Lady Oracle: May 2011

21 May 2011

Similarity

Georgia O'Keeffe's hands and thimble

by Alfred Stieglitz

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Silver fingernail jewellery

Travel

Diana Vreeland

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I'm leaving tomorrow. Time to pack!

20 May 2011

Dear visitor, I know you stop by every now and again, my statistics tell me so, but I have no idea who you really are. With my blog up and running for about three months now, I would like to ask you for some feedback. Who are you? Why do you visit my blog? What do you like about it and what could be improved? Do you only stop by to look at and collect images or do you actually read the words as well? Do you get inspired? Please, if you have some time, I'd love to hear from you.

Similarity

Frozen (wandering series) by photographer Katie Baum

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Popsicles by photographer Laure Joliet

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Point of view

Supervisions, work by photographer

and artist Andreas Gefeller

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Kitchen by designer Rainer Spehl

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Knowlton School of Architecture

by photographer Ian Allen

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Kimono love

Vintage Japanese kimonos

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When I was four, I was given a real (tiny) kimono by my uncle, who worked in Japan at the time. It was red and gold and I wanted to wear it all the time: as a dressing gown, as a costume for carnival, as a coat or just as a dress in summer. When the moment came to say goodbye, when its silken threads had almost disintegrated, I cried and mourned its loss for months. When my first pay-check came, eighteen years later, I knew exactly which item of clothing I would invest in and started my search for my second kimono. I found it in a little shop selling vintage Japanese objects. It was perfect: black with hot pink and soft pink blossoms. It serves as a dressing gown in Summer, but most of the time, I hang it on my bedroom wall, so I can just look at it. I recently came across this website, which sells vintage kimonos and it sent my heart aflutter. Wouldn't it be nice if I could pick a kimono for every day of the week?

18 May 2011

The sun also rises

Marie Helvin on Vogue UK's 1974 May cover

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Necklace by artist Katy Krantz

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And I quote ...

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Soluble

Adam Smith

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Black iceberg n° 1, 2008

by artist Leslie Shows

Interior love

All images by Laure Joliet

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I'm an avid follower of Laure Joliet's blog. She's a photographer who also works as an interior designer. Above, some images of the house her father is building for himself in Mexico. I could move right in. Check out Laure's website for more of her work.

Maxi dressing

Stewart Brown Marrakech dress

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The perfect maxi-dress for languid Summer evenings. Also really nice, and perfect for upper-arm paranoia is J. Crew's Doria dress. I was thrilled to find an almost identical vintage dress at the Oxfam Boutique I volunteer at. Hurrah for recycling!

Summer reading

Tina Berning for the NY Times

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Travels with my aunt

by Graham Greene

The heart is a lonely hunter

by Carson McCullers

Quiet chaos

by Sandro Veronesi

Lucky break

by Esther Freud

Her fearful symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

Great house

by Nicole Krauss

Even though - officially - it's still Spring, I'll be creating my own private Summer next week. On Sunday, I'm heading off to the Côte d'Azur for a blissful week of R&R. A perfect time to catch up on some reading. These are the books I'm taking with me. What is on your Summer reading list?