scan a defined folder

-f


scan hard disks, scan portable hard disks

-n


scan network disks

-r


scan removable drives

-y


end program without pressing any key

-s


silent mode (without a black window)

-l


write info into a log

-v


extended log maintenance (the switch -v works only if the -l switch is entered in the command prompt)

-z


restore the services

* Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS),
* Windows Automatic Update Service (wuauserv),
* Error Reporting Service (ERSvc/WerSvc

-х


restore display of hidden system files

-a


disable auto start from all drives

-m


mode to monitor threads, tasks, services

-j


restore the registry branch SafeBoot (if the registry branch is deleted, computer cannot boot in safe mode)

-help


show additional information about the utility

For example, in order to scan a flash-drive and to generate and write a detailed report into a file report.txt (which will be created in the setup folder of the utility KK.exe), use the following command:

KK.exe -r -y -l report.txt -v

Cara cepat Instal komputer

Cara cepat Instal komputer

kalau anda mempunyai komputer dan takut kalau sistem komputer anda dirusak virus atau takut software2 yang ada di program file anda hilang Atau anda tidak mempunyai driver untuk komputer, jangan khawatir karena anda bisa menyimpan images atau backup windows anda beserta semua program yang sudah anda instalkan. anda bisa menyimpannya di Hardist , flashdist, atau di cd. baik itu harddisknya menggunakan OS win ME, 98, 2000 XP , Vista, maupun Linux.Langkah pertama yang kamu lakukan adalah download dulu software Hiren’s Boot CD versi. 9.0 atau versi lainnya sekarang dah sampai versi.9.6 (cari di indowebster.com) :setelah berhasi di download file tersebut kamu burning (karena file yg di download adala file **.iso) ke dalam CD kosong, setelah berhasil maka lakukanlah langkah2 cloning harddisk sebagai berikut :
1. masuk ke BIOS
2. Atur BIOS komputer kamu agar boot awalnya ke CD ROM.
3. Selanjutnya masukkan CD Hiren’s boot CD yg sdh di burning tadi ke dalam CD room.
4. Langkah berikutnya muncul pesan : Boot From Hard Drive dan start From CD, kamu pilih aja pesan kedua.
5. Langkah berikutnya akan muncul menu dari sowfware Hirens boot CD, kamu langsung geserkan kursor saja ke menu Disk Clone Tools, Enter.
6. Terus masuk lagi sub menu lainnya, geser kursor ke norton Ghost 8.3 (Enter).
7. Muncul lagi sub menu, kamu pilih saja Ghost (Normal) enter.
8. tunggu beberapa saat, sampai aplikasi Norton Ghost Aktif.
9. Klik tombol OK saja, maka program Norto Ghost Aktif,
10. pada menu pilih Lokal, pilih harddist, terus To images
11. selanjutnya pilih partisi tempat penyimpanan images nya ( misalnya di partisi D )
12. terus bikin nama nya ( kasih nama nya GHOST )
13. langkah selanjutkan klik saja tombol OK.
14. dan tunggulah beberapa saat sampai proses cloning selsai. ( 5 menit )
15.Setelah selesai restart komputer nya.

suatu saat kalau komputer anda bermasalah atau error, atau sistemnya dirusak virus, anda tidak perlu khawatir karena dalam waktu lebih kurang 5 menit komputer anda bisa dikembalikan ke keadaan awal. tanpa virus serta lengkap dengan software2 dan drivernya. cara nya mirip langkah,

