Inspired:

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Starlight Spotlight!

1. Anne Bancroft, 2. Window, 3. Untitled, 4. Untitled, 5. Corazón, 6. Natural Giver, 7. Am I K In Your Book?, 8. Laundry - Part II, 9. Paradise Tanager, 10. What's Important To Me

Starlight Spotlight day ...
bringing you my favourite reads and links of the week:

I will start with this picture from The Sartorialist,
a fresh, light, summer look spotted in Milan ...



just to remind me that it is summer somewhere in the
world right now, it should be here too ... all this bucketing
rain would make you think otherwise!



I loved the Moschino Cheap&Chic Resort collection,
these are two of my favourite looks,
but I could see myself wearing most of it,
see it for yourself
at Style.com.






Beautiful jewellery from Ayala Bar,
I discovered this on Frizzifrizzi, a great Italian blog.
I had a problem with the Ayala Bar link, I couldn't visit
the site because it kept asking me to download a flash
player, I did as I was told, but the site still prompted me to download
the player, I hope you have more luck and will be able to enjoy
looking at this wonderful, unique jewellery, made with
textiles, glass, beads and stones.


Untitled Dress

Automatism posted about artist Valerie Hammond,
I enjoyed her work very much, I also can't wait
to explore the rest of the artists at the Garson Fine Art
website, I already spotted a few that made my heart flutter,
expect to see them talked about here in the future!

Honorable Mentions:

• Cute blog about unlikely animal friendships
called Let's Be Friends, via FFFFound.

I want one of these collar cameras for my Ruby ...
althought I'm afraid I will get close up pictures of deer poo
and tissue paper which seem to be her favourite things!


via Recovering Lazyholic

Happy Sunday Everyone!
what's left of it!

Going Mobile: Daily Walks

Ruby as a puppy back in November

Sometimes I forget to take my "proper camera" when
on my daily walks with Ruby, when I do it accidentally on
purpose, because I can be bothered to carry it around, I
end up taking pictures with my mobile phone,
I decided to share those pictures with you,
expect to see a post titled Going Mobile every once in a while,
with the solemn promise that I shall refrain from
posting too many pictures of my dog doing doggy like things
in the Park.


Blue Flower in my yard, these flowers were so beautiful! With velvet petals
of the deepest blue, I was so pissed off when Ruby ate all the flowers!


Icy Leaf


Phoenix Park




Chesterfield Avenue


Shadow Play






I'm in love with these hills,
how many times have I photograph
them now?




Ruby all grown up!

Inspired :

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I Dream Of This: Places

Links:
Katrin Arens
Jordi Canosa

We Love Lucy

Sequins, prints and beads,ruffled dresses, lace, silk
and suitcases, mysterious drawers, hidden delights,
all this and so, so, so much more is Lucy's Lounge,
Dee's delightful second hand clothes shop.

Dee's blog documents her outfits and the colourful
and stylish costumers of Lucy's Lounge
in the basement at 11 Fownes Street,
Temple Bar here in Dublin, if you happen by
make sure to take a peek inside and say hallo!

Starlight Spotlight!

It's back! Starlight Spotlight day! I have a whole lot of links to share
with you, amazing photography, more papery crafts,
inventive DIY and some more wonderfulness picked from my Google Reader.

Let's start with these beautiful images of Audrey Hepburn taken by photographer
Bob Willoughby, these pictures have been making the rounds on many blogs
but in case you haven't seen them yet here's a link to the Flick'r set,
I enjoyed the rest of his photostream just as much, a fascinating insight
into the workings of some of the most iconic movies of our time.



From beautiful people to beautiful art, how else to describe
this Paper Castle?

Via Tokiobling

100 Beautiful paper art creations at Webdesigner Depot

Julia Brodskaya


I'm fascinated by these paintings by artist Tyson Roberts,
at first I thought they where colour studies, but slowly
landscapes emerged in front of my eyes ... I could look
at them forever! I demand a Dublin exhibition!

