kissing her cage good-bye

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Credit: Passeriformes

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Pics 1 & 2: Ohsweetnuthin'; 3 -5: Tamara Lichtenstein; 6 & 7: We Heart It

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Source: pics via We Heart It

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Sources: carninscatola Flickr; lucie camp Flickr;

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Source: We Heart It

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Pics by Anna Inghardt

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(Pics: 1-5: tFS; 6: fashionserved; 7: gille krivich)

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Pics 1 & 2: Julieta Soler; 3 & 4: Tommaso Nervegna; 5: Eliotsyle

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(Pic 1: sorry, don't remember where I found it; Pic 2: Disconnecta; Pic 3&4: tFS)

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via Papertissue

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Some photo's I took in my parent's garden.

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I love this photo, I think it's such a magical depiction of NYC. Taken by the iconic fashion photographer Norman Parkinson via RU Photo.

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I'm loving these soft bohemian/grungy fall styles. From Marie Claire Brazil July 2009 via The Fashionspot.

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Picture credits: The Kills

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Picture credits: tfs

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(Picture credits: 4: Wish on Flickr, All the rest from Tumblr and We Heart It without original sources given)

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Source: 1-5: Margaret Durow; 7&8:tfs

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Sources:tfs

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Source: Chadwick

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Source: Arsprojecta

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Sources: The Thinking Tank, I Would Pick More Daisies, We Heart It

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Source: tfs

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Image Sources: 1-5: Regia, 6-13: Chadwick

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Image sourse: Regia

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(Picture credits: Kate Moss: tfs, 4&5: tfs, 6: Megan McIsaac and her blog, 7-10: Gille Krivitch)

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First three photo's by Fernandadesu, fourth photo via Sabino, fifth photo by Ananda Serne, all photo's in the love series by Chris Craymer except the one second from the bottom which I'm sorry but I can't remember, heels photo from Gille Krivich, last photos Bar Rafali for Harpers Bazaar

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Photographs by Julie Pike

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All pictures from We Heart It, except Luisa Beccaria models from Style.com and photo of girl with flower hat in 2nd collage from Little Thing magazine. Middle photo via Daydream Lily

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(All photo's used in these collages by Sarah Maingot)

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(Picture credits: 1: me; 2-5: Ye Rin Mok; 6-8: Arvida; 9-12: Taylor James; 13-18: Jason Nocito)

I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul

2009-06-15T18:19:00.014+02:00

Yay, tomorrow is a public holiday over here....and who doesn't love a mid week holiday...and the weather is really looking up.

Vogue China 2008 via Vive Le Chic

Russh Australia 2008 via Vive Le Chic

Numero 2004 via Vive Le Chic

I-D Mag 2007 via Vive Le Chic

Lula mag 2008 via Vive Le Chic

I-D Mag 2006 via Vive Le Chic

Jalouse mag 2003 via tfs

(Title credit: Pablo Neruda)

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(Picture credits: 1: Nicole Lynn, 2&3: Emma-Kavan, 4-8: Beth Retro)

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(Picture credits: 1-7: Tieperfume also more here; 8-14: Dorellana; 15-18: Jody Rogac)

I don't know why

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Too tired to think clearly

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I have to confess that I'm feeling a bit sorry for myself today. Somehow between yesterday morning and afternoon I managed to come down with a fairly bad case of the flu. Not that I'm on death's doorstep or anywhere near, but it's just bad enough to be very annoying and uncomfortable. I'm being a total hypochondriac when I say this, but right now I'm thinking it would be nice to be a character in a Jane Austin novel so I could gently swoon off into a canopied bed, and have someone wipe my feverish brow and read to me:) Okay, my brow is not that feverish but I'm sure you get the general idea.

Since I haven't done a decor post for a while, I've decided to share some images of my various dream scenarios. Have a great weekend.

This has to be the most awesome bathroom I've ever seen -can you imagine how amazing it must be to lie in that bath taking in the scenery and the open air.

via Dwellings and Decor

via The City Sage

The city awakens around me, I close my windows to keep it out.

