she's counting the diamonds on rings..

Tap dancer instead of a drummer?
Meet Tilly and the Wall.

I don't know how I just recently learned about these guys...they're excellent!




honestly, the way the tapper moves her arms i find really irritating...but the girl with pink lips and white/silver hair is my latest crush.

As She's Walking Away

Zac Brown Band. Alan Jackson. Beautiful music makers.
Down to earth, decent, simple, straight up, hearty.
Hearty!
I love their music individually, and together they put together this easy, gracious song. This is the kind of song that melts my concerns and just immediately puts me in a better world.

street style

not exactly sure why I'm in love with this girl, but I am.


photo cred: the sartorialist

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Introducing David R Daniels, a watercolorist.
Its vibrant and bright and beautiful...and so airy!
Enjoy:

This is the one I found first, that I'm doing a paper on for art class:







oh the magnificence of color:!




anyone interested can find more of his work here.

recent favorites

Some really outstanding red carpet looks lately, finally the celebrities are having an upswing!

I think Michelle Williams is beautiful always, but she's stunning in this dress by Jason Wu:



I'm not sure why I love this, but its such a fitting look for her, with the bangs and the eyeshadow. Its cool, almost cold, but stylish.





and here Natalie Portman is just perfect. I'm crazy about her hair:

oh to broaden horizons

Step one to finding lots of lovely: be less picky.

So far, I've been holding to only a few varieties of happiness, which were all marvelous, but I'm gonna be a little bit more flexible and available with what I post.

This is just a silly, creative video my little brother found. Love the idea!

well its been a long day,

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what I was really thinking was "its been a long time since I posted something here"...but somehow that led to this song coming front and center of my memory until I had to track it down and listen.
One of those old musicals I can't help but loving, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Although I always did hate the guy...he's such a twerp.

Anyway. The terrible, horrible truth of the matter, friends, is that I stopped posting because I couldn't find anything lovely. Isn't it sad? Everything I found was kind of refried and stale.
Which brought me to the obvious, though somewhat depressing truth: there's a whole lot more ugly than lovely.
And I know, I know I started this whole blog to combat all that ugly, and I'm not giving up...
but la la land of pretending there IS Nothing But Lovely doesn't make sense to me anymore.

So I'm not sure what to do. I'll think about it.
But I shall try to continue to post....just what I"ll post, I'm not sure. But something. Something [hopefully] worthwhile.

So. I have not fallen off a bridge or disintegrated, and the sunshine is still quite lovely.