1. masuk ke BIOS
2. Atur BIOS komputer kamu agar boot awalnya ke CD rom.
3. Selanjutnya masukkan CD Hiren’s boot CD yg sdh di burning tadi ke dalam CD room.
4. Langkah berikutnya muncul pesan : Boot From Hard Drive dan start From CD, kamu pilih aja pesan kedua.
5. Langkah berikutnya akan muncul menu dari sowfware Hirens boot CD, kamu langsung geserkan kursor saja ke menu Disk Clone Tools, Enter.
6. Terus masuk lagi sub menu lainnya, geser kursor ke norton Ghost 8.3 (Enter).
7. Muncul lagi sub menu, kamu pilih saja Ghost (Normal) enter.
8. tunggu beberapa saat, sampai aplikasi Norton Ghost Aktif.
9. Klik tombol OK saja, maka program Norto Ghost Aktif,
10. pada menu pilih Lokal, pilih harddist, terus From images
11. selanjutnya cari backup atau images yang telah disimpan tadi. partisi tempat penyimpanan images nya ( misalnya di partisi D )
12. klik atau open images ( namanya Ghost ) yang disimpan Di dirve D atau di Cd atau di Flashdist.
13. langkah selanjutkan klik saja tombol OK.
14. dan tunggulah beberapa saat sampai proses cloning selsai. ( 5 menit )
15.Setelah selesai restart komputer nya.

selamat komputer anda telah selesai di instal lengkap dengan software2 nya.

selamat mencoba :)

Hapus Virus W32.Sality

Komputer kena virus??? koq bisa tau??
Install beberapa Antivirus gak mau jalan.... diklik2x gak ada reaksi wah pasti deh...
kemungkinan besar adalah virus W32.Sality

Cara menghapus virus ini cukup menggunakan Removal Tools yang sudah disiapkan oleh Symantec
berikut Link untuk mendownload Removal Toolsnya
http://www.ziddu.com/download/3653712/FxSltyAE.rar.html

adapun nara sumber dari DetikNet :
Jakarta – Tidak semua program antivirus dapat membersihkan file yang sudah terinfeksi virus W32/Sality.AE. Malah bisa-bisa, file tersebut akan rusak setelah di-scan dan dibersihkan oleh antivirus yang tidak tepat.

Virus Sality akan menyebar dengan cepat melalui jaringan dengan memanfaatkan default share Windows atau share folder yang mempunyai akses full dengan cara menginfeksi file yang mempunyai ekstensi exe/com/scr.

Untuk itu, perusahaan sekuriti Vaksincom menyarankan pengguna komputer untuk menonaktifkan Default Share (C$, D$ .. dst) dan hindari full sharing folder Anda di jaringan.

Berikut 9 cara singkat membersihkan virus W32/Sality.AE yang diterima detikINET dari analis virus Vaksincom, Adang Jauhar Taufik, Rabu (4/3/2009):

1. Putuskan hubungan komputer yang akan dibersihkan dari jaringan dan internet.

2. Matikan System Restore selama proses pembersihan berlangsung.

3. Matikan Autorun dan Default Share. Silahkan download file berikut kemudian jalankan dengan cara: klik kanan repair.inf lalu install.

http://www.4shared.com/file/82762498/f5dc1edd/repair.html?dirPwdVerified=feea1d94

4. Matikan program aplikasi yang aktif di memori agar proses pembersihan lebih cepat terutama program yang ada dalam daftar startup.

5. Sebaiknya scan dengan menggunakan removal tools dengan terlebih dahulu merubah ekstensi dari removal tools tersebut dengan ekstensi lain [contoh: CMD] agar tidak diinfeksi ulang oleh W32/Sality.AE.

6. Agar komputer yang sudah terinfeksi W32/Sality.AE dapat booting safe mode, silahkan restore registry yang sudah diubah oleh virus.

Silahkan download file berikut kemudian jalankan sesuai OS yang terinfeksi W32/Sality.AE tersebut.

http://www.4shared.com/file/82761423/934fb170/_2__Sality.htmldirPwdVerified=feea1d94

7. Fix registry lain yang diubah oleh virus, silahkan download tools berikut kemudian jalankan file tersebut dengan cara: klik kanan repair.inf lalu install

http://www.4shared.com/file/82874724/f485f1dd/repair.html?dirPwdVerified=3b1f2fa9

8. Restart komputer dan scan ulang dengan menggunakan removal tools untuk memastikan komputer telah bersih dari virus.

9. Untuk pembersihan optimal dan mencegah infeksi ulang sebaiknya install dan scan dengan antivirus yang dapat mendeteksi Sality dengan baik.