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I'm absolutely loving the work of photographer Eugenio Recuenco, especially this editorial. There are lots more gorgeous editorials on his website, all rich, deeply textured works of imagination. I'm not generally into things that are Gothic, but I love the medieval connotations of this editorial. I'm a huge fan of good medieval historical fiction, and am fascinated by that period of history.

The sky is so blue today, and so very far away

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For me, here, today is an amazingly quiet day, peaceful, winter shadows, even the light seems to echo. I am happy. At home. Alone. I enjoy my own company perhaps too much? It's okay. Maybe I am coming to terms with who I am. Although I do enjoy going out and being sociable at times, my reality is that I prefer to be alone, in my house, with the things I like, my animals (2 dogs and a cat) and the things that keep me occupied, and mentally stimulated. I spend my days alone, and in the evening my boyfriend comes home to me, we have dinner, we talk, we watch TV, we love. I hate it when the telephone rings, it seems like an intrusion into my safe little bubble.

Picture credits: 1 & 2: abless; 3: Pocket Watch; 4: rock to fast for love ;5:Boris Johnson;

And some more...

This series of beautiful photo's by the lovely Jessica-Naomi.

Only when I lose myself

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Although it's cold it's nice and sunny today, not a cloud in the sky so I'm happy about that. I'm on holiday this week...yay....I'll be at home but lots to do around here. Our house is going on show on Sunday, we're trying to sell it, so there is lots of tidying up and fixing up to be done. All the major stuff is done, but it's an excuse to go through cupboards and get rid of junk.

I hope every one has a great week.

(Picture credits: All pictures except the top two from Bien dans sa peau
Title credit: Depeche Mode)

Your skin tastes like the sky, and in your eyes I see infinity

2009-05-22T13:24:00.007+02:00

Every week when it gets to Friday I am astounded that the week has gone by so fast...and of course so happy that it's the weekend. I don't have any special plans for this weekend, I have quite a few errands to run tomorrow, but other than that I guess I'll just take things as they come.

I've discovered a couple of lovely blogs that I'd like to share, maybe you know them already, if not, it's always nice to find something new. My favourite is definitely this one, such gorgeous inspirational pictures, absolutely lovely. Also this blog, and this one.

Well, that's it for today, have a magical weekend, have fun, get some rest, devote some time to yourself.

(Picture credits: We Heart It)

I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You

2009-05-21T17:26:00.007+02:00

Today I feel like I'm going nowhere slowly, it's this cold weather. At first I enjoyed the change of season and the colder temperatures, I am so over that now....and I want Summer. I'm dreaming of lying on a beach, eating ice-cream and watching the light sparkle on the ocean. Today's photo's are by the talented Linda Sagum. You'll find more of her pictures here and here.

(Title credit: Pablo Neruda)

I have counted all the stars and swallowed the moon

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  I've had a long day today, my mind feels pretty much wiped,
and all I'm good for is some mindless TV....well, busy
watching the third season of The Tudors, which I think
is really good. Seeing I can't think of anything to say
right now, I'll leave you with one of my favourite
poems, Howl, by Allen Ginsberg.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by 
              madness, starving hysterical naked, 
       dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn 
              looking for an angry fix, 
       angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly 
              connection to the starry dynamo in the machin- 
              ery of night, 
       who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat 
              up smoking in the supernatural darkness of 
              cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities 
              contemplating jazz, 
       who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and 
              saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tene- 
              ment roofs illuminated, 
       who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes 
              hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy 
              among the scholars of war.....

You will find the rest of the poem here.

I love these series of images by Knotan, especially the top one.

Amazing colours and beautiful use of light by Marie Ek. When I did my photography course we learned that photography means painting with light and I think this is a perfect example.

dreamy and peaceful polaroids by garters and lace

Some sweet photo's by Ali Bosworth, you can find more of her photo's here and here.

While you dream, the city breathes

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I've been tagged by Ruth from Flossy Blossom. Thanks Ruth for thinking of me:)
Here goes:

What is your current obsession?
photography, keeping warm (it's winter here), packing up the house to get ready for a move.

