AN-R-KEYS

It was a long week and fruitful, if nothing more.  The International Gift Show in NYC proved to be the stomping ground of NYC Fashionistas again with more than 20 hat vendors at the show this season.I managed to get a look at all of the upcoming styles and colors as well as the designs that people tended to gravitate more toward.

Most importantly, it gave me an opportunity to showcase my design ideas with the hat vendors.  They received my hat jewels with great enthusiasm and offered to put my designs on their web-sites.  I also made contact with a beautiful boutique in Manhattan on 72 Street and a buyer from Japan who wants to see the line when my samples are complete.

The jewels seem to elevate the hat to another level of fashion excitement.  They take the mundane and transform it to glamorous in an instant.  The same can be said for sweaters, blouses, jackets and overcoats.  Scarves, purses, head-bands, hair, even shadow boxes benefit from the display.  Ornamenting is about as easy as place and magnetize.  If it holds, you are ready to go.

Pique your interest?  Head on down to Elskabar.com to see what styles are available for your purchase today.  There, you will find one of a  kind embellishments as well as stock styles for your group, production or band.

Because of the strong magnetic attachment, these items are not recommended for use by anyone using life saving equipment such as pace makers and other  biologically installed medical equipment.  Everyone else go out and start your collection now.  For more information, please contact me through Elskabar.com or write CrowAndDragon@AOL.com

MOSQUE or NO MOSQUE???

I believe that the building of the MOSQUE at Ground Zero is the first true potential to unify the world's religions rather than its being used as a way to widen the gap between nations and their beliefs.  It is imperative that we see this as an opportunity to set up the first American Center of World Religions at this very site and encourage the building of as many chapels as possible in one location, sponsored by the city and world religions so that people from every nationality and religion may come there to worship.  There SHOULD be a MOSQUE and a SHUL and a CATHOLIC CHURCH and an EVANGELICAL CHAPEL and a BUDDHIST TEMPLE and MORE all congregating at the foot of the new structure.  The chapels should be rationed individual space and allowed a specific size so that no one chapel claims more importance than the other.  This is the way of acceptance and the way of yielding to a world community that is held together by the belief in one creator.  This is also the way of tolerance and acceptance.

We can use this site to show the world that New Yorkers have a special way of dealing with lemons: LEMONADE, NEW YORK STYLE. This is the center of mixology: in food, race, religion, nationality and income.  We have the poor and the rich, the leftists and the right wingers all living cozily under one name:  New Yorker.  It is about time we stopped whining about the past, stepped off the soap box and began making sense of the whole thing by finding new and constructive (rather than destructive) options.  In stead of trying to kill the idea, GO WITH IT and make it Larger Than Life: greater than the Garden of the 8 Temples in Bali, Indonesia.  THEY have the right idea:  All denominations, together in one beautiful place.  Think about it New York...  a place that could turn you into the new paradise for travelers from every country in the world.  A place to praise and worship one creator and all of his clergy.  And, at last, a peaceful resolution to a special idea that could only have started in New York.