Good Morning

Good morning everyone..

 

This photo just makes me so happy, and I hope that I can get to be this enthusiastic every morning. However, and sadly though, I am a bit grumpy in the morning so it is no fun to have workers in your bathroom and kitchen for the next three weeks! Especially when you haven't had all the information you need to arrange yourself. Anyways, I just hope that no unforeseen problems will arise and they will be gone soon again.

Yeah, I am really a bowl of fruit loops this morning, ha!

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God morgen allesammen..

 

Jeg bliver i så godt humør af dette foto; jeg ville ønske, at jeg var sådan hver morgen. Men desværre er jeg altid lidt mut om morgenen, så det er ikke særlig sjovt at skulle have håndværkere i køkken og badeværelse de næste tre uger! Specielt når man heller ikke får al den information man har brug for hvis man vil prøve at leve i rodet. Jeg håber bare, at der ikke opstår uforudsete problemer og at de hurtigt bliver færdige igen.

Så ja, jeg er bare frk. solskin her til morgen...

 

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{Tumblr Crush} I am a dreamer

Sunday greetings my darlings! I hope this week has been kind to you and you are at good heart in planning the next.

As mentioned in my first post in this little series of my Tumblr crushes, I want to introduce some of my favourite blogs to you.

 

One of my very favourite tumblr blogs is 'I am a dreamer' by Val Molière and I must always restrain myself so not to reblog all her posts! I often wonder whether we are spireted twins because I feel so recognized and at home on her blog. Rustic nature and living meets challenging and inspiring design are perhaps the two key features on her blog. Whenever I have visited it, I feel more at ease and appreciative no less.

 

So here is a small compliation of her pictures which add up to this fantastic blog. Enjoy.

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Glædelig søndag til jer alle. Jeg håber, at denne uge har været god ved jer og at I ser frem til den næste.

Som jeg nævnte i det første indlæg i denne serie af Tumblr Crushes, så vil jeg introducere nogle af mine favorit blogs til jer.

 

En af mine absolutte favoritter er 'I am a dreamer' af Val Molière, og jeg skal virkelig styre mig for ikke at bruge alle hendes indlæg. Jeg har spekuleret på om vi er sjælelige tvillinger da jeg føler mig så genkendt og som om at jeg er hjemme når jeg ser på hendes blog. Rustik natur og bolig møder inspirerende og innovativt design er vel nok hovedtemaet ved hendes blog. Hver gang jeg besøger den føler jeg mig bedre tilpas og inspireret.

 

Så en lille samling af de billeder, som er med til at udgøre denne smukke tumblr blog. 

 

    

 

All images found via Val Molière's tumblr. Please visit her blog and enjoy much more like these.

*Marilyn Monroe*

Time and timelessness is a curious thing. On Sunday it is 50 years ago that Marilyn Monroe died. She has a long time ago entered the realm of myths and legends, so much that sometimes you kind of forget that she was a real breathing person. Even her sorrows and lows in her short life don't change that fact but even enhance her mythical status. I always find it slightly weird that my grandparents saw pictures of her in magazines and her pictures in the cinema when her movies was new and not-yet classics.

For a lifetime she has been gone, and most people just know the photos of the smiling blonde with the sexy walk at best. I have never thought that those studio-photos did her any justice. They were all too polished (my views are the same with today's over-retouched images) and never let her character shine through.

We will probably never know for sure whether her death was murder, accident, or suicide. However, I can't say that I don't understand her if it was the latter. No person can live up to a living legend-persona without problems at some point.

Last year (I think) a book with a collection of her diaries and notes was published, and fittingly called Fragments. The fragments until then had been the photos, films, biographies en masse, and other quite one-sided views about her. Now we had a small glimpse into her mind.

I guess we will always wonder what could have happened if a too-young artist had not died, the same goes for Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse, James Dean, Boddy Holly, John Lennon etc. Would Marilyn have embraced her aging, become braver or more difficult, married, had children? 

Could it have been possible for Marilyn to be happy? 

From what we know, it seems like she was too fragile and that her life was a candle burning brighter than all the rest - and twice as fast.

Perhaps she knew in a way that her life would be rather short. The continiously growing collection of pictures of her is a rather startling contrast to her short career (I don't really think 14 years is that long). I keep seeing 'new' pictures of her. It is like they compensate for her non-physical appearance, like statues of godesses scattered around old empires.

