Bohemea

 

There is a woman, alive and free,

spreading the love from the top of the trees.

Thank you, Bohemea

 

Life Lessons From Bo

1. Make Eye Contact
I cannot stress enough how important I feel it is to look someone in the eye. Everyone. From your loved ones to store clerks & bank tellers. Treat everyone like your equal. I also find eye contact immensely attractive. It shows you’re assured & open & I dig that.
2. Remember Facts About Other People
This ties into ‘be a good listener’ which I think everyone loves in a person. I also feel it’s important to remember the anecdotes & facts people tell you. I’m not talking just birthdays & phone numbers. When someone remembers that I take my coffee black or that I once had a cat named Killer, I know they’re a good person. I know sometimes it feels this way, but not everyone is talking just to hear the sound of their own voice, sometimes people are trying to connect. Find those people & connect.
3. Have Individuality & Confidence In Dress
I like when a person looks comfortable in their own skin. I don’t care if you dress conservative or eccentric, so long as it expresses who you are as a person & you look like you chose your look because it makes you happy & not because it’s what is expected.
4. Love What You Love
SB & I went on a rant about this the other day & I kept shouting “LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE!” It is my new life motto. I loathe when people automatically reject something because they think it would be lame to like that something. I would much rather someone vehemently hate something I love for their own personal reasons than agree with me because they think they’re supposed to. No more guilty pleasures. Love what you love without shame.
5. SHOW ENTHUSIASM!
Everyone I truly love sometimes gets so overwhelmed by their excitement that they start shouting or typing in CRAZY CAPS. I adore this trait. I spent most of my early 20s acting like I was too cool to get excited about something unless I was drunk. That’s silly. Giggle, clap, jump up & down. True honest enthusiasm is endearing & infectious.
6. Be Willing To Change
No matter what convictions you have now, accept that life is change. You will change, your circumstances will change, roll with it. Allow yourself to grow & evolve. Don’t stick stubbornly to a belief or idea just because it’s something you believe now. If it’s meant to stick, it’ll stick on it’s own. Just be willing to change. Keep this motto that Cher recites in Mermaids close to your heart: Life is change. Death is living in the past or staying in one place too long.
7. Accept That Other People Are Better Than You
Do what you love, even if you’re not the best. This is difficult for alphas to accept. I’ve given up many a project because I wasn’t instantly awesome at the task. Keep trying, improve & accept that doing what you love is just that; it’s not being the best, it’s being fulfilled. That being said, if you really truly suck at something, & sometimes you will, maybe give it up & try something else.
8. Be Spontaneously Affectionate
Tell people you love that you love them, but also show them that you love them. Hug, hold hands, link arms. When a friend overwhelms you with their adorableness, tell them. Respect that some people don’t respond well to physical affection & find other ways to let them know they’re loved. Do all this freely, generously, often.
9. Stick Up For Yourself
Just as you should question your convictions, you should also be skilled at defending them. Don’t let anyone talk you out of something you truly believe. Respect their differing opinion, listen, absorb, but don’t sacrifice your opinions to appease another. I would also add that you should pick your debates, don’t vehemently argue every difference. Sometimes it’s fine to let someone go on about something you disagree with. You’ll learn a differing view & maybe it’s not worth the effort to dispute their opinion.
10. Love Yourself Best
This sounds selfish, but it’s not. Remember what RuPaul says: If you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else? Love others, give yourself to others, trust others, but remember that you have to love yourself best so you can give well to the people in your life. Have fun with yourself, enjoy your own company, challenge & be proud of yourself.

look under the table

A wee bit ago, I was reminded of where this all began..
there were sprites circling around my head,
with the light and darkness towards a shed.
We gathered from a deeper slumber,
pushed the grandeur aside for wonder.
This photoshoot was taken by Vesna Jovanovic,
her works still grow and can be seen at vesnaonline.com
Ellie and Renee still continue to inspire me with their
strength and beauty in this world.
This is for all three of them.
I have just stepped behind for a moment because there
is a mound of work to share that simply touches on
the plentiful piles in the beginning..
more to come.

Wunderlust and Rouge Pony

The findings from this shop and journal astounds me to no end.
Rouge Pony swept me away from the seat I sit.  Wunderlust
helped an escape plan come to life.
You can find her at the journal called Wunderlust and her hands
creating with Rouge Pony.

