27 Sunday Jan 2013
Posted in Design, Photography, Reflections, Travel
Cause I’m leaving on a jet plane
Don’t know when I’ll be back again…
Cover of John Denver’s song Leaving on a Jet Plane
The Macarons Project
Putting aside my flight of fantasy for the real thing…
08 Tuesday Jan 2013
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© Joan Currie
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. – Eric Zorn
For once, I am hoping to keep the promises I made to myself…
29 Saturday Dec 2012
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© Khrystyna Kazakova with Inna Mathews and Kristina Varaksina.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
Neil Gaiman
Taking some time to figure out my new year’s action list…
Model: Khystyna Kazakova
25 Tuesday Dec 2012
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© Bacca da Silva
But in this season it is well to reassert that the hope of mankind rests in Faith. As man thinketh, so he is. Nothing much happens unless you believe in it, and believing there is hope for the world is a way to move toward it.
Gladys Taber
Taking some time to appreciate all the happy moments from today…
Model: Lauren DiMarco
17 Monday Dec 2012
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© Lauren DiMarco
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under the tree.
Roy L. Smith
I hope there will be a special place in our hearts for those who have lost loved ones too, too soon…
03 Monday Dec 2012
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© Lauren DiMarco
In my thinking about happiness, I’ve come to realize that staying connected to people from my past is an important happiness booster… – Bjorn Wallander
Sometimes around the holidays I need to hear my childhood friends’ voices…
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
Satin & Sand 