Pinterest: Not just for dessert and craft projects! Pt 3 (or WW2 edition)

Yes, I know. Part three. I swear it's the last!

Maybe.

These are all World War II pictures, that I hadn't seen. And although it's war, they aren't horrifically graphic (besides the destruction that's occurring) but there is some bombing, and bombed out images. If that makes sense.

USS Shaw, exploding during the Pearl Harbor attacks 1941

Berlin in 1945 (post WW2). Just destroyed

A boy in a bombed bookshop after an air raid in 1940. (somewhere in the UK)

The moment of detonation at Nagasaki, Japan (9 August 1945)

Battle of Britain (I'm not sure where in England this is from...or the exact date)

children (survivors) walking our of the children's barracks of Auschwitz, 1945

St. Lo, France. Post D-day

And because I'll be in Scotland in about a week and a half...here's the men of the 7th Seaforth Highlanders (of the 15th Scottish Division) in Normandy 26 June, 1944. They're being led by their piper. I love them already.

The 7th Seaforth Highlanders

Pinterest: Not just for dessert and craft projects! Pt 2

I know, there's a part two. I kinda got carried away with pictures. But...they're cool pictures right?

Right.

Cameron Highlanders (Scottish infantry regiment) march past the Great Pyramids in Egypt in 1940

Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde's car, after the shoot-out

San Francisco after the earthquake, 1906

Crow warriors on horseback, 1908

former slaves in Washington D.C. in 1916

Survivors on the battle of Gettysburg shake hands in 1938

Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's wedding portrait

Civil war era wedding dress

the seal on the third shrine of Tutankhamun in 1924

Dust storm (dust bowl era) in Texas, 1935

Pinterest: Not just for dessert and craft projects! Pt 1

I love Pinterest. Like...LOVE. It's a bit addictive. Ok... MASSIVELY addictive. But one of the things I like the most is finding people with awesome history boards.

Is my inner nerd showing?

Bandi't Roost in 1888, the most dangerous place in NYC at the time

The Hatfields (of Hatfileds and McCoy infamy) in 1897

Moscow air raid, 26 June 1941

Mardi Gras in New Orleans around 1900

A 19 year old Winston Churchill

Henry VIII's field armor (ca. 1544)

All Images found on Pinterest.com

Carry On Bag - Beauty

I'm ever so slowly packing. Very, very slowly. But, since one of the products I ordered off of Amazon came in, I decided to start packing the lotions, shampoo, moisturizer part of my luggage. The bigger containers went into one of my suitcases that will be checked,  but for the carry on bag, I had to raid my stash of hotel and beauty counter supplies.

via Amazon

Yes...I have a stash. And I'm not ashamed, when I travel anywhere, that's what I end up packing from. It's just easier, and cheaper, than running out to Walmart or Target and raiding their $1 section for the mini-sized products.

And tonight, I suppose I'll start packing some of my measly number of clothes that will translate over to the weather in Scotland. There's about a 25 degree (Fahrenheit) difference in temperature at the moment.

Or, put another way...that has made everyone but me laugh. The average summer temperature over there is about the average winter temperature here (if it's a cloudy and rainy day).

I've bought a huge coat. And gloves. And glove warmers. And a snuggie. Don't judge.

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong, who was the first man on the moon, passed away this past week. My grandmommy told me how exciting the whole Apollo 11 mission was and how she watched every minute that showed on TV. I think the wonder of all that is something that I take for granted (because since I've been born, the human race has always been able to go to the moon).

(L-R) Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin

Picture Links:
Neil Armstrong Dead: First Man On The Moon Dies at 82

Erin Fetherston's beautiful apartment (closet envy!)

Erin Fetherston's apartment is in Vogue (on their website at least), and I have a major case of closet envy. 

The article, APT with LSD: Erin Fetherston, has more pictures as well as a brief bio 

Get away Scot free!

Waiting for my UK Student Visa...still. Which freaks me out massively. When I told my cousin, he sent me this video of a comic named Michael Macintyre. He drops some f-bombs, so there's your warning right there. But I laughed so hard, I cried. The man is a total hoot!



So hopefully this visa will come in before school starts (eek! I'm really freaked out) so I went ahead and got myself a new laptop/net book/computer thingy

via Amazon

It's pretty! and really tiny. Go me for not picking out a crap-tastic laptop!

I'm also looking for a coat, because I get cold when the temperature gets below 70 degrees (fahrenheit), which it apparently does across the pond. So, appropriate coats are necessary. Warm coats, with insulation. That make me look like a fluffy penguin. Yay (ugh).

Of course, I fell in love with this coat...impractical as it may be.

via

And this one is pretty

via

But neither will keep me warm like a puffy coat will. sadness.

Putin's Back!

Putin at the Kremlin, via MSNBC

Putin's making the news again! He (or some people in Russia at least) is mad at this band-with-an-unfortunate-name.

the band, Pussy Riot, sitting in the Russian courtroom, via MSNBC

They're in trouble for ridiculing Putin in church. And were sentenced to two years in prison for the act. Oh dear...

protesters outside the courthouse, via

Let's put happier pictures of Russia then, shall we?

Happy Putin!

Putin meeting with the Russian synch swimming team. via

Happy Russian Cossacks!

via

Victoria's Secret Hair

I live in the south, where it's humid. And during monsoon season (happening now btw) it almost isn't worth it to do your hair. Or maybe that's my laziness talking.

just a typical day

from this weekend!

So instead of doing more research into UK weather and life and whatever else I should be learning, I've decided to walk the path of denial and spend countless hours on youtube looking at the best way to curl my hair a la vicky's secret.

via Total Beauty

from Total Beauty

I can deal with the advice on the Total Beauty website (Hair Secrets of the Victoria's Secret Models), because when I kinda feel like actually doing my hair, I do it like that. Hairspray + curling iron + more hairspray.

Although, I don't pin my hair free style like that, I cheat and use velcro rollers.

from MirandaKerr.co.uk

Video is from Hair and Makeup by Steph