.you must be mad, or else you wouldn't have come here

☂ A surprise wedding reception as shown to us by Katie of Color Me Katie! I adoreadoreadore such an idea & if my state hadn't decided to be such a humiliating blot on civil rights, I might have contemplated doing something like that myself!

☂ Ingrid of Fashion is My Muse writes about an enchanting visit to an embroidery school/atelier & the work she created whilst there. Schools devoted to embroidery! I can hear all of the princesses & Lolita devotees swooning now!

☂ The effervescent miss Gala Darling shares with us fifty amazing alternatives to the traditional 'dinner & a film' type of date - o, if only I could try just one of these out with someone! & she borrows a line from Withnail & I! O, GALA, MY DARLING! ::sighs happily::

☂ Now some, if not most of you, know I'm a considerably serious dieter, but even I couldn't resist teasing you lot with this delicious confectionery post from Luphia loves . . . of course! Dieter damsel, yes, but sweets are rather lovely to look upon, no?

☂ A lovely set of posts have been posted recently over at NineteenTeen which are all about flirting with props! In order: Flirting with Props, Part One: Handkerchiefs. Flirting with Props, Part Two: Gloves. Flirting with Props, Part Three: Fans. Flirting with Props, Part Four: Parasols!

(which reminds me - summer is nearly upon us & I must replace my parasol & acquire a decently elegant fan for my handbag! & if you didn't think I used a parasol when weather permitted, then you must not know me very well!)

☂ Violet Blue is, aside from one of my favourite local personalities/sex blogger & author, is back & beautiful, motherfuckers. ♥♥♥ I loved this post, so naturally, I'm including it here. (& nope, not worksafe, folks!) Seriously. She's pretty damn inspirational to me. I love her work.

☂ Carrie of Wishwishwish introduced me to Nothing Elegant. As a paper & stationary addict, I am just in love with . . . everything in that shop! I WANT IT ALL. Fab writing gear, wouldn't you agree, loves?

☂ Cloud Watching from Skye of the princess portal brings us this lovely post at her new blog. ♥♥♥

(this morning the sky was full of cotton ball clouds after the rain of last night. Cloud dreams, cloud girls, o, I wanted to stop to take pictures of it. It was a perfect Wednesday morning sky.)

☂ Gala Darling's being a complete dollface by showing (& asking what in ours!) what's in her bag!

(goddammit, I want her Gauloises! You can't get them here in California, apparently. What?! & I must do a similar post over at From Out of the Rain.)

☂ Neighbourhood glamourbombing by Katie of Color Me Katie!

(I do think this will be a summer project for me, my darlings. Stars, hearts, quotes, jewels, all over the city! & I heartily encourage you lot to try & do the same!)

☂ This post is so stunning that it needs no introducing - Still Water as given to us by Skye of the lost princess.

☂ Dreamy & chic as posted by Tina at Luphia loves is . . . oooo, I just want to slip inside those pictures & live in that misted, hazed wonderworld.

(do I dare save these pictures? they could be lovely icons . . . )

☂ Introducing... Isobel Oval!

I ♥ Gala's mind. Such posh lushness!

☂ the dream cookies of Color Me Katie - o, pleasepleasePLEASE, someone, figure out how to make such lovelies! I'd break my diet just for a few!

& o, I swoon over the last picture - yes, a perfect lipstick!

☂ Moondust from the lost princess.

(I wish I had the ability to leave shimmer everywhere I went. Leaving it on one's sunglasses, from one's eye makeup isn't quite the same, alas. Not heavy shimmer, but light, soft trails of it, so if you needed to find me, you would literally, only have to follow the stars.)

☂ the lovely miss marah_sarie did an amazing bit of fanart featuring Zoe Heriot in a Star Trek uniform - CHECK IT OUT, FOLKS!

& you all TOTALLY know Zoe would rock one of those uniforms. O yes.

☂ & last but in NO WAY LEAST, hoshinekoyasha did one hell of a Charley Pollard picspam, bbs! GO. LOOK. I COMMAND YOU. YOU WILL OBEY ME.

(my personal favourite is this particular drawing - a lovely rendering of miss Charley Pollard!)

'. . . but it proved to be a wet, ungenial summer . . . ' were it not so late, & I not so lazy, I would rise, make myself tea, & write of things to be done on this sort of night in my diary.

1:01 AM Jun 3rd from web

I do wish it was raining again tonight. If it was, I would write in my proper diary for a bit by tealight, or just lie down & enjoy the silence. Silence is so rare in my life, I think. Yes, I don't generally want it; as it can make one so uncomfortable, but there is the rare occasion where I do want it.

I like to work by candlelight, generally. Little lighting suits me well, unless I need the overhead lighting. I don't know why, really, but v. little lighting suits me & helps me create better, somehow. I hate harsh, bright lights.

wordsindreams sent me a lovely package recently! She's managed to convince me to see the film version of Master and Commander, instead of reading the books first, as I would normally do & I'm rather looking forward to it! (though one day, I will read the books, of course. It'd be something of a sin to only see the film!)

I've also been attempting to tidy the tea & time room a bit - it's become a pit, really, hasn't had a real cleaning in ages.

& just as I find my sewing table, I find that I have no space for any more books. Literally, piles & piles of them are on my sewing table, because I've not figured out where to put them!

Perhaps I can use Marwood's carrying case - I don't take her anywhere, & she doesn't leave her table, so perhaps her carrier can hold some books for me.

& I may repost bits of my linkspirals at From Out of the Rain soon, but I would like a bit more content up first. I'm just being shy & reticent about posting anything - I'm always convinced everything I do is simply rubbish.