wednesday wisdom.

(The Dowager Countess is my homegirl.)

ps. Season 3 Downton Abbey, you are dead to me.

You hear me? Dead.

wednesday wisdom.

wednesday wisdom.

whoops...didn't mean to disappear for a week!  

Back soon with fun and inspiration!

wednesday wisdom.

wednesday wisdom.

Kristine, (or K2 as I like to call her)

 this one's for you.

love ya!

Collar Inspiration

I've got 4 woven blouses in the "UFO" pile that just need hems and buttonholes/buttons.  It's always the little things, isn't it? I can set in a sleeve and attach that collar and I stall on the EASIEST PART!  Argh.

Anywho...4 unfinished blouses isn't enough to stop me from dreaming about a whole slew of new ones (especially since all 4 of these will have to have the darts taken in so they fit now!)  Currently, I'm especially taken with collars.

Like this lovely from Puttin-on-the-Ritz:

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A wide peter pan with keyhole:

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Another scaled down peter pan:

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lace...

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And whoever said I am not appreciative of subtlety has clearly been hitting the sauce. Subtle shaped collar right here folks..

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If you can figure out this next foldy origami-ish collar and send me the instructions, I'll give you ten cookies. And some tasty fudge.

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Another simple lace collar...easy to substitute allover lace for fabric! Probably backed in organdy or another sheer (I'll take organdy over chiffon any day).

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Speaking of organdy...I don't think there are words for how much I love this organdy collar with faggoting. Over a vintage 30s print.  No. Words.

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This layered almost-collar is so very 1930s too:

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Pintucked velvet..

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Pintucked velvet seems like a proper place to stop salivating.  And could I get any more dainty and girlified?  No?  Oh you just wait.  I saved all the bows and tie collars and necklines for a post all their own!

You're welcome.

And in the spirit of gratitude in this week of Thanksgiving, I'd like to say...I'm thankful for all of you. Your visits and comments and emails and snark add much to my days.  Without you I would be convinced that the world out there is not fit for the me in here. Or vice versa. So thank you.

wednesday wisdom.

wednesday wisdom.

wednesday wisdom

Congratulations, Mr. President!

wednesday wisdom.

ps...NaNoWriMo begins...in 6 hours.

wednesday wisdom.

paradox.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts 

there can be no more hurt, only more love. 

~Mother Teresa

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wednesday wisdom.

Love, a story in pictures.  Here.  

Thank you Julia, makin me cry.

In a good way.

beauty.

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies,

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meets in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellow'd to that tender light

Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impair'd the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress

Or softly lightens o'er her face,

Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek and o'er that brow

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent.

~Lord Byron

thursday thinky.

Otherwise known as: Oops. I missed Wednesday Wisdom. 

be yourself.

joy.

We are shaped by our thoughts; 

we become what we think. 

When the mind is pure, 

joy follows like a shadow 

that never leaves.

~Buddha

flash of a firefly.

“What is life? 

It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

 It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.

 It is the little shadow which runs across the 

grass and loses itself in the sunset.”

~ Crowfoot