HELLO!!! :)

Hello, everyone!

Well, I know that I have just kind of dropped off the map all of a sudden. My life just got really busy and really crazy. I just wanted to make a post and reach out and say  ‘ hello ‘ to everyone that has continued to pop in over here the past few months.

So, what happened? Are you curious? 

Change. Change has been the name of the game these past few months.

Well, first of all , all  of a sudden in July my father just gave me the family business. He doesn’t want to do it any more. And, since that is how I make my money, I have taken it over completely, even though it was never anything that I actually wanted to do. So, as you can imagine, I had my hands full with chaos in general. It is never easy owning a business, especially when you have emotional ties with family, so that has just been…..overwhelming – that’s probably the nicest way to put it. 

There is so much going on with that that it has really changed alot of my plans, so secondly, I have decided to stop building my other web page. I just am not up to dealing with all of that and I’m not the most tech- oriented person anyway. Oh , well.

There is much much more, but I’m sure you get the point.  Things have been busy.

I hope everything has been going well for all of you.

 

Well, this is iLusciousLife, so here is a little list of things that I have been loving recently.

Nora Jones’s new song Chasing Pirates.

Michael Buble’s New song I Just Haven’t Met You Yet.

Benjamin Sharkey is a singer on You Tube that I found the other night. Check him out. Very, very talented.

The movie The Proposal with Sandra Bullock -  I don’t know if I mentioned it before, but it is very funny.

Tonight I watched So You Think You Can Dance and the couple that danced to Two Steps Away from Pattie LaBelle were just absolutely amazing. I love dancing so much! Dancing or watching it is so wonderful.

I love my new candle from Restoration Hardware, it’s pomegranite scented and it’s lovely. Ooo, on my next year list I think I’m going to add a big leather couch from Restoration Hardware – that’s a nice wish, right?

I just bought a sample of perfume from Lucky Scent that I’m really excited about. It’s called Madera. It is supposed to smell like a fine caramel – I will let you know how delicious it is  for anyone who who wants to smell like dessert. :) Which is one of my favorite ways to smell.

Well, I guess that’s enough for now. Thanks, for your continued support and interest in my blog. I hope everything is going well for all of you. Feel free to share any thoughts on….. all of the above. As always,  I’d love to hear you ideas.

Love ,

Arielle81

xoxoxoxo

PERFUME SURPRISE!!! & A GIVE AWAY

The House of Caron Goose Down Powder Puffs

Caron La Poudre Fine Mineral Body Powder

The Famous Crystal Perfume Dispensers of Caron

Candy Colored Caron Perfume Bottles

160 - The House of Molinard's Newest Creation

The Molinard Home in France

Molinard Vintage Perfume Collection

Courvoisier - Legendary Cognac to Legendary Fragrance

Michel Roudnitska Introduces Ellie Nuit

From the House of Jivago - This sweet scent is selling out in Israel

Juliette Has A Gun - 'nough said

Theosiris from Creations Guy Bouchara

Pure Perfume Oils from Egypt

Sahlini Parfums - Bollywood Inspired

On my ever present quest for all things Luscious last week I ventured into the concrete jungles of New York City. Armed with my trusty camera and a killer pair of stilletto heels my expedition led me to the Perfume Expo America where the largest gathering of the perfume and cosmetics industry meet once a year. There they parade the finer things in life -  those that come bottled anyway – to merchants, journalist, and perfume fanatics alike for four days.

It was a scented safari. Pure perfume oil from Egypt wrapped in papyrus. Pink disco balls of Ibiza. Sahlini with their Bollywood potions of La Femme and Femininde. The ” Irresistible Arrogance ” that only a true Imperial company like Courvoisier can bring… anywhere. The loveliness and finesse of the Molinard family  – a cornerstone in the perfume industry – as they unveil their newest creation 160, celebrating and commemorating 160 years in the business of parfum. The perfume, crystal, puffs, and powders of Caron and so, so much more.

I will be posting some perfume reviews of all the wonderful fragrances that the very generous people of perfume have shared with me. And in the spirit of sharing I am hosting a give-away, two actually. I want to share luscious experience with you. So I am making up two sample packets and if you would like to be entered into the random drawing ,please, let me know in your comments and I will let you know who the winners are on this coming Sunday. The winners can send me their address and I will ship it out to you. This is the first give-away that iLusciousLife has done but, I hope it will be the first of many.

