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…
18 Tuesday Sep 2012
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© Joan Currie – Mixed media
The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be a thin crescent moon.
You and I unselfed, will be together,
indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.
The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together, you and I.
In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
from A Moment of Happiness by Rumi
I love to linger in our own sweet, sweet world…
Model: Lauren DiMarco
25 Saturday Aug 2012
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© Joan Currie
Clutter is the poetry of our homes. it is an intimate view that is not always perfect –
a few dishes in the sink, books piled next to the bed.
Everything in its place may give a certain satisfaction,
but a lived-in room exudes comfort and warmth.
by Mary Randolph Carter
I love being at home surrounded by the poetry of a well-lived and interesting life.
“be generous” card – Danielle LaPorte.
16 Thursday Aug 2012
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Lauren DiMarco in Vancouver © Joan Currie
Her memory from old habit of the mind
Went slipping back upon the golden days
In which she saw him first,…
from The Idylls of the King – Guinevere by Tennyson
I remember first seeing him standing in the doorway of the dockside restaurant.
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 Tuesday Feb 2012
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© Joan Currie
Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other!
How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always,
to talk to and sit with.
Let’s be a comfortable couple.
by Charles Dickens
Nothing is better than snuggling up with a loved one on this day!
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Valentine’s Day
10 Friday Feb 2012
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© 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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01 Wednesday Feb 2012
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© 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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25 Wednesday Jan 2012
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© 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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A New Landscape
17 Tuesday Jan 2012
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© 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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