Micki's Work Space

Breaking News! Just received an email form Pat over at Posh And Trendy that her post on Work Space is up on her blog. After you read Micki's Work Space please scoot over and read about Pat's Work Space you will love to go and play with Pat after you read it. Enjoy

After I posted about my Work Space and followed on by Serena's Work Space, I now would like to show you Micki's Work Space. I met Micki early on in my blogger career. Micki came and introduced herself to me and we hit it off straight away. Micki invited me to be her April Star. Micki is a wonderful writer and fantastic quilter and knitter and machine embroider and and...! Please visit Micki's blog and see for yourself. Here is a little a bit about Micki and her Work Space:

Tell me a little bit about your work space?

We moved recently into a wee cottage in NW Donegal County. We live right by the ocean, and as it is a traditional Irish cottage, it is small with only one bedroom and a storage room, I knew that I would not have space for a sewing room, but we were happy to be near the sea. However, it was time for improvisation and using my imagination as to how I was going to still do all of my crafts and hobbies. So, Joe and I went to a furniture store in Letterkenny, and we bought a wonderful large table for the living room, which would accommodate my sewing large quilts. It is by the window, and I have plenty of room to sew as I please. At first, I was a bit upset, but now, I can be with my husband and two dogs and sew too. I used to be pretty lonely all alone in the sewing room in the back of the house, but now I have company, can have the tv on if I want, and really it has turned out for the better.

As to my embroidery work, I have a large table set up in the bedroom, where I do my machine embroidery stitching. Luckily, our bedroom is pretty big, so I was able to do that with no problem.

In the kitchen I put a table for us to eat our meals, but when I want to do my machine felting or have to cut out fabric using my larger cutting board, I use the kitchen table, which has two extensions to make it bigger. So, I cut my larger strips there, and set up my felting machine, if I want do some machine felting.

As to where I store my sewing supplies, I do have a storage room, and we had a carpenter come in and build shelves there. I bought tons of larger plastic storage containers, labelled them all, and I have everything related to my crafts there.

I have two favourite areas in the house where I love to work. One is in the bedroom when I do my machine embroidery. I have a tv in there, and watch movies while I do my machine stitching. I also love my Pfaff machine, so I love sitting at my work area in the living room, and Joe sits in his favourite lounge chair and talks to me, while my two dogs lie beside me. How wonderful is that!

As to my main sewing machine, I just recently bought the Pfaff 4.0 Expression for my quilting. It is the best quilting machine that I ever had. I use the Janome 350E for my embroidery, the Babylock EMB12 for my machine felting, and a gorgeous 1953 Singer 221 Featherweight for when I go to the quilting bees.

Yes, I have managed to continue with all of my hobbies, without a bother, and really enjoy being with my family while I work.
Anyways, I get to take breaks from my sewing and walk on the beach near our house any time I want….not bad at all.LOL

Thank Micki for participated in my collection of Work Spaces. After reading story and see some of the photos of your work space I feel like I was there in person. Lovely Carnivale quilt on your wall too.

Sexiest Celebrity Event of the Year?

Credit: Leopold Neklula / Splash News
Pamela Anderson in golden thong bikini panties, golden lame corset and bra top

Probably one of the hottest celebrity events of the year, so far, was the annual 2009 Life Ball held in Vienna, Austria to support AIDS research.

Celebrities from around the world attended this event including Eva Longoria Parker, Katy Perry, Pamela Anderson, Fran Drescher, Ivana Trump, Dave Stewart, designer Richie Rich, Amanda Lepore, Roisin Murphy, Tony Parker, model Amber Valletta and former U.S. president Bill Clinton.

Credit: Leopold Neklula / Splash News
Katy Perry in a tight fitting white leotard inside of a oyster shell

The 2009 Life Ball features thousand of glittery dressed revelers in scantily clad outfits or only body paint.

Booming Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson looked totally golden in a paid of golden thong bikini panties, golden lame corset and bra top.

The glittering former Baywatch babe looked fad as she strutted her stuff with an oversized boom box radio.

Credit: Leopold Neklula / Splash News
Amanda Lepore in a very tight fitting, Mae West hourglass figure pink sparkling gown

The sexy actress looked exquisite in her well teased bouffant hairdo and large sunglasses.

