her gingerbread dress

lavender-doll: We held our breaths, we shut our eyes, We felt our heads spin. Our souls escaped...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:21:33 -0500

We held our breaths, we shut our eyes,
We felt our heads spin.
Our souls escaped into the skies,
We heard a frightful din.

In the dark we saw diamonds;
Miss G sallied down the aisle.
She touched us with her hands
And bore us aloft, awhile.

—Cracks, Sheila Kohler

viα vintagegal: Jean Simmons as Ophelia in Hamlet (1948)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:11:35 -0500

viα vintagegal: Jean Simmons as Ophelia in Hamlet (1948)

"If you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you—you will know that..."

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:34:47 -0500

“If you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you—you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.”

- C.S. Lewis (via fleurstains)

Perfumes Inspired by Dead Writers

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 07:26:45 -0500

Perfumes Inspired by Dead Writers:

Ernest Hemingway: Salt water, rum, coconut and lime, cigar smoke, Spanish wine

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Gin, citrus, oak (prep school, amirite), in a champagne-flute shaped bottle with gold flecks in it

Jane Austen: Darjeeling tea, snowdrops and pansies (flowers from her garden), meadow grass

Dorothy Parker: Whiskey sour, vanilla, mandarin, white musk

Edgar Allan Poe: Poppies, absinthe, sandalwood, and mold

Flannery O’Connor: Church incense, soap, vanilla, ginger

Jack Kerouac: Cigarettes, cheap beer, unwashed youth, patchouli, car leather

the Bronte Sisters: Heather, sea air, vetiver, primrose, black tea

Louisa May Alcott: Fir tree, red currant, blood orange, coffee beans

Tolstoy: Vodka, musk, black tea, black peppercorn, cedar

Sylvia Plath: Freshly washed linen, vanilla, daffodils, lavender

Margaret Mitchell: Musk, magnolia, tea, sugar, gardenia blossoms

Dickens: Cloves, tobacco, patchouli, brandy water, river water

Anne Sexton: Vodka martini, tobacco, lemon verbena, peppermint

"I had got from England a preparation for the children’s hair, and was rubbing it into little..."

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:14:58 -0500

““I had got from England a preparation for the children’s hair, and was rubbing it into little Anastasia’s head one evening. She objected, and I said, ‘It will make your hair grow nicely, darling,’ so she submitted. Next evening I went to get the kappuka from the cupboard and mademoiselle ran off in the next room. She returned dragging by its leg an awful dolly, a regular fetish, minus a wig, one eye, and an arm. She gravely took a little piece of sponge and began to rub the kappuka into the creature’s head. I remonstrated; telling her I had to send to England for the stuff and did not want it wasted. She looked at me most reproachfully, and said, ‘My poor Vera! She has got no curls; this will make her hair grow.’ Of course she got her way.””

- Nanny Mrs. Eager (via ohsoromanov)

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autumndewilde: LULA MAGAZINE #11 WHITE CHALK story with KIRSTEN...

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:32:31 -0500

autumndewilde:

LULA MAGAZINE #11

WHITE CHALK story with KIRSTEN DUNST

STYLED BY KATE AND LAURA MULLEAVY OF RODARTE

shot in martha’s vineyard

"All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence."

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:23:19 -0500

“All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.”

- Sylvia Plath (via lavandula)

princessofdust: beauty and the beast for rose-daughter

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:45:35 -0500

princessofdust:

beauty and the beast for rose-daughter

"The dark woods still rustle around me; the rich flowering grass and the bright flowers, which were..."

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 09:32:11 -0500

“The dark woods still rustle around me; the rich flowering grass and the bright flowers, which were my cradle, still shed their fragrance about me.”

- E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Devil’s Elixirs (1816)

"It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me."

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:02:04 -0500

“It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.”

- Sylvia Plath (via rosythumbelina)

sisterwolf: The Little Mermaid - Boris Diodorova

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:49:30 -0500

sisterwolf:

The Little Mermaid - Boris Diodorova

“The King gave orders that they should let her sleep quietly till the time came for her to...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:27:44 -0500

“The King gave orders that they should let her sleep quietly till the time came for her to awake.”

—Charles Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods

“We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:26:00 -0500

“We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.”

—Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

lave-nder: vedrai: bisous-chic: that dress is...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:52:49 -0500

lave-nder:

vedrai:

bisous-chic:

that dress is perfection

she’s perfection

the whole picture is just perfection

lavandula: alexander mcqueen spring/summer 2007, mourning...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:24:33 -0500

lavandula:

alexander mcqueen spring/summer 2007, mourning jewellery were pieces of jewellery often with a deceased lover or child’s lock of hair encased

aloneinthedark: o willow waly, the innocents, 1961

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:22:35 -0500

aloneinthedark:

o willow waly, the innocents, 1961

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