The Cartel Mansion's Estate Sale For The House of Fonte'

So today is a beautiful day in the cities by the bay. Berkeley is a shining and I am feeling super fly.  Up early like 4am to get ready for part of what I call my transition, my next phase of my beautiful life!  So an Estate sale for the house of Fonte' it is! Everything must go, I mean everything. I don' want to take anything into my new space. Just the most high (and my favorite Chanel bags) So a couple of things im noticing as I sell and progress through out the day. I advertised heavily signs, craigs and F.Book so the turn out has been incredible but what im noticing is that when people see me a Black Queen and they are not of my race they keep on driving by. Hmmmm what the hell is that, u mean to tell me because of your racial hangups you would miss out on a  3000.00 Chanel bag for 680.00 bucks or custom cuff links that are a thousand years old that look like God himself made them, cmon people get over yourself so that you don't miss out on a good thing.
     2nd thing when you come to an Estate sell and something is to pricey or you don't like it keep your icy behavior to yourself.  At no time do you say, "um excuse me, what on this table is worth twenty dollars. My reply will always be, " okay thank you and nite nite!  B, please get some manners, no time for rotten fruit spoiling the whole harvest!

     3rd never ever pick up every item being sold and ask how much ( for every item @the sell, especially when there's a price ticket on the item! just a lil estate sale etiquette!

A good pair of choose (SHOES)

I must admit I have taken my very last and purchased a good, cute pair of shoe's! At a young age I would walk around for hours in Nordstrom second floor, Walnut Creek Ca. and purchase the most adorable lime green leather flats with yellow lemons on the side. They weren't even name brand they just were $200 cute!  My Father would say, where in sam's hell are you going to wear those to and I would just point to all of  his custom alligator cowboy boots and he would start laughing. I guess I got it bad from my momma and my daddy! That was 15 or so years ago and I probably still would of had those delish flats but I now wear a 10 1/2, 11 and was a 9 1/2 then. Those were a good pair of shoes that would have taken a walk to China to wear out the sole? My mother has boots that she purchased from Joseph Magnin and Rocsils (Oakland) for 500 to 900 bucks and still have them to this day of course they were boutique but well worth it and she would get them re- heeled and re-soled. Try that shit with a pair of these 500 hundred dolla boots these days and you might as well throw $500 in the trash. Trust me ladies I have been super trendy and thank god that was a phase, an expensive phase (okay a very expensive phase).

Side Bar: I was talking with my brother about how and why he had 65 shoe boxes in his living room?  He replied im having my office cleaned out? UHHH those didn't come out of your room. Brother: Uhh, No! The young lady cleaning his office let out a, "this is a damn shame"! Needless to say me and my brother were confused at her outburst!  I personally was thinking, only 65 well that's not that bad. She was obviously thinking "assholes"! There is a point to this side bar, i'll get to it soon!

Back to our normal station! I want shoe's to be constructed well! I don't mind a four inch heel as long as in two weeks and three times of wear it doesn't look like a two inch heel! And by golly im not interested in surgery immediately after wearing a pair of shoe's. Which brings me to my next thought, im gonna share this one

     I realize that fashion for some is a diversionary tactic for lack of talent, but really. Babies and young women don't try this without crutches and good Cobra! I have dressed a many of celebrities and some shit we just AIN'T wearing!  Snow White, maybe?  Your last formal before they lay you to rest? Fantasy Island?

     Like I was saying a good pair of shoe's is hard to find, sometimes yes, for men and women!  A good shoe designer is hard to find, do they still have shoe cobblers? Good leather soles that last a couple of years on your fav's. Here are some of my haute rave's for spring and summer, (personally I talk about the fashions according to the here and now and right now it's spring, when we get to winter thats when we will talk about fall, thats all). So take a gander and enjoy my lovelies.

Cleo Cartel

Donna Karan

 Donna Karan

 D'squared2

 Gaetano Perrone

 Gaetano Perrone

D'squared2

I love that I am an original. I love who I have become. I remember when I was about twelve I thought I was the black Cindy Lauper, then the black Madonna (the singer). Then MTV raps came along and that was it for me I was Queen Latifah, Monie Love, Poor Rightchous Teachers mixed with MGM, Fendi and patent leather shoes to boot. I was stylish, I was dope and I was fascinated by fashion and creating beautiful imaging. My mother would let me have her fabric pieces that she wasn't using and I would go down to the boys and girls club and sew my butt off or wait to get to school so Mrs. Jones could tear apart my entire piece to only re-do it to her standards. I have had an exceptional life ( insert smile )  I was never big on Garanimals (everything put together to match on a mannequin then you buy it, everything one color) but hey that was me!  I also absolutely hated anybody that called themselves a fashionista, or a stylist, or stylish, or a designer because they,

A. could afford to purchase every name brand and where them all @ once??? (not cute, at all)
B. would wear an entire outfit that somebody else just wore, famous or not! seriously?
C. or because there parent or parents where or are celebrities capitalized off of that and started to dress all of their celebrity friends, become a stylist, then hire a bunch of immigrants to sew there bad sketches and now become "Designers of The Stars" LoL, not haute!

So, I said all of that to say this, Now is my time to explode, investigate  and report on everything that's really beautiful and the not so much. I will talk about beautiful hair and make-up and the not so much. Oh yes and this is something I have been dying to do, I will be talking about other bloggers and product reviewers, why in the hell do you get to have all the fun? I will be ranting on whether your an authority on a topic, or just some bitter fuck head that like's to destroy peoples creative visions and works because you have not a creative bone in your body. Yes, im coming for you!  Soooo honey love's that is the T, and I have been yearning for this moment of Reign!  Lots of Sun, Tequila and good handbags! Until next time!

Cleo Cartel