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Alluring details…

16 Monday Jan 2012

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

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America's Top Model, Attraction, beautiful, Emil Ludwig, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Photography

© Khrystyana Kazakova

 Just as he has chosen the color of his tie to give her pleasure, so did she choose her perfume, every part of her toilette, her finest lingerie, although she knows that for the time being he will but surmise. For when all senses surge and pursue one another, she knows the sorcery of the unseen. –  Emil Ludwig

The art of love is in the details of seduction.

Model: Khrystyana Kazakova
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I can’t you let go…

15 Sunday Jan 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Fashion, Music, Photography, Reflections, Relationships, Writing

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beautiful, Fashion, Gravity, Lauren DiMarco, Lydia Hudgens, Photography, Sara Braeilles

© Lydia Hudgens

I live here on my knees 
As I try to make you see 
That you’re everything I think I need
Here on the ground
But you’re neither friend or foe
Though I can’t seem to let you go
One thing I still know
Is that you are keeping me down

From the song Gravity by Sara Braeilles

Why can’t you let me soar?

Model: Lauren DiMarco

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Femme Fatale…

08 Sunday Jan 2012

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

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Art, beautiful, Corset, Femme fatale, Henry Miller, lingerie, Photography, Postaweek 2012, watercolor

© Joan Currie - Red Corset Watercolor

You suffer when you try to possess her, because you rob her of the mystery – the very thing that attracted you in the first place! by Henry Miller

She can be as elusive as a cloud…

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Individual Style…

07 Saturday Jan 2012

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

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beautiful, Fashion, Individuality, lingerie, Photography, Postaweek 2012, Rabindranath Tagore, Underskirt

© Joan Currie – Vintage Underskirt

If this individuality is wiped away, the creative joy that crystallized it disappears, even if no material was lost, even if no atom was destroyed. And if it is lost, it is also a loss for the entire world. It is particularly precious because it is not universal. – Rabindranath Tagore

Bask in your own bright light.

Gingerbread House…

18 Sunday Dec 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Crafts, Design, Food, Photography, Reflections

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A Holly Jolly Christmas, Art, Baking, beautiful, Christmas, Christmas baking, Crafts, Gingerbread House, Michael Bublé, Norman Vincent Peale, postaweek 2011

Have a holly, jolly Christmas,
It’s the best time of the year,
I don’t know if there’ll be snow,
But have a cup of cheer.
A Holly Jolly Christmas by Johnny Marks – sung by Michael Bublé

Voilà – this year’s gingerbread house thanks to very thick royal frosting!

Photo: James Currie

Pear Yellow…

29 Tuesday Nov 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Design, Food, Reflections

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Art, beautiful, Christina Rossetti, Pear, Poetry, watercolor


What is yellow? pears are yellow,

Rich and ripe and mellow.
from Color by Christina Rossetti 

A pear – my favorite shape of late.

Watercolor © Joan Currie

Autumn Cherub…

26 Saturday Nov 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Garden, Photography, Reflections, Writing

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Autumn, beautiful, Emily Dickinson, Garden, Photography, postaweek 2011

© Joan Currie

The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry’s cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I’ll put a trinket on.
by Emily Dickinson – Autumn 

My garden cherub beholds fall’s dramatic show of color.

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Thanksgiving…

23 Wednesday Nov 2011

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

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beautiful, Dance, Paul Bowles, Photography, postaweek 2011, Thanksgiving, The Sheltering Sky

© Joan Currie

Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty? And yet it all seems limitless.
from The Sheltering Sky movie, based on the book by Paul Bowles

Thanksgiving is almost upon us – savor every sweet moment of it.

I Love…

22 Tuesday Nov 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Fashion, Photography, Reflections

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Auden, beautiful, Lauren DiMarco, Love, Photography, Poetry, postaweek 2011

© Lauren DiMarco

I’ll love you til the ocean
Is folded and hung to dry,
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
from As I Walked Out One Evening by Auden 

I think I love too much.

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Harvest Sonnet…

21 Monday Nov 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Food, Photography, Reflections, Writing

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beautiful, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Photography, Poetry, postaweek 2011

© Joan Currie

A wagon stopped before the house; she heard
The heavy oilskins of the grocer’s man
Slapping against his legs. Of a sudden whirred
Her heart like a frightened partridge, and she ran
And slid the bolt, leaving his entrance free;
Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree by Edna St. Vincent Millay 

My table is laden with the fecundity of the season.

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