Framed Perfume Prints

One of my customers from Brazil sent me this photo of the prints she ordered from me.  Didn't she do a wonderful job of framing them?  Thanks Yasmine for the photo!!  I love to see how people choose to display my prints.

Yasmine ordered the Chloe, YSL, Miss Dior, and Daisy prints for her grouping.

GSROC Children's Art Contest

Hi everyone.
My daughter Sandra, who is in 1st grade, entered an art contest for the German Shepherd Rescue Center of Orange County. Today voting starts. The dog she chose to draw is named Jessie (who just had 2 puppies!) and the theme she chose is - Be kind to animals. These are two things I really want to encourage in her; love of art and being kind to animals.
Here's her artwork for the contest:

GSROC website

Head on over to the GSROC facebook page and vote for Sandra's artwork by "liking" her picture. 
GSROC Facebook Children's Art Contest Page

Thank you! oxoxoxo

New Item! Chanel No 5 Flat Notecard Set

I had a request for these Chanel No 5 Flat notecards.  I aim to please, so here they are!

available in my Etsy store

Shabby Apple Gatsby Giveaway!

In honor of the new Great Gatsby film coming out, Shabby Apple is hosting a giveaway.  They are giving away their Tambourin skirt (a tiered fringe skirt in silver grey which is reminiscent of the flapper styles of the 1920's)  and a $25 Fandango gift card to go see the film!

I read the Great Gatsby book by F. Scott Fitzgerald back in school, and I saw the 1974 film with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, so I am eager to see the new film version coming out.  How true will it be to the book and how will it differ from the 1974 film?  And I can't wait to see all the glorious flapper fashions!

Shabby Apple is asking how would you style an outfit including the Tambourin skirt?  Here is my entry:

All the items I used are available at Shabby Apple.

If you wish to enter, pop on over to the Shabby Apple Blog.

Tangerine Dream

I really need to update my closet for summer!  I am very attracted to these bright pops of color suddenly.  Doesn't this Jcrew Laila dress look so cool and breezy?  Pair it with these Cindy sandals from Kate Spade and the Dooney & Bourke Twist Strap Hobo handbag. Top the whole outfit off with Eddie Borge Lattice gold-plated hexagonal hoop earings and you are ready to go anywhere in style!

Untitled #32 by debralynn5 featuring marc jacobs fragrance

Sunday At The Beach

This past Sunday, there were a lot of things I should have been doing.  Laundry, grocery shopping, cleaning the house, working on a new painting, are just a few of the things on my to-do list. Instead I played hooky and went to the Long Beach Grand Prix.

A friend of mine goes every year and convinced me to go this time.  I thought it was funny, that after living in Long Beach for so many years and never going to the race, now that I have moved away this is the first time I've actually gone to see it.  It was a really great day to be at the beach again.  The weather was perfect, not too hot, just breezy and sunny.

We got pit passes.  It was fun to see the pit crews working on the cars.  They are so amazingly fast.  You can see the Long Beach Aquarium in the background with the mural of whales painted on it by the artist Wyland.

This skyline is used in filming Hollywood movies and shows sometimes.  The first time I remember seeing film crews out here was for the first Lethal Weapon movie.  That circular building shows up in the opening scene.

Takuma Sato won.  He's the first Japanese driver in history to win an Indy Car series race.

(this photo is courtesy The L.B. Press Telegram - my camera was not fast enough to capture these race cars!)

Well, that was my day playing hooky!  Hope you all had a fun weekend too!

A Little Jane Austen To Go Please

Every once in a while, I need some Jane Austen.  Sometimes I reread one of her books.  Or I watch one of the movies.  Last week I watched Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility!  I guess it had been a while since my last Jane Austen day.  Although, for some reason I don't own my favorite version of Pride and Prejudice.

Then, quite by accident, I found these two Jane Austen handbags.  The Emma clutch by Kate Spade and the Jane Austen Persuasion Book Purse by Novel Creations.  So you can take a little Jane Austen with you.

Untitled #31 by debralynn5 featuring leaf bags