What is your weirdest obsession?
I never go to the bathroom in the dark in case there's a sewer monster lurking around:)

What are you wearing today?
You don't want to know, I'm packing and tidying the house - old jeans and an older sweater.

What's for dinner?
Hmmmm.....minestrone and some nice sundried tomato and herb bread.

What's the last thing you bought?
Some really cute, thick, warm socks ....and food

What are you listening to right now?
That would be the sound of the washing machine:) Other than that....Kings of Leon and old Depeche Mode

What is your favourite ice-cream flavour?
Double chocolate

What do you think of the person who tagged you?
Difficult one since I don't know Ruth personally, but I enjoy reading her blog, lot's of gorgeous images and interesting info and tidbits to discover.

If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
I'll let my imagination run wild on this one - Paris, New York, Sydney, Tuscany, Scarborough (in Cape Town South Africa)

What's your must have piece for summer?
Since this is a dreamy kind of tag....I'd go for the beautiful Balmain sandals with the crystals

If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Anywhere warm, beautiful and by the sea

Which language do you want to learn?
French and Italian What's your favorite quote?
"Don't worry about tomorrow, tomorrow will worry about itself" and "Believe, believe, believe!!!"

Who do you want to meet right now?
Kate Lamphear so I can borrow her clothes:)

What is your favorite colour?
Shades of blue, green, pink, purple, black and white

What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe?
My skinny jeans, scarves and docs

What is your dream job? To be a layabout millionaire and travel the world taking photographs and writing about it

What's your favourite magazine?
Lula

If you had £100 now, what would you spend it on?
Clothes

Favorite designer?
Anna Sui & Alexander Wang,

Do you admire any one's style?
Behati Prinsloo's street style, Kate Moss and Kate Lampher

Describe your personal style? A mix of tomboy and feminine, grungy but with a strong dash of chic

What are you going to do after this?
Make some coffee and then carry on cleaning house

What are your favourite movies? Juno, Frozen River etc - good indie films and documentaries

What's your favourite fruit?
Nectarines

What inspires you?
Beautiful music, poetry, books, art, fashion editorials and photography

What music do you like this week?
Nouvelle Vague

The rules :
1. Respond and rework; answer the question on your blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your invention, add more one question of your own.
2. Tag eight other people.

I'm tagging the following people:
Too Haute to Handle
Love Maegan
La Porte Rouge
ReRead
Rand
Emma Adeline
Hanne
A Girl and her Dreams

(Picture credits: All pics via Stripped down to the bone)

Thank you Maria Angela

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Thank you sooooooo much to the lovely Maria Angela from Corkscrew tales for passing this award on to me, I appreciate it so much, especially since it's it's my first award since starting this blog in March.

Rules:

1. Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.

2. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you've newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen.

These aren't all newly discovered, but I very much enjoy reading them and exchanging comments. You guys all make blogging worthwhile!

I'm passing the award on to:

Heleen DB, Lenorenevermore, Me, Mo & Myself, Chic Heroin, Eda's Planet, Pearls in your Hair, Flossy Blossom, Insider's Journal, Dream and Fantasy, Willow Ships, Lace & Cake, What I Write, Fashion Confectionary, Jen of Hearts, Noemi.

Contentedly dreaming

2009-05-14T10:40:00.005+02:00

Here are some photo's I took this morning. My dream is to be able to take dreamy pictures like Yvette Inufio, she is my inspiration at the moment. Hopefully if I keep practising and learning I'll get there someday. I'm busy reading "eat, pray, love" by Elizabeth Gilbert at the moment. I'm very much enjoying it, there's lots of simple wisdom about life and love, and it's all interspersed with a lovely, warm humour. It's a book I've been wanting to read for ages, and I found a copy the other day in the second hand book store. New books are outrageously expensive over here. Anyway, I found it at the right time, because it's what I need to hear right now, it's very soul warming.

