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| ENOUGH |
My friend Kristina shared something that ROCKED MY WORLD this morning: HER friend, who is a sculptor and artist in her own right, said...” she would love to paint a room where every square inch, every chair, every window, in every color, had the word “Enough” written there. And that when… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/27/06 |
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08/11/06 |
| Our House: Kitchen Counter Photos |
We feel like the ONLY PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN CAL who don’t especially DROOL over granite counters. Now mind you—I’m not knockin em! And believe me—I don’t have a Mc Mansion...so I’m not tryin to sound like sour grapes, either. (I’ll post about “personality” a bit more, down the road, but my… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/27/06 |
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06/28/06 |
| Our House: You Asked! More Kitchen Photos |
YES.....as a matter of fact, it IS colorful! That’s sorta why it’s taken us a while to get to the living room: we don’t want the colors to compete with the kitchen. AND AGREEING ON COLORS...ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU’RE *BOTH* CREATIVE.... IS ....AHEM....DIFFICULT!!! By the way, I faux-painted the (melamine) cupboards a… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/27/06 |
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| Our House: Last of Kitchen Photos, For Now! |
These last ones are just showing some of the details of the glass/stone mosaic, as well as Bob’s ingenuity! > Here’s our hood. I showed Bob a stainless hood at Home Expo for $1600, and he BUILT A COPY. (The photo shows how the sides open up for storeage. The cabinets… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/27/06 |
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06/28/06 |
| Our House: Where Creativity Begins |
(alternately titled: WHAT BOB DOES ON THE WEEKENDS...) I’ve promised pictures of work we’ve done and HERE WE GO! This is our gate that Bob created a couple of years ago, working on the weekends across AT LEAST 2months. It was difficult to get a picture of the fence next to… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/26/06 |
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06/28/06 |
| Inspirations for My Hallway Ceiling |
Just wanted to share how my mind works - (well....mebbe we won’t go THAT FAR!) My hallway is two shades of Venetian Plaster, an ochre and a deep orange-gold, trowled on at the same time. The hallway doesn’t get a ton of light...and the color makes it JUST GLOW......I LOVE IT!… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/19/06 |
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| It's All In the Details |
I recently completed a client’s family room. She loves the look of old stone and European touches (ALSO FAVOURITES OF MINE!), and is a deeply devout person, as well. She asked me to somehow “highlight” her religious artwork over her fireplace at one end of the room, yet tie it in… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/19/06 |
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06/27/06 |
| Our House: What's New in Bello-Land! |
Lotsa stuff going on in Bello-Land! Especially in my LIVING ROOM! Please forgive me, if you’ve been checking this blog and scratching your head or other pieces of anatomy.... I’ve been battling computer glitches and shingles and car accidents.... but it seems I’M BACK ON TRACK! This weekend Bob FINALLY finished… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/19/06 |
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| LINKS (in progress!) |
I’m workin’ on a LINKS page....will be adding more things HERE until that’s done—..and YES I DO plan to organize them by category.... http://www.zurabeth.com/ My favourite Journaling Maven! http://www.denisemihalik.com/ Photography, Muse Classes and More http://www.stevepavlina.com/index.htm Oral Sex for Your Brain http://square-peg-people.com/ Profiles of Folks You’d Like & Cool Books, Courses http://www.flylady.com/… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/18/06 |
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06/20/06 |
| The Coach ...or the "UN-Coach?" |
I’m getting burned out or turned off or just PUT OFF, somehow, by COACHING MANIA. Seems like everyone is a coach. Which in theory, I accept --- many of us have skills of empathy and are able to help our friends examine issues easier left UN-EXAMINED.... but yet I get turned… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/17/06 |
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| Celebrating Imperfection (Why This Blog) |
Disregard the date, please! (I’m “bumping” this one to keep it at the top...) We’re artists and wordsmiths, watching the light and dark, the struggle and the ease of our existence. Aren’t you AMAZED by the big web we’ve woven?!! I LOVE TO BE AMAZED!!! I revel in the the correlation… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/16/06 |
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06/24/06 |
| I Love What Is |
i live in southern california, the land of mc-mansions and mc-gardens when i say i’m workin in my garden, it’s probably TINY TINY TINY in comparison to many, but my roses smell as sweet and the birds sing this morning, chirping to each other in a way that tells me they… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/15/06 |
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| Twirly Girl |
i am now officially a super-hero! yes, it’s true i had shared with friends a while back my thoughts on our struggles and experiences with our collective dichotomies we have these views of ourselves, when life goes well and then these doubts and larger-than-life failings, when things go to hell or… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/14/06 |
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| Growing Up Geeky! |
FIRST, some background: i didn’t get to do a lot of girlie things growin up i was brought up in the era of “natural” beauty: YEAH, RIGHT. tell that to someone trying to hide her acne and feeling invisible behind glasses (glasses were NOT cool like they are now!) my efforts… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/14/06 |
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| Journal Candy... |
I really LOVE journaling and collage! That is where this blog site will tie in to my other blog site, http://www.fauxmuse.com...... as I actually have collaged ENTIRE WALLS for clients and of course I do my own playing outside the lines I’ve been reluctuant to share these, though! My crummy reasons… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/09/06 |
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| I hate being sick AGAIN |
