bisous

“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss?
I mean pure psychedelic inebriation.
Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis
when you became aware that the greatness
of this being was breathing into you.
Licking the sides and corners of your mouth,
like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes
filled with the essence of your passionate being
and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you,
over and over again –
the first kiss of the rest of your life.
A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned,
that the world’s greatest resource is love,
and maybe even that God is a woman.
With or without a belief in God,
all kisses are metaphors decipherable
by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding.”
~Saul Williams

live by your own rules

right on.

i don't care if you hate her....

...because, this is wonderful.
it's sumptuous and majestic.
yes.
xxxx

perseids

this stuns me so much i feel sick.

Explanation: This beautiful cosmic cloud is a popular stop on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius. Eighteenth century cosmic tourist Charles Messier cataloged the bright nebula as M8. Modern day astronomers recognize the Lagoon Nebula as an active stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years distant, in the direction of the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Remarkable features can be traced through this sharp picture, showing off the Lagoon's filaments of glowing gas and dark dust clouds. Twisting near the center of the Lagoon, the bright hourglass shape is the turbulent result of extreme stellar winds and intense starlight. The alluring view is a color composite of both broad and narrow band images captured while M8 was high in dark, Chilean skies. It records the Lagoon with a bluer hue than typically represented in images dominated by the red light of the region's hydrogen emission. At the nebula's estimated distance, the picture spans about 30 light-years.

I want to swim and get lost in this.
breath it in.
breath for me.
breath in me.
xxxx

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ehem...

i love my boy

what can i say?
im a super super lucky girly :)
xxxx

i want this like zombies want brains

OmnomnomNOMnomnomnoM

(click the link..its etsy...yum)

zombie: bbrrraaaaaiiiiinnnnssssss...

liz: lllooooooooccckkkeeeeeettt...

I'v always wanted a locket, but they were always
wrong for me. Theyd be a heart shape, or thered be too many flowers,
or it would be too damned expensive.
but this...this is beautiful, this is not expensive
this is...NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.
xxxx

iv always liked this song

but only today, when i read the lyrics did i love it. new favorite.

On bended knee is no way to be free
lifting up an empty cup I ask silently
that all my destinations will accept the one that's me
so I can breath

Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
half their lives they say goodnight to wive's they'll never know
got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul
so it goes...

Don't come closer or I'll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you...

Everyone I come across in cages they bought
they think of me and my wandering
but I'm never what they thought
got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts
I'm alive...

Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
underneath my being is a road that disappeared
late at night I hear the trees
they're singing with the dead
overhead...

Leave it to me as I find a way to be
consider me a satelite for ever orbiting
I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me
guaranteed...

xxxx

True Romance

I had to come all the way from the highway and byways of Tallahassee, Florida to MotorCity, Detroit to find my true love. If you gave me a million years to ponder, I would never have guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever go together. And til this day, the events that followed all still seems like a distant dream. But the dream was real and was to change our lives forever. I kept asking Clarence why our world seemed to be collapsing and things seemed to be getting so shitty. And he'd say, "that's the way it goes, but don't forget, it goes the other way too." That's the way romance is... Usually, that's the way it goes, but every once in awhile, it goes the other way too.

Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, that three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool. And sometimes Clarence asks me what I would have done if he had died, if that bullet had been two inches more to the left. To this, I always smile, as if I'm not going to satisfy him with a response. But I always do. I tell him of how I would want to die, but that the anguish and the want of death would fade like the stars at dawn, and that things would be much as they are now. Perhaps. Except maybe I wouldn't have named our son Elvis.

A little bit of true romance for your Saturday morning :)
xxxx

stewed, screwed and tattooed

I love love love her tattoo...so so much!
And i love love love this picture, so so much!
I want to lay in a comfortable bed, cuddled up in love,
without a care in the world.
tattooed and comfortable
tea, cuddles and soft skin.
yeahyeahyeah
xxxx

post 100!

Today one of my closest, longest friends came over, i say longest friends, iv known her for 6 years, i met her on my 15th birthday, but not many people stay in my life too long - her name is Vicky. Vicky Shone, and shes one of those people who i don't think ill ever lose contact with for long. We see each other rarely, but when do its freaking cool. Anyway..today i introduced her to the bane of my life - where she stumbled upon this little treasure, how have i never heard the song sun screen????!! i dunno...aannyway, her tis..read it :) enjoy it.

