printemps

where is spring?!?
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to tumblr or not to tumblr

now don't get me wrong, i love tumblr. its where most of my images come from and you can find some truly beautiful photo collections on there. but yesterday as i was scrolling through some of my favourites i began to notice that alot of tumblrs all seem to post the same images. i want people to come to this blog for something inspirational but at the same time orignal. and so i've decided that i'm going to give taking my own photos a go. i have bought a couple of old skool disposable cameras and will be spending my week off snapping away at anything pretty that happens to catch my eye.

In the mean time i'll leave you with some of my favourite tumblrs:
thelovelybones
fuckyeahskinnybitch
vodkaandchanel
bonesandstyle

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the new you?

I'm having a bout of self doubt at the moment.
January always has such a focus on trying to better yourself and start afresh with news years resolutions, diets etc. It makes me a little self-conscious like there's a need to come up with new imaginative ways to improve your self. I just want to have another happy year doing things I love with the people I love.

So what about you lot. Do you keep new years resolutions, or do you think they're silly?
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fashionable habitat

Some Chanel polishes, a tangle of jewellery, a stack of vogues and rows upon rows of shoes.
The staples of any fashion lovers bedroom, mine included.

What other delights do you keep in your boudoir?
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pastel perfect

When she laughed, her hair would shake in such a way it would always remind me of the fluttering of birds wings. And when it settled the mousy brown tangles would join to form an untidy nest-a nest for her thoughts. What I would have given to have known those secret thoughts. To have know what that beautiful, erratic mind was mulling over that Sunday, as we sat there beneath our favourite tree playing cards in the afternoon sun .

Just a little something I'm writing for fun
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goodbye 2009

As the year 2009 draws to a close, I'l like to say a big thank you to everyone who has commented on, followed or read hippyhippychic this year. I hope my nonsensical collection of pretty pictures and whimsical words will continue to excite and enthrall you all for yet another year.


Ps. A huuuuge thank you to emily who created my new banner for me! You can check out her work [here] she is very talented.

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love letters are better than poetry

My darling,

Do not imagine, because you find these lines in your journal that I have been trespassing. You know I have not - and where else shall I leave a love letter? For I long to write you a love-letter tonight.

You are all about me - I seem to breathe you, hear you, feel you in me and of me.

What am I doing here? You are away. I have seen you in the train, at the station, driving up, sitting in the lamplight, talking, greeting people, washing your hands... And I am here - in your tent - sitting at your table.

There are some wall-flower petals on the table and a dead match, a blue pencil and a Magdeburgische Zeitung. I am just as much at home as they.

letter from Katherine Mansfield to her lover

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spring si vous plait!

i'm having a craving for rose pinks, pearls and petal prints right now.
typical me, i've been moaning for autumn all year and now its arrived with its blustery winds and its love for soggy rain-soaked clothes I'm already wishing for spring...

what's your favourite season?
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dreamy

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

An extract from the Edgar Allen Poe poem 'Dream within a dream'
I'm off to the V+A this weekend, one of my favourites places in London. Will hopefully have some more meaty posts soon, including a giveaway!
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