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!

Source: doriegreenspan.com via skiourophile on Pinterest

(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