06 Monday Aug 2012
Posted in Design, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Writing
© Joan Currie
When the rose is faded,
Memory may still dwell on
Her beauty shadowed,
And the sweet smell gone.
from When the Rose is Faded by Walter de la Mare
Tears came to my eyes when I found a keepsake box containing a pink sweetheart rose from my first prom corsage. It is lovely still!
30 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in America's Next Top Model, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Writing
© Khrystyana Kazakova
…that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
from Ulysses by Lord Tennyson
Embrace your inner Olympian.
17 Tuesday Jul 2012
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America's Top Model, Fashion, Khrystyna Kazakova, Love, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, Photography, Poetry, Relationships, William Wordsworth
© Khrystyna Kazakova
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind…
from Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth
Still searching for strength in the ruins of what was a beautiful life – rest in peace.
07 Saturday Jul 2012
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If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay,
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere
That when we live no more, we may live ever.
from To My Dear And Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
You are adored still and forevermore….
04 Wednesday Jul 2012
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© Khrystyna Kazakova
And her lips opened amorously, and said-
I wist not what, saving one word – Delight.
And all her face was honey to my mouth,
And all her body pasture to mine eyes;
from Love and Sleep by Charles Swinburne
Turning up the heat on this 4th of July…
21 Thursday Jun 2012
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America's Top Model, Khrystyna Kazakova, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Resolutions, Summer Solstice, The Scholar Gipsy
© Khrystyna Kazakova
For whom each year we see
Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new;
Who hesitate and falter life away,
And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day-
from The Scholar Gipsy by Matthew Arnold
Summer Solstice – a time to begin anew with the New Year’s resolutions that have fallen short.
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:
Creativity Prompt
Candace Jedrowicz
Country Living
14 Thursday Jun 2012
Posted in Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships, Travel
© Lauren DiMarco
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…
from Oh, the Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss
Stepping out after months of planning!
12 Tuesday Jun 2012
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© Lauren DiMarco
Everyone has a “best friend” during each stage of life – only the precious few have the same one.
In the summer before starting high school, a girl with a charming British accent moved into the house across the street from me. We were inseparable for three years – pouring over Seventeen magazines, sewing matching outfits, and attending Canadian Girl in Training classes.
I wish we had kept in touch.
05 Tuesday Jun 2012
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America's Top Model, Arturo Torres, Fashion, Gotye, Khrystyana Kazakova, Love, Photography, Relationships, Somebody That I Used To Know
© Arturo Torres
Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it’s an ache I still remember.
lyrics from Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye
We are now just points on each other’s timelines.
Model: Khrystyna Kazakova
Satin & Sand 