Fresh like a rose
Another dreamy shot from this beautiful lady
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Dreamy clouds
love how these plates by John Burnett Stuart (sold by Emery House) look like clouds, like a cream-swirled pudding and like ink dispersing in water. Perfect for summer parties…
Freedom
Here’s to sunshine and summer breezes! Dress by Liberty and Co from the mid 1880s: the folds were a nod to Greek classicism, which was fashionable at the time. I think it’s still delightfully pretty.
Pastel rays of Los Angeles
Cakes by Josephine, photo by @ohjoy
Les blondes collection
The eighteenth century had a fashion craze for “clocked” stockings at one point. It basically meant coloured heels (and sometimes embroidered patterns on the main parts of the legs). This collection shows that some wishes never change:
Maybe it’s middle age or maybe it’s their sheer prettiness – which screams SPRING – but I want to buy a bunch of one pair each and present them to friends like bouquets
Sheila McManus
Sheila McManus, sunny in her yellow dress in 1934, as painted by Richard Edward Miller.
Shiny
Now this is the way to meet spring showers
Lofty frocks
Lofty frocks is a dressmaking business and look how great their fabric library is!
The confetti project
All photos from @the_confetti_project
These joyful photos had a somber beginning as Jelena (self portrait in the first image) began the portrait series when her father was diagnosed with cancer. As she said in a recent post, for a wholeness year her life was either cancer or spraying others with confetti, but it turned out to be the raft that took her to the next phase in life after her father died. I didn’t know the backstory when I first came across Jelena’s photos and I think they can easily be read as a modern update on Jumping series by Phillips Halsman.
Melanie Johnsson
Such pretty selections by illustrator Melanie Johnsson for her colour palettes series. When I was at uni I’d have hunted these down as cards and dotted them about the walls in my room, and now I think something like this would make a fun display for a guest bedroom. Of course it’s not just the colour mix but also Melanie’s fun captions that are the success.
