- Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.
Archive for March, 2011
In Dreams
Posted in Flourishes & Finery, tagged egon schiele, quotes, richard siken on 22/03/2011 | 16 Comments »
Memories through a lens, #1
Posted in Life, tagged amused by thoughts, memories through a lens on 21/03/2011 | 11 Comments »
Last summer was a strange one for me. Living by myself for the first time, working from morning until night, dealing with absent love and having lots of thoughts yet few ideas about where I wanted to go; shaping thoughts into unanswerable questions. I wished to uncover each day as it began and to capture [...]
Sources of Inspiration
Posted in Notes on Style, tagged favorite books, Inspiration, literature on 20/03/2011 | 18 Comments »
My old favorites and one recent discovery – how rare they are. If not all, then a large section of my interest in style came not through an interest in clothes but from afternoons spent searching through shelves at the library: there I was exposed to dreamy authors and pages full of delectable ideas. Simple [...]
At the Louvre
Posted in Life, tagged musee du louvre, paris in pictures on 17/03/2011 | 12 Comments »
At the Louvre, on one of several short visits. Different rooms gone through on each occasion. My favorites being the flemish and dutch ones; the grand apartment of Napoleon III, all red velvet sofas and gloomy chandeliers. The endless rows of dark paintings meet perfectly with the floors and walls that guard them – full [...]
Paint a vulgar picture
Posted in Flourishes & Finery, tagged paris in pictures, parisian home, tulips on 12/03/2011 | 26 Comments »
It feels like spring in Paris, and I’ve decorated our little place with full pink tulips. The amount of flower shops one passes when out walking has renewed my love for floral tones and bright colors. I sit now with eyes fixed on softness and the scent of slowly fading tulips. Should they last only [...]
Beginning of March
Posted in Flourishes & Finery, tagged paris in pictures on 10/03/2011 | 23 Comments »
A brief hello and some snapshots from the beginning of March. Everything is pretty – look at my entries as postcards.