Remember if you would like to enter into the drawing for the mixed perfume sample packets,please, list your name in the comments. Their will be two winners!

Good Luck! 

Luscious Weekly Highlights

This week in my Luscious Life:

I watched The Proposal. It was really funny. Everyone in the theater was laughing. So, if you like Sandra Bullock comedies you will enjoy this one.

My passport just came in today! I wasn’t expecting it to come in so fast – only a couple of weeks. The world is official my oyster. Now all I need is some cash and a plane ticket. 

If you have been following my post you will remember that it has been raining alot here lately. This week was no exception. Heavy rain, thunder, lightning, wind , you name it – we had it. Sooo, yesterday I was at my job working outside and got caught in the middle of a storm burst.  Was I wet? Oh, yes. Yes, I was. Completely drenched all the way through, my shoes made squishy noises as I walked. My client that I had spoken to about twenty minutes earlier in the office said I looked like I had just jumped into a swimming pool. That was an accurate description. He offered me his jacket  -so sweet.    I have declared myself the offices offical wet t-shirt competition winner.  True I was the only contestant, but that just makes it easier to win. I figure since I don’t foresee ever actually competing in one   -              why not ?!  lol

Well, I also did some cooking , there will be some more recipe posts for all those of you who’ve been missing them. I listened to some great music which I love.  Had long chats with a good friend and found the solution to a challenge I have been working on for a while. So, all in all , a good week.

Next week I should have a surprise for all of you so, stay tuned!

I’m pretty excited about it. 

So, how was your LusciousLife?

 Cinematic? Liberating? Wet?

lol

Let me know!

 

I Want………..Poem

“I want to be a lost poem in a stranger’s coat pocket, that conveys the importance of you. To assure you of my desire, to assure you of dreams.

 I want all the possibilities of you in writing.

I want to give you your reflection, I want your eyes on me, I want to travel to the lightness with you and stay there, and I want everything before you… …everything before you to follow us like a trail behind me.

I want never to say goodbye to you, even on the street corner or the phone. I want, I want so much… I’m breathless.

 I want to put my power into a poem to burn a hole in your pocket so I can sew it.

I want my words to scream through you. I want the poem not to mean that much.

And I want to contradict myself by accident, and for you to know what I mean.

I want you to be distant and for me to feel you close, I want endless days when it’s day and… nighttime never to end when it’s night.

 I want all the seasons in one day.

I want the sun to set before us and come up in front of us.

I want water up to our waists and to be drenched by the rain, up to our ankles with holes in our shoes. …with holes in our shoes.

I want to think your thoughts because they’re mine.

I want only what’s urgent with you.

I want to get in the way of the barriers and I want you to be a tough guy when you’re supposed to, like you do already. …when you’re supposed to. And I want you to be tender, like you do already.

And I want us to have met for a reason and I want that reason to be important.

 And I want it to be bigger than us, I want it to take over us.

I want to forget.

I want to remember us.

And when you say you love me I don’t want to think you really mean New York City, and all the fun we have in it.

And I want your smile always, and your grimaces too.

 I want your scar on my lips, and I want your disappointments in my heart.

I want your strength in my soul and I want your soul in my eyes.

I want to believe everything you say, and I do. And I want you to tell me what’s best when I don’t know.

And when you’re lost I want to find you.

And when you’re weary I want to give you steeples and cathedral thoughts and coliseum dreams.

I want to drag you from the darkness and kneel with you exhausted with the blinding light blaring on us… and…”

-chelsea walls

 

” I want to be a lost poem in a strangers coat pocket… steeples and cathedral thoughts and coliseum dreams “, mmm , such truely poetic ideas. I think it’s lovely. This was found on LeLove Image today. This site is listed on my links, but I’ll link it again: http://www.leloveimage.blogspot.com

Apparently it is also a video on You Tube by Chelsea Walls.

Well, you know my favorite lines, now what are yours?

 

xoxoxo

Morocco – A Link

Here at iLusciousLife we’re on the search for everything luscious, of course, to enrich and sensualize your life. I think savory and exotic certainly fall under that category. So , when I came across a posting for a Moroccan restaurant I decided to explore. It was really nicely done and very interesting.

