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SUPER Moon November 14, 2016

December 9, 2016 by shelley

SUPERMOON November 14, 2016

Super Moon November 14, 2016

Super Moon November 14, 2016

A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth.[3] The technical name is the perigee-syzygy of the Earth–Moon–Sun system.[a] The term supermoon is not astronomical, but originated in modern astrology.[4] The association of the Moon with both oceanic and crustal tides has led to claims that the supermoon phenomenon may be associated with increased risk of events such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, but there is no evidence of such a link.[5]

A couple simple shots from my iPhone

Super Moon November 14, 2016

Super Moon November 14, 2016

Super Moon November 14, 2016

Super Moon November 14, 2016

And a couple of my favorites from around the world

Super Moon November 14, 2016

Super Moon November 14, 2016

Super Moon November 14, 2016

Super Moon November 14, 2016

Super Moon November 14, 2016

Super Moon November 14, 2016

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Super Moon, Supermoon

Chicago: Halloween with Collins and SOFA show

December 7, 2016 by shelley

Chicago: Halloween with Collins and SOFA show

I headed to Chicago to spend Halloween with Collins, attend the 2016 SOFA show on Navy Pier and attend Winnetka’s Antiques + Modernism Show…

Collins

Collins

Collins

Collins

Playing with Collins

Playing with Collins

Playing with Collins

Playing with Collins

Playing with Collins

Playing with Collins

The trip to Chicago was perfectly timed with the World Series Win of the Chicago Cubs!  It was fun to see the city celebrate the win!!!  It had been 108 years since the last win and the city knew how to celebrate!!

Cubs win World Series

Cubs win World Series

Cubs win World Series

Cubs win World Series

Chicago celebrating the Cubs World Series win 2016

Chicago celebrating the Cubs World Series win 2016

The City turned blue and red…

Chicago celebrating Cubs World Series Win

Chicago celebrating Cubs World Series Win

SOFA show on Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

Thanks to our artist friend Elis Gudmann from tenContemporary Gallery Ellen and I again received VIP tickets to the preview party.

The Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design (SOFA) Fair in Chicago is the premier gallery-presented art fair dedicated to three-dimensional art and design.

Critically acclaimed and continuously running since 1994, what distinguishes SOFA from other top art events is its focus on three-dimensional artworks that cross the boundaries of fine art, decorative art and design.  SOFA is noted for its exceptional presentation, with an elite selection of international dealers presenting for sale one-of-a-kind masterworks in handsome, custom-designed gallery exhibits.

SOFA is held annually in the fall at Chicago’s major destination, Navy Pier, with an average of 80 dealers and 35,000 people attending. Sales at the fair are estimated at 15-20 million dollars per show.

SOFA

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago-opening night

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

SOFA 2016 Navy Pier Chicago

Winnetka’s Antique and Modernism Show

winnetka antique show

Winnetka antique show

Winnetka's Antique and Modernism Show

Winnetka’s Antique and Modernism Show

The Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show (A+M Show) is the ultimate destination for interior designers, shoppers, and collectors alike. Ranging in styles from classic to modern, the Show is renowned for exquisite home furnishings and accessories, artwork, clothing, and jewelry, exclusively available for purchase from dealers who are nationally recognized specialists. The Show’s 60-year history and prevailing reputation speak to the caliber of this spectacular style and design event.

Exhibitor Julie Harris of Kansas City, Missouri had these antique bathing suits…we loved these!

Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show

Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show

Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show

Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show

I also enjoyed seeing actual artwork of outsider artist Lee Godie…a Chicago original!

In her day-to-day life, Lee Godie was a homeless woman who made a living selling paintings on chilly Chicago streets. She kept her belongings in various lockers throughout the city, showered in hotel bathrooms, and slept outside on benches despite freezing weather.

However, in her self-portraits, taken in a photo booth at the Chicago Greyhound bus station, Godie transforms into a 1920s-era “It Girl,” dramatically dressed in furs, broaches and floppy hats, posed lackadaisically like the most glamorous of movie stars. With each individual ensemble and pose, a new, glitzy character is born.

It’s the palpable tension between the two lives of Godie — the struggling drifter and the sought after art star — that makes her images enchanting. She adorned the small black-and-white prints with various embellishments, sometimes pen or paint, other times eyeliner and lipstick smudged in the appropriate spots. On occasion, Godie rubbed instant tea on her face as a pseudo self-tanner.

According to popular legend, Godie’s tenure as an artist in began 1968, when, at around 60 years old, she was rocked to the core by an Impressionism exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Shortly after the show, all shaken and sweaty, Godie stood on the steps and publicly declared herself a French Impressionist, one “much better than Cezanne,” at that.

From then on, she painted. A lot. Godie’s paintings are flattened portraits of high society ladies, wide-eyed beauties with wide-brimmed hats, smokey makeup and cherry red lips. From her self-proclaimed inauguration into the art world in 1968 until 1990, when she was 82 years old, Godie peddled her work every day on the Chicago streets, carrying her portfolio around in a big black case.

