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Anne of Carversville
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Loeb Boathouse, Central Park (via BG74)
Boathouse Central Park, NYC plein air (via Beth Cody)
Young designers and crafts to life your spirits - Times Online
If your spirits need lifting - and I’d hazard a guess that they do - let me direct you to a couple of things that had me smiling this week. First off, the new Saatchi gallery in the Duke of York’s parade off Sloane Square in Chelsea is simply ravishing. I won’t attempt to pass judgment on the contemporary Chinese works - above my pay grade, as Barack Obama might say - but it was extremely arresting. The building, which was the old Ministry of Defence, is airy and brilliantly lit and, best of all, entirely free and open to one and all.
It may be a few miles from the tourist hordes at Olu Deniz, but this hidden yoga retreat on Turkey’s Lycian coast is a different world. Guardian UK video
Refreshing My Thinking
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Via Selecticism.com via NotCot
“When I think of the classic holiday caravan my mind immediately goes to one of my grandmother’s favorite movies The Long, Long Trailer starring Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. The movie is an essential not only for the back and forth of married life but for the bad ass long haul caravan they use. It was clearly the caravan of the moment.” more
Sweet, Simple Somethings
Anne here. I adore simplicity with a twist of elegance. Yes, I am a glamour puss, and I’m proud of it. This simple egg-carton/egg shell presentation from Cannelle and Vanille just blows me straight into the wind with delight.
What is glamor, anyway? I prefer the Euro spelling, glamour, because it just looks more alluring, wouldn’t you say?
According to Dictionary.com glamor or glamour connotes:
1. the quality of fascinating, alluring or attracting, esp by a combination of charm and good looks.
2. excitement, adventure, and unusual activity
3. magic or enchantment, spell, witchery
I don’t know about the witchery part. This word reflects our national ambivalence about sensuality in general.
Yes, indeed, I find both photos … this exquisite egg presentation above and lovely little zinnia bouquet below … to be sensual. Just seeing them, my imagination danced with excitement and pleasure.
I imagined them in my apartment or house in Carversville. Perhaps because they come from nature and the earth, and are designed without fanfare and artifice (don’t know about the egg shell creation, though … that’s pretty darn sophisticated) … they carry more meaning.
What do you think?
I’m inspired with possibility, just seeing these two photos. Back to my real work now. I just had to share that thought.
Love, Anne
America’s Prettiest Towns - ForbesTraveler.com
“Burlington has it all,” says Sarah Tuff Dunn, co-author of 101 Best Outdoor Towns. Dunn says the town’s charms include “a cobblestone pedestrian marketplace, Vermont’s iconic white steeples and rolling hills that spill down toward a lively, green waterfront on Lake Champlain.”
