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*a well traveled woman via here

*designed by hiphipgingin original photo via

*via awelltraveledwoman

For my point B



Mother's day is Sunday and I have been so lucky to have so many women in my life fill the role. From nannies, aunts, grandmothers, friends of my mother and friends of mine, I have been truly blessed. Of course above them all I have my own mother. My point B, my friend and my everything else. Happy Mother's Day.


*Poetry written and performed by Sarah Kay 

Alps

 Let's go back.

*picture via the instagram of a very talented friend, sadie4217.

The Sartorialist - Paseo del Prado, Madrid

I have been there! I know where this is! Oh, I want to go back.

*The Sartorialist 

Gaudí 
Sagrada Familia

El pueblo

I want this!

wetheurban:

IKEA’S KNÄPPA CARDBOARD DIGITAL CAMERA

love lemlem  

IKEA is on an innovative roll these days and have just announce the KNÄPPA flat-pack cardboard digital camera. The KNÄPPA the flat-pack cardboard digital camera (made out one a single folded piece of cardboard) runs on two AA batteries and can hold up to 40 pictures of 2.3 megapixels.It also has a swing-out USB plug, viewfinder cutout, shutter key and paperclip-friendly erase button. The camera will be handed out for free to all customers who purchase anything from their PS Furniture Collection.Check out the video (above) for more info! Pretty cool, no?

What genius! This is a fascinating maketing campaign.

*reposted from love lemlem

It is 48 degrees Fahrenheit in Santiago, Chile

It's summer and I realize this, but my sunnies post flipped my brain to winter coats.

I mean seriously. Are you seeing this? This is, my friends, what we call perfection.

Oh, ya know just being fabulous in my coat and morning Starbucks.

I mean it is winter somewhere right?

*images via Kate Arends's tumblr witanddelight 1 and 2

Days when it might be better to be someplace else

Small fishing village of Howth near Dublin, Ireland.


*picture courtesy of  Chelsea Smith of it's not all about me, i promise

Sunnies

On the market for some summer shades. I also happen to be in envy of the first two ladies' beautiful coats.

* Pictures via  the Sartorialist,  Garance Dore and lastly Laugh Cry Repeat

*photograph taken by Jak&Jil

Reading

Today I would like to crawl into a book. 


*illustrated by graphic artist David Small found via npr

Tragedy

The rather tragic representation of my brain after a vile examination in statistics. 


*East Atlanta

*cupofjoe

Sorted Books

Art and Poetry.

Sorted Books project 

The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized public book collections. The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from top to bottom. The final results are shown either as photographs of the book clusters or as the actual stacks themselves, shown on the shelves of the library they were drawn from. Taken as a whole, the clusters from each sorting aim to examine that particular library's focus, idiosyncrasies, and inconsistencies — a cross-section of that library's holdings. At present, theSorted Books project comprises more than 130 book clusters.

*Artist Nina Katchadourian

Art History

missfolly:

Illustration of Leon VI with a Bulgarian delegation; The Bulgarians routing the Byzantine forces at Bulgarophygon, from the Madrid Skylitzes, fol. 109r, by an anonymous artist, 11th-12th centuries

*via fyeaheasterneurope