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QUE-VA

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About Me

Naughty but nice. Clean living hard working mum of two. Self employed entrepreneur. Love all things beautiful, love my work, love my kids, enjoy meditation. freak out on the dance floor, bit of a city girl with country roots, into everything creative. big on organics, sustainable business and development. not a hippie but not afraid to hug a tree or at least plant a few. dabbling in salsa and tango well anyway I have the shoes! I work as a FASHION DESIGNER and spend hours researching eco textiles MILK, ORGANIC COTTONS, BAMBOO, HEMP,PET, PEACE SILK, FAIR TRADE MATERIALS and ethical trade for my FASHION business as I design mainly bridal and evening wear as well as a number of ready to wear collection featuring hand painted details, hand made lace and craft based techniques. Also I sell fully certified organic cosmetics on line."http://www.caiomhe.mionegroup.com" I love music but rely on my mates to make it for me have a few who know my taste!!!


My Interests

Design, dance, architecture, music, life, meditation, healthy living, development of loving kindness, horses ( cars & bikes)! bit of adventure travel. dream of sandy beaches blue skys and bathing in sunshine the smell of fresh fruit...and the unmentionable!!! "LOVE IS ETERNITY. IT WIPES OUT ALL SENSE OF TIME, VANQUISHING ALL MEMORY OF BEGINNING AND FEAR OF AN END". ~ Madame De Stael"BEING IN LOVE IS NOT FINDING A PERFECT PERSON, BUT FINDING AN IMPERFECT PERSON PERFECT". ~ Asian Proverb

I'd like to meet:

anyone interested in certified organic skin, hair, body,cosmetic and nutritional products. eco couture, sustainable living, other designers, other parents,other dharma practitioners, music lovers, artists, photographers and anyone that wants to meet me....PLEASE NOTE MANY OF MY PICTURES WERE TAKEN By FRIENDSCOME TO ROCKET FESTIVAL 16th-18th MAY 2008 Granada Spain, KICK START YOUR SUMMER WITH THREE DAYS OF MUSIC, SHOWS, FUN AND SUN IN A STUNNING MOUNTAIN MEADOW IN THE DEEP SOUTH OF SPAIN. If you want to come along, want to know more or want to get involved please visit the web site WWW.ROCKETFESTIVAL.COM OR WWW.MYSPACE.COM/ROCKETFESTIVALSPAIN All images from ROCKET FESTIVAL WEB SITE.


Music:

I like a broad spectrum of music currently stuck on Ray lamontagn,Josh Rouse, Alabama 3,Jack Johnson, Jos stone love van the man and bit of a weakness for prince love blues and good Rock n Roll...grew up listening to ROLLING STONES, Jimi Hendrix, JJC, Billy Halliday, BBKing, Tina Turner, Willy Nelson, Johnny Cash, Bob Marley, NAT KING COLE, Sly Stone, Led Zepp...Talking Heads, TOM WAITS, PATTI SMITH, NINA SIMONE, J.LENNON, Chuck Berry,love JAMES TAYLOR, Sade and so many more.....but love so much of the new stuff out there AND Some of the Irish guys U2, The Republic of Loose, The thrills,Snow Patrol...AND THE LIST GOES ON.....Have been dancing the night away to soul funk with some latin beat and hip hop intervention can't stop dancing.....

Movies:

recently liked Curse of the Golden Flower, inside man,Pan's labyrinth wow, I like a lot of foreign films and have bouts of cinema attendance I'm quite open not big on science fiction but now and then impressed by comedy(not often).liked lord of the rings, breakfast at Tiffany's......breaking the waves etc..

Television:

sometimes watch late night tv while painting, reading or sketching...my head is a television full of all kinds of colorful stories thoughts and ideas!CURRENT contemplation: "IF YOU SACRIFICE YOUR GROWTH & TALENT FOR LOVE, YOU WILL NOT FIND HAPPINESS. TRUE HAPPINESS IS OBTAINED ONLY BY REALISING YOUR POTENTIAL. LOVE SHOULD BE A FORCE THAT HELPS YOU EXPAND YOUR LIFE & BRING FORTH YOUR INNATE POTENTIAL WITH FRESH & DYNAMIC VITALITY" Daisaka Ikeda

Books:

interior design, fashion history and design, art, poetry, Buddhism, the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (again and again),gardening, healthy eating, cook book's, travel, currenly reading up on Buenos Aires.......love books buy lots but don't read enough"TO THE WORLD YOU MAY BE BUT ONE PERSON, BUT TO ONE PERSON YOU MAY BE THE WORLD. WHAT A GRAND THING, TO BE LOVED! WHAT A GRANDER THING STILL, TO LOVE!"~ Victor Hugo

Heroes:

many heroes that inspire .....those that inspire me to want to be a better person, those that remind me of this joyful human existence free and well favored....I am inspired by those that are able to forgive even the most awful crimes...

My Blog

cultural genocide! INSIDE TIBET

 NEWS & INFORMATIONTibet NewsInside Tibet NewsTibet Press WatchPosition and Briefing PapersPublicationsDocumentsLinksRegister for the ICT Action NetworkMonasteries under lockdown after three days of p...
Posted by QUE-VA on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:17:00 PST

TIBET FREEDOM MOVEMENT

---Kalaya’an Mendoza posted an announcement to the cause Tibetan Freedom Movement. ----------------Subject: Unprecedented Uprising in Tibet: Support Tibetan Resistance! Greetings, If you’v...
Posted by QUE-VA on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:50:00 PST

more me me me

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The SurveyName: caiomhe keaneBirthday:29/08/76Birthplace:bantry bay in west cork IrelandCurrent Location:Dublin IrelandEye Color:GREEN in most lightsHair Color:dark blond exce...
Posted by QUE-VA on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:39:00 PST

ORGANIC & NATURAL LIVING....concentrate!!

  Organic and natural living&concentrate!! The organic movement began at the same time as industrialised agriculture. It evolved through the '50s and '60s with the launch of such books as "...
Posted by QUE-VA on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:20:00 PST

DRUGS, DRUGS, DRUGS THAMKRABOK MONASTERY {DETOXIFICATION AND REHABILITATION CENTER}

..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..> ..>..>..> ..>  I realise still through some of the stories I'm told here and through people I know well that drug addiction can be a mojor suffering in the person...
Posted by QUE-VA on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:04:00 PST

PRACTICE OF LOVING -KINDNESS MEDITATION

A few people have been asking me what is loving-kindness practice so I will attemp to give some explanation or at very least a peak through the window in my mind to how I see and experience it! It is ...
Posted by QUE-VA on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:24:00 PST

PERSONALITY TYPE....ME ME ME....

I thought it would be fun to take a few of these personality tests people keep sending me! mmm quite addictive... but I think you can't possibly know a person from a few tests....so these are all tong...
Posted by QUE-VA on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:16:00 PST

Pursuit of Happiness in modern life.

Well I'm not half as organised as I would like to be! Oh to be all things! My life feels perhaps like organised chaos at the best of times and the rest of the time just chaos...in a way it is simple t...
Posted by QUE-VA on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:38:00 PST