Let's promenade down the boulevards with terrific pride and light in our eyes!

I want fabulous
That is my simple request
All things fabulous
Bigger and better and best
I need something inspiring to help me get along
I need a little fabulous, is that so wrong?

-High School Musical 2

“Let’s face it: I want it all - just like you and everybody else. It may not be in the cards, but the prospect is so dazzling that I have to try.”
-Lauren Bacall

Every day, act and dress as if life dazzles you so much that it's blinding!

Dressing up. People just don’t do it anymore. We have to change that.
-John Galliano

I hate My Super Sweet 16 with a passion - but look, Heatherette designed her dress!!

There’s an art
to everything. Even
turning away. How

eventually even hunger
can become a space
to live in. How they made
out of shamelessness something
beautiful, for as long as they could.
-Carl Phillips

Love, chocolate cupcakes and cuddles xx

All the lights are coming on, now, how I wish that it would snow...

Now it's here, I am looking forward to snowballs and mulled wine and mittens and advent calendars and warm pyjamas and toboggans and Christmas stockings and chestnuts roasting on the open fire.

And ice skating. Yesterday I went on possibly the most perfect date with the New Boy doing just that - there was lots of hot chocolate with rum, falling over and holding hands.

I wish I could have worn these, though!:-

Rub two smiles, you get a warm feeling. Rub two warm feelings and presto - you have a kiss. Now what? Don't invite the kiss over and answer the door in your underwear. It'll get suspicious and stare at your toes. Don't water the kiss with whiskey. It'll turn bright pink and explode into a thousand luscious splinters, but in the morning it'll be ashamed and sneak out of your body without saying goodbye, and you'll remember that kiss forever by all the little cuts left on the inside of your mouth. You must nurture the kiss. Turn out the lights. Notice how it illuminates the room. Hold it to your chest and wonder if the sand inside hourglasses comes from a special beach. Place it on the tongue's pillow, then look up the first recorded kiss in an encyclopedia: beneath a Babylonian olive tree in 1200 BC.
-Jeffrey McDaniel

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh… And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you so quite new
-e e cummings

I want a winter picnic, like the Beatles...

I wanted to heave my body against the door of time, against my own talent to ruin and devote my life to nervously, wondrously, touching you.
-Ali Liebgott

I am so tired, but so happy. And a free feast tonight! La vita e dolce this winter, darlings. I hope it is for you too.

Love, lemons and literature xx

I don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too...

...Thursday, I don't care about you
It's Friday, I'm in love!
Monday, you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday, break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday, I'm in love!
-The Cure

Bellissimo Things:-

Gene Kelly singing is happiness.

Cary Grant doing backflips in Holiday.

John Mayer's latest album, Battle Studies. Youtube 'Heartbreak Warfare' and 'Half Of My Heart' with Taylor Swift - soundtrack of my season!

Long naps after late nights out, pub lunches and Baileys-laced hot chocolate.

Laughing so hard that your tummy aches.

Purple and pink suede shoes [mine and the camerado's!].

Rob Ryan.

Panda hats.

Chocolate Mudslide cocktails!

The Parent Trap [and having a big crush on Dennis Quaid...]

"Pfeiffer Beach is situated beneath crumbling hills that have released, over time, billions of tiny garnet crystals. The blood-red garnets shimmer in the sand, bringing it alive with reflected sunlight. The action of the waves shapes and twists the tiny crystals into ever-changing iridescent rainbow patterns..."

Boys who love Disneyland...

...and who save me slices of chocolate cake...

...and he loves to climb trees and plan Easter egg hunts and carry his little sisters on his shoulders and the summer and roast potatoes, and he makes me feel like dancing on the ceiling like Fred Astaire.

In my world, we would all get our own personal flames,
color coded to match with our shoes or skin tone or
our bestest intentions, & Christmas would be every day,
there’d be presents every day & when the phone rang
it would always, always, be for you.
-Nate Pritss

[and it would always, always be you.]

Love, Louboutins and the Cure xx