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Is getting what you need romantic?

12 Thursday Jan 2012

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

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Fashion, Photography, Postaweek 2012, Rolling Stones, Ukushu Khrystyna, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day gifts, You can't always get what you want

© Ukushu Khrystyna

You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you might find
You get what you need
Rolling Stones

We are just over a month away from Valentine’s Day. This year instead of being disappointed by all the romantic marks my Valentine does not hit on the Big Day, I am going to think about all the little things he does to demonstrate his love for me all year long. Things like changing a flat tire, lighting the pilot light on the wall heater of my new home, crawling under the foundation to check the plumbing, climbing up on the roof to fix the chimney flue, teaching me the finer points of power tools, driving me to visit my ailing parents a thousand miles away, and going along with my foreign film choices count for a lot. Maybe giving me what I need instead of what I want is the most romantic gift of all.

Model: Ukushu Khrystyna

The beginning of a beautiful romance…

10 Tuesday Jan 2012

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

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Emil Ludwig, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Postaweek 2012, romance, Scott Marrs

© Scott Marrs Photography

Not jewels, nor pride, nor spirit, nor smile, not even what is commonly called beauty, had captivated him in the unknown woman. Only the temper of her soul … the sudden sense of a bond beyond space and time was so great, that his heart, now completely awakened, grew warm in the sight of her. – Emil Ludwig from Of Life And Love

It is fascinating to discover what first attracts one to another.

Model: Lauren DiMarco

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Shared Experiences

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.

Christmas Finery…

04 Sunday Dec 2011

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

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Art, Fashion, Holiday gown, Holiday Season, Jean Paul Gaultier at the de Young, LM Montgomery, postaweek 2011

© Joan Currie

For a moment Anne’s heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes
faltered under Gilbert’s gaze and a rosy flush stained the paleness of her face.

from Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery 

I always have great hopes for a romantic holiday season.

Our Sweet Love…

16 Wednesday Nov 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Fashion, Photography, Reflections

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beautiful, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Poetry, postaweek 2011

© Lauren DiMarco

Come away, come, sweet love,
The golden morning breaks,
All the earth, all the air
Of love and pleasure speaks,
Teach thine arms then to embrace,
And sweet rosy lips to kiss,
And mix our souls in mutual bliss.

(Anonymous, English) 

I miss our sweet bodies intertwined.

Time for Reflection …

06 Tuesday Sep 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Fashion, Photography, Reflections

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Anaïs Nin, beautiful, Fashion, Photography, postaweek 2011

© Lauren DiMarco – detail

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. – Anaïs Nin

A penny for her thoughts…

Model: Lauren DiMarco

She Is…

05 Monday Sep 2011

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Anaïs Nin, beautiful, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, postaweek 2011

© Lauren DiMarco

…[she] supplies the beautiful incandescent flesh, the fulgurant voice, the abysmal eyes, the drugged gestures, the presence of a body, the incarnation of our dreams and creations.  – Anaïs Nin

Poetic beauty personified…

Model: Lauren DiMarco

White Topstitched Jeans…

21 Sunday Aug 2011

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Beatuy, Fashion, Jeans, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Walter Benjamin

© Joan Currie

No matter how artful the photographer, no matter how carefully posed his subject, the beholder feels an irresistible urge to search such a picture for a tiny spark of contingency… – Walter Benjamin

The safety pins on the belt loop looked charming…

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One beautiful chance…

17 Sunday Jul 2011

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Anne Tyler, beautiful, Beauty, Fashion, Photography, postaweek 2011, Rummy Makmur

© Rummy Makmur - detail

I‘ve never quite believed that one chance is all I get. – Anne Tyler

No mulligans, no dress rehearsals – this is your life, the green flash before the sun sets. Make the most of it!

Model – Lauren DiMarco

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Women Reading Books…

31 Tuesday May 2011

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

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Art, Brooker, Corot, Enjoiras, Fashion, Fragonard, Monet, Orpen, Perugini, Photography, postaweek 2011, Renoir, Sargent, Ukushu Khrystyna, van Gogh, Women reading

© Ukushu Khrystyna

Pierre-Auguste Renoir loved to paint women and girls engaged in everyday activities, especially reading. Below are beautiful paintings of women and girls reading:

1.  Woman Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
2.  Reading Woman by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
3.  Two Young Girls Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
4.  Young Woman Reading By A Window by Delphin Enjolras
5.  A Favorite Book by Delphin Enjolras
6.  A Woman Reading by Claude Monet
7. The Novel Reader by Vincent van Gogh
8.  Reading Lesson by Auguste Toulmouche
9.  Girl Reading or in the Orangery by Charles Perugini
10.  Girl reading by Franz Eybi
11. American Girl Reading by George Cochran Lambdin
12. A Young Woman Reading by Jean-Honore Fragonard
13. Woman Reading in a Landscape by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
14. Woman Reading by David Park
15. The Window Seat by Sir William Orpen
16. Grace Reading at Howth Bay by Sir William Orpen
17. The Treasured Volume by Harry Brooker
18. Compagnie by Escha Van den bogerd
19. Reading (The Artist’s Sister) by Berthe Morisot
20. Simplon Pass: Reading by Singer Sargent
21. The Little Convalescent by Eastman Johnson
22. Fire Opal by Laura Coombs Hills
23. Reading on the Rocks by John George Brown

Model: Ukushu Khrystyna

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