Good Night Monday!

Here is the other video. I found it via My Fair Lady! I think this is so amazing by Evelin Lohbeck! It made me smile! Check out some more of her work here.


Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo.

All this illusion is so mesmerizing to me.

♥Emma

Good Morning Monday!

I found a amazing videos this weekend that made me smile and shake my head in awe.
The first is by Keith Loutits and part of a project entitled "Little Sydney." Go check out his other videos and website for more information.
found via Here!

Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

I 'll have to share the other with you tonight. Have a perfectly fascinating day!♥emma

Movie Ticket!

This movie looks so good! I love a good laugh and a good heart tugging! People on the search for something and plenty of quirckiness along the way. I can't wait for this one!



found via For Me For You!

Soft and Secrets

I like this...

She was more than human to me.

She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw,

and everything that everybody ever wanted.

I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant.

There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back;

I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

~David Copperfield by Charles Dickens


I watched The Secret Life of Bees over the weekend and I really enjoyed it! I read the book a while back and was pleasantly surprised at how well it translated into a film. I also enjoyed all of the actresses chosen for the roles, they did a wonderful job. Here is the trailer and you should check out the soundtrack. It's vert sweet.



A song I loved from the movie! Lizz Wright. Song for Mia.

MySpace Playlist at MixPod.com

A few of the quotes I really enjoy...

It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I've never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.



Bee yard etiquette: ... the world is really one big bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places: Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and long pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.


... some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is ... they know what matters, but they don't choose it... The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.


... when it's time to die, die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid (of dying).


Bee hum... It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.

I hope you night (Day) is full of joy! ♥Emma

Show Your Heart

"Awards" can make me feel funny and sometimes (although completely flattering and welcoming) uncomfortable! Mostly due to the giving them to others part. I want to give to so many that I enjoy! But tags are usually a bit more fun because you get to learn a bit about the people you enjoy visiting. I was tagged by the always dreamy Micaela (The Drifter and The Gypsy). This tag is different and fun and I like it! Sooo hard to come up with just 1 of everything! It was definitely a challenge but here we go...
With as much creativity as you can muster, show your heart in:
1 picture
1 poem
1 song or piece of music
1 phrase or quote
1 item of clothing
1 place
[And just for fun-] 1 Disney princess!
picture:

Without using a personal picture of Bear, family, Sophie, or horses I chose this picture because it is beautiful me. It is soft and dream-like. I chose it because it can be interpreted in so many ways. I see love, sadness, loneliness, loss, contemplation, freedom, peace, contentment, and wanting in this photo. I can smell the chilled breeze and hear the soft low tide. It is just lovely and quiet and yet says a hundred different things. {photo from and some others flicker}

Poem:

i carry your heart with me ~by ee cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

{to me its about the core of someones love without the silly frills. It is honest and real.}

Song/Music:

I feel my emotions ready to burst when I listen to this song!

Phrase/Quote:
~From Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte~
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

Clothing:
I actually had to change it up and choose an accessory (which, lets be real here, is just as important as the clothing on our backs!). I love pretty much all clothes! My heart does flips for sweet spring time and summer dresses, feels warm and soft for winter coats, feels complete at the sight of perfect jeans, and it swoons over scarves of all kinds and colors. But I can not resist a bag (clutches included)! {Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters}











Place:
Without. again, going too personal (like home, which is where my heart is) I want to choose somewhere I have been of course (otherwise it would be Italy, but I have not had the good fortune to go... YET!). So it would, without a doubt, be...
Maine!

















Disney Princess:











Okay all older Disney is fantastic! I love it all from Fantasia to Dumbo, it brings me back to childhood. For my Princess I chose Ariel! She is curious, daring and brave. Beautiful, kind, and has a killer voice. And determined to get her Love! I could watch it over and over, it's just so fun!