Sunscreen

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

xxxx

check list

stuff to do

• finish patterns for photoshoot corsets
  
• finish toiles for photo shoot corsets
• fit toiles for photoshoot corsets
• start compiling info into sketchbook for applying to uni
• start designing and figuring out the 'how tos'
  of top seekrit but awesome autumn/winter/spring collection (cant wait to show you that..)
  
• do designs for portfolio sketchbook
• stop eating so much chocolate
• be less hormonal
• get measurements for recent corset order
• make pattern and toile for recent corset order
  
  
  
  
  
  so not much really..just need to organise my time properly...hmmmm,
  if anyone has any images theyd like to share their thoughts on what a 'siren' is
  (woman siren, not alarm...)
  or cool wood nymph pictures
  or wenchy pirate pictures

do post them in the comments with your thoughts on them!!
im doing mythological seductresses for a corset theme
and doing a project around if for when i apply for uni next year :D

lovelovelove
xxxx

in love

Daddy, i want a pony...
or a baby brother...

(for tom ;) )

PLEASE SOMEBODY BUY THIS FOR ME....

I receive emails from etsy daily
this was in today's mail..
i want it. i want it. i want it.

how cute is it?? oh my gosh.
the photography opportunities..
the lovely feeling it will have.

oh me, oh my.
im in love with baby brother.

xxxxxxx

this post is in one of my other blogs

the bright side

i love 'the bright side' cards
They all say a lovely little things.... worded like sentences with too many words, like:

or



anyway...on the back it says this:

Be nice
Think happy thoughts
champion silver linings
love.all.things
(not just cute things
like babies and kittens)
& when you do love - love
like they do in power ballads
(you know, like on a cliff
with the wind in your hair
and your eyes shut.
knowing you'll never know
another love like this)
watch out for dogpoo
smile at people-even grumpy ones
be nice
(oh i said that already)
remember that anything is possible
& whatever you do always try to
look on
the bright side


so yeah :)
take inspiration!!

xxxx

bee happy

i follow a sewing, crafty, bloggy lady :) shes very very good!
her latest post though, makes me utterly sad...

Let There Bee Magic

image from here

Have you heard about the plight of the bees? They are disappearing .. yes literally, disappearing! It's like a mysterious horror film, there are no bodies! Entire colonies of bees disappearing. No bodies, no apparent causes, no evidence ... nothing! Do you know that some scientists are saying that if all the bees die, then so do we! A chilling thought.

It has been reported this year, that the USA has suffered losses for the third year running, of a third of their native honey bee population - that's alorralorralorra bees! Our British bees are slightly - but only slightly - better off. More bees survived our winter than expected, but we are still losing more colonies than is comfortable, instead of 7-8% loss in a normal winter, we are losing around 17%. It's too much.

The latest thoughts are that bees brains are being damaged by pesticide cocktails which are affecting them in such subtle ways that we haven't noticed, but it means that they have become unable to communicate with eachother, or navigate effectivily to reach any food sources. This explains the 'no body' syndrome - bees could just be dropping where they are from starvation or exhaustion. It's an idea which has been given lots of funding but hasn't been explored properly yet. I'm hoping they've found at least the germ of the cause though, because a world without bees, is no world at all.

Sometime last year, I watched a programme by Sarah Raven in which she described a "River of Flowers" where, in order to save our disappearing native meadow plants and to create nectar rich corridors for our bees, butterflies and birds, we plant wild and native flowers wherever we can, to bridge the gaps between meadows caused by urbanisation. Why restrict this idea to native and wild plants? Any flowers are better than no flowers, and any bees are better than no bees. Without honey bees and other insects to pollinate our crops, a huge part of the food chain collapses, and our planet changes beyond anything we could easily cope with.

