dem haters.

this song is so appropriate for a lot of different topics right?
it could pertain to friendship, family, career and even our non-existent or existent.. love lives!*%$#!
here's the link to listen..
click link below
http://www.playlist.com/playlist/15318997259

dance teaches life lessons.

well today i just wanted to share a few of my favorite dance quotes. dance quotes are not just for the dancer (trainer, teacher or choreographer). one of my professors always reminded us that it's a way to live life. i found one of my old notebooks i took notes in for a couple of my classes back in the day - wow can't believe i found it!! i feel soo ancient (?)

it's been just a tad bit challenging teaching dance w/whatever muscle condition i have but i'm not giving up on it, and thank goodness for now i'm only doing it part time. it also helps to have an assistant (who is heavensent) & prescrip. meds bwahaah! ;P
once dr.'s have figured it all out, i will be actively searching for a full time position teaching jazz, lyrical, pointe & hip hop, especially since company i do part time a/r for are currently doing lay offs...which basically means strict budget & a handbag ban? haahah.

*as you will note, that quote of, "dance like nobody is watching", isn't one of my favorites. it's become so trendy & cliche..my opinion anyway

now off to the quotes:

1. "Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals." - Charles Baudelaire

2. "We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." -Japanese Proverb

3. "Dancers are the athletes of God." - Albert Einstein

4. "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels." - Faith Whittlesey

5. "Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision." - Merryl Brockway

6. "I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance." - George Balanchine

7. "Life is a dance, from one stage to the next." - Anonymous

8. "Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays." - George Balanchine

9. "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

10. "Dancers are among the most passionate and dedicated of artists and rarely take their work for granted." - Anonymous

11. "Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health - it rusts your spirit and your hips." - Adabella Radici

12. "Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather."- Martha Graham

purchased a lemon.

these pics are long overdue (sorry). so here is the insolite wallet i had exchanged from the LV t&b complice wallet i had orginally bought (remember?). t&b complice wallet was too slender for what i stash inside. then i saw reviews on the insolite wallet on tPF & thought that'd be perfect for me. when i saw the insolite wallet in person at LV boutique, i fell head over heels in love with it! it was perfect, or so i thought at time..


♥'ed how the rouge/red interior of wallet peek-a-boos matches my cherry red bag


see how it matches? ♥ that about it!


there are 2 sides to insolite wallet: zippered for coins, loose paperwork or ca$h..

other side has 2 hidden snap closures; 1 inside zip; 2 compartments for receipts, ca$h; can hold a passport & boarding pass as well; holds 12 cc's

fits nice & light in my bag - plus the interior of wallet pops out w/color. ♥ that!

furla "victoria" in cherry red, made in italy

this bag ♥ compliments the LV insolite/rouge

so why is the LV insolite wallet a lemon? well i've noticed the cc slots have really stretched out, so when i unsnap the wallet, my cc's slide out. also, the 3 zippers they placed for "style" really isn't functional for me & 2 zippers get in the way. kind of wish they used their regular hardware zipper pulls they always use. the red leather zippers are just annoying to deal with-and grip to open.

unfortunately for me i'm stuck with it because i've passed the amount of days to return/exchange. so i've placed myself on a no wallet purchase ban for the next 5 yrs, ok maybe 2 yrs, to not make this purchase a waste? i just can't justify buying another wallet when i feel like i've wasted hard earned ca$h on this piece of insolite that turned out to be a lemon.

why disney?

history has a funny way about things. usually, when people hear walt disney's name thrown around, they instantly think mickey mouse, and therefore think it's only for kids, babies or in the case of my dad, "cartoons". and sadly tunes out..

i just finished reading a character biography on walt disney, and my favorite quote in that book is, "i have one foot in the past & one foot in the future."

i guess you have to have an appreciation for disneyland resort and history to understand what walt disney meant by that. basically, it's about how he came upon the idea to build the different themes inside of disney park. fantasyland inside the magic kingdom (disneyland) was based on his own childhood days. snow white & the 7 dwarfs was a classic book walt disney had read as a child and it was his favorite story, so he turned it into the first disney cartoon (without mickey) around dec. 21, 1937. it is why as you enter fantasyland, you enter through sleeping beauty's castle, and the architecture of fantasyland looks like the snow white & 7 dwarfs movie comes to life.

tomorrowland, inside disneyland, is constantly being updated based on the future and the present is always catching up to the future, so tomorrowland seems to never be completed. it's just interesting. his ideas, inspiration, his morals tied in with his dreams.

i wanted to read walt disney's biography because i was hoping to find the answer to why i still lOve disneyland-even as an adult! it's one of the things i guess that keeps me mentally aged forever 9.
anyway, now there's closure. i know now. it's in the book. it's the history, an era frozen in time...a place of nostalgia.

pinocchio sketch & cell

snow white sketches & movie cell

sleeping beauty

new playlist link!

so i've had to create a new playlist account because i cannot for the life of me log in to my nat1885 account. been dealing with back & forth emails from the admins on playlist.com for the last week with them emailing me a new "temporary" password & then changing it upon logging in. such a hassle. it was easier to create a brand new playlist account!

so yeah, there it is. enjoy! ==> http://www.playlist.com/brittlestarr

bedtime..

this bedding set is now added to my evergrowing wishlist.
found on india rose, this is the lucy duvet & lucy pillows.
the colors are fun, lively and soothing. isn't it heaven?

born in...

yesteryear? i thought this image was interesting. vintage meets new technology. scary. i think i was born in the wrong era. even though i am pretty computer literate. does that make me a hypocrite? hope not. i guess i just prefer things old fashioned. still hate the cell, still only on for emergencies; still prefer writing letters via airmail vs. email but at the same time can't live w/out email.. what would you call that? hrrRRM. obviously love following my fave blogs & checking into my favorite websites daily, or weekly if anything. unless if on vacation. but still, image below is interesting, don't you think?

well still. let's leave it as walt disney once said, "i've got one foot in the past & one foot in the future."
(more on that later. stay tuned.)


image above from: here

for: tea club

to my dearest tea club girlies,

so remember when i'd explained i wanted to change my org. URL name of blog from "naughtaliesplace" to "tottiedawly" because i felt that out of the seven of us, mine sounded like a link to a p*rn site & such?

so this is interesting.
i wanted to match the meaning of my new URL name of tottiedawly to why i chose it & THIS is what popped up!!

imagine that!!

♥ tottie [to-tee]: (informal) girls or women that are regarded as sexually desirable- totty [Brit] from worldwebonline.com

haah! i could not believe it. anyway, this is the real reason why i chose tottie dawly brittle starr, all confirmed via wiki & all ;P
really! no-really, yes-really. hahaah just kidding no i'm not going nuts i think i'm super tired though!!

♥ tottie: Totties is a small hamlet between New Mill and Scholes near Holmfirth in West Yorkshire, England. from www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totties

♥dawly: http://www.fallingrain.com/waypoint/UK/DAWLY.html & ♥ dawly: "dolly" as in doll.

♥ brittle: A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts; Inflexible, able to break or snap easily under stress or pressure from wiktionary.org/wiki/Brittle

♥ starr: (1) fictional animated character outside of U.S.; (2) "belle starr", significant woman in history, year 1848, http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/star-bel.htm