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.
17 Saturday Mar 2012
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Saint Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time – a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic. Adrienne Cook
Have a wonderful day of laughter, merriment, and love!
07 Wednesday Mar 2012
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© Lauren DiMarco
Dark are my eyes and hair, and my breast is white as snow,
But never a mortal may see how fair … I am fleeter than the roe.
from the poem Echo by Lucy Maud Montgomery
I love the exquisite silk organza flowers jumbled at the waist that give way to a full flouncy skirt.
Model: Lauren DiMarco
Designer: Bacca da Silva
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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12 Sunday Feb 2012
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© Joan Currie - The South San Francisco Bay
Plum-purple was the west; but spikes of light
Spear’d open lustrous gashes, crimson-white;
(Where the eye fix’d, fled the encrimsoning spot,
And, gathering, floated where the gaze was not;)
And through their parting lids there came and went
Keen glimpses of the inner firmament:
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
I basked in the glorious but fleeting sunset.
10 Friday Feb 2012
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© Joan Currie – Red Shoes watercolor
Julian?
Yes, my darling?
Take off the red shoes.
from The Red Shoes movie (1948)
My red shoes for tripping the light fantastic on February 14th.
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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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25 Wednesday Jan 2012
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© Joan Currie – Wingback Chair Watercolor
Fraenkel loved my home, the idea of a house, a home as a pivot, a base, a hub. Henry, the vagabond, was amazed at Fraenkel’s assertion that this was necessary to creation, that rolling and drifting prevented growth, that this was the way to grow and expand. – from the Diary of Anaïs Nin
The muse visits me when I am curled up reading in my favorite wingback chair.
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