kind heart.

hello loves! (: please do participate in Chrome for a Cause if you haven't already. i know this is a bit late, but hopefully you've already done it! (: so far, i've donated 6 books and 4 trees. haha.

cheerio!

p.s. this is a beautiful photo, the words and all. always remember this; it is beauty that fuels love and life.

(photos are linked back to their respective sources)

fragile.

hello lovelies! (:

i'm already feeling so excited for Christmas and the new year! though a little apprehensive of 2011 but it's part of new beginnings. (: yesterday, i watched the Christmas episode of Brothers & Sisters and i felt so much for it. that show is just wonderful. <3 it makes me want to have a big, dysfunctional yet loving family of my own one day. (: this week, we've gone Christmas shopping and i've wrapped the presents! wrapping gifts is something so satisfying, after you're done, and they look so pretty and fitting under the tree.

p.s.

in·gle·nook

[ing-guhl-nook]

–noun

a corner or nook near a fireplace; chimney corner.

a thing called love.

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspision love actually is all around."

- Love Actually

the movie and feeling that makes me feel so warm and lovely and wonderful.

i hope everyone is feeling as wonderful as i am. (:

 

forgive me for the flood of pictures these past few days and for the lack of words. (: my mind just isn't forming words pretty enough as pictures have been.


infinte X's and O's.

food porn.

some treats my family and i had in a couple of days. (:

ivy & gold.

today has been (pretty much) a big, fat nothing day, but at the same time i loved it. i cooked a jumbo packet of instant noodles for lunch and that was all the food i had the whole day. after that, i watched tv and shot some pretty pictures of random things i found in my home; a box of matches, little clay box with roses carved on it, two books of LIFE, a little cup in the shape of father christmas and of my silver fingernails and red toenails.

on monday though, i was cycling in the drizzle with my sequined santa hat on. i smiled at everyone i passed, in cars and walkers and wanderers. i love doing things that are unexpected! i'd always feel so alive.

and on saturday, my grandma will be back from singapore after sydney! i've missed her so much. (:

but on each and every day, i have delicious daydreams of when i will run away to capture the boy of my fancy and to capture the world and when i come back down to earth i work to make my wildest fantasies come true.

"Lift my feet, raise my head, love & sweat & tears i've bled, i create the path i see ahead."

-Bliss N Eso

priori incatatem.

my best friend is next to me on the bed, mindlessly strumming the guitar that she does not know how to play. she thinks she strums songs tribal-like. and she laughs her loud, weird laugh that makes me and everyone else laugh as well, if not wake us up, haha. (: in awhile, she would get up and explore the world map, looking for places like Christmas Island and Yemen. we've just watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and it lasted two and a half hours. it was one of the best two and a half hours we've spent thus far. we have Christmas lights everywhere now. both inside and outside of my home. (: they are beautiful. my parents are great decorators. a thought occured to me earlier in the evening that they both should be interior designers. (: it'd be so so much fun! i have to go get some tissues to stop my sniffing now and let my imagination fill my slumber in awhile. (: au revoir!

Tasha Franken.

 

pictures linked back to source.

Vivienne Westwood Red Label S/S11 London

introducing Tasha Franken. (: she is such a doll! and she is of Dutch and Norwegian origin. i think that'd explain her perfect shade of blonde hair, haha! (:

.... oh, and we share the same name.

weekends.

these are pictures from a few weekends. (: yupi pizzas are so deliciously addictive and i am definitely already in the mood for Christmas time! ☺  this weekend, i've been surrounded with family, music, books, tv shows and Christmas things. i loved every second of it. (:

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


"He liked all books because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”
-John Green


"Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all that we do here."
-Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

leavin' of a lover.

just a little, little fisheye experiment. (:

You Learn

by Jorge Luis Borges

You learn.
After a while you learn the subtle difference
between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
and company doesn’t mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
and presents aren’t promises,
and you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes open
with the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
and you learn to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans
and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn
that even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure.
That you really are strong.
And you really do have worth.
And you learn. And learn.
With every good-bye you learn

this is for all the ladies.

winkin' blinkin' nod.

last night, i attended a sweet 16 on the first of the last. (: hahaha. i really needed a party like that to cheer me up from my otherwise uneventful days. it was so much fun, really! and i really can't dance so i just hid behind my camera. what a coward. hahah. but in the city, where it's more often than not that the stars are hidden, the lights  made me feel cosmic instead. (: that last picture is of a 1988 book collection of pictures from LIFE magazine that i found in the family library. i didn't even know it had been sitting there all this time! aahhhh. it is so so lovely. <3 i'll post up some pictures of what's inside soon. i'm practically halfway in love with it by now. (:

Rue Magazine: Marshmallow World from Shark Pig on Vimeo.

this is beyond adorable! (: just a little something to make you smile. here is their photo shoot in rue magazine! aahhh, the pictures are totally drool-worthy. <3

+Summer's belly! :3

postcard swap!

hello! (: i'd love to receive postcards/mail from someone far far away, it makes me so happy, for some reason! this is the first 'swap' i've done and i really do hope it'll work out. (: the first three to email to tashandflo@yahoo.com.my before Monday, 6th of December will get to do this swap! in your email, please leave your blog link, too. (:

hope to get your emails soon! xo

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