01.july.09

30.june.09

i love the detail found in vintage fashions. the painstaking process always amazes me, true artistry.  these exquisite finds are from antiquedress.com, check out her site for more beautiful finds...

29.June.09

Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love. ~ Ben Okri, Nigerian author who uses magic realism to convey the social and political chaos in his country, 1959)

28.june.09

today i will be rearranging the house (again).  i don't like when things get stagnant.  my inspiration

28.June.09

some beautiful finds from Atelier Maison

i covet these...pashmina throws and bedspreads...i could write a story inspired by these.... don't you just picture bohemian paris at the turn of the century. wrapped up in one at a salon

handmade lace bed linens as only europeans can do so well

27.June.09

For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first seems to reflect only our own image; but behind it we soon discover the inner turmoils of our soul - its depth, and ways to gain peace within ourselves and with the world, which is the reward of our struggles. Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment