Little Match Girl: inspiration

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Books Galore

The Boy and I are big on books. We have a compulsion to get our hands on every book we can and we won't get rid of a single one - and that includes our many, many textbooks from school.

...and that's not it.

Books have begun to spill over onto our Enetri shelves

(as an aside,

I really think that I could use a picture or something

to put on the wall over the shelves...

but then again, this side of the living room has already got enough going on.

What do you think?)

This is what I meant when I said that we were quickly running out of space in the apartment for all our books in a previous post. I would probably need to get rid of some furniture to fit those pieces in here, but it's a moot point when you consider their price tags.

As much as I love having all those books, I think that if we had our own place we could renovate and rebuild a room just around our books as the "centerpiece".

For example...

Ike Kligerman Barkley

This last image is from a book that The Boy's sister got me as a gift.

How perfect is this?

I can't wait to just curl up in bed and devour this book!

(By the way,

sorry for not having

photo credits for

every picture...

these are pictures that

I have amassed just visiting

blogs and design websites

and I lost track of where

they all came from :( )

I'm Bored

Time for a change...

More white...with pops of colour.

thoughts?

Oh, Alice! What a Wonderful Dress

I meant to write about this sooner, but I didn't. I procrastinated. We all have our talents, and procrastination is mine.

We went to see Alice in Wonderland, and you cannot imagine how much I was looking forward to this movie. I watched the Disney movie over and over when I was a kid (except for the part with the dodo, I had even forgotten that was in the movie. Which reminds me, did they add that part in a redux version or something?). The Mad Hatter is one of my favourite Disney characters and the Mad Tea Party, my favourite Disney scene - it cracks me up to this day. And don't even get me started on how cool the Cheshire Cat is.

Here it was, finally! Alice in Wonderland directed by Tim Burton(!), the master of weird coolness with Johnny Depp(!) as the Mad Hatter and all the awesomeness that that entails.

I say this so that you hear me when I say that I wanted to like it. I didn't hate it and maybe my expectations were too high (though, I don't think that's the case, I get my hopes up for a lot of movies and I'm not ~~usually~~ always disappointed) but it fell flat. I'm not gonna go into detail but suffice it to say it wasn't worth the price of the IMAX movie ticket.

I will, however, go into detail about what I loved. The visuals! The movie looked awesome. The colours, the costumes, the make-up... it all looked great.

I love this. The flowers look just perfect.

How can one not have sky-high hopes with these shots?

I also thought the dresses that the ladies wore (when Alice is still in the real world) looked fantastic. I wish we could still dress like that and not look like we were in costume.

so pretty

While making the rounds of some of my favourite websites, I kept stumbling upon dresses, shoes and accessories that reminded me of the movie, which might've been the point.

1. steve madden; 2.-3. unique-vintage

1. aldo; 2. american apparel; 3.unique-vintage

Aurélie Bidermann

Gypsy Lady Hats

tempusfugit

Check out the Alice in Wonderland tour photos here.

Now, we wait to see what happens with Maleficent. That's right, ladies and gents, a re-imagining of 1959's Sleeping Beauty from the p.o.v of the bad guy. I am intrigued...

À La Hepburn

Ever since my Breakfast at Tiffany's encounter, I have become totally obsessed with Audrey Hepburn. I found this gorgeous picture while reading up on her and her other movies.

This picture is currently adorning my desktop. I just love, love, love the colours in this picture.

I'm definitely keeping this in my pictures folder for future inspiration...perhaps a wedding palette.

And while I'm on the subject on Breakfast at Tiffany's, I really liked Holly Golightly's sleeping apparel. Especially the sleeping mask (I think the ear plugs might make me feel a little too paranoid and claustrophobic)

They're so funny and quirky. Love it

AND I found an exact replica (to my untrained eyes, anyway) of the mask on Etsy. I never use the mask I have, but I totally want this one.

Take My Breath Away

I instantly fell in love with this dress.

H&M

I honestly can't get it out of my head. Too bad I spotted it to late. At $14.95, it sold out within 2 days in every H&M in the Greater Montreal Area.

But now, I'm a woman on a mission. I must have a dress and this dress will be my inspiration.

Requirements (I don't take my missions lightly):

• material: chiffon

• colour: dark blue
• detailing: ruffles
• length: knee

I have desperately been trying to cut way back on my spending to save up for the big move, which means I've been trying to limit my spending on the bare necessities, but my birthday's coming up - perfect timing, I say.

