tumble

so i made myself a tumblr. i still don't really know how to use it. but. pictures and things i like will be there. fewer words than on this thing here. mood board or something. over there.

ff

i am super excited about today's theme!!! i can't even stop smiling. below is a ted talk that i was directed to by my lovely ballet teacher kate. she was chastising us - her sad adult students - for being defeatist in class. ballet is scary and hard, and you sure as hell can't pirouette if you tell yourself you're going to fall over before you even plié. kate told us about the video. (also, she pokes at us for being so pathetic and scared when we come to dance class for FUNSIES because obviously none of us think we'll be ballerinas... so. duh.)



yaaaaayyyyyy! right? it makes so much sense. generally speaking, women are conditioned to take up less space. to cross their legs. to be petite. sarah has directed me to a social scientist, carol gilligan, who writes about the differences in women's use of their bodies from a young age onto adulthood and who i am SO SO excited to read. sarah gave the example of asking 5 year old and 18 year old girls to kick a soccer ball. the 5 year old will use her whole body - leg through hip through back through arms - and the 18 year old will kick only from the leg. we have the extent of our physical range conditioned out of us. and when i think about how bold and brave and occupying-of-space 10 year old erin was vs the accommodating thing i found myself to be in my early 20s... well. ooooof. i always wondered how i'd lost confidence with age and experience. this feels very true to me. (also, i do believe that i was taught the 'fake-it ' skills without knowing that that's what i was doing, and i have benefitted from that ability many times. thanks mom and dad!)

i feel like i'm too fired up on this particular theme to have made a lot of sense today. but i will read and think and reflect some more, and hopefully write a very coherent series of posts over time. seriously so excited about this. bodies, yo! space! extension!

happy friday!

be like you (ooo oooo)

today i am feeling relaxo. i wanna be super hip cool laid back stylish comfy. like these girls. washed out denim and so on. (except for the shoes in the 2nd collection. eeewwwwwwwwww. come on!)

 {thakoon addition spring 2013, photos courtesy of thakoon addition by way of style.com}

 {organic by john patrick spring 2013, photos by gianni pucci at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

{tibi spring 2013, photos by yannis vlamos at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

and in between

shades of grey.
(please please please do not in any way connect this to 50 shades of grey cause, bleh it is totes ruining my grey-love.)

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tunneling

oh man! making these little mood-based photo collages is rocking my world! i love it. i can't stop. this time is dirt and heat and earth and sun and anthills.

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(as a background on what i do when i make these; i start with one idea/feeling, and find a picture that fits. this time it was the anthill. then i go searching and searching through the internets for photos that fit the colour, style, pattern, composition, balance, theme and feeling of that first photo. i collect a bunch together, and then i arrange them in little families. then i get real real excited and my heart hurts.)

topped

with my current bang/fringe-situation, i have been thinking a great deal about floral-wreath headbands. yes, i think they are a gooood idea. perhaps i will make one to wear to marc&mel's wedding?

inspiration!

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perfume

e is for easter. which is here and now. with parents and puppies and flower smells. some beauty for you.

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afterall

hello april. here are some beautiful things that sort of fit with how i've been feeling. these days. this season.

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