Katy Perry in an Oyster Shell

Katy Perry floated on the stage in a oyster shell.

She wore a tight fitting white leotard with golden enhancements.

Her bustier top was shaped into the form of two oyster shells.

Perry hair was adorned with a golden star fish and her wrap skirt reminded us of the inside of a clam shell.

She wore a golden and pearl bracelet and bright pink pumps.

Katy Perry is back with her boyfriend Travis McCoy and is known for breakthrough single I Kissed a Girl.

For the latest Katy Perry news and photos go to Katy Perry Fashion News Stories and Pictures.

Credit: Leopold Neklula / Splash News
Gisele in a low cut, zebra halter top

Amanda Lepore on the Blue Carpet

Spotted on the Blue Carpet was Amanda Lepore in a very tight fitting, Mae West hourglass figure pink sparkling gown.

The sparkling pink corset top accented Lepore overflowing cleavage.

The transparent pink tinted gown covered a very sparkly, silver petticoat.

Matching silver and ruby bracelets and long, tiered earrings created the vintage Hollywood vamp look.

The nautical look was indeed present on the Blue Carpet with many dressed in mermaid outfits or just aqua blue body paint.

See additional photos from the 2009 Life Ball

If you cannot see the photos in your E-mail or news reader, just go to Sexiest Celebrity Event of the Year?

Serena's Work Space

When I posted about My Work Space I invited some blogger friends to send in some of their stories about work spaces. Here is one from Serena of The Young Appalachian Quilter. Serena is a young quilter that does everything by hand. Please visit her blog and see some of her quilts. Serena is a terrific writer and has many interesting stories to tell. I am very pleased to feature her work space here on my blog. It is such fun seeing other people's work space. Thanks Serena for sharing. 

 'The View'

Tell me a little bit about your work space?

I chose this room in my house for quilting because of the light. Although we have a spare bedroom that sits empty it is on the dark side of the house and it is removed from the family common areas where I spend the majority of my time. I love that my sewing area is shared with our entire family. I had old computer desk equipment that I have repurposed for quilting. The small table is actually a printer table but there is plenty of room underneath it for my legs, and it rolls. The other white piece of furniture was a filing cabinet which I still use to store patterns, large templates for squaring off blocks, and small finished items that need binding. I have a large pop up hamper exclusively for scraps that that while I’m cutting I just brush the scraps off into the bin. 

Work Space

Your room if you have a room if not where in the house do you create your work?

I like to cut my pieces in my sewing area but I quickly transfer those to something more mobile, unless it’s a difficult pattern that needs the orientation of the layout to be completed properly. I’m willing to travel with my pieces and quilts. I usually take my piecing project with me everywhere. I piece on the couch, standing while cooking in the kitchen, at the park, in the car. 

Work Space

Sewing table including the sewing machine:

At this point in my creative quilting life I don’t use one. I began quilting as a way to tie myself to my heritage. I was taught by my mother and I want my heirloom quilts to be just that. I greatly enjoy handwork and love that I’m not tied down to a table in order to make my quilts. My quilts travel and I like that my quilting is meshed with my life instead of separate from it. I do own a Singer 185K but I’ve never learned to use it. 

Fabrics stash

Cutting table or surface where you use for cutting. Do you use rotary cutter or scissors?

I’ve never used a rotary cutter and I don’t own one. For cutting I love my Gingher Featherweight Scissors. These are fairly new and are perfect if your hands cramp after hours of cutting. The all metal Ginghers are great for cutting layers. I also have a small pair of embroidery Ginghers for use while hand quilting and precision piecing curves.

Do you have a favourite spot in your work space?

The View! 

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Check out these screenshots of the new Call of Duty from this months Game Informer. A few things we do know is that the Russians are back, there are snow mobiles, some sort of campaign co-op, and it looks like there will be some SWAT bulletproof shields. It also looks like there will be a level in Rio de Janeiro. I can't wait.