This year, I am mostly inspired by the wonderful Alys Fowler and her Edible Garden series - I know lots of you have been as glued to it as I have been, and although i've been living the 'grow your own/simple things' lifestyle for years, there is still much to inspire here, because Alys is so passionate about her craft, she passes on her knowledge and new ideas, generously, effortlessly and in such a convincing way, that she has me pulling on my wellies faster than you can say 'pass the trowl'.

image from here

As we hurtle towards the first harvests, we can use our intention to create a mass of energy for bee preservation. We swap seeds, we plant flowers and food, we share hints and tips and recipes, we provide lots of pesticide free nectar for the bees in our gardens, our environments, our communities, and by doing so, improve the wider environment for all pollinating insects and therefore preserve our own quality of life.

In summary, this is an opportunity to make some magic happen.

Magic is intention to create change.

To make this magic we share the gift of life by sharing flower seeds from our gardens, and food seeds from our vegetable plots, all bound with the intention that bees everywhere survive the strange phenomenon which is killing them, so that we and the world may never hunger.

By planting wherever we can and however we can, we can each contribute to helping our bees cope with the pressures of life in the 21st century, and by planting seeds which will grow into food we can eat, we can not only see the results of the bees work first hand and the importance of what they do, we can also ease the carbon burden on our world and stimulate our tastebuds! The bonus to all of this is that we can feel the ultimate satisfaction of being able to survive in spite of Tesco!

Lets do some magic for the bees and swap some seeds again! Here are the rules - much the same as last year:

Please include in your package:

• Flower seeds and vegetable seeds from your garden or your neighbourhood ie: not from a packet - don't feel you have to send a whole field load!! A couple varieties of each will be fine.
• A recipe for the harvest should also be included
• Your favourite organic gardening tip
• Something crafty in your parcel which has a 'bee' theme. This can be a homemade gift, or some crafty bee inspired bits which your swap partner can make things with.

I have made am making a button which I will put up later today, or tomorrow - please put this on your blog and spread the word! I would really love lots of people to sign up for this.

In the meantime, Bee articles of interest:

Extract from the book "A World Without Bees"

Shock figures from America - article about the US bee decline

Bee Part of it - BBC campaign with Spring Watch

BBC article about bees and how to help

Bee decline could be down to chemical cocktail - article posing the idea that it could be pesticides

Action not Research is Needed to Save our Polinators - article outlining better ways to spend the £10m which has been put aside for research into the bee decline.

Is there any hope out there for our bees? - an invitation to send in bee stories

Bee decline threatens our dinner - old article from The Telegraph in 2007

Google "bee decline" - for scary reading!



GOSH!! i already knew about the bee decline, but reading it from a lady who isnt a scientist makes me very very sad.

know what needs to happen?

• everyone needs to grow fruit and veg, or rather..perhaps just one type of veg, and they need to share with the entire street. - this would get rid of pesticides of mass produced vegies - did you know tesco keep your veg at a certain low temperature for upto SIX MONTHS???? and then bring the temp up slowly to the chilled veg section temperature, and then you take it home and refrigerate it...mmmmyummy! :S go to tesco and buy...some carrots, or peppers? and take them home and dont put them in the fridge, watch what happens REALLY quickly. grow your own man!!
  

• we need more traders and less shops.. creating competition and cheaper prices, but panic not..because people are paying less doesn't mean you'll get less for your trade, oh no... you will have more custom because there are less huge shops to do it for cheap... yeah its cheap, but its CRAP and some child had to make it or be beaten... ignorance is bliss eh? also..the 'stuff' you buy wont last as long as something you pay a little more for and get made.. or.. go buy a sewing machine! and make stuff yourself. the hours you'd spend shopping, or watching tv or facebooking or whatever..learn to sew!! swap the stuff you sewed for a hair cut off or a new..bird feeder. or whatever.
  

• people need to be kind to each other... if everyone was kind and didn't mind helping people EVERYONE would get helped and less people would be bitter for having to do everything themselves.
  

• so..we need... gardeners, seamstresses, , nutritionists, natural healers and doctors, obviously we need bee keepers! spiritualists and scientists, hair dressers, dentists, comedians, musicians, anndd... im not sure what else. what else? righty..so we gather these people up aaannnddd go and live on an island somewhere? yes? somewhere warm? but with soil not sand... ill think on it ;)

seriously...save the bees!!!
xxxx