Bespoke Bloke...

I love love love that Estelle song "American Boy". I like the video even better( the boys in the video are so cute!). My Best Cousin is in it...Kanye!! And his verse is smoking. Especially when he said something to the effect of being a "bloke" and wearing "Bespoke". I love fashion vocabulary and as of now have a Fashion encyclopedia on hold at B&N. I went to the place librarians love to hate...Wikipedia, for a definition of Bespoke....

Bespoke is usually a British English term for tailored clothing made at a customer's behest, and exactly to the customer's specification. Bespoke clothing is created without use of a pre-existing pattern, differentiating it from made to measure, which alters a standard-sized pattern to fit the customer.
Today, it is also frequently used for technical components specifically developed for a certain application (e.g. bespoke software), as well as in the automotive and cake decorating industries, when customers get a chance to have an automobile equipped or cake decorated to their specification

Wikipedia

I see myself explaining this to "Fashion Boy"...if we were still together. Bloke.

Jamie

The Kitchen-ista: Moroccan Chicken

I love this recipe from Food Everyday for Moroccan Chicken. It's simple and not alot to it. Plus, the recipe is for one serving. But I make it for at least four. I made this Tuesday, and the kids ate the chicken and the couscous and left everything else on the plate. But Kelton Patrick was very interested in the "the green stuff in this". I told him it was cilantro. He said "Cee-lan-dro!" Then he continued to repeat the word, something he does when he learns a new word. I call it putting in his "mental Rolodex for safekeeping...to use at a later date". He is going to the be a master a study habits one day.:)

And think I'll grow some cilantro this summer. I been thinking about an herb garden.

Plus I use this multi colored couscous to really make it bright, served on my favorite Dollar Tree white plateware.:)

Jamie

My Gift...

I've been in constant prayer these last couple of days. I'm going through some ole' crazy raging storm as usual. But after watching a refreshing and heart warming You Tube video on on Autumn's The BAP Society Myspace Page, the my mood has been lifted. Even though what is going on is still going on, It's okay to let it go and let God. As Autumn says "...that giving up doesn't mean that you're weak, but you are strong enough to realize that's its too much for you to carry."

And I received some what of "rejection" from a blog network I was trying to be on and some other things concerning some news on the blog that someone close to me didn't like really upset me. I don't do rejection well and I was just being funny and congratulatory in the post. But what can you do? You know what I'm going to do..."Ima do me!!!" Those who want a all-beauty or all-fashion blog , there so many great ones out there. But Rural Glamour ain't no percentages. And from now on...no good news about anyone I love.( Just kidding)

Thanks to Kim and Nemesis for the love...ya'll so sweet:)

I'm back form "Hiatus".

Jamie

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Hiatus....

Listen folks....

I got to take a minute on this blog. This thang has been a labor love that's not loving me back.

I don't know when I'll be back, tomorrow, maybe Saturday, maybe....a month or two from now.

Love ya'll

Jamie

Sleep in a can: Sofia Mini Sparking Wine

Every time I think of this it makes me laugh. Might not make you laugh, but it makes me and my girlfriends laugh. Any-T-way....





Homecoming weekend, you know, we stopped into Dean and Deluca out at Phillips Place and went all bonkers, tasting cheeses, wines, chocolates. Trevor ate a bag of crystallized ginger( yeah...she also eats only black jelly beans...I wuv her:)), I flirted with the cheese boy, Hannah( the Miss High Ball, Low Ball herself) was grilling a wine sommelier while Tasha and Cousin Alisa swooned over cheesecake. I went over the drink cooler and discovered something so cute, wine in a mini can or Sofia Sparking Wine...in a mini can.





We all became giddy and excited. How sweet and chic, wine in a can, put in my handbag!!! It reminded us on the days on mini liquor bottles tucked in our jeans for a Withers/SAC party. We all got one or two or three a piece and planned on sipping on them at Erica's house when we got there.





So about an hour later, we popped the top and started to sip away...no less than 30 minutes later, I was sound asleep on Erica's couch, with my hair covering my face, right in the middle of one my favorite movies to quote...Norbit( "How you doing!!!") One by one, the sippers of the Sofia Can O' wine were dosing off. Tasha looks around and notices that people are just clunking out.... and blames it on that Can O' Vino. She says," I KNEW something was wrong with that wine...the can too small, its going to pack a punch!"





When we finally woke up( like 30 mins later...I thought it was 12 midnight, its was only 9:00pm...damn) We all agreed with her. Of course she was laid out across the kitchen table sleep.








Go get you one!!!

pic: www.stomp.com

Jamie