VA$HTIE » crooklyn http://www.vashtie.com/blog Downtown's Sweetheart Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:21:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 my daughter will be as cool as TROY “LADYBUG” CARMICHAEL – or else. http://www.vashtie.com/blog/2008/11/30/my-daughter-will-be-as-cool-as-troy-ladybug-carmichael-or-else/ http://www.vashtie.com/blog/2008/11/30/my-daughter-will-be-as-cool-as-troy-ladybug-carmichael-or-else/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:03:51 +0000 vashtie http://www.vashtie.com/blog/?p=924 (for real, i’m not birthing a silly princess obsessed girl). this is one of my favorite movies of all-time. spike lee, always gets it right. the star of this film is such an inspiration to me…LADYBUG! she reminds me of myself – being a little girl in the hood and…

]]> (for real, i’m not birthing a silly princess obsessed girl). this is one of my favorite movies of all-time. spike lee, always gets it right. the star of this film is such an inspiration to me…LADYBUG! she reminds me of myself – being a little girl in the hood and having to be tough all the time. even her brothers in the movie were true to form…man, my brother must have mushed me in the head a million times. where is she now?!

i used her as inspiration for this VIOLETTE commercial:

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