Blue is the colour of lonliness and forgetting

2009-05-10T23:13:00.000+02:00

Today has been a hectically busy Sunday. In the morning as mentioned previously, I went off early to the botanical gardens with my photography class to take photo's. It was good, but incredibly cold until the sun was up properly. Today is Mother's Day over here, so the rest of the day was spent with family, and eating and eating and eating:) Now it's night time, Monday is approaching, hence the blue themed post. I hope everyone has a fabulous week!

(Picture credits: 1,2,6,7,9,10: via Tatielle; 3: via How lucky we are;4: Mjsaysmmk;5: Liquid Sunny Day;8: Chaosbang;11: hoppipoppi)

I searched, but no one else had your rhythms

2009-05-09T12:08:00.000+02:00

I don't know where time has gone, it seems that the last week has gone past so quickly and I can't believe that we're already almost half way through 2009! It was my birthday earlier this week, I kept it pretty much low key, went out for dinner with family and friends, it was really nice and I was VERY spoilt, for my birthday present I got a Nikon D60 and I was just about delirious with excitement, I wasn't expecting it. Tomorrow morning I will be up at the crack of dawn to go on a photography expedition with my photography class to the botanical gardens. I'm looking forward to it, although not to getting up at 5.00am, it will be very cold and dark brrrrr.....The first pic below I took with my new camera, I enjoy doing stil llifes, and flowers, I have a loooooong way to go to improve, but I'm totally enjoying the journey:) Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

(Picture credits: 1: me; 2 & 3: We heart it; 4: via grungegypsy; 5: via tree hugger; 6 & 7: via Ru photo)
(Title credit: Pablo Neruda)

hazy, lazy

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Today was a beautiful day. A slow, lazy day...time to think, and read, and then dinner out with friends. I was thinking today about travelling, and all those journeys you dream of making one day. My dream destinations change from time to time. For the last while I have had a dream of taking a train journey on the Orient Express. I imagine stepping into a bygone age of elegance and luxury with a cast of passengers like something out of an Agatha Christie film - without the murders of course. Travelling through exotic places, Istanbul, Prague, Budapest.

My second dream destination would be to travel through all the Scandinavian countries including Iceland and Greenland, to see the northern lights and to be able to stay for at least one night in an igloo. My third dream destination would be to take a road trip through the USA, to visit small towns and large - definitely on the agenda New York, LA, the deep south, the Carolina barrier islands and Miami. The ideal road trip for me would be to have LOTS of time on my hands, to have an eventual destination in mind, say East Coast to West Coast, but to have no definite timetable.

What is your dream destination or holiday? I'd love to hear.

And then all I need is a little fairy dust to help my dreams come true.

(I'm sorry to have to admit that I forget to save the links while I was making the folder for this post - so I can't give any picture credits which I HATE not doing. If anyone knows the credits I would love to add them)

I send you a thousand tiny kisses

2009-04-30T11:00:00.012+02:00

Today is one of those very quiet, solitary days. We are moving closer to Winter, and the air is silent and chilled. It's a kind of lonely weather day. I don't feel lonely, I feel a sense of solitude which I enjoy. I feel kind of like the solitary ocean woman photograph - alone but exhilarated. Perhaps not quite exhilarated - but happy and content. Fortunately I happen to be one of those people who enjoy my own company. In fact I often prefer to be alone than with people.

Tomorrow is a holiday over here....yay!!! I haven't decided what to do yet, I 'll see what I feel like when I wake up....and that's what I like best, no plans to have to stick to.

(Picture credits: I pray for water collage, journal page, heart and flower doodles by me; Candles: via Poignant; Solitary ocean woman & Embracing couple: via We heart it; Tea glasses by Petra Tinsley; Lekeliene via Lace & Tea)

No answers, only questions

2009-04-28T19:02:00.000+02:00

I spent the whole day today doing a writing assignment that should have taken me max about 5 hours. You know how it is when you just can't seem to think and every word and idea is like squeezing blood from a stone! And happy day -I discovered that I made a mistake with my photography assignment - so I have to redo the whole thing. It's not that difficult fortunately - it involves setting up three different still lifes, and photographing them at night under different lighting conditions, we have to take 6 photo's of each still life using different camera settings. My next class is tomorrow, so guess what I'll be doing later tonight. So right now, I'm giving myself some leisure time on the computer *yes* and then I'll have some supper and watch some mindless TV, and then redo my photography assignment. Procrastination rocks!!!

