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Time for a holiday....

I must be the only English person on Skiathos who needs to go home to the UK for a holiday! But home I must go…..my work here, for the time being anyway, is done (finally!) and I badly need some… more »

Painting Skiathos, Greece

Time for a holiday.... — 1 comment

yvonne ayoub wrote 2 days ago: I must be the only English person on Skiathos who needs to go home to the UK for a holiday! But home … more »

Tags: Artist, Events, Exhibitions, Greece, Greek island, Island, painting holidays, skiathos, Update

Barge Ramos: The portrait of a Filipino fashion designer as an artist — 1 comment

dominiquejames wrote 2 months ago: BY DOMINIQUE JAMES There are many fascinatingly ultra-modern, forward-thinking, and world-class Fili … more »

Tags: Announcement, Book Feature, Celebrity, Fashion Designer, portraiture, Public Relations, artist portrait, Barong Tagalog, fashion design

So near - yet oh so far! — 5 comments

yvonne ayoub wrote 2 months ago: Here we are, May 1st already(!) - Labour Day. Yet ANOTHER public holiday and that means (deep sigh) … more »

Tags: art exhibition, Artist, celebrations, customs, Easter, Events, Exhibitions, folk dancing, Greece

National Day Parade

yvonne ayoub wrote 2 months ago: Greece’s National day on Tuesday March 25th was great fun though quite a formal occasion. A pa … more »

Tags: 1, celebrations, customs, Events, folk dancing, Parades, skiathos, costume, Folk Dances

Swedish by Nature

empressnewclothes wrote 6 months ago: When the winter becomes too grey and too long, it is always a delight to reminisce of brighter thing … more »

Tags: 1910s, A. Artist, B. Culture, C. Ensemble, Celebration, D. Function, e-trend, Larsson, Carl, Swedish

Miss Universe 2007, Miss Korea, Honey Lee — 1 comment

Paul wrote 1 year ago: Miss Korea, Honey Lee, is all over the Universe at this very moment. Leading beauty pageant experts … more »

Tags: Miss Universe 2007, Pageantry, miss universe, Miss Venezuela, Miss Korea, interviews, Globalbeauties, Face of the Universe, glamazons

Miss Universe 2007 and Globalbeauties — 1 comment

Paul wrote 1 year ago: Globalbeauties has been covering the Miss Universe pageant since 1998. Their coverage is always welc … more »

Tags: Pageantry, Miss Korea, interviews, Miss Greece, Globalbeauties, Miss Photogenic, Face of the Universe

Miss Universe Organization (MUO)

Paul wrote 1 year ago: I was very fortunate to be able to register as a member of the press corps a few years ago when I wa … more »

Tags: Miss Universe 2007, Pageantry, miss universe, Miss Russia, Miss Angola, Miss Lebanon, Miss Kazakhstan, Culture