26 Monday Nov 2012
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© Joan Currie – Charleston bodice & skirt – Mixed media
This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding — it’s got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.
from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
The holiday season has arrived. Dressing up for a razzle-dazzle evening…
22 Thursday Nov 2012
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© Lydia Hudgens
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual…
Henry David Thoreau
Wishing you all the best for a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!
Model: Lauren DiMarco
18 Sunday Nov 2012
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© Joan Currie – watercolor
Absence extinguishes a minor passion and intensifies a great one – as the wind blows out a candle but fans a fire.
from In Absence by François , Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Trying to wait patiently for your return…
11 Sunday Nov 2012
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© Rachel Valley
She does not yet know that real love does not demand perfection.
from Labyrinth of Desire by Rosemary Sullivan
But she is about to meet the man who will teach her …
Model: Lauren DiMarco
10 Saturday Nov 2012
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© Lauren DiMarco
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you.
Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.
Kahill Gibran
Carefully pulling back the curtain to get a glimpse of your soul…
Model: Lauren DiMarco
04 Sunday Nov 2012
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© Khrystyana Kazakova
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
Hatching a more creative life!
Model: Khrystyna Kazakova
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31 Wednesday Oct 2012
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© Joan Currie
To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality. – Starhawk from Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach
My childhood Hallowe’en costumes were always some variation on the witch theme, with the capes becoming more and more elaborate as the years went on. I think I fared better than my siblings who opted for ghost garb.
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19 Friday Oct 2012
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© Joan Currie
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. – from This is Water by David Foster Wallace
Sometimes it seems that all my time is spent picking up the pieces of other people’s lives.
Model: Carole Morey
17 Wednesday Oct 2012
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© Joan Currie
Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. – Anonymous
Waiting for that great big crazy love to come again…
Model: Carole Morey
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14 Sunday Oct 2012
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© Vanessa
So she has nothing with which to compare the extraordinary feeling – the change of perception – which is rippling through her now.- from Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
Overwhelmed by all the exciting new possibilities that await…
Satin & Sand 