October Photo Challenge...

I decided to create my own photo challenge this month! Follow me on instagram and post your own as well! #photoctoberchallenge3

Happy October & Happy Snapping!

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde

"Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end, no apologies, no regrets."
-Clark Moustakas

"...Forget conventionalism; forget what the world will say, whether you are in your place or out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval."
-Susan B. Anthony

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Image 2: Harvey Fienstein quote

Welcome Back...

I have been out of action for quite some time now. I guess I got a tad busy with student teaching, finishing up getting my teaching credentials, traveling to London to visit my sister, and considering what to do next with my life!

I have so many great things to share from all my recent adventures. Now that I have some more free time, my goal is to blog more consistently.

Come back soon for more from London, book club, culinary experiments, and more...


For now, check out this charming short film that just won an Oscar!

What a Gal...

Summer...

This video is simply lovely. I am enjoying student teaching, but I'm also wishing I was getting some more summer lovin'!


An Ode to Summer from Kinfolk on Vimeo.

Ballerina Beauty....

I have been very inspired by the beauty of ballerinas recently.

I don't know what it is that is so captivating about them.

Perhaps the pain and suffering they endure is what shines through to create their remarkable beauty.

She had blue skin.

And so did he.

He kept it hid

And so did she.

They searched for blue

Their whole life through,

Then passed right by –

And never knew.

("Masks" by Shel Silverstein)

Photos from:

http://balletballetballet.tumblr.com/
http://ballerinaproject.com/please-help-the-ballerina-project-with-your-vote
http://zsazsabellagio.blogspot.com/

Photo Challenge...

I do believe I shall participate in a new photo challenge for the month of May! It always helps to get a little direction for your inspiration! And, now that I have graduated, I will have a little bit of extra time until student teaching in June! Yay!
Original Website.

Current Crush: Everyday Musings...

I have a major blog crush on Olivia Rae and her Everyday Musings. She is a lovely little lady living in the charming city Charleston. Her blog captures the sunsets, porch parties, camping trips, traveling adventures, eating experiences, and more of her life. Her lifestyle is simply lovely and I wish to incorporate some of it into my own!

Take a peek at some of her gorgeous photography...

Breakfast at the Beach

Tuesday Roses

Juice

Gullah/Geechee Pop Up Supper

First Farmers Market

Dinner Party on the Porch

Sunday

The Quick Dip

Sunday Evening on Folly

Weekend

"The drive to our beach house is not one that I ever dread or try to rush; it's the perfect transition from normal life into beach life -- hot pink skies, marshes that seem to go on forever and epically fluffy clouds, where chic bars and French restaurants cease to exist and the sunsets make you wonder about the people who were here hundreds of years ago, watching the same glowing orange sun go down."

And here is a video from Olivia's trip to the Loire Valley in France...

Amazing Art...

People can sure do some amazing stuff with art these days.

Exhibit A: a due Colori

By Italian photographer Alberto Seveso

Underwater Ink Photography..CRAZY! I could have sworn there were people in masks in there before I found out what the medium was!

Exhibit B: "The Great Wall" and "Biblios"

By Guy Laramee

Proof that we ARE still in the Romantic Era...

"So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we  know, everything we think we are."

Quote source

"The Great Wall"

"Biblios"

Exhibit C: The Chromatic Typewriter

By Tyree Callahan

Second Photo here

A 1937 Underwood typewriter transformed into an art machine...

Exhibit D: "Geode" Street Art Project

By Paige Smith of A Common Name

Found in LA

Feeling French?

Then watch this cute & silly little video on French cliches. Quite lovely!

Flighty Temptress...

I am back!
I was out of life all last week due to a miserable case of strep throat and I am finally better!

I have continued with my March Challenge although some of my different/new things were not so much fun (getting strep, getting a penicillin shot, having an IV...), but I have been feeling very inspired lately by adventure and fantasy. Maybe it is due to the droning boredom of being sick or maybe it's the fantasy novels I have been reading for my children's literature class.
Whatever the case, I would like to now share some of my current sources of inspiration. Here goes nothing...

1. Lovely Quotation Bookmarks (& other things) from SparrowNestScript


2. "Poseidon's Proxy" by Lissy Elle


3. Teepees and Forts...

4. Free People's Spring Clothing


5. Bunnies! (photos from Rosuuuu)


6. Kara Haupt's insights for 2012
Especially #4...
"4. “And why don’t you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it.” That this quote by Helene Cixious is important. And why don’t I create?"
7. Breakfast at the Beach
A lovely idea I might just have to steal...


8. Alexandra Valenti's Photography...very gyspy inspired