19 Thursday Jul 2012
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I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice
how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.
Ransom Riggs
Taking less tentative steps forward…
26 Tuesday Jun 2012
© Lauren DiMarco
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trying to shed old habits…
24 Sunday Jun 2012
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© Lauren DiMarco – Bronx Telephone
We’re sorry the number you have reached is not in service at this time
Please check the number, or try your call again.
from Telephone by Lady Gaga
Why do we talk so much on the phone yet fail to communicate?
17 Sunday Jun 2012
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© Joan Currie
Only a dad but he gives his all,
To smooth the way for his children small,
Doing with courage stern and grim
The deeds that his father did for him.
This is the line that for him I pen:
Only a dad, but the best of men.
from Only a Dad by Edgar A. Guest
Thanks to Dads, one and all!
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15 Friday Jun 2012
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© Joan Currie – Journal cover
What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something looseknit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful that comes to mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk, or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through.
by Virginia Woolf
I created my journal cover (above) with a painted section of fabric from a vintage Joseph Ribhoff jacket.
Fabric Cover Construction Methods:
Creativity Prompt
Candace Jedrowicz
Country Living
01 Sunday Apr 2012
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© Joan Currie
I wanna watch you undress
I wanna watch you glow
Let your hair down
All around, cover us both
You come in a wave
We crash and we roll
You surround me, pull me, drown me, swallow me whole.
from the song Run by Matt Nathanson
I love it when you run your fingers through my hair…
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24 Saturday Mar 2012
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© Joan Currie - with Jean Paul Gaultier at the de Young
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one’s clothing. – Jean Paul Gaultier
Admiration turned to reverence for the fashion icon Jean Paul Gaultier – for his esprit de vie, creative genius, haute couture masterpieces, extravagant embellishments, and respect for personal freedoms of both men and women.
© Joan Currie - with Jean Paul Gaultier at the de Young Museum, SF
22 Thursday Mar 2012
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© Joan Currie – Photographed at the de Young Museum
Except for the medieval codpiece and the bra, garments have never had a gender.
Jean Paul Gaultier
It was a thrill for me to meet Jean Paul Gaultier and view his stunning exhibition today.
See BAYFashion Magazine’s video of the press preview.
© Joan Currie
20 Tuesday Mar 2012
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© Joan Currie
She is a woman whose life is crowded with not-unpleasant errands and with the entrapment of fragrant, familiar, and sometimes enchanting items, all of which possess a reassuring, measurable weight and volume.
from Dying For Love in Dressing Up For The Carnival by Carol Shields
I would rather crowd my life with love…
Silk top made in India
18 Sunday Mar 2012
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© Joan Currie
Wabi sabi art is a distillation of their [the monks’] humble efforts to try and express, in a physical form, their love of a life balanced against the sense of serene sadness that is life’s inevitable passing.
from wabi sabi, the japanese art of impermanence by Andrew Juniper
Perhaps I find the burst of blossoms so beautiful because it will not last.
Satin & Sand 