(Picture credits: We heart it, Beautefragile; ursofuckinspecial; Tumblrist; pics 4 & 5: Carl Bengtsson via Ru Photo)

This is not an elegy...

2009-04-24T19:29:00.020+02:00

I don't usually do two posts in one day, but I stumbled across a most beautiful poem via Poetry 365 called This is not an Elegy by Catherine Pierce. It somehow reached right into my soul, and inspired me.....and before I knew it, I was blogging away.....I remember being sixteen, all the heartache, and insecurity, the crushes never returned, the yearning for love.....

At sixteen, I was illegal and brilliant,
my fingernails chewed to half-moons.
I took off my clothes in a late March
field. I had secret car wrecks,
secret hysteria. I opened my mouth
to swallow stars.

In backseats
I learned the alchemy of guilt, lust,
and distance. I was unformed and total.
I swore like a sailor. But slowly the cops
stopped coming around. The heat lifted
its palms. The radio lost some teeth.

Now I see the landscape behind me
as through a Claude glass—
tinted deeper, framed just so, bits
of gilt edging the best parts.

I see my unlined face, a thousand
film stars behind the eyes. I was
every murderess, every whip-
thin alcoholic, every heroine
with the silver tongue. Always young
Paul Newman’s best girl. Always
a lightning sky behind each kiss.

Some days I watch myself
in the third person, speak to her
in the second. I say: I will
meet you in sleep.

I will know you
by your stillness and your shaking.
By your second-hand gown.
By your bruises left by mouths
since forgotten.

This is not
an elegy because I cannot bear
for it to be. It is only a tree branch
against the window. It is only a cherry
tomato slowly reddening in the garden.
I will put it in my mouth. It will
be sweet, and you will swallow.

(Picture credits: all pics via Grungegypsy)

I dream of romance edged in beauty

2009-04-24T15:57:00.009+02:00

Today I decided to do a post of dreamy interiors that I've been collecting and wanted to share. In some way, each room appeals to me - I like the simplicity, and the touches of romantic vintage, and the restful but pretty colours. Each space is a place I could dream in and be at be peace, and each room is a reflection of the owners personality - to me, these are some of the important elements of the dream house I have in my mind. What would your dream house be like, and where would it be?

Have a happy weekend dear friends.

(Picture credits: Firsthome; Dwellings & Decor; Nom-nom-nom; Sweet Home Style)

It's cold out there, but I'm warm inside

2009-04-23T18:17:00.006+02:00

Today I'm feeling inspired by
pink, pink, pink, happy and bright.
Pink to banish away the blues
pink to wipe away black and
all the other colours and tones of sadness, fear or worry.

Today I'm inspired by love,
and by a cozy house
keeping the icy wind outside.

I hope this pink post will make you happy. I especially love the second picture, there's just something very compelling about it. It's one of my favourite images - unfortunately it's been saved on my computer for ages, and I can't remember where I found it.

(Picture credits: 1: art by me, 2: sorry, can't remember, all the rest via We Heart It)

I've drunk too much, said too much, can we go home now?

2009-04-22T11:39:00.000+02:00

I don't know where this week has gone...scary. The weather has turned and Winter has arrived, it's really quite cold now....brrrrr. Here are some of the pictures and quotes inspiring me today.

(Picture credits: 1: Candace Meyer; 2; photo & text by me; 3: sorry, hate doing this - but I can't remember; 4: Peter van Beever; 5.6 & 7: Our Labor of Love; 8: art by Cassandra Warren; 9: via ecstacy lover; 10: Carl Bengtsson; 11: photo by Yana Toyber & quote from The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd)

Friday, I'm in love

2009-04-17T09:14:00.015+02:00

Happy, happy Friday......

