sunday morning happy

Having stumbled upon these colorful illustrations by deKanimal on etsy, I had to post on Sunday, which I usually don't do. But sitting on my front porch in soft sunlight, listening to the trees, birds, and wind-chimes, the colors and shapes echo the morning perfectly.

Friday Links!

Liya Kebede, Iman and Naomi Campbell cover Essence Magazine's 40th Anniversary Issue. [GO]

Models resemble dead birds in Italian Vogue's September Issue Oil Spill Spread. [GO]

KMart is stepping up their fashion game. [GO]

Victoria Beckham will design a handbag line. [GO]

Rosie O'Donnell is teaming up with Oprah. [GO]

Marc Jacobs 2010 Fall Fashion Show (FULL VIDEO)

OMG! Love: Kate Spade Book Clutches.

Just got wind of these awesomely adorable Kate Spade Book Clutches in my email inbox, and how fabulous are they?! I love Kate Spade's direction on these! And of course, I totally want one. Click HERE to see more cutesy Kate Spade book clutch awesomeness.

Mary J. Blige Scores (BIG!) with Her First Fragrance Launch.

via People:

She’s already scored eight multi-platinum albums, but this weekend, Mary J. Blige topped another kind of chart, launching her debut scent to record-shattering sales. In a series of live on-air spots on Saturday, the singer presented her fragrance, My Life, on HSN in what became the network’s biggest-ever single-day fragrance launch with over 60,000 units sold over six hours. 
Despite the scent’s instant success, the former “tomboy” didn’t always expect perfume to be in the cards. “I wasn’t always info fragrance,” she admitted to PEOPLE. “I wasn’t even into makeup when I was young. I started getting into makeup and perfume when I was about 18 or 19 years old. I had some really bad perfumes until I found one that I loved.” Her trial-and-error experience gave her a solid background for creating the scent with beauty brand Carol’s Daughter. The finished product, a juice that includes notes like gardenia petal, bartlett pear, tuberose, jasmine and cashmere woods, is housed in a gold-capped heart-shaped bottle and was specially priced during the program at $46 rather than its standard $55 purchase price. 
But it’s not just her music fans who can’t get enough of the scent–Hollywood itself seems enamored, with famous friends like Oprah Winfrey and Naomi Campbell making special call-in cameos during Mary’s debut. Missed it? Check in with HSN.com to find out when Blige’s spots will be re-aired–and check out the newest issue of PEOPLE for more on Mary J.’s beauty philosophy. –Katherine Kluznik Rentmeester; reporting by Samantha McIntyre

Happy Birthday President Obama!

President Obama turns 49 today (August 4, 1961). Happy Birthday to the 44th President!

Harper's Bazaar Sept. Issue: Jen Aniston as Barbra Streisand.

via People:
Jennifer Aniston is one funny lady – but in a new photo shoot she's channeling Funny Girl star Barbra Streisand. Aniston, who is a Streisand superfan, didn't need much convincing to dress up like one of her idols for the September issue of Harper's Bazaar.

Another pic from Jennifer Aniston's 2010 Harper's Bazaar September Issue Magazine HERE.
In fact, San Fernando Valley-born Aniston, 41, who stars in the Aug. 20 movie release The Switch, was already intimately acquainted with the Brooklyn-born Oscar-, Grammy-, Emmy- and Tony-winning superstar, 68.

"[Barbra] was wonderful, and you could talk to her about anything," Aniston tells the magazine about meeting Streisand at a Hollywood party on New Year's Eve a few years ago. "So, I happened to be talking to her and Jim [Streisand's husband, actor James Brolin] when it struck midnight. They said, 'Excuse us,' kissed each other, and then, very politely, kissed me.'"

Continue reading this article HERE.