PUSSYDOLL PALACE is an ultra cool, on trend retailer bringing the girls of the UK, Europe and beyond the best in celebrity fashion and accessories. Having began life as a boutique store in Sunderland in the North East of England we have fast established ourselves as a reliable and trusted company that can compete with the best of the high street and most well known on-line retailers.
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Earlier in 2013 TOWIE’s Jessica Wright played host to the grand opening of our second store in Newcastle-Upon- Tyne. PDP2 has proven a real attraction with the local Geordies thanks to its fabulous decor, unique ambience and gorgeous products. We work tirelessly to stay on top of the latest trends in order to provide our customers with the best the fashion world has to offer.
Our web site is a beautiful digital world home to a vast array of fashion, bling accessories and a huge selection of hair pieces in every style and colour imaginable. Our Facebook and Twitter pages are vibrant, bustling emporiums of fashion ideas, inspiration and conversation!
We believe that looking great and feeling your best are one and the same and should not come with a huge price tag. We persevere to bring the best of the fashion world at affordable prices for everyone, the second the trend hits if not before!
With the customer always at the forefront of our thoughts we have recently overhauled our web site to bring an increasingly engaging, user friendly shopping experience.
Our aim is to be the first name on everyone’s lips and the ‘go-to’ web site when you are celebrity clothes spotting on-line, in magazine or on TV!
Cask Corner first opened in 2011 under the patronage of Julie Buckley who’s mission statement was to promote Live Music in Doncaster; to both showcase and fuse young and old talent alike and to provide a platform for them to do this, to bridge the generation gap, to develop past and present musical influences and hone their musical skills, as well as to provide a stage for existing bands. They have achieved this by providing free rehearsal space, giving them an opportunity to perform either at Live and Gigging on a Tuesday, Open Mic on a Wednesday or a gig on a Friday or Saturday night. Also she wanted to make Live Music available to all, not charging an entry fee achieves this.
Julie was at Open Mic when she was informed that Cask Corner were finalists at the What’s On For Me Awards, several members of The Smoking Beagles and Groomlake Fugitives asked if they could come along to the awards. This ramshackle band of troubadours are a prime example of what she set out to achieve; the bands were formed by customers, friends and Open Mic attendees ageing from 25 to 53, they played their first gigs at Cask Corner with great success and went on to perform at T-Fest and are now a highly sought after bands.
All Cask Corners events fit in with those in the Doncaster Community; many local bands performed there during Doncasters music festival MAPFest and they organised some great events for Doncasters first Steampunk weekend with a Music Hall Variety Show featuring lots of local talent. They also host Cask Fest twice a year with live music all day and night! In 2013 they were also proud to be invited to host a VIP tent at Tickhills’ first music festival, T-Fest which was a great success.
Getting to know the customers both in person and via social media is imperative to the Cask Corner team and a massive thank you goes out to all of them, the staff and the musicians for helping to make Cask Corner the great venue that it is.
The Amatsu Training School in Hertfordshire was established in 2005 by Jane Langston, specialising in the training of Amatsu Practitioners. What’s that, you ask? Amatsu is an amazing complementary therapy that uses diagnostic tools from a wide range of disciplines including muscle testing and orthopaedic testing to understand and explain the body’s natural movement principles. During a treatment the therapist will assess specific dysfunctions and the most effective way to restore balance back to the whole body with minimum intervention. This is possible because of the application of natural body movement, Taijutsu, which is one of the things that makes Amatsu unique. Taijutsu or natural body movement (as it translates from Japanese) is used by the practitioner to induce movement in the client which then facilitates a deeper level of integrated, whole body correction. Its definitely more than just a massage!
Our teaching team of Jane Langston and Taz Faruqi have a combined teaching experience of 20 years, and have clinical experience of more than 30 years. They are helped by their trainee teacher Gina Croft who is a whizz at admin too. Together they have written outstanding training modules which are enhanced by video clips of all techniques – no excuse to forget what was demonstrated in class!
The training requires dedication, as it takes two years to complete, and there are over 40 in-class training days and two years of distance learning to supplement the classroom. Our classes are full of information, both theoretical and practical, and are above all, fun! Our students come from all walks of life and are all ages, which means we have to teach in a variety of styles to suit the needs of the learners. The highlight of the two years is the final revision weekend, which is a residential weekend of non-stop learning.
We have prided ourselves in teaching to the highest standard, receiving the Institute for Complementary and Natural Medicine’s award for Best Complementary Medicine Company in 2012.
The sister company, The Amatsu Clinic Rickmansworth, is where Jane, Taz and Gina work in their clinical practice, offering quality treatments to the south east of England.
“Best Skill or Academic Learning Provider” or “Most Inspirational Instructor or Tutor” for The Amatsu Training School Ltd and
“Best Beauty, Lifestyle or Wellbeing Service” and “Best relaxation Provider” for The Amatsu Clinic Rickmansworth.
To vote for The Amatsu Traniing School Ltd or The Amatsu Clinic Rickmansworth please visit the What’s On 4 Me Awards website and click the Voting Link.
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2016 marks one of the most significant changes in my life. Over the years my hunting partner and I have sat around for days goose hunting, destroyed our boat moose hunting and had adventures that all the money in the world could never pay for. more
So this upcoming Saturday May 7, 2016 the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) will be celebrating it’s annual fundraiser gala.
