Feeling Kittenish...

the candy pink cardi and animal print cami combo...purrrr... ;-D

a closer view of my Tiger necklace I made from recycled components...

these pink Payless slides are infinitely comfy like a pair of Dr Scholl's sandals...

I think the fun is just beginning...

Autum Wardrobe Updated

Just cataloguing and sorting out some more Autumnal offerings...

this Old Navy khaki safari jacket pairs well with a slightly flounced floral skirt in autumnal colors. It's really quite like a really cute short, hip length khaki trench coat...

Khaki crinkled skirt, taupe blazer and black sweatshirt

or this olive utility jacket...

 and this blush pink trench coat...

cranberry retro cool red sunglasses...

70s retro square deep plum sunglasses

angular square olive green sunglasses

Or this brown tortoiseshell version

Retro oval olive green frame sunglasses

Retro round green frame sunglasses

These glowing golden olive mossy sunglasses

Oversized khaki sunglasses

the floral skirt above would also look great with this cute olive velvet jacket...mauve / magenta suede jacket is light enough for Autumnal wear--goes great with this scarf

to casually dress up the Hawaiian shirt, this taupish brown structured jacket looks great!

or this coffee duster coat...

Top off this vintage Hawaiian shirt, so classic and the colours are awesome...

these khaki cateye sunglasses...

this tortoise shell link necklace...

this red roses choker necklace..

love this crepe LizSport olive floral top...has all the Fall colors...

hmmm...this black, red, white plaid shirt topped off with red knit top

UOP tee

FauxSuede embroidered jacket

and this burgundy plaid shirt topped off with a burgundy blazer with a school vibe...

burgundy slingback...

Clement Chabernaud looking dapper in his burgundy / plum suit with a satin lapel blazer

Draper's and Damon's plum military jacket has potential...this could look a bit butch but the color redeems it... ;-)

Miista purple holographic shoes...

Topped off with mauve and plum space dye cardigan

Hey, who doesn't like to play dressups?!

Feeling like a gumshoe in this taupe trench

I found this gorgeous trench coat by London Fog for under $10 and with 50% discount, it came to $4 and change... :-D Oooh...I could feel like a gumshoe in a classic movie when I wear this baby...

the London Fog taupe trench coat has classic styling...

this floral chiffon scarf, which I created from left over fabric, adds that touch of girlishness...

smouldering taupe lips in NYX Lip Lingerie in Honeymoon...

and Wet n Wild nail polish in Wet Cement...

Granny and Mum on their way to Australia...

Inspo...

Taupe trench worn by Lauren Hutton in film American Gigolo with her famous clutch bag!

the Bottega Veneta burgundy basketweave clutch

that taupe trench is in her hand...

Donning her trench with track pants...

The Sword of Pleasure

The Sword of Pleasure

by

Peter Green

After reading Colleen McCullough's "Masters of Rome" series, I just had to read further about Rome and specific people who interested me, so I got this book on Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix by Peter Green. Supposedly based on Sulla's memoirs, which he wrote himself, entitled "The Sword of Pleasure." I've concluded that this is only one take on Sulla's memoirs which were somehow destroyed themselves but written about by people like Plutarch, so this is taken second hand and not directly from the original memoirs! I was not comfortable to have Sulla depicted as a monstrous, quasi handicapped individual, with hideous birthmarks on his face, which is why I've posted pictures of him, so that you can see for yourself what he looked like. The supposed splotchy marks on his face are explained by McCullough as a complication from a series of sunburns he received while on campaign or engaging in the battles in Asia Minor! His death apparently from a ruptured blood vessel from a gastric ulcer and not from a parasitic infestation as rumor has it...
yes, I've given him eyes, here possibly in his 40's...
the original bust of him, which I believe is in Munich, of all places...take it back to Italy, I say!I've given him eyes and a proper Roman nose; the fierce eye brows I have not smoothed out-they give him that lupine quality, with his pale grey eyes as luminescent as the moon, which the wolf would howl at, of course... He appears strong, fierce and a force to be reckoned with. He is handsome! McCullough goes even further to say that he had prominent canine teeth, further giving him a wolfish quality, which he tried to hide in certain situations as it frightened people... Sulla in his late 50's perhaps, having lost his hair and sporting a wig here, just prior to dying at age 60, amazing cheek bones...yes I've given him eyes! He lived between 138 and 78 BC. A slight family resemblance-WOW-are we related?Lvcivs Cornelivs Svlla Felix Epaphroditvs, you are not forgotten...