Black & Spiro One Day Only Sale

As we are about to embark on the remainder of our exciting renovations in under 2 weeks, we have decided to have a ONE DAY only sale.

The last famous Black & Spiro sale was approx 3 years ago so this one is definitely not to be missed!!!

All floor stock including furniture, lamps, shades and accessories will be heavily discounted, as well as a huge range of amazing fabric remnants reduced to clear. I am also throwing in some things from my own home so make sure you don’t miss out.

Remember, the sale is only on for one day!!!

Hope you can make it.

xx

Anna

Can I touch your hair?!?

I originally saw this video on Holistic Loc's, and loved it instantly. I have gotten some of these questions. And yes, folks do just come up and just start touching my hair! Thank you Chescalocs for creating this video.

Plaits!

I went to the salon this weekend. O my goodness... what a treat! I have not been to a hair salon on almost two years. I usually just do my own hair to save money and time. At the salon, I ended up getting my hair braided into plaits (aka - braids). The loctician I saw was Roy from follicles, in Oakland, CA. He washed and conditioned my hair, and then braided it into sections.

When ever I do this style, my hair is always kind of limp. So I love how my hair came out. It has a lot of volume and great curl. I love it!

Six Flags Denied!!!

Sadly enough, my family as supported Six Flags by buying season passes two years in a row. But today, I read a post about Six Flags on a cool blog called Loc Rocker, that there is actual discrimination happening in the company against people with dreadlocks. Six Flags will not hire people with dreadloc's! I am appalled by this, and will not spend money with their park, until they have changed their policies. I plan to write a letter to them expressing my disappointment. And to let them know that this form or discrimination is unacceptable and they have lost a customer because of it. Check out the video below, that describes the incident that brought this news to light.

Flowers on Monday

Here are some pretty roses in blue and white ginger jars which I couldn't help taking a photo of at mum and dad's today. I don't think anyone has as many blue and white ginger jars as my mother and still she continues to buy more. Whenever we get new blue and white pieces in at the shop she just cannot help but take a few more home...and yes if you look closely {in the background} she does have a hot pink dining room!!

And my favorite photos from last week were...

Granted I don't live in the UK, but I can appreciate European football every now and again...

Perhaps especially moreso when a game winning victory results in such fantastic images. These photos originate from a Manchester United victory over Manchester City last week where (as some of you across the pond might be aware), midfielder Paul Scholes scored a final goal to clinch the game for United...

...Ultimately resulting in a victory 'embrace' from team captain Gary Neville... and a little celebratory meeting of the minds as a mutual reward .

Judging from the ensuing mob frenzy that followed 'the kiss' (and uh... the apparently interesting hand position from this final shot), I'd say not a bad day to be a hot ginger who's just put his team over the top in a dramatic fashion. Not bad at all ...

Athenian Beauty

It's been almost 2,000 years since Greek civilization was viewed as the pinnacle of humanity's achievement...

And even still, in spite of the current economic issues that once great nation is undergoing, there are still some amongst them that manage to stand tall... And quite strikingly as well I might add... Sort of in a sense of ancient artistic aestheticism meets modern-day photographic immortalization...

And what better way to immortalize modern-day aesthetic Greek symmetry than to employ the help of a perfectly chiseled 22 year-old Athenian beauty by the name of Steve...

Graceful, stunning, and dare I say perhaps giving ancient Greco slabs of marble a run for their money? Well... maybe I won't go that far...

...But Steve certainly makes a decent case for photography being a spiritual successor to sculpting. And honestly considering the explosion of creativity currently underway, I for one keenly prefer the latter artform ... Just Beautiful.