I am pleased to be part of the Advisory Board of the museum at large, an in this opportunity the Creative Co-chair of the grand event, which have created a great excitement within my team…the selected professional teams we have selected to work with, and the museum staff at large, including the Scottsdale Cultural Council team.
Now, my phone is been ringing of the hook, and tweeting chirping away all day with messages and text messages, and IM’s and FB messengers, and more tweets, and Instagram messages….with one common question:
“Oscar, What do I wear for an Avant-Garde fundraiser gala? The invitation had initially “black-tie”, then they changed it for Cocktail Avant-Garde attire, so I am lost!”
– When will there be another time that you will be in front of 30 photographers and 200 feet of red carpet on a museum setting? There will be person after person, couple after couple stopping for their moment at what they call the ‘Step and Repeat’ – the photo wall on the red carpet.
These pictures of a gala at a museum will be promoted and published – and the fashion images will be out there forever. This fantastic party is not one that is likely to be repeated, at least in Arizona. (Now, while this is not the Met in NYC, did you SEE all the photos of the fashion this past week from their gala?) So, I would avoid the standard Arcadia uniform of; yoga pants, pony tail, tennis shoes and ripped denim jeans…(Kanye who?)
Avant-garde fashion is the theme, so I recommend that you make it yours, interpret your own look and your vision for avant-garde. That could be anything from a beautiful black gown with a bunch of tulle, to a simplistic wrap with an accent color, or ruffles, or texture.
HOLLYWOOD, CA – JANUARY 12: Actress Tilda Swinton arrives at the 17th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards held at The Hollywood Palladium on January 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Working Title/Artist: Evening gown Department: Costume Institute Culture/Period/Location: HB/TOA Date Code: Working Date: 1987 photography by mma 1995, transparency #4 scanned and retouched by film and media (jn) 4_29_04
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES: Actress and singer Bjork arrives the 73rd Annual Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles 25 March, 2001. Bjork performs and wrote the music for “I’ve Seen It All” nominated for Best Song. AFP PHOTO/Lucy NICHOLSON (Photo credit should read LUCY NICHOLSON/AFP/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 04: Solange attends the “China: Through The Looking Glass” Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
And if you have time to read – and you are on a roll, here is a very good article in which you can study the avant-garde fashion movement:
Think about how the details of a fabric and the tri-dimensional ability that a fabric has can change the way you see it at a distance, or how you can alter the silhouette:
HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 26: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow arrives at the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
I have to wrap-up and head back to the museum, but I hope this post will give you some insights and inspiration.Log into your social media and explore the entire event by simply searching for #smoca #smocamix #avantgarde.
I gotta go, I promise to give all links and credits soon, but they are waiting for me at the museum, and I am jazzed we are bringing this to the city.
Whatever people may say about beer, its power to prompt revelations and shatter illusions is undeniable.
Workplace harassment and sexual objectification of women has always been abstract concepts to me, partly because I am the type to take no bullshit and I use every chance to show the people around me that I take no bullshit, whether it’s by being completely aloof or straight out calling them out on questionable behaviors, so such unpleasantness seldom happens to me. (It’s true, the office douche never once said the things that he’s said to others, to me.)
Leery come-ons are not okay. Neck massages, no matter how tired or tense one may seem, are not okay. Making remarks about liking girls of a certain race to a girl of that race is not okay. Making overt remarks to a girl’s cheating ex-boyfriend about boys being boys is not okay. Making character judgments that are based on looks for appraisals rather than work performance is not okay. Making jokes about sending a girl out to service a client is NOT OKAY.
That it is a joke does not make it okay. I am torn about whether that makes it worse, that you feel that such matters can be material for jest. I am torn about whether I should feel relieved or disgusted that the joke was made by a woman to another woman. It may be an odd thing to think, but I honestly feel that if it had come from a man it would have been marginally less hurtful. (It’s completely warped that if a man had said that I would have been less up in arms about it. I would still be angry, but slightly less than what I am feeling now. Mental.)
What does it say about our society, that women objectify other women, and by extension themselves, so readily? How many levels of mental parsing does it take to arrive at the conclusion that such remarks do not matter? Is it excusable to you as a woman because you feel that as a woman you are entitled to say things like that to another woman? Is this a(n albeit twisted) form of re-appropriation? Can something like objectification even be re-appropriated?
I imagine the subconscious thought process to go something like this: I am a woman, she is a woman, I can say this to her because I am not a man and if it’s a man saying this to a woman it’s wrong so I should say it first because every other man is thinking it and it doesn’t matter because we are both women.
What does it say about you as a woman, as a mother, that you can so readily make jokes like this without giving it any more than a fleeting thought?
As Asian girls, we are taught from a young age to sit with our legs pressed together and look pretty. To speak only when spoken to, to be seen and not heard. That when men tease you about the size of your breasts, the shape of your eyebrows, the cut of your dress, it’s because they are boys and you are girls. That you should just smile and ignore them. We aren’t taught to stand up for ourselves, to voice our discomfort, to fight back. We aren’t taught that we, as women, have the right to be respected.
Such attitudes, such ignorance, is why Malaysia will never progress as a society. Not when women are always told again and again that we should be accepting of the fact that we will never be as good as men. And don’t even get me started on the overt racism. That’s certainly a post for another day.
(Also, thanks, mom, for letting me know that if I came home one day and told you that my superior made jokes about sending me out to service a client, that you won’t have my back.)