Happy New Year!

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*<|:{)} Merry Christmas!

Mr T and Nancy Reagan: 

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christmas kitties

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wreaths

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pierre frey: ombre

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no male

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medusa

Earrings, ivory, tortoiseshell, 1870s

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sweet home

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ranunculus

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stella shoe

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feeling a little religieuse

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what a crock

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hallowe'en

Yvonne de Carlo via we heart vintage

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pierre frey: ming & brunch

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joan crawford

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rosina by jane churchill

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darling, you're boring me

source (hoolala on etsy)

octopuss

Jill Watt via knithacker

link love

Source

• lesbian pulp fiction - how to be a retronaut
• you wouldn't want to be Andy Warhol's landlord - letters of note
• 22 manly ways to reuse an Altoids tin - art of manliness
• from velouté to casserole: a question of green beans amandine and Campbell's cream of mushroom soup - gherkins and tomatoes
• semper ubi sub ubi - urban dictionary
• John Betjeman's 'Invasion Exercise at the Poultry Farm' - ancient industries
• keyboard (ASCII) art and typewriter portraiture - boingboing and letterology
• a scarf with a secret hiding place for your valuables - better living through design
• on muscular women - brain-pickings (with some 1901 Edison footage of a trapeze striptease!) and how to be a retronaut
• some valuable thoughts on living in the present - liberty london girl
• how to cast out rats & mice, the old-fashioned way (Mäuseexorzismus!) - laudator temporis acti

banksy's fallen soldier

banksy via rogueclassicism

books in a n.y. loft

Source

This is nothing like the decor I fancy, 

yet for some reason I keep returning to it.

squirrel art

5000 gunshots into metal

Walton Creel via dudecraft

the looking glass

found at the wonderful it's about time 

The Looking Glass 

Fernand Toussaint 

(Belgium, 1873-1955)

I adore the green.

nature's most refreshing flavor

found in mom's basement

classical bust

barriobajero via i wish i was gene kelly

Designer: Stüssy x P.A.M. 2011 A.D.

foxy hats

aubery (etsy)

'scat' (scarf-hat) by Louise Mensinger (etsy)

detail: hats by nicole (etsy)

'scoodie' by stitches by brooke (etsy)

link love

paw salt & pepper shakers: source

• feeding James Dean's kitten Marcus - lists of note
• 'his eyes raked boldly over her' - the romance writers phrasebook - awful library books
• 'Those Various Scalpels' by Marianne Moore - lumpy pudding
• creamy peanut butter soup (urgh) - retro-food.com
• a brilliant auto-correct disaster - lazy self-indulgent book reviews
• Barbara Hanrahan on the sun - whispering gums
• 'slide to unlock' - a phrase used to describe a girl who is 'easy' - urban word of the day
• thoughts on dioramas (I love them) - the smart set
• can an astronaut imitate the falling movements of a cat? - how to be a retronaut
• on the use and abuse of condiments (in South Australia, 1858) - the old foodie
• different 'varieties' of lorem ipsum - how about orange

portrait of a lady with a squirrel

Hans Holbein the Younger (1526-8)

Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and Starling 

(London: The National Gallery)

cuppa

I love pictures of teacups.

atelier conti (etsy) via matouenpeluche

viva chairman meow

vivachairmanmeow t-shirts via WIJW

on vacation!

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(This is from the old Samaritaine department store in Paris)

Just one of my activities en vacance...

Skiourophilia is on holidays. 

Back in August! 

natura morta

Giorgio Morandi (Italy, 1890–1964) 

Still life with five objects (1956) 

(Natura Morta con cinque oggetti) 

AGNSW (source)

quack quack

Oh, it quacks as you open the can.

source via foolish gadgets

picasso, cow masked

Picasso in a cow's head mask (1949)

Source and more information

fantastic man

drifters note via patterson maker

lobster mittens

lambswool lobster hat and mittens

from luna and curious (£64! and sold out) via india's tumbler

more celadon

Xiaoxian Liu (b.1963)

The Way We Eat (2009) [detail; full image]

(porcelain with celadon glaze)

Art Gallery of New South Wales

(c) Xiaoxian Liu

the good stuff 1969

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