I stumbled upon A Collection A Day, 2010 around the beginning of this year when the web was flooded when many-a new yearly projects. And while most were gearing up for their participation in Project 365 or Grace in Small Things among many other challenges, illustrator Lisa Congdon planned to undergo a slightly different task in 2010. She created a blog, A Collection A Day, in which she plans to post a photograph of one of her numerous collections each day for the entire year!i About this undertaking, she explains, “I am embarking on this project because I love my collections, and I want to document [...] and share them with whoever might be interested in looking at them.” And interested, I am!
Penguin Classics Books
Because look how beautiful! It takes every ounce of my strength not to buy the lot every time I go to the book store. For the book lovers amongst us … click and lust over the whole collection!i
Oliver Twist (second from left), Alice in Wonderland (white one around the middle with the pink flamingos), Madame Bovary (purple one beside Alice) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (black one on the far right) are my favourites. (»)
Today’s post is brought to you by the wonderfully hilarious – and educational! – website Learn Something New Every Day. For the unaware, I’m a trivia fiend. I love reading random facts. I watch Jeopardy almost every dayi, and I dive straight for the trivia section of the newspaper. I sometimes joke that I don’t really retain any sort of useful knowledge, only the most random and seemingly points facts. (Which is actually true. I can read an entire newspaper front to back, and the only thing I’ll remember is the odd snippet, a date here, a name there.) Thus, Learn Something New Every Day is quite perfect for me. Every day they post a fun little fact accompanied by a comical little doodle. Here’s a few of my favourites (facts and doodles).
“Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud, and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart.”
This may be a bit of a shameless pimp, but I was going to post about this eventually anyway, so does that make me less biased? In any case, I’ll take it because I simply must share with you the wonders of Lily and the Muse, a video archive dedicated to beauty on film. I’ve recently joined as a contributor which is exciting in itself, and I’m super thrilled to be a part of such a lovely project. My delight aside, the site is plum full of beautiful little gems from commercials, to music videos, to film clips and much more.
So I wanted to share some of my personal favourite videos with you all, and, of course, encourage you to check out Lily and the Muse. :)
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This has got to be one of my all-time favourite commercials. It’s so sweet and whimsical. For one, it’s downright awesome for featuring the lovely Annie Little and her song ‘Fly Me Away’. Two, I love stop motion films. And three, it makes me want to play dress-up! A very charming advertisement.
I'm an Interior Architecture and Design student from the Great White North. I love party dresses, excessive amounts of snow, eating watermelon and singing at the top of my lunges. (more...)
