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World’s most Shabby Chic Home up For Sale

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Shabby chic; it’s a style you either love or hate, but once you get over the copious amounts of velvet in this rather remarkable property, it might grow on you a little– especially the price! The 40-acre Magnolia Pearl Ranch in Bandera,Texas is made up of 18 independent structures and is currently on the market [...]

Japanese Mermaids: Ancient Pearl Hunters of the Sea

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These women are the last of their kind. In their floral wetsuits, they fill their lungs with air and dive for long periods of time deep into the Pacific ocean, with nothing more than a mask and flippers. They are known as Ama and make a living hunting for abalone, a sea snail that produces pearls. [...]

EXTREME LIVING: Turning Caveman in America

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Sometimes we just want to get away from it all; make the great escape and reconnect with ourselves rather than our Facebook friends. But how far would go to get away from it all? Could you really switch off from the world? One woman did. And she found a few people to follow her too…. [...]

How about some Chocolate Wine to kick-off the Weekend?

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Two things can happen. Either your gag reflex will kick in … OR you will become instant best friends like me and Martini Bianco did (but we’re no longer friends these days). How did this happen? Coming from those crafty little clog-wearing people in the Netherlands, ChocoVine (so crafty) is a bit of a secret delicacy [...]

UNCOVERED: The Haunting ‘Human Zoo’ of Paris

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In the furthest corner of the Vincennes woods of Paris, lies the remains of what was once a public exhibition to promote French colonialism over 100 years ago and what we can only refer to today as the equivalent of a human zoo. In 1907, six different villages were built in the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale, representing all [...]

The Lost Subculture of Elvis Presley

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What are the Swiss known for? Beautiful lakes and great skiing? Multiple languages and offshore accounts? Founders of the Red Cross and being the only country in the heart of Europe to resist fascism? All good points. But did you know that Switzerland was also the birthplace of an extreme rebel youth subculture, based on an [...]

The Little Shop that Cared & other Tales

The Little Shop that Cared

– When I was a little girl, I used to play ‘shop’. I set up my own make-shift retail space, carefully displaying my own clothes and toys around my bedroom and for hours on end I happily traded with imaginary customers. I borrowed the colored bills from our Monopoly game and used a real receipt-printing [...]

15 Unique Ideas for a Halloween Feast. Plus! Stuff That Scared the Crap out of Me as a Kid

Before we get started and jump into the Halloween spirit of the MessyNessy Halloween special, I’d like to address an important and serious issue this year…. A sick and twisted Halloween practice is occurring more and more frequently every year, poisoning our  society and inflicting cruelty on our most beloved. I urge the perpetrators to [...]

When I was a Dumb Kid, I Wanted to Be a Disney Princess/ Mermaid

I come across so many strange things on my blogging quests these days that I’m worried my taste is becoming less and less refined, like I might be regressing in my ability to differentiate between something unique and something that should be shoved in the back of a closet. Case in point: when I came [...]

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