Friday, June 12, 2009

Vibrant, Vivacious Verde

Back a few months ago as I tried to decide what luscious shade of green I would paint my bedroom, I found myself leaning to a quieter tone, one with more grace but as of late, well I'm sensing the color gods are attempting to saturate my yearning.


It makes sense since in nature it's the bold, no apologies vibrancy that drives me to dithers. I can sit & take this wall in for an eternity.
Tabletop...hello majolica. Wedgwood's is still my preference but I love the the glitz & glamour of Kim Seybert as well. Throw in a vintage plate picked up at a garage sale & Kim's new goes well with the bolds of yesteryear.


Ever notice that you can be thinking of something & then pow!!! Its laid at your doorstep over & over again. These rooms have popped up in the oddest places recently or have I been led to them unsuspectingly??? The enigma continues...

To further along the whims of the color gods attempting to reach me I've had another series of thunder bolts.



So I bow down to the gods & their love of of vibrant, vivacious verde, emerald kelly & beyond solemnly swearing to embrace this in my space. I should not be surprised though. I've once before embraced it with my soul through words.
Cloister

run past the trees, deeper into the forest
green, dark, almost black
this color, where you'll find me
breathing from my mosses
hush, hear the rutsle I make
the willows weeping, touch me
wisping & whispering
give me comfort, take my ache
play his song just one more time
oh the leaves feel like his fingers
where did the breeze come from, thank you
I can't remember when I felt such warmth
yes I do, closer, reach me
further away, goodnight skyscrapers, traffic lights
imagine devastion, push the branches away
pray be gentle
protect your face, dense as this is
remember what you touch
secluded, my scared space
darker than one should travel, I disappear into my night
barely the woman of before, turn around
witness the creature of after
clothed in leaves, caked in dirt
my will snagged by a branch, somewhere past
when my skin lucent would catch your cast
fleeing, consumed
a hollow settled with mist, my humanity caving
from earth to universal
despair tragically lush, nestled in darkness
tended by the trees
run
careful though where you step
eventually before you find me, I'll turn to seeds

Wishing everyone a vibrant & vivacious weekend!!!!!

Images coutesy of Tobi Fairley, Kim Seybert, Kip Bay's 2006 & Christian Louboutin

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

...a touch on my shoulder & tag...I'm it!!!!

Julie at Being Ruby , Kate at K&g Bookclub & Simone at The Bottom of the Ironing Basket all addictions I'm happy to have, tagged me within hours of each other.
List 6 Uninteresting Things you Love...
This for me is not an easy task since I always have believed that everything can be interesting.
I thought & thought & finally came up with my list of miniscule glories.
1.Popcorn...not from the theater or a microwaved bag but done on top of the stove in my giant blue Chantal pot with a teaspoon of oil & kernels. Old fashioned this may be but the sound of the popping, the scent of it wafting, all makes me giddy. Seeing Hailey as a toddler stand on the counter to watch the little perfections pop up & hit the glass lid..all at a safe distance..is a fav memory of mine. She giggled to the rhythm of the popping. Pefection.
Oh & a touch of salt is all I need but I do have 10 recipes to make all sorts of flavors and none involve powder junk. I'll share another time.

2. Walking. I tore my achilles tendon in half earlier this year & after surgery, casts, boots & physio therapy (Brian loves to kick my butt), I'm able to walk again, not run but walk. Somedays I hobble a bit but its great to need no assistance.

3. Ironing...yes I can hear every ones mouths drop but its true. Give me my fancy schmancy iron , sizing & a pile of cotton shirts & I'm in heaven. It relaxes me & being anal the challenge to do it perfectly is a pleasure. I know, I know, I'm nuts but hey I'm happy.

4.Grass...soft to the touch: I even don't mind mowing it. Green is my favorite color so grass is a natural transition. Ironically here in AZ there's not much of it & I miss my Michigan Lawn more than ever. Its great to lie on, tickle you & scrunch through your toes.

5. Kitten footies also known as cats paws. White is my downfall, my first cat eons ago being Socks for that very reason. Now I have Gunther Finch Hatton & those little footies with the pink pads are heavenly soft & squishy...which leads to my all time number one....


6. Hailey's toddler hands. When she was a wee one Hailey's hands were chubby. The little padding on the back was her squishy spot, her label not mine. We have a bond that always require holding hands & back then that little chubby, squishy form in mine was a delight only made more heavenly by the fact that a little squeeze from me was our quiet code for " I love you." I squeezed her at Target, Old Navy, the Farmers Market, you name it I squeezed everywhere & always our eyes would meet & smile.
Shes now almost 8 & the squishiness..it remains in our hearts.