Her paintings sold for around $20 or $30 — if she liked you, that is. “She would have her canvases half uncurled,” gallery-owner Carl Hammer explained to The Telegraph. “If she was interested in selling to you, she would let [the canvas] open up so you could see more. If she didn’t like you, she would curl it up the other way.”

During the course of her career Godie became an iconic figure in the Chicago art scene, known for galavanting about in a toga one day, a fur coat the next. She’d sing and dance when interacting with her fans, adding a performative element to her tireless art making.

Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show: Lee Godie-outsider art

Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show: Lee Godie-outsider art

Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show: Lee Godie-outsider art

Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show: Lee Godie-outsider art

Filed Under: Events, Travel Tagged With: Antique and Modernism Show, Chicago, Collins, Lee Godie, SOFA, Winnetka Antiques Show

Neighborhood Alvin Ailey

December 5, 2016 by shelley

Neighborhood Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey

With only minutes to spare we heard about a performance in the neighborhood of Alvin Ailey…so we walked to the firehouse in Prairie Village to watch.

Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey

You can watch it here

Or you can watch in in YouTube

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Alvin Ailey

BYU’s Special Exhibit Rose Marie Reid

July 2, 2016 by shelley

BYU’s Special Exhibit Rose Marie Reid

While at Women’s Conference we discovered BYU’s Special Exhibit on Rose Marie Reid and we thoroughly enjoyed it!

Sister Reid’s legacy of service and style was celebrated  in a special exhibition at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library entitled Rose Marie Reid: Glamour by Design.

Rose Marie Reid Glamour By Design

Rose Marie Reid Glamour By Design

The swimwear creations of Rose Marie Reid are on display at a BYU exhibition celebrating the life and work of the famed LDS fashion designer.

The colorful, multimedia display was located in the library’s basemen and included several of Sister Reid’s most famous swimsuit designs while telling the story of a dynamic woman devoted first to her family and faith.

My favorite story was about the “Starlight Suit” also known as the “Relief Society” Suit!

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

The princess line sheath swimsuit featured an optional halter straps and a graduated sunburst of sequins down the front that accent the contour of the waist and hips.  The sequins on these suits were hand-sewn by hundreds of Latter-Day Saint Relief Society women in Southern California, and profits from the sale of the suits were donated to the building fund for the Los Angeles Temple.  The suit was immensely popular and in high demand among movie stars and beauty queens throughout the country.  “Starlight” created such a splash that Life Magazine carried a two-and-half page spread about the suit’s success in its April 16, 1956 issue.  Original Retail Price $50.00.  The 2015 equivalent price $431.47.

The temple a swim suit helped build:

Los Angeles Mormon Temple

Los Angeles Mormon Temple

Rose Marie Reid, born Rose Marie Yancey (September 12, 1906 in Cardston, Alberta, Canada – December 16, 1978 in Provo, Utah, United States), was a Canadian-born American swimsuit designer who was extremely popular and successful in the 1940s-60s. Reid believed that every woman should feel just as glamorous in a swimsuit as she did in an evening gown, and she designed her suits accordingly.

The bikini.

For a half-century, the two-piece swimsuit curiously named after a Pacific atoll has been a profitable standard in women’s fashion.

For Latter-day Saint designer Rose Marie Reid, the bikini was a career buster.

In the early 1960s Sister Reid was one of the United States’ most successful businesswomen. Her swimsuit lines defined the burgeoning market, gleaning millions in profits. Hollywood A-listers Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, and others modeled her designs. Her swimsuits—showcased in the sand-and-surf flick Gidget—allowed women worldwide to enjoy a bit of the “California way of life.”

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Sister Reid insisted a swimsuit can be both stylish and modest. When the bikini became a trend she held firm to her beliefs.

“I don’t like bikinis,” she stated at the time, “and I don’t want to design for a company that makes them.”

Her corporation, Rose Marie Reid, Inc., would soon be acquired by another company and, true to her word, she left the business.

Such convictions defined the lifelong member who has been called “the most prominent Latter-day Saint woman of her generation.” In 72 years of life she assumed many titles: innovator, designer, entrepreneur, benefactor, missionary, and mother.

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Rose Marie Reid Exhibit BYU

Filed Under: Church, Events Tagged With: BYU Special Exhibits, Glamour By Design, Rose Marie Reid, Rose Marie Reid inc, Swimsuits

Emily Turns One Years Old

February 13, 2016 by shelley

Emily turns one years old!

This little one has had an eventful first year.  She just recently got out of the hospital (Primary Children’s Hospital) after being there for one week with RSV.  So this was a special one year celebration!!

Emily turns one years old!

Emily turns one years old!

Emily turns one years old!

Emily turns one years old!

Emily turns one years old!

Emily turns one years old!

Filed Under: Events, Family Tagged With: birthday, Emily, One Year Old

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