Tuesday's Odds & Ends

Items like this make me want to take a wood-shopping class... then I remember my fear of circular saws. Ah, there goes the urge like a box of Krispy Kreme donuts in a room full of Airmen! Oh, lovely chair, you're still lovely. Too bad it's mad expensive... and sold out. On the bright side, the website has so many pretty, pretty things. With every post and site I cruise I am reminded of how clever and in search of beauty people are, how they continually carve it from whatever object grabs their clever fancy. It makes me kind of proud of "us".

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Idaho, but why???


This is a hotel. I kid you not. And it's for people. Again, I kid you not.

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Oh, History.com, what would we do without you?
On April 20, 1980 (hey, by this time, I'd been gestating in my mother's womb for about a month -- fun fact), the Castro regime announces that all Cubans wishing to emigrate to the U.S. are free to board boats at the port of Mariel west of Havana, launching the Mariel Boatlift. The first of 125,000 Cuban refugees from Mariel reached Florida the next day.

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Every Dawn

For me this is the sound of every dawn:
from 0:00 the first blush;
long, lean tendrils to wash the sky in blue.
And as her voice kicks in,
all things holy rise... all things corporeal rise...
to herald the dawning.

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Omiya is off the track listing of the film soundtrack, Kama Sutra
I highly recommend the film and the soundtrack.
The film is an exercise in sensuality, petulance and passion.
The soundtrack is, to quote a YouTuber, simply blissful from start to finish.
It is what made me such a Mychael Danna (the OST composer) fan.

How F-ing Cool Is That?!

pilfered from the blog, Elements of Style

Sometimes I see an object, hear a song or read a line somewhere and think,
"If only I were as cool as this [insert here]..." This is one of those times.
How f-ing cool is that piece of art?! It's acting as a headboard, a headboard, people!!!
It is SO gorgeously distressed, to steal a phrase from Rachel Zoe, I DIE.
I mean, your eye just goes, "Whaaaaaaat!!!!" in full soprano!

I Want

... to live here:

pilfered from blog, Elements of Style
the hotel, La Mamounia


please?

pilfered from blog, Elements of Style
the hotel, La Mamounia



pilfered from blog, Elements of Style

pretty please?

pilfered from blog, Elements of Style
the hotel, La Mamounia


(I WANT)
... to bathe here:

pilfered from blog, Elements of Style
the hotel, Bellinter

a girl's purple tub

When I am old, I am shall bathe in purple...



...............................................................Isn't this just delicious???

Now I dream of a violet footed bathtub and golden roman shades for my windows.
I am such a style whore, ^_^! Thank you, Tha Hotness blog, for sharing your 'bathroom porn'
with the interweb at large.

all the lovely things... Like a Butterfly

lovely and cheap ($8)
just the sort of thing I love!

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A song currently rattling 'round my head,
a hum on my lips? Dolly Parton's
Love is Like a Butterfly,
a delicate melody and lyric.

all the lovely things

... I can afford, *grin*:





cb2, I love you! Domino (magazine) Online
has one or two usage suggestions for these
metallic balls of twine. For my part I'm
wondering if a more ambitious person could
turn these inexpensive fixtures ($4.95 a pop)
into lighting/lamps?




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Too awesome, another Domino find! Forget
"Prince Albert in a can" -- what about flowers? ($10)

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all the lovely things

... I can't afford, sigh: a pair of earrings ($138); a bracelet ($74);
a ring -- and I don't like rings ($118)

... I can't afford but will probably splurge on: a bangle ($48)


The aforementioned items are courtesy of -- Anthropologie, a company for whom style is mixture of grace, delicacy and a touch of whimsy. Check out their gorgeous catalogue/website, if possible.