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SHAUN ROSS & MARI

PRAVDA: SHAUN ROSS & MARI @ BAS/C

By BAS/C MODEL MGMT

Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Recipe with Cream Cheese Icing

Lovely and classic gluten-free carrot cake 

with coconut, iced with lemon cream cheese frosting.

Here is one of my most popular gluten-free cake recipes. Something sweet and satisfying to keep your taste buds happy until I return. We're leaving Santa Monica early Thursday morning, you see, driving back to northern New Mexico with an iPod playlist heavy with Neil Finn, Warren Zevon, Fiona Apple, Tom Waits, Suzanne Vega, Crowded House, The Devlins, Jarvis Cocker, Pulp and a liberal sprinkling of Eighties hits. Not to mention a bag of fresh baked Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies for fortification. See you soon!

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Lara Stone

While Lara Lands The Numéro 106 Cover, It's R’el Dade & Melodie Dagault, That Will Be Our Best Friends

Numéro #106 September 2009. Lara Stone by Karl Lagerfeld.

Why anyone would hire Lagerfeld to do an editorial is beyond me (Big Yawn). There is so much real & focused talent out there, that the only thing it misses is a magazine taking a chance with it.

So let's skip to the Greg Kadel editorial, in the latest Numéro, that everyone willbe talking about. It is titled Best Friends, and feature models R’el Dade & Melodie Dagault. Here is a little taste of it. [Via]

Posted by John on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 11:49 AM in Covers, Editorial |Permalink | Comments (0)

Charlotte CKC Scrapbook Convention - A Mini Recap

Wow - where to begin? Pat, Suzanne, "My Friend Kathy" and I rolled back into Aiken around 9:00 Saturday night, having thoroughly enjoyed ourselves in Charlotte at the CKC Convention.

We arrived in NC on Thursday afternoon, checked into the Hilton, ran over to the convention center and picked up our CKC registration kit, and then went for an early dinner. At 6:30 we attended a three hour class - Sketches for Scrapbooking.... though honestly I do not remember the real name of the class (and by the way, this will be an on going theme in this post). Essentially 10 different companies/vendors at the show were given sketches and were asked to create a layout and class kits based on the sketch. Over the next three hours all 10 companies presented there project and walked us through assembly of their 12 x 12 page. At the end of the evening we found out that most of the vendors had matching page kits at their booths! So cool, the first night we created the first 10 pages of 10 double page layouts!

Friday found us up and in line at the convention center for early vendor faire entry. Because we had each registered for at least four classes (okay in our cases it was 5+ classes each) we were able to get into the vendor faire an hour early. Sadly, think Disney early entry.... where many, many others qualify for early entry.

Heading toward the line:The early entry hype is part of what we enjoy. Vendors will walk the line encouraging shoppers to hit their booths; coupons and samples are dispensed... Did I mention that Starbucks is located next to the line? Think 1000 coffee hyped women waiting to scrap shop!!! A lot of the vendors have extra % off for the first 50 customers so it is important to have a shopping plan. ... Which we did!

Here we are doing that thing we do (note the $$ in Kathy's hand all set to be passed along):

The next two hours were a scrap shopper's dream..... Just about anything you could think of was available. Most of the big company vendors had their new paper lines available from CHA, as well as spellbinder new nesties, cricut products (though there was no gypsy), tools, embellies, .... you name it! The photo of the vendor faire DOES NOT show all of the booths... I couldn't fit it all in a single photo.

And this is where we do the thing we do:

Ohhhh, and guess who I met? Cricut Dan, the cricut man! Dan was just the nicest man and so informative. Almost every time I passed his booth he had a flock of women gathered around design studio and an expression machine. Gooooo Dan - the Cricut Ladies Man!!

I had two classes on Friday: an SEI class and a Quick Quotes class. SEI ALWAYS ( and I mean ALWAYS) does a great class. We always learn new techniques and they give out lots of door prizes. This was my first Quick Quotes class and I really liked the projects we created... and the instructor was fabulous. And of course for the four hours between my classes I was shopping.

Friday's haul of loot:

Saturday - okay we were getting tired. We started the day with another two hours of shopping, followed by classes again. Pat and I only had two classes on Saturday so we had more shopping time than Kathy and Suzanne. On Friday I shopped from a rough list... I was looking for a number of specific items and I found most. On Saturday I enjoyed strolling the booths and seeing what I had missed in my rush to fulfil my list. And the slower paced netted me a few unique finds as well as bargains.

Saturday's smaller haul of loot:

My Saturday classes were Basic Grey Latest and Greatest and a Technique Tuesday stamping techniques class. I love the BG class and take it every year. I liked the TT class as well.

Here we are in the Technique Tuesday class:

I realize that this is a "broad stroke" view of the convention. But I must add: if there is a CKC scrapbooking convention any where you are near, do not walk, RUN to the nearest convention.

Anu

Anu @ BRAND (Finland)

We just got this sunny new Polaroids from our favourite Agency in Finlad its BRAND Model Management. BRAND represents many new stunners likeAnu ,thats the girl which make unexpected things true. She just started modeling some months ago with clear and fresh Polaroids, then Anu did some tests and then the German Agency which called M4 Models signed Anu. Now she is in Singapore and makes there her first "big" experiences. Have a look at her brand new Polaroids which was done some days ago in Singapore by Upfroant Models, she looks so fresh like never before. A very classic beauty with a rising potential. The blonde hair, green eyes heartbreaker is 175 tall and has dream measurements 80-60-88. Stay turned on Anu, it´s for sure not the last time that you hear about her, already some international agencies should be interessed in the brand new beauty.

Natalia Onofrei

First August stunner - Natalia

Natalia Onofrei @ Mandarina Models (Romania), New Madison (Paris)

Its the beginning of a new month, its August, I just received this pretty polaroid in my postbox and my first impression was, she has something, something what is genius, perhaps its the young and fresh face, perhaps the perfect body, its both what makes Natalia so genius. She just came back from her trip to Paris and signed up with New Madison , she was discovered by Mandarina Models in Romania . Is that not a perfect start ? She is simply perfect,176m tall, is ready to work in shows and editorials, has a quite perfect body 86-60-88 and is sweet 16 years old. She has all conditions to make a career in modeling.

Anna Gorcea

Blue-green eyes ...

Anna Gorcea @ Mandarina Models (Romania)

Another brilliant face from Mandarina Models, well, she is fantastical. She has a face like a potrait, symmetric, fine, gorgeous and simply perfect. Eyes, like a Bambi, full lips and cheekbones, like from Magdalena Frackowiak, a dream face shape. With a height from 177m and measurements from 84-58-89and a age of 18 years is Anna, quite perfect for fashion shows and editorials. She is still in her development and makes first experiences, she is on the best way to go on top. Anna just signed up with WOMEN Management in Milan. She will go to Milan already in September again. Have a look at her polaroids. Which, a shot by Women in Milano were, is she not brilliant ?

CHRIS BREW

UPDATE ON CHRIS BREW

by Major Models

Photographed by Jon Malinowski