I really don't want to be lame here but I really want to see what everyone would choose so I tag the lovely people in the box to the right (also known as "followers" in the blog world [which, can I just say, I hate hate that term!]). I love learning this stuff about everyone! Pretty, pretty please leave me a comment to ensure I don't miss the post! This is especially good for anyone grappling with post ideas! Have fun and enjoy your day! ♥Emma

Musicians and their Music

Hello there. I just wanted to share some things that I find very inspiring and creative. I love finding new music and search for it often. I also really enjoy stumbling upon musicians that really put everything they have into making the music they love! I have found a few musicians on You Tube that I really adore! The two below both have music and/or albums you can purchase (links will be below). But what I find most interesting is that in many of their videos they create all, yes all of the sounds you hear. That's back-up singers and instruments! Very cool!

The first is Julia Nunes. Her site is HERE, where you can purchase a cd or you can just listen to her more Here. The song is actually by Say Anything but I love it. And the second half of the video she lets you know about some concert dates. So if you are anywhere near those places you should go! I am not and that makes me sad.


This next one is Nataly Dawn. She sings with such a sweet voice! She also does some covers and also has music you can purchase or just listen to all afternoon Here. This video is actually a collaboration with her boyfriend (Jack also has some awesome stuff Here!) and they go by the name Pomplamoose and you can listen to and purchase their music Here.


Here is just one I like by Nataly. Shows some of her funny side.




Have a nice night! ♥Emma

My tumultuous feelings over Time Lapse Lifeline (Maria Taylor)

{Okay, this becomes a bit more than the song but it just kept coming out.}

This song for me is about wanting to do things differently. Wanting to have lived more. To have taken more moments of my life and to have them burned into my heart and my thoughts so that they could be clear and crisp for remembering. I hear it and I feel the tears, and the emotions they carry, at the back of my eyes and sitting in my throat. I have regrets, but even more than the feeling of regrets I have the realization that all the different stages of a life hold with them unique and special moments that do not move on with you. You know, those details that only childhood can bring, or college, or a first part-time job, a first kiss, a road trip with a friend, meeting the one, all those special steps with the one, you get it. I mean sure we have those memories (at least the ones we can recall) but I know those once-in-a-lifetime little moments and laughs and loves do not repeat themselves. This makes me sad. To think of those years and moments gone, except for what my mind strings together into a memory, is just sad.

from HERE

At the same time, I hear this song and think to myself what a wonderful thing to have the realization to take a breath in those moments and try as I might to store them away accurately for later. I think about all the amazing and once-in-a-lifetime moments that are yet to come, ones that I have not even been able to fathom and create in my imagination. That I have, at every turn, the opportunity for something new and brilliant and worthwhile to happen to me or for me to make happen! I have that, right ahead of me! How thrilling! So I am also happy and excited and filled with hope!


I want to be "new like spring!"

Maria Taylor HERE!



Okay and how fantastic is this video! I mean take away hitting the guy with water balloons and bashing in mailboxes and you have one magical day! The ladies out in party dresses (I would love to run around all day in party dresses, jumping in pools), the sun, the pool, carefree, magic!

♥Emma

I Found...

...rainbows and rainbows! On this wonderful site of rainbow sightings! Via A Cup of Jo

...out my friend and co-worker is going to have a little baby (as opposed to a big one I guess)! And I was the first to know! awwww, so sweet! I am soooo happy for her and her family! Plus I love this little baby nook, via Domino Mag (i think!)

...this rain pullover that is perfect for spring showers! I can smell the sweet rain now! from Joules via Lobster and Swan

...a headboard that is sure to brighten my mornings and make me smile as I lay my head down at night! Brian Park Photography via Design is Mine

...a cottage I would love to call my own! I can just see myself planting sweet smelling flower beds under those windows! found this looker at Belle and she found it at Daisy Pink Cupcake

...wonderful little drawings for only $10!!! Right Here! I am definitely going to get one! I really like this little bug collection but my favorite is the moth and butterfly collection. The best part is you get to request what you would like her to create! How beautiful! found via For Me, For You
... this Perfect video and song found via reading my tea leaves (check this cute blog out!). I just adore the little paper animals!

