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Beautiful Attention To Detail…

19 Friday Oct 2012

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Beauty, David Foster Wallace, Fashion, Photography, Relationships

© 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

Beautiful Holding Tight…

17 Wednesday Oct 2012

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Beauty, Fashion, Love, Photography, Red dress, Relationships

© 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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Beautiful On The Brink…

14 Sunday Oct 2012

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Alice Munro, beautiful, Fashion, Photography, Red hair, Too Much Happiness

© 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…

Beautiful Oral Gratification…

05 Friday Oct 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in America's Next Top Model, Fashion, Food, Photography, Reflections

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America's Next Top Model, beautiful, Diane Ackerman, Exotic cuisine, Khrystyna Kazakova, Photography

© Khrystyna Kazakova

Oysters on the half shell, arranged on a large platter of shaved ice, one by one polish the woman’s tongue with silken saltiness. – from A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman

Preparing for a weekend of sampling delicious exotic cuisine…

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Red hot…

28 Friday Sep 2012

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Emily Dickinson, Fashion, Love, Photography, Poetry

© Joan Currie

That I did always love
I bring thee Proof
That till I loved
I never lived-Enough-
from That I did always love by Emily Dickinson

Perhaps it is time to turn up the heat…

Beautiful Radiance…

22 Saturday Sep 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in America's Next Top Model, Art, Fashion

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America's Next Top Model, Ellie Goulding, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Lights, Music, Photography

© Khrystyana Kazakova

You show the lights that stop me turn to stone
You shine it when I’m alone
And so I tell myself that I’ll be strong
And dreaming when they’re gone.
lyrics from Lights by Ellie Goulding

I trust my inner light to lead me out of the darkness…

Sucker punch…

26 Sunday Aug 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in America's Next Top Model, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships, Writing

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America's Top Model, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Khrystyna Kazakova, Love, Nicholas Sparks, Photography, Relationships, Safe Haven, sucker punch

© Khrystynana Kazakova

She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.
from Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

Is the love that takes your breath away too painful to bear?

Reconsider…

23 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Design, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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Braided hair, Fashion, Mother Teresa, Photography, Relationships

© Joan Currie

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

Sometimes it is better to turn around and start again.

Air guitar…

16 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Design, Fashion, Photography, Reflections

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Bono, Lauren DiMarco, Rock Star, Sunglasses

© Lauren DiMarco

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.  Bono

I am putting aside my rose colored glasses for rock star ones…

Blink of an eye…

09 Thursday Aug 2012

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America's Top Model, Audrey Hepburn, Beauty, Khrystyna Kazakova, Photography

© Khrystyana Kazakova

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. – Audrey Hepburn

What is it about love that makes it so wondrous, but over time, so impossible to preserve?

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