Claire | October 14, 2011
*Drugstore brand I’m not impressed with this. Granted, I did buy it for a very specific purpose – to get rid of the dry, rough areas around my ankles and elbows – but I don’t think it’s effective as a moisturizer in general. The moisturizer has a lot of good vitamins including E which is [...]
Category: Fashion/Shopping |
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Tags: beauty product review, beauty products, drugstore beauty products, drugstore moisturizer, drugstore products, Jergens moisturizer, Jergens moisturizer review, Jergens Ultra Healing review, lifestyle, moisturizer review
Claire | October 13, 2011
Kind of love this. “Most of the time, I know exactly why I’m single. It is because I love to be alone. It is not simply the independence of it- there are plenty of independent people who are in a couple-but that freedom doesn’t hurt my case. I like sitting on my couch and swinging [...]
Category: Life or Something like it, The Romantic Life |
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Tags: romance, singleness, waiting for forever
Claire | October 12, 2011
Category: Photographs |
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Tags: beautiful, couple dancing, dancing, dust, feet shot, frame, life is beautiful, light, photo, photography, romance, romantic photography, shadow
Claire | October 8, 2011
I touch you as a lonely violin touches the suburbs of the faraway place patiently the river asks for its share of the drizzle and, bit by bit, a tomorrow passing in poems approaches so I carry faraway’s land and it carries me on travel’s road On a mare made of your virtues, my soul [...]
Category: Poetry |
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Tags: Mahmoud Darwish, poem, Poetry, sonnet
Claire | October 6, 2011
Beautiful Natalie Portman perfume ad. I love the crispness and warmth of the lighting. To me, this ad is all about intimacy, creating a playful yet tender romance that ends with Natalie Portman pulling off the sunglasses, the symbol of sophistication, and giving in to love, and of course with the final shot of her [...]
Category: Miscellaneous, Videos/Shorts |
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Tags: Dior, high-end, Natalie Portman, Natalie Portman Dior, Natalie Portman Miss Dior Cherie ad, perfume ad, perfume commercial
Claire | October 4, 2011
“We live in a tired world—a tired world—a world that has gone on piling up speculation and observations until truths that might been graspable in the bright Dayspring of human morning—by the young Plotinus or the ecstatic John on Patmos—are obscured by palimpsest on palimpsest…. [T]he lovely lines of faith that sprung up in aspiring [...]
Category: Books Art Literature, Quotidian |
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Tags: A.S. Byatt, A.S. Byatt quotes, book quotes, greed for knowledge, life, literary quotes, mad world, misery, Possession, Possession quotes, we live in a tired world, world