{summer inspiration: a crown of blossoms}

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I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.

-- John Vance Cheney

. . . and doesn't it seem like everything moves by more languidly and yet more quickly all at once in the summertime?


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{more crowns of blossoms:}
* muse
* spring
* summer of love
* ruffles & florals
* pure romance
* at home
* hazy summer days



{images: solange by daniel gurton for vs. magazine july 2011 via fgr}

{colour inspiration: brown & black and bits of gold}

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. . . august has always been a bittersweet month with thoughts of summer's fading days lingering in the air, a light and breezy linen dress one afternoon, a cozy camel-coloured cardigan the next, and with each night that falls, the knowledge that soon the days will become shorter and the nights . . . they will be brushed in shades of sable and onyx and scattered with candlelight and bits of gold . . .

{p.s.} more leopard print

{images: 1 - patterson maker; 2 - fashion toast via startdust memories; 3 & 10 - photography by candida höfer via lisa golightly; 4 - absolutely beautiful things; 5 - livingetc via fashionedit; 6 - coralie bickford-smith; 7 - a glamorous little side project; 8 - anna casa via the diversion project}