what’s making me happy this week 05.17.13: a paris apartment, untouched for 70 years, new views on beauty, and poking fun at stick families
May 17, 2013
photos:
1. paris apartment, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ (complete url below)
2. susan b. anthony, and likeness, http://www.jaimemoorephotography.com (complete url below)
3. beauty in sunglasses, reposted from MasonBentleyStyle.com (complete url below)
1. Spring and Summer have arrived in Michigan! The trees are in bloom. It has been in the 80s (26/27C?) with a gentle breeze. We have the windows open at night and I sometimes get to fall asleep listening to Tiger’s baseball on the radio. I want time to stand still right now.
2. Speaking of time standing still…get happy looking at the photos of a Paris apartment that has been locked since the owner fled Paris during the Nazi occupation. She lived out her life elsewhere, never returning to this apartment. The apartment was opened and photographed after her death this year. Everything in it is precious.
3. These portraits and this post did make me happy…(scroll down past the wedding photography):
http://www.jaimemoorephotography.com/2013/05/09/not-just-a-girl/
…but after thinking about it, it would make me happier if we just didn’t dress up our girls in costumes for photos, and just took their pictures as they are…
4. Speaking of portraits, I love this post (and all of her posts) and these photos posted on the MasonBentleyStyle.com blog which features advertisement photos for, “Karen Walker’s sunglasses based on the inspirational ladies from Ari Seth’s Advanced Style Blog.”
http://masonbentleystyle.com/2013/05/17/what-do-you-see-2/
5. I have seen more and more cartoons poking fun of the little stick figure family decals on the backs of cars (and when I say car, you know I mean minivan). This was the best one I’ve seen:
http://xkcd.com/946/
6. Finally, the dear lady at The Vintage Postcard Blog nominated me for a Pirate’s Admiration Award, which I will properly acknowledge this weekend. Like her, I knew nothing about the award. I cannot find any history or origin of the award on Google, but it seems to be an award, motivated by kindness, to acknowledge and support bloggers. You get nominated, you feel the glow, you play it forward. While the award does not include a trip around the world, or a contract with, well, anyone…to know that someone, even one person, out there reads and likes my blog— makes me happy.
Happy weekend! I hope you have blue skies and sunshine wherever you are.
flora margaret 