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Why don't we...
... dress up in funny animal costumes and look very dignified (I'll take the rabbit one)...
... pretend we're serious avant garde dancers and come up with some fresh dance moves (but, between you and me, we'll only be goofing around)...
... giggle until our giggles run dry (which will be never as we have an endless supply).
Hope you're weekend is lovely.
xoxoxo
{photo via}
We went to the botanical garden yesterday...
... and it felt like Autumn...
We almost never visit in August, and I was hoping we would enjoy some sun while there.
The only thing that looked like sunshine were these flowers...
I figured they were a pretty good substitute.
And these poppies looked like upturned ladybugs, which impressed me to no end...
... as did these little jester hat/bell-shaped sweet things...
It was foggy and the air smelt like earth and rain. The paths were soft and slippery and leaves glisteningly green.
The misty atmosphere ended up feeling so perfect and refreshing.
I've picked up some beautiful leaves that were scattered on our paths and created a little display...
I think the leaves will look lovely framed.
Unfortunately I will have to leave out the little round Ginkgo fruit as I don't think he will press nicely under glass :). Perhaps I should use a shadow box instead?
Hope you had a lovely weekend.
xoxoxo
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Lovely Frieda Kahlo. Every time I see a color photograph of her I get so pleasantly overwhelmed by her appearance.
And that's also how I felt a couple of years ago seeing her paintings at SFMOMA. It's always somehow so surreal to me when I see these famous paintings in person. Paintings I'm so used to seeing in art books. Surreal and wonderful.
There are two exhibits in San Francisco this year which I am so eager to see, and hopefully will see. They are at the de young museum. The first one is "Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay" (featuring works by Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir...) and immediately after it "Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay." I'm very excited about it.
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What are you doing this weekend? I always make great plans, like, repot all the plants, decoupage the refrigerator (see note on the bottom of this post), do a big cleaning, work a lot, read a book, tidy my closet, visit the antique mall and have a brunch at Amber India (great Indian restaurant).
Unfortunately, or luckily, most of the time I end up having long leisurely coffee at a cafe, and maybe I work a little.
This weekend I'm determined to at least repot a couple of plants and at least decoupage the front of the refrigerator. And I'm looking forward to it plenty.
Hope your weekend will be a pleasant one.
xoxoxo
{I was going to decoupage the refrigerator with my lovely paper last weekend (as announced in this post), but realized that I was not going to have enough paper for the whole fridge. And the art-store had none left! And it's such a nice paper. So, I'm going to have to improvise and use maybe a solid purple and green paper for the sides. I hope it looks good!}
Time moves too fast for me. It seems like it was Friday only yesterday. I blinked and now here it is again. Well, welcome Friday!
It's going to be a working weekend for me as I've gotten quite a large order for my Papercut Art from a gallery in Monterey, Mexico, and I need to ship it out soon. But, I'll find the time for a short stroll and a cup of coffee with my husband in one of our favorite local cafes.
I'll leave you with several of my favorite photos and things I discovered this week...
Waving the ship goodbye, I wonder where it was sailing to...
Ophelia Tapestry Coat - I so desperately want it, although I think I would be too shy to wear it!
This 1940s photo makes me want to get a tattoo.
Vanessa Bell (Virginia Wolf's sister) and Duncan Grant's Address Book @ Tate Britain Archives - they were so artistic, they even hand made and painted their address book. Remember my post on Charleston House?
Found in an abandoned attic of a 19th century New York home, a lost garden statue without a head. Imagine if you walk into a dark attic and run into that!
Flowers in a Jug by Eileen Mayo, 1930 - the colors in this painting are just amazing.
Little Bo Peep by Louis Icart, circa 1927. Such a great etching, so playful and the women are so graceful.
Flower soup, mmm, looks too good to eat. :)
Kate Moss & Johnny Depp, once upon the time, in love. Although I like his other girlfriends, Wynona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis, I think I liked Kate the best. Don't they look like a positively perfect match?
Have a great weekend!
xoxoxo
Hope your weekend fills up with lovely things, events, emotions and memories. Great food... brunch, a picnic, lantern lit dinner in the garden. With a loved one, a pet, or with your own good company. Lots of fun and laughter, treasure hunting, drawing, sewing, dancing, weeding.
Weeding?
Ever since our visit to the Arboretum and seeing that succulents greenhouse, I've been daydreaming of us owning one. I would love to be able to put on my overalls, a big straw hat, gardening gloves and with my husband in tow spend the whole Saturday digging through dirt and smelling the fresh flowers.
That would be just lovely!
This foggy, wonderfully lit garden is so magical... I'm sure the greenhouse is just over on the left. :)
Even though we don't have a garden or a greenhouse yet, I think I'll try to find us some dirt to dig through anyway. And a fragrant flower or two to bury our noses into.
Whatever you do, hope you have a wonderful time!
xoxoxo
Have a lovely weekend.
And a happy long Easter weekend to those who celebrate.
We have nothing special planned, all our time will be reserved for blissfully relaxing sessions.
Lots of reading, too. I'm several pages into "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery and I already see that I'm going to enjoy this book very much.
I'm sure I'll be doing some flower spotting, too, perhaps a dog, a cat or two. We have a man in our neighborhood who takes his cat out for a walk on a leash. Terry saw them once, her in a tree, clawing on a branch, him still holding onto a leash, waiting patiently below. I saw them attempting to walk to a park, which was not an easy task as she kept running away from the park, hiding in the bushes and behind the trees. Perhaps I'll luck out and snap a curious, funny, cat walking snapshot.
Glorious weekend, here we come.
xoxoxo
{photos - forever lovely Bloom magazine}
I feel like I need this weekend to be dressed up pretty and feeling cozy, as I'm either coming down with a cold or suffering from some kind of spring allergy and therefore feeling quite poorly. Spring is here, indeed. We felt it today, with our perfect 72 degrees. Oh, yes, it's going to be all about lounging and reading, a bit of crafting and a lot of relaxing, long walks and infusions of green.
To set the mood here are some of my favorite images on this quiet Friday...
Beautiful Louise Brooks, dressed in the most appealing velvet, surrounded with the perfect shade of pink and settled in a comfortable, over-sized chair.
Illustrations of pretty chairs and sofas, in my favorite stripes.
A little reading and romance and perhaps some daydreaming, too.
If only I knew how to sew... even so, one of these days one of this wonderful vintage (Singer?) sewing machines is bound to find a spot in our home.
Mmmm, if one has a bed like this, one needs nothing else.
Pretty and unusual music chairs, would fit beautifully next to an old grand piano.
What an amazing painting this is, Fireplace by James Tissot, it's attempting to draw me right in.
A spot of lying on the grass and inhaling the smell of spring is in order, as are the greenest socks one could find or bear to wear.
It's a tree, no, it's a horse, no, it's a lady riding a horse in the trees. And it's delightful. (Rene Magritte, Carte Blanche)
It would be just lovely to end the day with a long "Wuthering Heights" kind of stroll, through the wide and wild moors, heavy with fog and mystery.
Hope your weekend is full of charm, lovely surprises and relaxing moments!
xoxoxo
