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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.

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Candace Jedrowicz
Country Living 

Being Blue…

20 Tuesday Mar 2012

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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

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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Enchanting Undergarment…

07 Saturday Jan 2012

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© Joan Currie - Watercolor of High Waist Underskirt

The dearest and tenderest girlhood dreams
I stitch into gossamer hems and seams.
from Song of a Sewing Machine by Constance Woodrow 

As a child I was ensorcelled by the beautiful tulle and satin garments in my mother’s trunk.

Loves Gone…

30 Friday Dec 2011

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I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
from What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St. Vincent Millay 

But what a song it was – it mattered not how short!

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Nutcracker…

20 Tuesday Dec 2011

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© Joan Currie - Watercolor

Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven’s gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. – Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky’s score for the Nutcracker ballet is my favorite music of the holiday along with a dozen classic carols.

Gingerbread House…

18 Sunday Dec 2011

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Have a holly, jolly Christmas,
It’s the best time of the year,
I don’t know if there’ll be snow,
But have a cup of cheer.
A Holly Jolly Christmas by Johnny Marks – sung by Michael Bublé

Voilà – this year’s gingerbread house thanks to very thick royal frosting!

Photo: James Currie