Via Dear Ada

Towards Tomorrow, a series of oceanic landscapes by Marine Hugonnier
found via Katy Elliot

Stunning images from Murray Fredericks thanks to Concrete and Honey

Mallory from Where The Lovely Things Are
posted miss Capricho's illustration, I love it!

via Loveliness

This little cutie is a Fennec fox, a nocturnal fox found
in the North Sahara Desert, it is the only species
of fox that can be kept as a pet, according to wikipedia that is,
reading that they are hard to house-train might discourage most of us
...with that thought let's move on to some more cutie cuteness, Milk Toof
is the sweetest blog ... follow the adventures of ickle and Lardee!

Honorable Mentions:
• From sketch to catwalk : The Making Of A Chanel Haute Couture Outfit
• I want one of these in my garden ... and a garden!
• Great Slide Show tutorial at The Last Stitch
• More forgotten places
• Couldn't we do this to all our cities?
• Inspired DIY ideas

Some view!

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Live the life you have imagined."

Henry David Thoreau

Happy Week-end everyone!

I Want, But I Can't Have!

Well, I was on my way to bed ...so what am I doing posting at 2.30 am?
I'm doing you a favour that's what! See the dress?

It's only $33 from the Urban Collection.
I love it, but I can't buy it because of my Wardrobe Refashion pledge,
even though it is vintage and technically I could ... O.k., I can't
buy it because I'm totally broke and literally counting the pennies!
This dress needs a good home, please adopt it!
With that ... I shall love you and leave you ...
Buonanotte e sogni d'oro!

Changing Rooms

Taking changing room photography to an whole new level,
Elle Muliarchyk portrayed herself guerilla style in dressing rooms all over New York.

Posing as a well-heeled shopper and armed with the most unlikely props
- like the giant gorilla hand in the picture above, how the hell did she manage
to sneak that in?- she snaps herself wearing the most expensive designer clothes,
at times getting into trouble because of it.

Take a minute to watch her interview on Fashion TV,
in it she explains her method, and some of the embarrassing
situations she found herself in.

Autumn Whitehurst

If you are a regular reader of this blog you will be aware by now that
my favourite style of illustration is messy, loose and dirty,
miles away from this is Autumn Whitehurst, all the same
I couldn't help but love her illustrations.



Autumn Whitehurst decided to become an illustrator
while sitting in a late night diner,
this impulse surely paid off, these days
her client list includes Vogue Italia and
Nylon Magazine among others, a lesson perhaps in
following your gut instincts.

Read an in-depth interview at Altpick,
more artwork, including some of her paintings, at Webesteem.

Peggy Moffitt

Her face is etched on the 60's movie reel in my head, my idea of the 60's that is, collected from a mish mash of references, swinging London, Paco Rabanne, Pierre Cardin, Velvet Underground, The Factory, Twiggy, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Blow Up, Penelope Tree, David Bailey, The Beatles, the list goes on and on... 'til yesterday Peggy Moffitt was only a face as I didn't know her name (shame on me I know), but always remembered that famous picture of her wearing the controversial Rudi Gernreich monokini taken by her husband, the amazing photographer William Claxton.

Muse and collaborator of american designer Rudi Gernreich, Peggy Moffitt embodies the spirit of the 60's, her style heavily influenced by Japanese Kabuki theatre, the biggest false eyelashes and heavy make up, and of course, her signature haircut by Vidal Sassoon
which she's still sporting today.
These days she still champions the work of Rudi Gernreich,
with exhibitions and a book which came out in 1999,
this led to a collaboration with Comme des Garçons
re-creating a number of key pieces from the designer archives.

Basic Black

I like this woman, I like her a lot, she's just as stylish and original today
as she was in the 60's, living proof that you don't
have to squeeze into a sensible suit when you reach a
"certain age".

Refashionista

There, I've done it ... I went and took the pledge on Wardrobe Refashion, you know what this means? It means two whole months without buying any clothes, I will have to make my own, either from scratch or by refashioning old clothes ...
Thing is, I do have a mountain of clothes that I thrifted intending
to cut up and sew so, if anything, I will have some space back at the
end of this experiment!
I'm not a fool, I know myself ... I've only signed up for the minimum
time possible ... I wonder how many people take the pledge for life,
fairplay to them, but I suffer from withdrawal symptoms already
just thinking about the two months ahead of me.
Wish me luck and stay tuned for some DIY
or, worst case scenario, some fashion disasters!