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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:
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Country Living 

Crowning Glory…

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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J’aime Jean Paul Gaultier…

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

Jean Paul Gaultier in San Francisco…

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.

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Being Blue…

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

Spring Blossoms…

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.

Sweet Roses…

16 Thursday Feb 2012

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© Joan Currie - My Valentine Roses

She comes not when Noon is on the roses —
Too bright is Day.
She comes not to the Soul till it reposes
From work and play.

But when Night is on the hills, and the great Voices
Roll in from Sea,
By starlight and by candlelight and dreamlight
She comes to me.
by Herbert Trench 

The sweet fragrance of last night lingers…

Valentine’s Day…

14 Tuesday Feb 2012

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© Joan Currie

Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other!
How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always,
to talk to and sit with.
Let’s be a comfortable couple.
by Charles Dickens

Nothing is better than snuggling up with a loved one on this day!

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A Man’s Education…

01 Wednesday Feb 2012

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© Joan Currie – Seated Student sketch

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as is his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. – Emerson

A diligent student at work…

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