My Work Space

Lately I have been thinking about how people create. What kind of space they are working in? I have seen a bit of your work space when I read your blogs, but that is all. It would be nice to see more of your work spaces. For this reason I would like to share with you my work space. I will call it work space because some people do not have a work room/sewing room. I know because I did not have a sewing room for a long time. I used to sew at the corner of our bedroom for many years. I used our bed as a cutting table and I produced many nice quilts there. I feel that you do not have to have a so called work room/sewing room to make quilts.  If you want to do it, you can do it anywhere. You can make do. Please come in and let me share with you my work space. I would also like to invite you to share your work space with us too.

Welcome to my work space. This is a door into my work space I put a door rug at the entrance. This is an Iranian rug I picked up from an Iranian boat vendor in Abu Dhabi. It was hand woven with hand dyed wool. It reminded me of patchwork when I bought it. It is perfect as a door mat. 

This is the only full wall I have in here. My 'Whirly World' quilt stays there all the time. Below the quilt is the wall unit where I store all my projects, boxes, and bits and pieces you can see on top. I can tell you I am not a messy person, but I love stuff as most quilters would. 

On the right-hand side as you enter the room I hang this hand woven Iraqi rug. I bought this rug from an Global village in Dubai in 2001. I loved it so much I could not resist. It is designed as a floor runner, but it looks great on the wall too. If you wander what is the green and yellow robe hanging next to the rug, it is called 'Sally'. It is used for pulling a church bell. I used to be a bell ringer (campanologist). I rung bells 2-3 times a week for 4 years. One day I just stopped going to bell ringing. Every time I think about it I am still upset over it. Bell ringing is the only hobby that I was not able to share with a friend. For this reason I decided to stop even though I love actual bell ringing itself. Anyway, I have the 'Sally' to remind me that I was once a campanologist!

A peek into my fabric stash. There is a double fitted wardrobe in the room and it is filled with my fabric. I have too much fabric including those I hand dyed and over dyed myself. I have not bought any fabrics for a long time now. I try to make do with what I have for all the recent projects I have started. I also try to make 'green quilts' so whatever I have here should do me and if I need any more I will get either from used clothing or second hand fabric.

This is my sewing machine table. Both cutting table and sewing table were my children's school desks. I put them together back to back when I had a bigger room, but now that I only have a small room I decided to set them apart to give me space in between the two desks. My Jenome sewing machine is 2o years old. I bought it from John Lewis department store in London in 1991. It has been a good machine for me. I also have a Singer Featherweight sewing machine which I like using as well. Unfortunately, I do not have room to have both of them out.

The cutting table with small ironing board at one end. The table sits by the window where I get plenty of light from the window while I am cutting. Out side of the window is a small front garden facing the street. 

This was once a book case, but now it is everything case. I have my baskets in there plus the mixed media supplies of paints, pens and papers etc. Believe it or not, I know exactly where everything is on it!

I found this wooden ladder at the side of the road waiting to be collected on hard rubbish day. It was perfect for a quilt display rack. Because this room does not have a lot of wall space, I have to use all space available to display my quilts and crafts. It is working well so far, but I would have liked a room twice as big as this one. 

This Iranian rug is in between the sewing table and the cutting table. At the end of the rug there is the wall unit with all my projects (UFOs) boxes and other craft supplies. This carpet is on the only floor space between my two desks.

Generally this is what my work room looks like. The sewing table sits right the middle of the room with the sewing machine facing the cutting table and window. It is a very bright room. The window you can see ahead is a sliding door opening to the front balcony. There is an outdoor table set there if I want to sit out.

This is our living area where we watch television, listening to music, reading and entertaining and also where I do my hand work too. I do all my crafts work here including basket weaving, bookmaking and stitching. I take over the two seatter sofa set and accumulate all my bits and pieces I need for the project I am working on at the time. 

The large coffee table takes quite a lot of the room between the television and the sofas so I place a small cutting mat there mainly for cutting my papers for book making. I also have a laptop when I need to work on my blog and watch the television at the same time. I do have another computer in the office where I share with DH. 

I hope you enjoy a tour of my work space. If you would like to share your work space please let me know and I will spread the word around.