I don't if I'll be able to find exactly what I'm looking for, but I definitely want something feminine, comfortable and easy to wear. I don't have a single dress I can just throw on, I always have to worry about bra straps showing or wearing a slip underneath. I want a dress that I don't have to plan for; something to be worn casually or on a night out.

Here are a few of come across just today...not the same price range, but the ship has sailed on that deal.

J.Crew silk taffeta dress

(doesn't quite fit what I wanted, but still so pretty)

Mod Cloth dress

If only it were darker. I love dresses with pockets, by the way.

YesStyle chiffon shirt-dress

I love the sleeves on this one, and it's pretty close to what I had in mind (I think I would like to change the buttons from white to navy)...but I'm a little reluctant to buy a dress online.

This YesStyle website is so great, though. I think it's time to get over my reluctance to buying clothes online.

Here's another cute one

Shirred Sleeve Chiffon Dress with Brooch

I've checked most of the websites I could think of, but I do have a few more I'd like to check out before I make my way to the mall.

Anyone have some interesting websites or shops to suggest? Thanks!

Until next time, g'night.

Inspiration: Trees

I can't get enough of trees. They have a peaceful, ancient aura about them that I love.

And I love that trees are the inspiration for jewelry, clothing, wallpaper and the like. Here are just a few of the great things to be found on Etsy.

wall sticker - contemporarydreams

tree of life necklace - ccvalenzo

jewelry stand - selinabeadsnbits

table stand - selinabeadsnbits

men's t-shirt - CritterJitters

Just the amount of tree-inspired jewelry that there is on Etsy is incredible! I could spend more hours (and money) browsing these than I care to admit.

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Just look outside your window for some inspiration.

I especially enjoy the look of the bare trees in my parent's backyard

Keep Calm or Freak Out?

I've been seeing this poster a lot lately.

And I'm a little embarassed to admit that I had no idea what it was and that I was, in no way, inclined to even find. Then I came across it printed on a mug while shopping at the Bramble House with my mom. I had figured a while back that the poster was probably a British-thing (note the crown), and I figured who better to ask about this then my British mother. She didn't know.

I just found out that it was a propaganda scheme cooked up by the British Government in 1939 at the beginning of the WWII, in the event that Nazi Germany succeed in taking England. It was never distributed and it was only rediscovered in 2000. (source: Wikipedia. Don't judge, it has decent answers to all my questions.)

What prompted me to look it up was this:

Slogan by Olly Moss

I was browsing the t-shirts on threadless.com and came across this. I thought it was really funny, but felt like I was still missing something.

After looking it up, I checked out the image results for "keep calm and carry on" and some people are getting creative with this poster, using it as a template for different messages: "Get Creative and Make Things", "Keep Dogs and Carry On" "Don't Tell Me to Settle Down"

I think the "Now Panic and Freak Out" is the funniest. I would love to have both poster in the house, in different places and put the original in the entrance (or something) so people sit it first. It will be especially funny when people come across the second one.

This really opens the door personalize this poster for your home or office. Can you think of a clever slogan?

Wishful Thinking

So it seems like winter's on it's way out -emphasis on the word seems. This happens every year, sometimes several times. The weather gets warm, the snow starts to melt, we start taking out the lighter jackets, we start thinking of all the great things spring brings and our hope that hopeless, lifeless, desolate season that is winter has come to a close.
But just you wait, sometime in March, those hopes for spring will be dashed and we'll find ourselves knee-deep in freshly fallen snow. What's pretty in November/December (often October, let's be honest) is like a nightmare in March/April.

And after the fresh snowfall, comes the cold snap and the ice!

And a lot of the time, this cycle starts up again in April, albeit to a lesser degree...

Ah! The joy of Canada!*

*this comment is sarcastic and excludes the province of British Columbia, and especially Victoria.

It may not be as pretty as fresh snow,

but the important thing is that it melts...

even if it'll be back.

Silver lining: Just as the stores bring out the winter merchandise in August, they also bring out the summer clothes in February! It's bittersweet, all these new styles and flouncy materials and flowery prints are gonna have to wait another few months before they can really shine -it just isn't the same when they're hidden under layers and layers of clothing...but it is my light at the end of this very cold tunnel.

As per the usual, I love the American Eagle summer line