the unexpected

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Future Past

Ellen Rogers

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Olimpia Zagnoli

Moonrise Kingdom

Confused by the release date earlier this year I thought I would be able to watch Moonrise Kingdom on my birthday.
If you have been in a cave hibernating Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. Thankfully my long wait shall be over on the 30th of August thank goodnesses for Cinema Nova.

Lovely Moonrise Kingdom related things I have found while waiting include
Posters
Website
Fake Books
an Animation
and of course Trailer

Time Without Clocks

Oh, Picnic at Hanging Rock how I wish I could transport myself to either melt into your pages or dance in your stills.  I really liked the book as a teen and I remember watching the film many times. I just loved the dreamy state it would induce. I have recently relocated not far from the Hanging Rock as today being Valentine's I was tempted to bunk off work for a picnic. Unfortunately the universe had different plans and my Valentines has consisted of waking with puffy eyes fromcrying to much during this film, my BF singin me (a rather misplaced and off key) Happy Birthday in my place of employments, due I think to a coma like induced state from working double shifts for the last two weeks, and I am now home alone eatting tacos, and looking at pretty internets 1, 2, 3.

 I have also been reading about the author Joan Lindsay, as I was trying to find evidence of a vague story I have had in my head. While travelling with her partner, she had a vision on nuns running through a paddock. She later learned that this place was the site of a convent which years earlier had been destroyed by fire. This is the kind of thing that will stick in my head, but I will never know how it found its way in.

While internet digging I found these lovely photographs. Lindsay used her school days as a base for the story of Picnic at Hanging Rock; I think you can feel it from the photograph of them as young women. I rather hope they bunked off class.

'Three Remarkable Women' is inscribed in pencil on the reverse of this photograph in Leslie Henderson's hand. Marion Boyd Wanliss (1896-1984) became a medical practicioner, Leslie Moira Henderson (d. 1982) became an author and niece of Vida Goldstein and Joan a'Beckett Weigall (1896-1984) later married Sir Daryl Linsday and was an author of several titles including 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' and 'Time Without Clocks'.

 

You must be in it to win it

Honey Kennedy has done it again, another fab giveaway LINK

Oo La La SUMMERLAND is such a super great shop!

I've been inlove with the If I Only Had A Heart Dress forever so that is definately my favourite favourite,

 and the Blame It On My Wild Heart Tote has also been on my wish list.

I'm also curious about Shayne Case's Sacred Space and other essences

and I think the Wilderness and Lichen It tea towel's are super sweet.

So what does your heart desire?

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1922

These colour plates are from my copy of Hodder & Stoughton's 1922 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The lovely illustrations are by the mysterious Gwynedd M. Hudson (b.1909-1935). The only information I can find on Gwynedd is that she studied at Brighton School of Art. She was a figure painter, illustrator, and poster artist. She exhibited at the Royal Academy of the Arts, London around 1912. She designed posters for the Underground Group (London's underground railway)1926-1929. She is best known for both her editions of J. M Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy and Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Her depiction of Alice is widely regarded. She illustrated perhaps a half dozen or so other books, mostly for poetry and religious, published for Hodder in delicate Art Nouveau watercolours. Having died so young, unfortunately I imagine her story is lost. I feel so haunted by these sorts of mysteries; it is the perfect day for it lazy, chilly, windy, and rainy.

An ad that deserves being looked at over and over

 

Why don't we see great advertising like this any more?

Personally I blame market research

Two great articles related articles to read HERE and HERE

and this one from ages ago that I really liked HERE

and if you feel like knowing a little bit more about girls and 

being a girl you might like the blog and pod cast

Stuff mom never told you

and the super blog

Got a Girl Crush

and the sassy online teen mag

Rookie