...another adorable video! Just one that makes a little smile! via {frolic} of course

A Week to Discover

A summer dress from dace '09 Spring Collection

A sweet floral/botanical print arrangement over a bed
found via MadeByGirl (a place full of creativity)
Room of etsy seller and blogger Constanca of Saidos Da Concha

This sweet wedding photographer couple Erin ♥'s Court (wonderful, beautiful weddings)

Toast! Little spring scarves and jackets.

a place to browse amazingly designed book covers HERE. (Fun) Some will want to have on you wall they are so well done! p.s. found via unruly-things

This very sweet video solving the mystery of the skies! Found via the gorgeous lady of My Fair Lady (Candace)! (go find amazing things here!)

I shall need a bicycle!

I am ready for spring to sweep me away! I love the warmth of spring, how it just creeps in throughout the day. How it warms your cheeks and lights up the new green grass.If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. ~Nadine Stair

I think I shall need a bicycle for spring. One with a basket in the front to hold the flowers I want to buy. A bicycle and a garden with a gate. A Bicycle a garden with a gate, and the perfect picnic between the sun and the shade. Yes I think I will need these things!
This I found via Frolic. And I could not feel more like spring time while watching it. I would love, love, love to hang my clothes on the line and gather them up while barefoot. I think I have to move there.
It's actually from Charlotte Ronsons (her website is giving me trouble, will link later) Spring 2008 Campaign but spring is spring, right! Breath in the breezes...

I have a few things to post about, but they will have to be tomorrow. My head is aching and truthfully I have been so consumed by internet land that I have not done well with my reading. I am loving the book I am currently on and just bought a new one yesterday. So I really have to (want to to so bad) go read a few minutes before work. Other nice things later. Please return! ♥emma

Pictures and Songs

Listen and look. enjoy. love.

MySpace Playlist at MixPod.com

Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1943

Teen Vogue

All photos are linked where I found them or to the photographer, just click on them. Some do not have links to photographers yet. I am searching still and will update. The only one not linked is the lovely Balloon photo (found via Style Me Pretty) because I knew it was from a lovely blog that I read and I was determined to find. Well luckily she found me - she is A Cup of Jo and this is one of her amazing engagement photos! They were photographed by Max Wagner. Go see Jo, she has so much to share!

I love this. She is adorable and natural. perfect quirky love song.

Oh and goodie, goodie! I get to share some more love that was passed on to me by the Beautiful Agnes! (Truely, go see her, Dream and Fantasy!) It is so wonderful because once again it is from someone that I think is Fabulous!

"Here are the rules:
1. Put the logo on your blog or post.
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which you think are fabulous.
3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award."
*
I don't know if you guys like the idea of these blog awards. I suppose it's just a sweet way to say I enjoy you and what you share! And a sweet way to introduce others to new and wonderful people. So with no pressure to do anything with i (just as here and here), i.e. you don't actually have to follow any rules (see how i explained that here hehe) I wanted to pass this on to:

1}Summer Nights - yellow sun, poetic, words, pictures, romance
2}Knitsational - creative, crafty, sweet, family, warm
3}Honeytree Photography - bloom, photography, fantasy, color, travels
4}Heart-Shaped Morning - pure, dreams, pictures, pretty, feminine
5}Jude Mcconkey - vivid, personal, photography, crisp, (in her acurrate words) haunting
6}Belle - inspiration, pink, photos, design, found and shared
7}This always opens to the story within - writings, moving, fun, natural, creative
8}Doodle and Day Dreams - personal, thoughts, sweet, jewelry, sharing
9}Her Library Adventures - books, crafts, fairy tales, stories, day dreaming
10}Swish and Swanky - design, inpirations, finds, lovely, all girl

Obviously I love all these blogs and this award does not pronounce them fabulous bacause they have always been fabulous! Have a lovely evening. ♥emma