You Better Bring Your Own Sun....

frickyeah1990s:

my apartment could use a floppy disk coffee table.

arkhane:

From the artbook The Art of Kiki’s Delivery Service, Studio Ghibli (1989), written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

(via definitelysomethingriley)

How do you do it? Where do you get your strength?

(Source: queenlabrifah, via frickyeah1990s)

blackpaint20:

Chatelaines

noun dated

a woman in charge of a large house.

• historical a set of short chains attached to a woman’s belt, used for carrying keys or other items

Chatelaine’s were a common accoutrement to a woman’s attire (up until the time pockets were invented on women’s clothing in the early 20th Century).

A Chatelaine fastened to a lady’s waist and one would then hook items which they would utilize during their day (in the case of a seamstress, one item might be a pair of scissors).

Mine would have a scissors, notepad, a small bottle of poison, pen and pen knife

Austro-Hungarian silver gilt turquoise and garnet hunting horn châtelaine, late 19th century.

Sterling silver chatelaine with four matching utensils hanging from a finger ring. The objects include a note pad with simulated ivory pages, a working pencil, a coin purse and a compact. All are covered with a lovely repousse foliate motif and are marked Sterling along with a maker’s mark for Webster Sterling, founded in 1869

A Design for Chatelaine and Etui, Paris, c. 1765

French ebony and silver chatelaine, c. 1890.

above; by Gorham Manufacturing Co.

1887

United States

(Source: blackcupcakekitty)

sisterevelyntensions:

thestarlighthotel:

Kirsty Mitchell’s late mother Maureen was an English teacher who spent her life inspiring generations of children with imaginative stories and plays. Following Maureen’s death from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography.

She retreated behind the lens of her camera and created Wonderland, an ethereal fantasy world. The photographic series began as a small summer project but grew into an inspirational creative journey.

‘Real life became a difficult place to deal with, and I found myself retreating further into an alternative existence through the portal of my camera,’ said the artist. (read the rest here).

Gorgeous!