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." ~ John Barrymore

“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.” ~ Unknown Author

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time."
~ Betty Smith

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” ~ Herman Melville

“There may be a great fire in our soul...” ~ Vincent van Gogh

"You must train your intuition, you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide." ~ Ingrid Bergman

And some lovely blogs that I enjoy, you probably already know them - but if you don't they are great places to visit.

Ariella from Pearls in Your Hair inspires with her dreamy photo's and she has the best collection of dresses ever!

Two Breads, Please is fun, quirky and stylish with huge doses of originality.

The lovely Adela from Pink Champagne doing the Bohemian look to perfection, loving her headband! She never fails to inspire.

(Picture credits: 1,2,5 & 6: via A Glamorous Little Side Project; 3; via Helli's Fashion Scans; 4 & 6: Emma Cherry via A Glamorous Little Side Project)

(Quotes via Yvette Inufio)

(Title credit: The Smiths (I think?))

The blues is you in me, I never knew the blues until I met you

2009-04-15T15:27:00.009+02:00

Here are some of the lovely things that have been inspiring me today.....and it's been a long day, so just keeping it short.

I am crazy for inspiration boards and inspiration corners, I love this one. (via decor8)

I definitely want a collection of these butterfly saucer wall ornaments for my dream house. Available from Lightly (via decor8)

Lollipop Pottery

The cutest stationery from Pika Land.

Loving these bright happy flowers by Liz Rusby. You can see more at her Flickr pages and she also has a shop. (via Creature Comforts)

(Title quote: Sipho Sepamla)

I am consumed by you and everything is you

2009-04-14T10:12:00.013+02:00

A long post today....I think I got a bit carried away....there are just so many beautiful and interesting images to discover. Tomorrow I'm starting my photography course, looking so forward to it. I'm doing a course on the fundamentals of digital photography. I've got a sort of decent digital camera, nothing spectacular, so the teacher recommended I hire a better camera for the classes which is what I'm doing. I know some of the functions on my camera but there is still so much about photography that I want to know, so it will be good to finally learn all the basics, and then after the course, once I have a better idea of what I'm doing I'll go buy a decent camera.

And now for something a little more dreamy....Wouldn't you love to have a little beach cottage to play in when the city gets too loud? (Pictures of Devon Aoki via Ecstacy Lover)

(Picture credits: 1,2,13,14,15 via Ru Photo; 3-5, 11: via Ecstacy Lover; 6: Caroline Newell; 7: Muse Management; 8&9: Rodeo Magazine; 10: Maxime Ballesteros; 12: Emily Scannell; 22-24: Art by Neo Innov via Ru Photo)

Today feels like Sunday

2009-04-13T18:35:00.000+02:00

Even though it's a Monday, since today is a holiday, the last day of a long weekend, it feels like Sunday. The Sunday evening blues, trying to forget that tomorrow the real world will intrude again, trying to pretend that tonight will last longer than it really will.

It's not that I hate my life, I really don't, I just love the freedom of weekends, the escape from the routine of weekdays, time to potter around and do my own thing.

I am quite a home body. Home is where I can be at peace, be myself, no pretence, no having to ever wear a mask or try to act more confident than I really feel. Sometimes I don't answer the phone because I want to keep the real world out.

I love the feeling of beautiful solitude

Time alone to think

To dream

To indulge my imagination

I savour this precious time I can be in my home, it's my world, it's the safety and comfort of my own creation

I am surrounded by my books, my music, things that inspire me

And so I will try and banish any melancholy feelings and beat back the Monday Sunday blues, read a few more pages of my book, help my boyfriend make a nice supper, watch some Ugly Betty, take pleasure in a quiete evening at home......

(Picture credits: 1 & 3: via parachuteshark; 2, 5, 5, 6, 7: via Grungegypsy; 8-10: Camilla Akrans)

Your body is a silent country, hold me tight and never let me go

2009-04-11T13:10:00.000+02:00

Keeping me sane this weekend: reading my book under a tree in the garden, dinner with friends at The Bell Pepper and two birthdays to celebrate, Kings of Leon, Ugly Betty, driving in my car with the music LOUD, an afternoon nap, roma tomato's fresh from the garden. Some images to inspire.......

