tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76680795647854730162024-03-13T15:45:22.525-04:00Buttercup BungalowLaurie AEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09403987802685638609noreply@blogger.comBlogger937125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7668079564785473016.post-75913441080840033032015-04-07T20:37:00.001-04:002015-04-07T20:37:09.907-04:00New Post : Prismatic Pastels<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I invite you to head on over to my other blog The Picture of Pretty. My <a href="https://thepictureofpretty.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/dreaming-of-summer-prismatic-pastels/" target="_blank"><b><i>latest post</i></b></a> is up there, and it's full of eye candy!</span><br />
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<br />Laurie AEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09403987802685638609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7668079564785473016.post-40065226724139247942015-03-31T17:23:00.005-04:002015-03-31T17:59:53.469-04:00The Picture of Pretty: The Audrey Hepburn Effect<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Audrey Hepburn in her ingenue years (early 1950's to early 1960's) is my all-time favorite style icon. Elements of her style -- both on-screen and off -- continue to inspire me and countless others. Audrey "looks" have a distinct pedigree; they are unquestionably classics. An enduring lesson in how to be lovely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My <a href="https://thepictureofpretty.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/icons-of-style-the-audrey-hepburn-effect/" target="_blank"><b><i>latest post at The Picture of Pretty</i></b></a> is a study of that style as it continues to inform modern fashion. It was a bit of work and a lot of fun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, I've been threatening to do it for a long while now. Start another (yes <i>another</i>) blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So I did. I mean, I ACTUALLY set it up on Wordpress (I'm learning -- boy howdy it's pretty easy!) and have blogged. Once. One post, so far, on <i><b><a href="https://thepictureofpretty.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The Picture of Pretty</a></b></i>. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">If you care to view it (I'd say read but it's mostly pictures), it's here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I don't know quite what the future of Buttercup Bungalow is. Nor can I predict what this new blog will (or won't) be. I only know that I have more energy and ideas that I can confine to a single blog. Or two blogs, apparently. I suspect that Buttercup Bungalow isn't going anywhere soon, though it may lie fallow for a while. Wouldn't be the first time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Then again, in a month, I could be so tired and brain fogged that I can barely get my primary blog done (<a href="http://thedailycorgi.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><i>The Daily Corgi</i></b></a>), but let's just do today. For sanity's sake, stay in the day. It's worth a shot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is good to have more creative energy than I know what to do with. Sometimes it just goes that way. The depression and relentless anxiety clear away enough to permit me room to DO, to MAKE, to spend my time doing something other than just BEING. Maybe the longer days and arrival of Spring have something to do with it? It certainly isn't working against me, after the long New England winter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Can't wait to see the first flower or blade of grass. It's been a brutal one here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">… because a legend never REALLY leaves the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hey little lady, I hear it's your birthday. I've got a smooch with your name on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I bought you three teddy bears. Because your friend Laurie told me you like teddy bears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Because I live in the Boston area and been so snowed in, I've been doing a LOT of pinning lately. You know, pinning (saving images to) Pinterest? I have <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/laurieeno/" target="_blank"><b><i>180 separately themed boards</i></b></a>, because yes -- this is how much my mind likes to compartmentalize things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've been poring over style (fashion/interiors) publications -- mostly magazines -- since I was a teenager. Let's just say it's been a few decades, by now. I have a very instinctive response to images, and so often see something I like in an editorial -- a gem -- that's surrounded by things that don't speak nearly as well to me. This must explain my pleasure in plucking out just what I like best and putting it together with other images, first and foremost for my own pleasure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But color and images are a language of their own. And apparently I have a <i>lot</i> to say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One of my favorite boards, because it's so unexpected and always vibrant, is a <b><i><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/laurieeno/this-is-pink-and-orange/" target="_blank">pink and orange color combination</a></i></b>. These are from my Pink and Orange Pinterest board. There are "hot" and "saturated" pinks and oranges, and variations of these … peach, apricot, salmon pink, grapefruit, coral, tangerine, candy pink … and so on. Today's selections fall on the lighter end of the spectrum. The hothouse shades will no doubt have their day here, eventually! In a parallel universe, I'm sure there's a version of me involved in design -- and loving it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I love homes. Other people's homes, mostly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Smaller ones more than bigger ones. Cottages and bungalows? <i>One of each, please!