I have always loved her Vogue-sitting from 1962 photographed by Bert Stern. Especially the images of her more contemplating looks. Her maturity and innocence is captured just perfectly here, and I find that a worthy way of remembering her. I hope that she agrees.

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{Inspired by Green}

For the past three days, I have been busy going through my vast collection of cut-outs which I have accumulated through the years. Now since I both have my blog here and a tumblr, as well as Pinterest, I though it was time to scan most of them and upload them in stead of having them taking up physical space in my apartment.

So braise yourselves, because once in a while it will probably feel like a regular spamming session from me with images. However, due to my past not-so-organized self, many of the scans will not be credited.

However, today it will not be all just my scans but the post was inspired by one though. A close-up scan of a Givenchy or Balmain dress from some years ago now (looking through all of my scans really made me realize how fast time goes - especially in fashion land). And since, I always thought it to be a most stunning green, green is today's colour and inspiration.

Enjoy!

 A leaf in a microscope - I love the small happy faces!

 You can buy an excact replica of Kiera Knightley's green dress from Atonement. I'm tempted!

{Credits: 1: my scan; 2: Monkeyknifefight 3: a red flag will fly 4: Farfetch 5: via 6: Etsy 7: oldfashionedpretty 8: my tumblr 9: my tumblr 10: my tumblr 11: my tumblr 12: my tumblr and 13: my photo and edit}



{Frail Nature}

Hi guys, long at last! Truth be told, I had my final oral exam last Tuesday and it went beyond expectations, so I am very happy.. Nevertheless, I could feel the strain the stress had taken on me and thus was in much need of place, space, and quiet musings of and on my own. I have been ctaching up on my reading - for pleasure!

I almost started crying one day when I was sitting at a café reading, and realizing that I couldn't remember when the last time I had done that was... So overwhelmed just by finding myself doing one of the things I treasure most in the world. It was kinda scary really.. So I will be taking it very nice and easy this summer before the last battle is at dawn (meaning my dissertation).

These images are of another of my favourite things, branches. Their strength and frailty all at once; the stern boldness as well as the delicate flowers. At this point in my life, I feel very much like such a branch.

A small part of the bigger tree, but the tree wouldn't be without the branches, and yet the branches possess just as much beauty on its own as joined together with the rest of the tree.

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Happy Birthday, Charlotte Brontë

Just a small salute to the author of Jane Eyre.

I still wonder how it came to be that in the middle of nowhere in Yorkshire, three young girls were able to write at least two of the most beloved and haunting novels of all time.

Personally, I did not start off liking the Brontës at all - too much feeling and agony! But lately I have come to understand what they were trying to show. The much wider scope of feeling than Jane Austen would ever allow explicitly told, and somehow without the moral judgement of the same. My memories of the novels are better than my direct experiences with them. Nostalgia, or succombing to peer pressure?

Anyways, the artwork and the interpretations of Jane Eyre still show some of the most beautiful images I have seen.

Please enjoy,

{Candice Lesage} {her blog is here}



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Denim Accents

This spread is from an old Danish fashion magazine, Costume. Well, 'old' is probably rather big, however, in fashion life, 2005 is almost a million years ago. Nevertheless, I enjoy looking through my old magazines and either discover stuff I would hate to admit that I wore, or things that are surpricingly stylish yet or on the verge of becoming again. (Have you seen the scarf-hem skirts and dresses popping up? So 90s!!!!)

I fell for this spread's etheral look paired with the denim, and I think you could easily pull these looks off today without both eyebrows raised at you. Perhaps this is because of the denim. So wardrobe essential amd classic that almost anything with this fabric goes.

I used to not be a denim-loving girl, however, since I have lost some weight (much needed!) I have rekindled my relationship with it, and have discovered the love for straight jeans. My biggest problem though is the gap between my back and the denim. I always have to take in an inch after a while, but I cannot buy a smaller size due to my thighs. Anyone familiar with this hazzle? So I am not yet ready to spend big bucks on jeans until I have discovered a brand or style that can avoid this (or at least minimize drastically).

Have you any personal favourite pairing with denim? Need to dress it up with sparkles? Plain tees? Blazers?

What do you think of these suggestions?

Blue Bird in Costume no. 36 April 2005

Photographer: Jimmy Hansen/Portfolio

Stylist: Rikke Christensen

Model: Kenza/Elite Stockholm

Makeup&Hair: Anna Karin Sjöberg/Portfolio

Photo.Ass.: Mai Nordahl

Stylist Ass.: Maiken Winther