Thank You

Is loving Modern Girls & Old Fashioned Men. 

bows

Am loving the big white bow on this little black dress. Not so much the big hair or anything else. Don't know that bows really suit me though. I am starting to become more resigned to the fact that I can't pull off every style... At least I don't feel like that here - hm, well, that's another train of thought altogether. Over-analyzing is a kind of full-time hobby of mine. [via {a glamorous little side project}]

Elegance Personified

It's something to keep in mind as a comparison when looking at modern paragons of beauty.

WANT

[via Urban Outfitters]

I think...

I'm in love.
[via The Sartorialist]

Next time

I'd like this haircut.

[via Fashion Gone Rogue]

When summer is over...

I'll pull out my white stockings again.

[via Fashion Gone Rogue]

Yes yes yes

[Paulina M. by Agustina Rodriguez for Libertarian Mag via Fashion Gone Rogue]

Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City

Once I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future

use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,

Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met

there who detain'd me for love of me,

Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long

been forgotten by me,

I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung to me,

Again we wander, we love, we separate again,

Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go,

I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.

- Walt Whitman

[photo by Philip Newton]

black tie material

Bregje Heinen for Karen Millen Fall 2010

[via Fashion Gone Rogue]

Swamped

Working from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. The rest of the time spent with my parents. Lack of head-space and personal time = driving me kind of crazy. Oh and there is so much to learn. But this is just the transitional phase - hopefully I will be able to work out my own schedule, and also move out.

When I feel a little bit overwhelmed I do some online window shopping. Are these things not lovely? If I see lovely things I feel good about the world and everything. If I see a lot of ugly things though, then I feel like we've wasted the world's resources in manufacturing crap and we all deserve to be destroyed by global climate change. That's very depressing. So I try to look at pictures of lovely things.

[all from J. Crew]

Die Happy

[sequined silk-chiffon dress by Stella McCartney]

Janeta Samp by Kate Bellm for Style and the Family Tunes Summer 2010

[via Fashion Gone Rogue]

The other day

[Nancy took me to Holt's for a lovely lunch and a NARS make-over.]

Tim Burton tribute

LOVES

[from Alabama Chanin]

Draw me a picture

A few months ago I went to the Osborne Collection of the Toronto Public Library for their exhibition 'When Cinderella Went to the Ball - Five Hundred Years of Fairy Tales'. I bought their exhibition catalogue because I loved so many of their pieces. Next week I will be taking some students from the Toronto School of Art for a tour on the history of illustration. It's all very exciting!

Here's some favourites I scanned in.

The Brave Tin Soldier: pop ups with moving figures. Hans C. Andersen. V. Kubasta. London: Murrays Sales & Service Co. © 1973. Printed in Czechosolovakia.


Pen-and-ink drawing by William Heath Robinson for "Tommelise" in Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1913). The old mother toad makes off with Tommelise in her walnut-shell bed: "This is just the wife for my son," said the toad.

Tales from Grimm. Freely translated and illustrated by Wanda Gag. New York: Coward-McCann, © 1936.

Pen-and-ink drawing by Wanda Gag from her retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (New York: Coward-McCann, © 1938).

Papercutting of "Bremer Musicians" by Nelly Hofer (unpublished, ca. 2005).

Little Red Riding Hood. London: Dean and Son, [between 1857 and 1865].

The golden goose book: being the stories of The golden goose, The three bears, The 3 little pigs, Tom Thumb. With numerous drawings in colour and black-and-white by L. Leslie Brooke. London and New York: Frederick Wrne and Co., [ca. 1930?].

Cinderella. Designed by Inge Wolgast. Rostock: Lesemaus Miniaturbuchverlag, 2003. Number five in an edition limited to twenty-five copies.


Pen-and-ink design by Walter Crane for the cover of Bluebeard's Picture Book (London and New York: John Lane, [1898?]).

Jump

[via Kevin Trageser]

Sometimes you just have to jump right in.

Grey skies and LAN jacks

This morning I woke up and the skies were very grey. Weather report says it might rain. I didn't want to wear my boots yet again, but I didn't want to risk wet feet either... To cheer myself up I decided to share a beautiful picture with you (via English Russia).

Now I am at college and about to go and try out all the LAN jacks in the library to see if they are working (oh, the joy).

A few nights ago and I was watching Lost in the MCR and they were paddling in a canoe out at sea, in the sun. I wanted to trade places with them - except the bit about being on an island which is moving randomly through time, and getting shot at by complete randoms.

Lulu

Here's a photo of my cousin Lulu, who's all dolled up for cosplay. Isn't she a cupcake?