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In a lifetime of looking and planning and hoping and dreaming of my own perfect abode, however, I've come up square against a reality: I am not a domestic diva. In fact, if there is an opposite thing, I am closer to that. Although I spend much of my time at home (a nondescript urban apartment with linoleum flooring in every room), I'm often busier hatching plans for how I'm going to improve this place than truly <i>living in it</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Step one: a vigorous cleaning. That alone would be a triumph. Step two: excising one third of everything I own. Give it away, sell it, upcycle, downcycle, recycle, set it on the sidewalk with a "good stuff free" sign. Let it go, with a minimum of public scene-making. Step three (if by some miracle steps one and two didn't kill me), make the leap from Pinterest boards and shelter magazines to actually putting up curtains. Putting down rugs. Assume the post of chatelaine of my own shoebox. </span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And I know precisely where I keep that serrated grapefruit spoon!</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In other words, moving in. Setting down. Not waiting until Mr. Right #2 comes along to be happy in my own home. Not holding on to clutter and procrastination and "good enough-ness", because hey, I'm a grown-up now! Because by now I hate moving. Hate it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's time to root again. To nest, and to rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I nested once in great earnest, when I was married a few years, but closeness turned to chaos and we went our own ways. His unhappiness with my housekeeping (if you want to call it that) was a major plank in his platform of marital reform. The platform failed, apparently due in large part to my lack of enthusiasm for the domestic arts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are people who have been in this building 20 years. If I'm still here in 20 years, I might have to question where I went wrong, but when I look at their apartments, those who've been here that long, I see homes. Real homes. Made for living, comfort, company, making memories. With real furniture and rugs and lamps! (Sorry, IKEA). They respect themselves and their space by feathering their own nest well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Nothing too high end, but attractive, well kept, curtains on real rods (not the spring-loaded ones), hung from hooks instead of grommets. Real fabric shower curtains. A pedal-step wastebasket in the kitchen<i> and</i> the bathroom. Imagine that! China on shelves behind glass doors, framed art, a bedroom that's a haven. The finest room in the house (as it ought to be!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most of all, everything is CLEAN. My kingdom for a Merry Maid! How do they work that kind of magic? What is the wizardry employed in keeping a house not just tidy, but consistently clean? It can't be as simple as a routine, can it? And if it's a routine, is it fatally boring? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My relationship with housecleaning and housekeeping (what's the difference?) is fraught, to say the least. Truth is, it never got off the ground. We are uneasy roommates, housekeeping and me, an odd couple thrown together for these thirty years now, only grudgingly acknowledging the existence of the other. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">She wears a dress and an apron and wields a mixing bowl with confidence and flair, this busy little Swiffering bee. She hopes and plans and yearns for the day when all her big ideas (or even a few of her little ones) are realized in her own home. She asks, in all sincerity, whether this is what humans have been doing for thousands of years, since they left a largely nomadic existence behind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But I probably don't have another 48 years ahead of me. In spite of my aversion to buckets and brushes, a clean re-start seems the only way to launch my second act. Here and now, as if there is no better place to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Because the present is, in the truest sense, the only home we can ever truly inhabit. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And when I'm finished waxing philosophical and wise, I will do the dishes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As (almost) always, I wanted to cast a passel of pinks up on a post today. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">But restraint might be better, as I'm in a time of transition. Not all is pink and airy, except the passing daydream. And gray days often punctuate the bright ones.</span></div>
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Laurie AEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09403987802685638609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7668079564785473016.post-77149599154821060312015-01-11T22:30:00.004-05:002015-01-11T22:30:52.813-05:00The Letter<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today I wrote the letter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The words were graceful and clear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In this act of my un-mooring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The long hoped for day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After the noise and the fight and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All the words unsaid. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now the story has been told.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In my exultant hour.</span></div>
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I've been in search of it for a while now. Kitten Girl passed in May. May 15th, to be exact. I carried her to her final rest, and it was a horrifying, traumatic experience. A long goodbye that didn't last nearly long enough.<br />
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She was 18.5 years old. To me, she will always and forever be my baby. I continue to grieve, and that grief complicated the holidays. To say that is an understatement, actually. The grief and longing really cleaned my clock.<br />
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There is a new cat, Miss Blue (aka Miss Bluebell Meadows). She's four, glamorous looking, long white hair, dark grey patches, gold eyes. She wants to be a part of my life, though she nearly escaped the car on the way home from the shelter in August. I'd post a photo here, but I can't do that, while I'm blogging about the memory of Kitten Girl. The memories and the loss, which keeps on happening over and over again.<br />
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This is a valley of the lost, between losing a deeply beloved and battling guilt over loving the new one. The new one who needs me as much as Kitten Girl ever did. I act as though everything is fine, that the color hasn't drained from my world, but there are days when I think I can't endure another minute. Having major depression helps none of this, of course. But there is no changing that lot, just living with it, living around it, living through it.<br />