So there you go. My list of lovelies. I hope it brings you to your & warms your heart a bit more today than usual. See everything is interesting.

Who do I tag??? Who do I want to know more about???
Katie @ Katies Nesting Spot my best friend & soul sister
Courtney @ Under the Paper Moon one talented woman
Lisa @ The Lisa Porter Collection my favorite respite
Grant @ Grant K. Gibson the mans a genius
Maureen @ Ingle Talk her header says it all...
Aran @ Cannelle et Vanille the best food blog period

I eagerly await your revelations.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Poetry & restoration

Give me a caftan, sunscreen, a pitcher of white sangria, not to mention my copy of ' Savage Beauty" a bio of Edna St Vincent Millay's debaucherous life & this is where I'll be all tomorrow.
Such balmy breezes will lovingly caress away the aches from shopping with my mother all day at the glamourous destination regarded as Ikea. Mom had never been & if only for those saucy cinnamon rolls at $1.00 each, she shall return again.
Seriously, my planned post will have to wait a day but until relax & restore your lives with a piece my mom loves about the moment before your lips meet your loves....


a giggle, then gravity gone
oh my, can this be happening, no don't answer
catch my string, follow
up, up, up beyond the words & float
tickle, tickle, the shadows I make
down, down, down below on rooftops
cityscapes
sunshine catches my eyes, twinkling
boundless, possible this love, me groundless
faster, faster, fantastic, run then leap within this wind
sail, traipse, play, laugh with me
close, close to the striking moment
fragile, a wish, granted your lips, then I'm dissolving

Monday, June 1, 2009

The invitation reads salivating required



First off thank you, thank you for all the lovely words concerning my words. I'll be throwing in a piece here & there from my collected works, but enough about me....

This is the luncheon I yearn to attend, if only before others arrive so in the solitude I can drink in how luscious, impressionistic this occasion is, especially considering the fact that this takes place in a nursery. Yes, a nursery but not just your average nursery. This is Petersham (Simone, did your face just light up??).

Petersham Nursery is beyond the description of a nursery. An award winning cafe & tearoom, the emporium of antiques & garden fixtures & adjacent house, are the best accessories to it greenhouses & gardens, not to mention a website I lose all sense of time in. Literally past midnight, weary to my surprise, wondering was it really almost 2AM???

This affair extraordinaire was given in honour of American master C.L. Twombly's exhibition at the Tate. His use of color through splashes is the inspiration creation that is this luncheon.
Explore & pray it remains to grace this gentrified world. Visit & all shall be explained & mesmerized as you whisk & drift through the aisles & miles of floriferous deliciousness.






Images via Pertersham Nurseries

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Friday, May 29, 2009

A wish for you through a wisp of verse


A tiny secret. Despite everything I love to do, I am & will remain a writer at heart, lounging ever so slightly to the poet's side of a slipper chair I curl up in. For fear of laughter I rarely unleash my wisps of words on those unsuspecting & whom I've never eaten ice cream with (one bowl, 2 two spoons is a true test of friendship...not for germs but for sharing the creamy, dreamy treat) but this photo of a bathroom that I've swooned over & did so again today on My Sweet Savannah had me so entranced I tripped up & slipped a piece out onto the blogosphere.


pure grace salts releasing scentsations in ribbons
tangling 'round my sonatas
baroque & buoyant
only to be touched on the shoulder
by the cool prosecco as it crisply wisps across my tongue
a treasure, this tranquil escape

May your weekend be as wonderful a cocoon as my bath would, will be.
Much love to all....
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

An amuse bouche of delovely Rouge....


As dedicated as I am to blues & greens with smatterings of pinks, this morning my brain is seriously seeing red. Perhaps its the patriotic moments of the past weekend but one could say my mind is saturated with a tray of amuse bouche dans rouge.



Blossoming, I love the way it can delicately relate to light & whites...


but honestly isn't there something so right about the way a crimson room can just zoom through your soul & set it afire!!!

From royal & regal .....




in a blink you can rethink it as vintage & kitsch...




Nothing can send a rush like that deepest blush. The thrills of it all is the chill that I get from delicious red, red, red!!!



Images courtesy Country Living, House Beautiful & Southern Accent