Satin & Sand

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Beauty, Fashion, Haider Ackermann, Lauren DiMarco, Photography

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Trying to shed old habits…

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Bronx, Lady Gaga, Lauren DiMarco, NYC, Photography, Relationships, Telephone, Travel

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from Telephone by Lady Gaga

Why do we talk so much on the phone yet fail to communicate?

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Bananarama, Cruel Summer, Einstein, Harlem, Lauren DiMarco, NYC, Photography, Travel

The city is crowded
My friends are away
And I’m on my own
It’s too hot to handle
So I got to get up and go.
lyrics from Cruel Summer by Bananarama

Sometimes the details create the bigger picture.

(Note: Einstein had a different idea about the sum of its parts.)

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America's Top Model, Khrystyna Kazakova, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Resolutions, Summer Solstice, The Scholar Gipsy

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.

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Anne Geddes, Father's Day, Father's Day Cake, Photography

Only a dad but he gives his all,
To smooth the way for his children small,
Doing with courage stern and grim
The deeds that his father did for him.
This is the line that for him I pen:
Only a dad, but the best of men.
from Only a Dad by Edgar A. Guest

Thanks to Dads, one and all!

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Art, Crafts, Fashion, Photography, Virginia Woolf

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

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Adventure, Dr. Seuss, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Oh the Places You'll Go!, Photography

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!

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Best Friends, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Relationships

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.

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Carol Shields, County Fair, Dressing up for the Carnival, Photography

All over town people are putting on their costumes.
from Dressing up for the Carnival by Carol Shields

I loved recapturing some carefree moments of my youth at the county fair.

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America's Top Model, Arturo Torres, Fashion, Gotye, Khrystyana Kazakova, Love, Photography, Relationships, Somebody That I Used To Know

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

~ Reflections on Beauty

Quick-change artist…

Wrong number…

Sum of its parts…

Mulligans…

Happy Father’s Day…

Page one…

Time to hit the road…

Best friends…

Simple pleasures…

Past pluperfect…