Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Infactuation Station

I adore bright lines of converse sneakers...when I get rich I'll own at least one pair of these beauties! My favorite though is when they start to get that rugged, raggedy look to them...it always makes me want to slide them on and then hitchhike somewhere with my guitar and a notepad.


Speaking of bright colours, check out this slick art form! I feel inspired to try this out now...would be a cool paint design for a coffee table.


I adore candle light. I've decided that when I have my own place, and am married, every dinner will be candle lit. If it's hot dogs eaten over a messy table, that's alright...there will be candles and music just because I can.


There is so much life in this song that it needs to be shared.


This is one of many adorable homes that belong in fairytales that can be found here.
I'd love to have a little vacation home like this out in the country...with those candle-lit dinners, of course.



Monday, February 14, 2011

“When you love somebody....

...your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.” 
 -Karen (age 7) 

It is Valentines Day, and with that is an extra long post complied of everything that made me go 'awwww' just a little bit. No matter your relationship status, this day is about more than just romantic love...it is about loving and being loved. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it is something we can all use a little more of. 
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"And think not you can Direct the course of love, For love, If it finds you worthy, Directs your course."-Kahlil Gibran


"It's not that I can't live without you...it's just that I don't even want to try."






"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was choice, falling in love with you was beyond my control."


"For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."



A True Love Story: Couple Reunites after Decades Separated by the War.


"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."-Winnie the Pooh


"I, being, poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."-William Butler Yeats


"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."-Erica Jong


"When love is not madness, it is not love." -Pedro Calderon de la Barca


"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."-Eden Ahbez




"Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be."-Robert Browning

Saturday, February 12, 2011

"So Move Pen, Move."-Shane Koyczan.

This song has to be one of the sweetest concepts for a music video I've seen...very appropriately lovely this close to Valentines Day.


This is an incredible compilation of work done from a variety of artists and put into one book. This picture is just a sample of everything else that can be found here.


I'm not even sure how to describe it, but this picture makes me realize how big the world is and how small I am. It's like when you see a Planet Earth feature on insects and see ants communicating intelligently; there's this strange realization that not only am I only one of many humans, but I'm one of many species. Just when I think I'm grasping the idea that in every house on my block each person is doing something, and to each person they are the most important thing ever (and then in each city/country/continent etc.),I realize that each species has individual beings in each city, country, continent etc.


This is one picture of many sassy homework assignments that can be found here. I'm suddenly very tempted to do this to my teachers...


This poem makes me cry..."our relationship was an anthem composed of words like 'gotta go.'" Haunting.

Friday, February 11, 2011

'Start Every Day With a Smile and Get it Over With.' -W.C. Fields

Today I'm going to begin by loving something because it doesn't exist in my world... I love that I don't have to conform to these dating guidelines
(funny how what makes me laugh now was a serious reminder to women
not long ago!)


Everything about this picture makes me want to sidle up to a bar and ask for a martini...shaken, of course, not stirred.

One day I'll own this sneaky suitcase-chair. I love the colours and that brilliant re-use of an old piece of luggage.

I love sassy observations!


I love 'Men in Belted Sweaters,' but not for the reasons the advertisers wanted me to I suspect.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Things Which Implore Me to Adore

Gorgeous reminder.


I love fresh ways of looking at things...this certainly made me re-think some of my excuses.
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Louis Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Albert Einstein.”-H. Jackson Brown


Beautiful song, Tenuousness, from artist Andrew Bird.


Marcell is an adorable little shell...I think I'm in love.


Incredible, genius film...bringing a book to life, of course I love it!





Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Maybe That's What it all Comes Down to. Love.

"Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all."
-Emily Giffin







All from this glorious site here.