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Happy Spring!



Greetings from San Francisco



Me



An anonymous, retro version of me ;-)



I am a self-confessed Victorian lover



Cheers & Thanks for stopping by

I'm ridiculously obsessed with old buildings, and urban planning, and studying how they create community. I'm appalled when people tear down historic buildings, and I'm trying to reverse the trend. As for my day job, I'm a Feng Shui Master and Interior Designer. One of my specialties is "green renovation". The greenest building is the one that is never built. [Hint: Rework what is already there...]

See my work here: http://www.fengshuistyle.us/

As a result of Last.fm, I have discovered that although I live in California, I am quite an Anglophile, musically speaking. I am also about 3/4 British by extraction.

I love animals and I routinely hug trees. As for music, I used to be a DJ in NY, was in several bands, and have played the piano since I was 4. I think it's safe to say I love music.

Local Color: Photos by me









Some people who inspire me:


Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. She was quite possibly the most beautiful woman of all time; certainly the classiest. "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

Audrey, in all her glory



Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion.

When asked why she did not marry the Duke of Westminster, Coco Chanel replied: "There have been several Duchesses of Westminster. There is only one Chanel."

Autumn and Winter Collection, Coco Chanel, 1964



Jane Jacobs (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in historic preservation, communities and urban planning. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States.

She was also instrumental in preventing 2 freeways from cutting a swath through downtown Manhattan. "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody."

Here's the proposed plan she defeated, thankfully:



Abbot Kinney (November 16, 1850, New Brunswick, New Jersey - November 4, 1920, Santa Monica, California) was a developer and conservationist. Kinney is best known for his "Venice of America" development in Los Angeles. “I always had a dream of building an ideal city which should be partly for study, partly for recreation, and partly for health."

Gondola on the Canals, Venice, California


Jen's Favorite Music