"I have always maintained a love-love relationship with lace, there is just something about that peek-a-boo network of fine fabric and texture that excites me. Lace dresses burst with the romantic; they can be elegant, dreamy, or even demure. To me lace is profoundly feminine, almost poetic and every girl should at-least have one dress that makes her feel like a goddess"

a message from beyond

"i allowed myself to take the package into the bathroom
with me and set it on the counter while i showered.
when it was warm and i was relaxed and clean, i opened
the parcel.  the recycled packing was welcome and the
presentation of the wrapped garment breathtaking.
the vintage picture and the pretty little cards, the ribbon
and wrappings.  i was just so impressed with the sensory
experience i had ...with the colors and textiles.  i got all
powdered and put on my little romper thingy and its awesome!
i giggled and clapped and it fits me great!  you are so talented!
im wearing it to bed tonight!  thanks again for the experience
and the memories.  what a fun time..."

This message in response to a handmade Lamignak Lantern
UnitSuit, so beautiful and exactly what I seam up inside
all these pieces for the precious peoples on the planet.
*blush*

from across the oceans wide

A message was sent this morning in response
to a much earlier post 100 Most Beautiful Words.
While there have been a handful of responses to this post,
this one is like a secret to share with you.
If read through until the end,
there is a longing for me to have an interpretation and a
dictionary.  My hat is tipped to a story among stories.

Beatific ailurophiles,
chatoyant and blandiloquent colporteurs!
Please imbrigate our halcyon and ephemeral festivities with this
mellifluous missive.  Accept a paean and enocomium to the inglenook,
scintillated sempiternally, lest, inured and etiolated,
or immolated by propinquity the cynosure of serendipitous epiphany
imbues ebulliance and effervescence to the ensuing imbroglio!
In ubragaceous syzygy, from a potomophilious palimpest,
a nebulous polis, I relate a riparian rhapsody, a sussourus path incipient,
fugageous and then plain to see plying the pelagic plain.
But it is neither at the horizon nor the shore,
but in the offing that the terpsichorean talisman toils.
A plethora of proud puffs have powered a panoply of peregrinations
as ripples redolent of roses restore and relate the returning rover.
And as the boat approaches,
ethereal and adroit whispers adumbrate the enticing
and enchanting of a lithe ingenue.
the harbour convenes and conjoins a symbiosis of airborne spirits and
earthly toils.
A single voice calls upon the loudacious ladies and moeity of men
to enter the forest and dance.
The chiaroscuro is composed!
The champagne is effervescent!
The chiasma is approaching!
And so, this pastiche of peccadillos, this obsequious oeuvre
of mangled mondegreens humbly hums a hymeneal hymn.
The lagniappe is caliginous and esoteric, but the aestivation approaches.

-Stephen Stretton

Fairy Tale Review

"Fairy Tale Review Press is dedicated to helping raise
public awareness of the literary and cultural influence of fairy tales,
and to appreciating their power and depth as an art form.
It celebrates fairy tales as one of our oldest
and most underestimated pleasures. Fairy Tale Review Press
seeks to improve the critical understanding of new works
sewn from fairy tales, and welcome the public
to revisit old tales across borders and time, to celebrate
their transfixing power, and to protect them
for future generations of readers.
Fairy Tale Review Press also publishes Fairy Tale Review,
an annual journal."

Fairy Tale Review
Founder & Editor:
 Kate Bernheimer
Guest Editor, The Brown Issue: Timothy Schaffert
Managing Editor: Alissa Nutting
Web Editor: 
Brian Oliu
Assistant Editor: Lucas Southworth

Advisory Board

Donald Haase, Wayne State University
Lydia Millet, Tucson, AZ

Maria Tatar, Harvard University

Marina Warner, University of Essex

Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota


I find it dearly exceptional and hope you can wriggle over
to their site, purchase the written words, and submerse
your consciousness.

from the roots of lingerie comes teatime

The Lingerie Journal
News, Opinion, Expert Advice for Lingerie Retailers

My attention landed on this group with all the tools
they offer and the use of their delicate, informative
response for an industry which continues to unfold, intimately.