February 23rd, 2010
Everything is Extraordinary
“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”
~ Aaron Rose
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December 31st, 2009
I ♥ in 2009: Top 9 of ’09
It’s hard to believe that 2009 and this decade are already coming to a close! It’s unreal to think back on the Y2K hoopla – that was ten years ago now! For me personally, 2009 has been a year of so many huge changes in almost every aspect of my life, so I thought it would only be fitting to do a small summary of the top 9 things that made me happy this year and made 2009 memorable.
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Category: Personal » Tags: Accessories, Animals, Blogging, Celebs, Colour, Designers, Fairy Tales, Fashion, Film, Food, Inspiration, Interior Design, Literature, Magazines, Music, Web, WeHeartIt
November 23rd, 2009
Picspam… We♥It
“I like…boys on swings, and girls on skateboards. I like babies in high chairs. I like pharmaceutical medicine wrappers. I like people in hats with big eyebrows – I like people in hats with big eyebrows and big moustaches. I like water caught in spiders’ webs. I like wearing all my clothes at once. I like people who don’t smile. Ever. And I like people who smile. I like hair that goes on and on. [...] In some ways I love…everything. It’s less…less of a thing than ‘like’…less distinct. Less…particular. I like things that I like but I love everything. There’s more choice than ‘like’. Because even the worst things have things to love in them. I love things so much I feel like I could float away.”
~ Cassie Ainsworth, from Skins
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Category: Picspam » Tags: Animals, Fairy Tales, Food, Illustration, Interior Design, Modeling, Nature, Trinkets, Typography, WeHeartIt
October 25th, 2009
Picspam… The Occult
“It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
~ The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
(Image via unknown)
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February 28th, 2009
I Heart… We♥It
I feel like I should have an unbelievably epic topic to write about what with this being my very first post for the “new” Shimmer Like Gold. Perhaps not epic, but here’s as close to as I’ll ever come: We♥It, a visual bookmarking website. Essentially what the website does is allow you to save any image you find online onto your own personal page (adorably titled “My Heart”) creating your own collection. Kind of like an image inspiration folder. Admittedly, I’d always known this website existed and kept it in the back of my mind, but it wasn’t until last night as I was starting to prepare ideas for posts here that I bit the bullet and signed up for an account. Be warned, it’s a highly addictive website! I went nuts “heart”-ing images. Definitely a website I’ll be (ab)using for a long time to come, I’m sure.
Here’s a few images I’ve saved in my collection. (Click each thumbnail to see the full-sized images at We♥It.)
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