Show

Tiffany
Show
Broadway
Brocade
Hogwarts
Cupcake
Peacock
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Heizung

Psalm 32:7
"Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah."

"that gentle heat  that brooded on the waters"~~~Thomas Browne

Lotus Pagoda Lamp Tiffany Studios

two of my favourite things together, a cupcake and a tiffany lamp :-)

Ricky Martin

"Broadway, There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity. Sammy Davis, Jr."

Miss New York Kira Kazantsev performs during the Miss America Competition in Atlantic City. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
Did that really happen? Did a woman playing a red plastic cup really beat out all the opera singers and jazz-tap dancers to win Miss America?

Definitivamente ella era una auténtica New York City girl, esta foto se la tomaron un 7 de abril de 1978. Tenía 12 años, casi 13.

Tiffany Peacock centerpiece table lamp ca 1898 | JV

Victoria's Secret Dutch model Doutzen Croes 

 Enagua con brocados

 Chinese brocade - so rich and beautiful, I'd have to use it in small doses for full effect.

 

Peacock

Chess: "Tiffany" "Show" "Broadway" "Hogwarts" "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" "Peacock" "Cupcake" "Brocade"  "Heizung"



Did that really happen? Did a woman playing a red plastic cup really beat out all the opera singers and jazz-tap dancers to win Miss America?
Few saw Miss New York Kira Kazantsev coming. She had not won any of the key preliminary competitions in swimsuit or talent last week, which help determine who will make the finals. Nor was she one of the three women to win a “Quality of Life” award for community service. (That honor went to Miss Alabama Caitlin Brunell, daughter of former Redskins quarterback Mark Brunell, whom many pageant watchers thought could win it all.) Plus, she was from New York, home of the last two winners — and no state had ever won three years in a row.
If anyone was talking about Kira Kazantsev, it was to laugh at her unlikely talent — beating a red plastic cup on the ground while singing Pharrell Williams’s smash “Happy.” As the Philadelphia Inquirer put it last week, “There were the usual talent oddities not likely to pop up in the final 15, but one can hope … Miss New York did the so-called ‘Cups’ song to ‘Happy,’ which mostly looked like someone sitting and banging a plastic cup on stage.”

So what happened? The key to many surprise wins is the all-important preliminary interview, held in the days before the TV broadcast. Unlike swimsuit or talent, judges don’t announce \interview winners — but it clearly steers their decisions about who should be in the finals.
Sure enough, judge Marc Cherry, creator of ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” said the judges were impressed with her answer about the Ray Rice situation in early rounds of the competition. “I think a lot of us started to fall in love with her during the very first interview,” Cherry said. (Kazantsev: “In the United States, the justice system is driving the getaway car for abusers.”
On that note, Kazantsev may have been lucky to have picked an unusually timely “platform” — the advocacy cause all contestants must pledge to support through their reign if they win. Her social cause is titled “Love Shouldn’t Hurt: Protecting Women Against Domestic Violence.”

Plus, Kazantsev did pretty well with the televised interview portion when asked about female lawmakers in the Senate — she brought the issue back around to discuss sexual assault in the military. While it wasn’t the most elaborate answer, she did more with her 20 seconds to respond than contestants like Miss Virginia and Miss Arkansas, who stumbled a bit over questions about ISIS and gun control.
And the fact that she represented over-represented New York state? Former Miss America 1998 Kate Shindle suggested on Twitter that the California native, who moved east to attend Hofstra University, might have won because of it, not in spite of it.