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My Red Shoes…

10 Friday Feb 2012

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Art, Design, Photography, Red Shoes, Valentine's Day, watercolor

© 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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Beautiful Respite…

05 Sunday Feb 2012

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beautiful, Carmen Campos, Fashion, Help, Janet Lewis, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Poetry, Postaweek 2012

© Carmen Campos

In the warm, lofted air, 
Soft lips together pressed,
Soft wispy hair,
She stops to rest,
from Girl Help by Janet Lewis 

Savoring little pockets of time throughout the day…

Model: Lauren DiMarco

A Man’s Education…

01 Wednesday Feb 2012

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Art, Education, Emerson, Photography, postaweek 2011, Sketch, Student

© 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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Thy Beauty…

28 Saturday Jan 2012

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

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beautiful, Edgar Allan Poe, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Pat Ramos, Photography, Postaweek 2012, Ukushu Khrystyna

© Pat Ramos

Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe

I wish I could savor the first blush of young love over and over again.

Model: Ukushu Khrystyna

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Comforts of Home…

25 Wednesday Jan 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Design, Photography, Reflections, Writing

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Anaïs Nin, Art, beautiful, Postaweek 2012, watercolor, WIngback Chair

© 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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Pining for you…

25 Wednesday Jan 2012

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beautiful, Fashion, Juliette Drouet, Lauren DiMarco, Love, Lydia Hudgens, Photography, Postaweek 2012

© Lydia Hudgens

If you only knew how much I love you, how essential you are to my life, you would not dare to stay away for an instant, you would always remain by my side, your heart pressed close to my heart, your soul to my soul.
Juliette Drouet

I cannot bear another day without you.

Model: Lauren DiMarco
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Rainy Sunday…

22 Sunday Jan 2012

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America's Top Model, beautiful, Edward Thomas, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Photography, Poetry

© Khrystyana Kazakova

The rain of a night and a day and a night
Stops at the light
Of this pale choked day. The peering sun
Sees what has been done.
from After Rain by Edward Thomas 

This is a day for blissful solitude.

Model: Khrystyana Kazakova

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Kissing Prince Charming…

20 Friday Jan 2012

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beautiful, Emil Ludwig, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Love, Photography, Postaweek 2012, Prince Charming

© Lauren DiMarco

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
Emil Ludwig

What else does she have to surrender to love fully?

Model: Lauren DiMarco

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Keep dreaming…

18 Wednesday Jan 2012

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beautiful, Bill McClaren, Dreams, Fashion, Langston Hughes, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Post a week 2012

© Bill McClaren

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
from Dreams by Langston Hughes 

Keep true to your dreams – dreaming the dream can be just as important (and delicious) as realizing the dream.

Model: Lauren DiMarco

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The thrill of your body…

17 Tuesday Jan 2012

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Art, e.e. cummings, I like my body, Lauren DiMarco, Lauren DiMarco art, Post a week 2012, Sketch

© Lauren DiMarco - Self Portrait in Hoodie

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows.
E. E. Cummings

Nothing is better than falling asleep in your arms.

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