I just wanna vent! I’ve spent most of the past 2 months either being sicker than a dog, or fighting computer glitches. I’ve had shingles, OVER AND OVER. All of a sudden I’m able to sense when they’re coming on: there’s a weird tast in my mouth, a tingling, as my… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/06/06 |
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06/27/06 |
| Faking It: Using Wallpaper |
This bedroom ceiling was rain-damaged and although it was repaired, the client was looking for a quick fix! She REALLY wanted to spend her time and money on cool walls and accessories, NOT ceilings. So, we came up with a really pretty solution: WALLPAPER. We purchased 2 rolls of (cheap-o) Home… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
06/01/06 |
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| Broken-ness |
a friend shared recently about her “broken” family i realized that although i came from a very dysfunctional home (hey, didn’t we ALL?), i never really thought of my family or myself as being “broken” until my older sister died, when i was in my early twenties. the alcoholism, the learned… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
05/26/06 |
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| We Have Everything We Need |
when i was first a stepmother to two rowdy little boys whose mother was friggin absent even when she was in front of them if you get my drift i would get really overwhelmed by the situation by their neediness by the huge void i could see being created and by… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
05/24/06 |
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| About This Site |
(Disregard the date, please! I’ve “bumped” this, to keep it at the top.) My mother always said, “It all started with growing up in military housing. Nancy always HATED white walls.” MAN, SHE WAS RIGHT! BOY, DO I HATE WHITE WALLS! I love color! I love making my home unique and… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
05/24/06 |
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| To A Burned Out Mom |
(NOTE: ONCE IN A WHILE I’M SHARING SOME PIECES OF POSTS I WROTE TO MY ONLINE “LIST”... I CAN SAY ANYTHING THERE AND I’M FEELING LIKE IT’S GOOD TO SHARE IT HERE, TOO!) THIS IS SOMETHING I WROTE TO A DEAR ONLINE FRIEND: i’m seeing SOX on little boy feet, --lovely… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
05/22/06 |
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| Getting Fired, Part 2 |
there’s something that helped me process getting fired and starting over AND OVER (lol) i realized one day while reading jacket covers in a bookstore that there were all these GLOWING words about every author… oh the careers they’d had!!! every one seemed so talented, so incredibly diverse! i have to… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
05/17/06 |
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| Thoughts on Marriage |
years of being politically correct have taught me to often not say what i think (guess that’s why i love my online friends so much! no holds barred there!) i’m realizing, though, that the things i keep to myself are the things i should MOST say in my marriage. i can… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
05/12/06 |
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06/28/06 |
| That Yin and Yang Thang |
i really meant what i said yesterday about being GLAD TO FEEL there are times we move forward, and we are inclined to see that as progress FUNNY: when there is lots of activity the world sees this as success yet i believe we need the times we derail and get… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
05/10/06 |
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| Pain and Pleasure |
i started this blog as a way to release i’ve had kind of an interesting life (or so i’m told, whenever i’ve taken the time to share it) i always said i never wanted to be bored (FUNNY HOW GOD CHOSE TO PUT THAT PRAYER AS A PRIORITY!!) i don’t have… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
05/09/06 |
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| The Past and Ex's PART TWO |
NOTE:MY GOOD FRIEND IS GOING THRU A REALLY HARD TIME… SHE’S A SINGLE MOM, DIVORCED WITH 2BOYS...WHO IS TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF HER EX’S VENOM.... AND MORE IMPORTANTLY....TRYING TO INVOLVE HIM IN HIS CHILDREN’S LIVES AND SOME DAYS IT NEARLY KILLS HER… THIS IS WHAT I SHARED WITH HER: oh… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
05/09/06 |
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| The Past and Ex's PART ONE |
NOTE:MY GOOD FRIEND IS GOING THRU A REALLY HARD TIME… SHE’S A SINGLE MOM, DIVORCED WITH 2BOYS...WHO IS TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF HER EX’S VENOM.... AND MORE IMPORTANTLY....TRYING TO INVOLVE HIM IN HIS CHILDREN’S LIVES AND SOME DAYS IT NEARLY KILLS HER… AND READING HER MAILS BRINGS BACK TO MUCH… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
05/09/06 |
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| Things I Learned From My Mother |
after years of munching on depression and anxiety, with a little bi-polar sprinkled on top, i’m doing better at recognizing where some of my “stuff” comes from. adversity hones us in different ways. there’s no rhyme or reason to why some people can go through hard things and come out loving… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
05/02/06 |
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| I'm So Lucky |
i like to hope that when i explore, via posts here and emails to my online friends, that it works on some level BEYOND JUST ME and my mundane STUFF. frankly, although i like to write, i dont always wanna GO DEEP. i can get in my “surface” mode-- i can… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
04/22/06 |
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| Giving Permission |
(A little more on feeling fraudulent, lol!) I find I am my toughest critic. I’m often sought out by friends and family to “bounce things around” with them when they are going though a tough time or sorting out the mysteries of their little (or large) universes. Sometimes I hear them… |
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04/20/06 |
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| Getting Fired |
(Some thoughts on VALUING OURSELVES enough to really pay attention to our lives.) I can get really BENT about things I’ve screwed up for myself! For example, I got myself fired about 5 years ago, from a good job. You know, the kind where you work all the time, have company-paid… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
04/19/06 |
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| Work In Progress |
I gotta warn ya! Although I’d started journaling and working on art pieces to do with imperfection and derailment some time ago… I “percolated” a while, about how best to share it. (Sometimes I just have to SIT with things. And sometimes I’m just SLOW!) So, I’m STILL PLAYING with blog… |
Nancy Vittoria Bello |
04/13/06 |
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04/20/06 |