Here is the link. Nice descriptions,juicy and compelling pictures. I think you will enjoy it.

http://moroccotravelblog.com/2009/03/30/a-vegetarian-moroccan-meal-travel-to-morocco-at-amanouz-cafe/

Also, provided on this page was another link to to a Moroccan travel site that has a really interesting recipe for Moroccan pastries that I will be trying out soon. Delicious. Let me know if you make them ,too and we’ll compare notes. Plus they have gorgeous photos of Morocco that will inspire dreams, fantasies or a plane ticket, your choice.

http://www.travel-exploration.com/subpage.cfm/Deserts_Pastries

Superpowers, Anyone?

The other night I came up with this little empowerment exercise that ended up being a really funny and interesting topic for the evening and I thought  that you would enjoy it.

The basic thought is that you have to be able to envision yourself as powerful, dynamic, and capable in order to believe it , in order to obtain it. However, I think that a lot of people sell themselves short and never really visualize the possibilities, fearing to be too silly. So, in order to break the mold and reach for the stars and your greater self it’s time to go BIG. Really big. Some may even say… super?

O.K. Here’s the deal. Imagine that there you were last Saturday night strolling through the park on your way home from the movies munching on the remainder of your large popcorn with extra butter. Something catches your eye and you glance up at the sky. Is it a bird, a plane? No, it’s giant meteorite and it’s heading right for you! SLAM ! BOOM! BANG! Popcorn everywhere- que dramatic music- In mere moments you realize that the extra 2.50 you spent for the large wasn’t necessary, that you’re alive, and something is different. That tingling feeling isn’t just adrenalin, you know deep down inside, that you have changed. All those movies and comic books coming rushing back to you and you realize the only perfectly logical explanation based on your knowledge of falling meteorites is that you have been endowed by the Universe, Fate, and trajectory with a Superpower!!!

Oh, my gosh!  You can…!!???

All right, now fill in the blank. What is your superpower? What is your cosmic gift? How can you help humanity and small kittens stuck in a tree?

Here is the list of the our living room choices for you to enjoy.

ME: Luck – Super Luck ( some people believe that this is not a super power, however, I disagree and am standing by it

UNCLE : Being able to communicate with any animal mystical, magical, or real.

DAD: Impossible Man’s abilities

KIRK: Morph’s abilities from the X-Men

SISTER: Power of Persuasion

BROTHER: Instant Manifestation

MOM: Immortality and Telekinesis – She’s Mom, she get two.

DISCLAIMER: This empowerment exercise in no way guarantees  invisibility, instantaneous intergalactic travel, telekinesis, etc. However, if you do happen to experience spontaneous super human abilities such as x-ray vision, levitation, or extreme regeneration the following protocol must be adhered to:

1. Tell all of your friends and family to check out iLusciousLife for the time of their life.

2. Remember with great power comes great responsibility.

3. E-mail me immediately. Seriously.

xoxoxo

Do you need 100 fun things to do today???

I just went to a blog that I often visit and came across this really awesome posting. There you are sure to find a firecracker idea to put you in an extremely good mood and up your luscious quotient.

ENJOY!

www.galadarling.com

Let me know which ones you try

Quote…

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

I wanted to share this little quote with you today because it really gets to the heart of living a lusciousness life. Truly experiencing and appreciating everything in this world around you.

INTRODUCING…….. iLusciousLife!

That’s right iLusciousLife is now on the web!

Thank you, for joining me here through this blogging journey. You can expect to lots of great changes to optimize your viewing experience as we develop and grow. The idea here at iLusciousLife is to focus on all the amazing things that help make each and every day more exciting, sensual, and luscious by bring you great ideas for entertaining, life style, recipes, and so much more. There is even going to be a dedication night that I am so excited about! Really focusing on you and those you love, sharing a dedication for the world to see. It’s going to be great!

This is a blog that’s informative and positive, all about the love, happiness, and great times. Where to find it and how to get it. Of course, you are always welcome to come, pull up your keyboard and get your daily dose of good energy right here at iLusciousLife!

Stay tuned, there’s lots more to come. Meanwhile, stick around and drop me note in the comment box below.

xoxoxo

Hello world!

Welcome!

Welcome to the first entry in my iLusciousLife  blog. I am so excited to begin this journey with you and I hope you enjoy all the fun, interesting and, of course, luscious post that are to come. Thank you.