My Monet Calendar

My new 2014 Monet calendar

So last week I went looking for my new calendar to hang in my purple guest bathroom. For the past several years my calendars were all about old Paris. So after hubby and I ate at Cracker Barrel we hit the Barnes & Noble. Hubby went straight to his history section and I went to hunt for my calendar. I looked around. And there was no Paris calendar in sight. I saw a few that were okay, but I decided to wait for a later time to get the one that I really wanted.

Over this past weekend we went to Office Depot. I had to get inserts for my planner. Afterward again I was looking for my Parisian calendar. I saw a Parisian one, but somebody ruined the pictures by adding some awful neon lights to these what seemed to look like fantastic pictures. Who could have done such awful thing? It had to be Mr. Bean. That was definitely his signature look!

Anyhow after seeing the ugly neon lights on all other calendars I came to a soothing scene, Monet. Hummmm, peace at last!

Hubby is not a great fan of Monet. He thinks that Impressionism was unfinished painting done by lazy artists. I don't share his thought at all! I love lazy Sunday's afternoons things. Reading a good book. Bird watching. Drinking tea while knitting. And that is the feeling I get when I see a Monet.

Here are some my favorites Monet Paintings:

This one will look fantastic in my dining room!

This one with the little boy is one that I would love to hang in my Paris Room!


All are just beautiful!

The Archives: Self Service is for the Birds!

Today while my hubby and I where in the gas station, I happened to see a lady using a tire gauge. I thought for a moment how I admire an independent woman that knows how to take care of her car. And the reason that I thought this was because I am not such a woman.
If I ever have to air up my tire, I will be an a pickle!

You see even if I know how to air up my car, I rather not do it. And that goes for anything that is involved with car maintenance. I don't intend to learn how to use a tire gauge, air up my tire, much less change a tire.

Even when it comes to gasing up my car, I rather have somebody else do it for me. The gas fumes make me dizzy and I don't like that I have to touch the "thingy" hose (hubby just told me it's called, nozzle). Everytime I have to gas up my car I feel like I need to go home and take a shower. I can't help it, I am a girly girl.

Scenario: Here you are about to go to a job interview. You noticed that your gas is low. You drive to the cheapest gas station. You get out of your car wearing your favorite shoes. You gas up the car, gasoline drops fall on your shoes and your life is ruined!

Wish: That somebody was there to help you.

Solution: Please bring back the boys! Bring back the full service gas station attendants!


Wouldn't it be nice to stay in your car and have somebody take care of the dirty job? I know that you have to tip these hard working boys. Though it would be worth every dollar that you give them!



Full Service Please!






Photo: Creative Commons




The Archives: Post's taken from Times Warp Wives website. Original Post Date: 10/21/09

The Archives: Look Mom, No Makeup!

Most of the time, believe it or not, I don't wear makeup. Don't get me wrong, I do love makeup and I do love getting all dolled up and ready to hit town. After all I am a girl! Though most of the time when I am home, I love the feeling of having a clean face. You know that feeling when after having a long day and you take that cool shower and feel your skin coming alive again.





There is more behind that clean feeling whenever I remove my makeup. I get a sense of freedom, a sense of serenity, of being in peace with my own skin. For many women though makeup becomes their safety blanket. I was amazed of how many times I have heard of wives not letting their husbands see them without their makeup. And all I can think of that do men really care? If our husband married us, was it because our makeup? Or was it because of who we are as a person, that made them fall in love with us?





Recently I saw a documentary of Marilyn Monroe in which they mentioned that when she wasn't working that she loved going out to town without any makeup. Marilyn Monroe became that glamours image that Hollywood wanted. Though for Norma Jean, they were times that she craved to be that girl next door. That girl that many man would like to talk to, without being intimated by her. That girl that was in tuned with herself.


I love being home and being the girl next door!


And even when I do get all dolled up, I want to still be that girl!



Have a great makeup-free weekend!

The Archives: Post's from my old blog The RetroChic Corner. Original Post Date: 08/01/09

The Archives: I Am a Girl with Many Passions!

I think that it would be difficult for me to mention just one passion, because I am girl with many passions!

God Life Love Family Teach Read Sing Dance Art Travel Decor Health Earth Animals Languages Food Old Movies Art Deco vintage jazz 20's 30's 40's 50's Flapper Hats black & white Photographs Paris fashion Pop art Shoes Japanese designs stories Profiles Flowers Humor Etiquette Flamenco...and trust me, that's not all.

Many of you know me as the author of the Time Warp Wives website. Also as that perky gal on the RetroTimes Productions film website. And as the artist of the Retro Pop Arts by Carmen Johnson and the Bohemian Girl Collection.

My RetroChic Corner blog will be my personal blog. You will enter into my world. Here I will be posting every thing that makes me the woman who I am today and the woman that I want to be. I am so excited with this new adventure. I can't wait to share with you my many other passions, goals, and dreams along with my inspirations and challenges that makes life colorful, interesting and unexpected!

One of my favorite actresses that I have always admired have always been Audrey Hepburn. She was a talented, elegant, poised, and yet a non-assuming woman. When she was a little girl, she had always dreamed of becoming a prima ballerina. But she couldn't realized that dream, because the war took a physical toll on her. Instead of her giving up completely, she learned to model, work in front of the cameras and used her dancing talents to compete with 4 thousand other people in a chorus line, which eventually she found herself making her first motion picture.



Audrey once said, "I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it."


I wouldn't have been able to say it better!



Audrey Hepburn Photo: Life Magazine