60s Fringe and the How To.

I found this picture and I chuckled. It pretty much sums up how you achieve great bangs.

A Little Water Colour

     This one above was done by the fabulous Tasha Tudor.  If you don't know who she is, she was an amazing lady who lived like she was in the 1800s, ran her own farm, and did wonderful water colours on the side.  My nana says she's a fake and a publicity stunt.  But I believe in you Tasha Tudor, even if it seems crazy that an 80+ year old woman still churned her own butter. 

     This is one of my most recent water colours.  Usually I just get frustrated with it because I have trouble controlling the paint or getting the colour as vibrant as I would like, but this jar of flowers was sitting on the window sill and looked absolutely stunning in the light, so I just had to try to capture it.  I haven't done anything like this in ages.  So here is the first of what I hope to be many to come. 

Beauty Lies in the Lips

It has come to my attention that we women often find it so hard to smile in pictures (this observation is partly because I looked through my senior pictures and found I had far less happy looking Faiths than bored looking Faiths).We often give a smirk, an alluring lopsided look, or a positively bland smile that looks like we are 4 and still learning how to grin. One of the most unbearable ones is the "laughing smile".  I don't understand this.  For me the most memorable and beautiful smiles are ones where you know the person is absolutely loving the moment and you can tell she loves herself and isn't afraid of her teeth.  Why are we so self conscious!
 
Maybe I'm just a teeth person, but I honestly think that the most wonderful smiles are ones that are bursting at the seams.  I think when we smile authentically it shows we aren't afraid of ourselves.  Too often we look in the mirror or at pictures of ourselves and judge ourselves and tear our smiles apart. This one gives me weird smile lines. My eyes are too squinty when I grin. I hate my teeth, they are "crooked", too small, too big... Honestly girls. This is absurd.  The only smile that is unattractive is one that has no heart behind it. 

I want to use my Grandma Natalie as an example of an absolutely and exquisitely beautiful woman.  She was stylish and had gorgeous features.  But those things we've all seen a million times before in magazines and movies.  The thing that made Natalie stand out was her smile.  There's probably only a handful of pictures I have ever seen of her throughout her life where she wasn't grinning ear to ear.  There is just something so captivating about it.  She had confidence. Beauty beamed from her.  Even when she was ill she still found the energy to grin. 

All of this rambling goes to say, Ladies, just love yourself! Look at yourself in the mirror and say, "Wow. That's me. I'm beautiful. SO beautiful." I think we could all use a lot more confidences and grins in our lives. Grins are contagious and make you feel so much freer.

Thoughts from Lemony Snicket.

If you are a student then you should always get a good nights sleep , unless you have come to the good part of your book, then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside. A phrase which means "flunk."

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is the one who is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

     L.S.

Lemony Snicket is one of my favourite authors.  He has such a confusing way with words, and yet he still makes sense.  I also love the mystery that he surrounded himself with while writing A Series of Unfortunate Events.  The picture above was so tiny and so obscure that I thought it went right along with his whole aura of an author.  His books are the ones I pick up on rainy days to read with a cup of steamy tea. 

In The Beginning!

After failing at Tumblr, I am giving my blogging experiment a second try.  I don't know what I'll ever write or if it will ever being interesting in the least, but I shall try!

This painting was done by one of my all-time favourite artists, Mary Blair.  I absolutely love her style that was so unique and so recognizable.  She's one of my inspirations in the way she used colour and shape... So lovely!

For those who don't know her, Mary Blair was one of Walt Disney's main masterminds, and she did a lot of the preliminary artwork for Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Cinderella, Song of the South, and many other productions. She definitely set the mood for illustration styles of the fifties and sixties.