I Dani Photography

Icemodels

Colin Pantall
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Lara Rossignol

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I have completely fallen in love with the photography of Yvette Inufio below. You might already know her work but I just discovered her, and I am in awe of her gentle, dreamy pictures. Check out her Flickr pages, you won't be disappointed.

Only when I lose myself

2009-04-08T23:49:00.018+02:00

Thank you so much to everyone who left such lovely and kind comments on my last post, and I'm feeling so much better today. It's a beautiful day here where I'm living, we are in Autumn now but today is one of those gorgeous end of summer days, slightly crisp but with clear blue skies and the sun warm and happy.

I got to wondering, if with the internet, and blogging and things like Tumblr and Flickr, if as many people still keep good old fashioned paper journals or if the web is influencing our lives not to do that as much anymore?

I started my first paper journal when I was about eleven, and I kept it up all through school and for quite a while after. I wrote just about every day, at least every week, sticking in pictures and memento's as well. I poured out my heart, and my innermost feelings, and it really helped me get along with life especially at those times I felt like there was noone I could talk to.

Nowdays I still keep paper journals, but they are more artistic with lots of painting and collage and lettering, and not so much writing because I don't seem to have that same need anymore, I guess I'm lucky that when I am troubled I have people that I can talk to. But I still very much enjoy keeping paper journals as an outlet for art and creativity.

I think that girls and women especially often like to keep journals, in the past on paper, and I wonder if now a lot more people are blogging instead, and how much that changes the traditional practise of keeping a diary and the way people express themselves?

I think you can be a lot more honest in a private paper journal and really get your feelings out instead of keeping them bottled up inside, and writing your feelings and thoughts down forces you to make sense of them instead of having them jumbled up inside your head, and so you understand yourself better. On the other hand blogging is social and public, so people are not as likely to really splash out with their inner feelings in such depth, but, you make a network of online friends who encourage you and sometimes give advice and let you know they feel the same way so you realise you're not alone.

Yes, so it's interesting to think about how the internet is perhaps changing the way we communicate with ourselves, perhaps there are people who do both, paper and blogs, but I think that probably a lot of girls who would have kept paper journals nowdays blog instead.

I've never been a huge fan of food photography - or rather it just wasn't something on my radar or that I had any interest in. Then I happened to stumble on Tartelette, an absolutely beautiful recipe and food photography blog and I was quite blown away by the photo's - not to mention how much I'd love to be able to taste all the recipes! In case you're wondering, the bottom photo is a lemon curd and chamomille vanilla mousse verrine, not something I have ever heard of before, but OMG I want to eat it!

Well, naturally my eyes then got sucked into the world of food blogs and I landed up on the also gorgeous photography of Cannelle et Vanille. Not only heavenly food photo's, but amazing flower photo's as well. All I can say right now is that I want to be able to lick this spoon, I don't care how disgusting that may sound..mmmm....chocolate truffle cake!

And then, before I could help myself, I wandered on to Aaplemint to visually sample the delights of gola sherbert from India, date-ball sweets, and date and roasted almond ice-cream. Now I seriously have to stop this before I end up cleaning drool off my keyboard - not a thrilling thought.

(Picture credits: all journal theme pics via We heart it, Title credit: Depeche Mode)

When the music's over, turn off the lights

2009-04-07T20:54:00.008+02:00

Today was one of those blah, blue days you have once in a while. I am feeling uninspired, overwhelmed, empty....I'm sure I'll wake up in a better mood tomorrow. The good news for me, and something I am really looking forward to, which is making me feel more positive at least - next week I'm doing a digital photography course, something I have been wanting to do for ages.
Cheering myself up right now by drinking herbal tea with limes and honey, and looking at some beautiful images......

Kate Pulley

Marie Hochhaus

Lou O' Bedlam

(Title inspiration: The Doors)