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Sigh. I miss you, baby. Your Mummy misses you and always will.<br />
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But I lived for you once (because I couldn't desert you), and I don't know that I'd end up where you are now, if I chose not to live. Not sure about heaven or hell, and the terrifying possibility that maybe all there is left of our time together is your lock of fur, your ashes, your funny paw print in clay. And the smell of you in my mind. Your skin/fur smell. I breathed it so deeply, so often. Those things, and all the memories.<br />
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I knew it would be hard. I just didn't think the really bad feelings, the ones that cut me off at the knees, would come back around with such ferocity at Christmas. I didn't think it would be so powerful, this absence of you. When does the fun begin again? I'm awfully tired of this ride, but afraid to leave it, because if I'm not suffering, am I forgetting you?<br />
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p.s. There is no hidden message here. I plan to stick around. Not in danger of disappearing. If nothing else, I have a cat who needs me! :)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I confess to having something of an obsession with miniature things. Miniature things that actually do major functions are even more obsession-worthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This little (wireless!) printer is just about the cutest techy-thing I've seen in forever. As I write so infrequently (never) about technology here, a post on a wee device is kind of a Big Deal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since my last blog post here, I've been working feverishly on my <a href="http://thedailycorgi.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">main blog</a>. I've abandoned my well-intentioned blog <i>The Picture of Pretty</i> because there's just not enough time. I started walking, lost some more weight, got into a brief but fairly tempestuous relationship with a handsome foreign-born man (oooh heartache, you are a stern taskmaster) ... in other words, I've been living my life and times just goes by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've paid scant attention to the aesthetic aspects of my life, and I miss that. I broke out a new set of sheets today (very Shabby Chic) -- white, pink roses, countryside pretty -- and got inspired by them. There's so much I still want to do with this odd shaped, cookie-cutter apartment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also went blond(ish), and am convinced anew that God made a mistake. That he should have finished the job before I popped out of the oven; born with frosted hair I was, when I should've been blonde. Are you there God? If you're listening, it's time for a little miracle.</span><br />
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<br />Laurie AEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09403987802685638609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7668079564785473016.post-58685506289345451132012-03-01T00:01:00.007-05:002012-03-01T00:45:32.468-05:00It's snowing in New England ...<span style="font-size: large;">... time to jolly myself out of the Winter funk by thinking of Spring and all the cheerful color and sweetly seasonal, totally girly things just around the corner!</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let Them Eat Macarons</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.zazzle.com/mbr/238564982306244760">PauletteParis/Zazzle</a></span></div>Laurie AEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09403987802685638609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7668079564785473016.post-50432704005462836032012-02-19T18:51:00.010-05:002012-02-20T01:21:57.915-05:00Another blog?! Yes, another one ...<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">... and I ask myself whether I am, in fact, crazier than I already thought I was. To start a new blog when I already have <a href="http://thedailycorgi.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">one that on some days constitutes a full-time (but rarely paying) job</a>, and a second one (this one) that I sometimes abandon for weeks on end, seems a rash and impulsive move. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That said -- I make no promises, except that whatever I <i>do</i> post over at the newly hatched <a href="http://thepictureofpretty.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Picture of Pretty</a> will be, well, <i>pretty.</i> Pretty in an old fashioned way. Not cute, but at least very pretty, and possibly also quite beautiful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <i>cute</i> I will save for Buttercup Bungalow!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I know beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and all of that, but that doesn't mean I can't stake out a place in the universe where I post the best of the very best of what I consider lovely. (With a "so <i>there!</i>" subtext).</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And maybe if I'm lucky, I'll find a few followers -- perhaps a few transplants from here (hint hint). </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Much of my blogging here lately has been inspired by Pinterest, where I have <b><a href="http://pinterest.com/laurieeno/" target="_blank">masses of boards</a></b> and spend way too much time. The Surgeon General should slap a warning on that site that it is highly addictive and could cause you to neglect your day to day responsibilities, blissfully unaware of the passage of time.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This explains why Pinterest is the fastest growing social media site on the internet. We love to collate, celebrate, curate, don't we? It's an act of collective creativity, and can be a joyful one at that.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The whole point is to enjoy it. Because life is short, but loveliness lasts forever in the hearts of those who cherish it most.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">p.s. I have tried to argue myself out of creating a new blog when I've got two already PLUS my Pinterest boards, but the bald truth is that I need a place to put put my rampant perfectionism where it will be of good use. The Picture of Pretty will (I hope) be that place. Only images that make me go <i>ooooh!</i> and <i>ahhhh!</i> (not just one or the other) will make it there. </span><br />
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