"we've become a race of peeping toms"

Watching Rear Window, I'm reminded how much I want to be Grace Kelly.








(All photos from Clothes on Film)

I once was lost, but now am found,

For a while, I was pretty lost. My life hit a turning point in the spring of this year. I suffered loss of friends, close and not so close. It was as if this was a sign that I needed to grow up. April was a test for me.
But now. I'm ok. I chose what path I was going to go on. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifI went back to the things I knew for sure. My friends I love unconditionally. Reading. Embroidering. Watching old movies.
I feel at home again.
Here is my latest embroidery project. A sweet mermaid I found in Doodle Stitching The Motif Collection by Aimee Ray



Happy June!!

Earrings

Good Lord. I'm so nuts about earrings at the moment. I've had my ears pierced for as long as I can remember, I think I was about 5 or 6. It took me 11 odd years to realize what a great accessory they are. Usually I jack them from my mothers collection of earrings.

These are my favorites
I'm not exactly sure where they came from but they fell into my loving hands. When I turn my head they sound like wind-chimes, I love it.
Any accessories obsessions for you?

end to a the penultimate year

"Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet."

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

(Photo)
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you. --Frida Kahlo

"When people are finding meaning in things -- beware."

--Edward Gorey

Waiting

Vanity Fair 2010 Hollywood Issue Cover
I find myself staring at this picture. For some reason it screams spring to me. Which is what I want desperately.