Imagine / Diane Sagnier

DIANE SAGNIER
She is a French photographer of the blog D-Birds and the Monkey Toads
Her beautiful pictures full of the love of a free-seeming life make you imagine....

IMAGINE

I wish to dye the very tips of my hair red, though i may let it seep up a little in the well know dip-dye styling. My hair is full of the summer sun, tips lighting and strands strangely pale against the rest. I wish for my autumn coloured hair to feel the heat of the red on its ends, my vague Scottish heritage which shines through the brown in the sunlight to always be there. I'm going to dye it red by the end of summer. That will be fun.
I wish to roll down grassy hills or stairs faster and faster but not get hurt at the bottom
I wish to start a garden of tulips in the soil around my house that will not welcome them and the wind of wellington which will destroy them before the even bloom, but i want to try anyway in a nook of the house and see if they can bloom.
I wish to run into the sea in my clothes, having spent the night drinking wine inside by the heat of a fire with friends and to feel the sudden madness of the sea outside the tipsy swirl of my head.
I wish to lie in the sun on the grass or the sand and for my skin to glow a caramel gold instead of marsh-mellow pink. I am already tan this year from Melbourne, this hardly ever happens and is exciting.
I wish to eat ice-cream with other things mixed in like brownie, Ferraro rocher, nerds, skittles, pebbles... the possibilities are endlessly delicious
I wish to go to a concert..... I've never been to one before, even at 18 most people I know have been to one and said it was amazing.

http://dianesagnier.blogspot.co.nz/

http://dianesagnier.blogspot.co.nz/

Her photographs make me feel and imagine what i could go out and do.... so i will
Off I go!

Daydream Lily

Liss Winnel is the writer of DAYDREAM LILY, and she is a joy. Sharing art, design, homely things on her widely-covering blog of all things creative.
http://www.daydreamlily.com

Herself

Her sister, Bec Winnel is an artist.

She shares all sorts of art, like this by The Black Apple
cute <3

and scones.... :)
http://www.daydreamlily.com

Nicole Warne / Gary Pepper Vintage

I'm feeling the travel itch again - and its only been 2 days at home. Everyone is caught up in their own thing at the moment whether it be working, travelling, partying hard and i have been looking at the most wonderful photos of those on their travels.

Here we have Nicole Warne, author of the Gary Pepper vintage blog.
Nicole travels to all the places i'd like to go; Italy, Paris, Ice-land.... While wearing beautiful clothes.
She travels, has a lovely sense of style, and is an ultimately beautiful and inspiring blogger:
http://fellt.com/garypepper

http://fellt.com/garypepper

Summer is coming

There are so many plans to make!
To eat decadent ice cream with tiny spoons in pretty sundresses in the sun and catch it while it melts, to have a tea party with fairy bread, hot cookies and tea/coffee to dip things in, and to have lots of summer picnics (already had one!).
Then there's to watch The Wall Flower with Emma Watson - i hope it's good, has anyone seen it yet? thoughts? I'll be summer shopping soon; I'm leaving for Melbourne for a week soon with a friend and i hear Australia in summer is mmmmmm so hot. I'm still on a search for flattering tops on me, or just clothes in general as I grew again this year and haven't replaced my clothes on a student budget. I'm thinking of these:

Jorge's champagne Oak shirt 

Paint it red's dirty diamond's dress

Paint it red's tainted love dress

I've been feeling rather strongly about staying healthy/healthier though i'm never going to not eat ice cream for the rest of my life as that's crazy! I have a summer glow to my skin already, I have been going to the gym with my mum and walking with my dad, and i have eaten so many strawberries. There are some gorgeous inspirations out there after all for being happily healthy. I find smoothie creations are the most fun, mixing nuts, yogurt, fresh fruit in every way, i found this useful: http://www.superskinnyme.com/smoothie-recipes.html It's creations for every situation :) hungover, pre and post-exercise, metabolism boosting, coffee-kicking, energy boosting creations of every colour.

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Beauties of summer.

I have my whole summer ahead of me
It's a wonderful feeling, working so hard and then it all ceasing to exist for a few months, ignoring the uncertainty that is always around the corner, smiling to yourself before you go to bed. There were tiny children running around for Halloween - spiderman was chasing a batman down the street and i laughed and an older man saw me laughing and smiled, then you feel warm inside. There's so much that is bad and wrong out there that i'm fighting to enjoy everything we still have, there's the 5 degree temperature rise models beginning to look more accurate which would cause extreme extinction, for example it would take out the coffee beans that the majority of people enjoy - Greek and Turkish coffee would be safe i hear. I want to do something helpful, in my little way, but with things continuing the way the do and key factors unchanged it does seem too late. What can we do? Not much. So try to have a good life; be kind, environmentally conscious within reason, and enjoy what there is before it disappears. I won't be 18 for much longer after all...