(The pictures are from December. I hurriedly rushed into London one morning to visit Ladurée.)
Whilst I am here, I may as well write a little.
My world hasn't truly changed much at all. Up is still up, down is still down. A book is still a book, a bear is still a bear.
Homework is still the ever rising Everest that it always was. And I'm still here, still desperately trying to scale it as best I can. But from where I'm standing, the snow just never stops.
I am making a Time Capsule though, just for me. One to bury in the woods.
I talked to Pru about it today. She said that Time Capsules are all about the letting go and I had never seen it so before. We made one in primary school as a class, containing a small item belonging to each pupil and it was to encompass 'How We Would Like To Be Remembered'. The terrible part is, I don't. I don't remember my item at all.
Perhaps what Pru said is true. It was for the forgetting. Not for the remembering.
Wow, these pictures are beautiful. Ladree looks like such a lovely place!
I know how you feel about homework, I have the same problem too. I just try to somehow enjoy these busy times. It's easy to take them for granted and wish to be someplace else, but it's a much better idea to learn to appreciate them. :)
awwwhhh...How lovely!! You are truly a beautiful soul!! I have missed your wrting so much, and soooo glad you're back. Your blog lifts my spirits, and makes me warm inside.
Do post again soon. I love to read what you write, and check your site at least once a day. Come visit me sometime, we'll have tea and talk about time capsules.
Oh, I always reckoned time capsules weren't for the people putting stuff into them as they were for promising excitement and anticipation to the ones opening it!
I have such a yearning for macaroons, but I'm pretty certain the humid, Floridian climate isn't suited to making them. Boo!
I agree with your friend Pru. I think they are meant to let you forget. Maybe you won't feel as guilty for forgetting if you know you can dig up your capsule and remember again. Or maybe it is just so you can move on to another phase without to many worries. They sure are fun to open again, though. If you can remember where you buried them. Maybe you should leave yourself a path of breadcrumbs so you can find the way back. Just in case.
I absolutely concur. For some reason, it has never occurred to me to be concerned about how I should be remembered. I'm perfectly happy to be forgotten.
ps - Oddly, these pastel-hued sandwich cookies keep popping up in my collective consciousness lately. Curiouser and curiouser.
beautiful photos! i found my time capsule a little while ago, i made it when i was 12 or so, i had forgotten what was inside too. but to rediscover memories that were once precious to me, shed a different light on the life i live today. if that makes sense. x
Macarons!!1 I have yet to try one, but I am going to Paris in May and stumbled across an article on the Parisian boutiques for these sugar treasures. I am now determined to find the best macarons in Paris! :p
It is good to see you back posting - I've missed your gorgeous whimsy.
omg! your blog is so vintage! i love little princess. I've wathced it when i was small. My mom bought it just for me and my brother. It was an interesting movie and we cried and cried and rerewind the crying part and cried again!
...If I could make a time capsule, I'd buy a moleskine journal, and fill it with pretty thoughts and pictures and cutouts and my dreams and little stories and magic...then put in in the box, bury it up, and pray someone like you'd find it. I cannot wait for your next post. I hope you have a great time in London.
What a wonderful post again. The photographs and your words are just breathtaking. I don't know what it is exactly, but it always touches me so. Thank you. From the bottom (and top) from my heart.
tin cases i love the 3d pop up ones the ones you can run your fingers delicately across them and feel like edges seep into you i love the 3d things you can put into them too different to photographs and letters and diaries somethings different remembering the different edges of your memorie ......oh i'll love to see your treasure chest memory box :) even if it's the time you write again which i always hope you'll write with all your heart and all my heart i'll love you too write maybe a book one day when i read i capture the castle your voice here voices through the yellow glow of the pages like castle walls and wooden bridges you have a gold heart
There's a Laduree in London? I just spent two months in Paris and one of my best memories is having lunch there with a friend. I didn't get to snap the photos I wanted, it didn't seem right. Now I have yours to refer to, albeit from London! So gorgeous, I would have been thrilled to capture their beautiful boxes and macarons as you have.
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that is very amazing.
Wow, these pictures are beautiful. Ladree looks like such a lovely place!
I know how you feel about homework, I have the same problem too. I just try to somehow enjoy these busy times. It's easy to take them for granted and wish to be someplace else, but it's a much better idea to learn to appreciate them. :)
lovee the photos,beautiful!!!
I am so happy you're posting again! The photos are beautiful as always. But I really would like to see your time capsule<3
beautiful boxes. they are so pretty. i love the shade of pink :)
xoxo,
Micaela
So beautiful. =)
awwwhhh...How lovely!! You are truly a beautiful soul!! I have missed your wrting so much, and soooo glad you're back. Your blog lifts my spirits, and makes me warm inside.
xoxo
You are so darling.
Do post again soon. I love to read what you write, and
check your site at least once a day.
Come visit me sometime, we'll have tea and talk about time capsules.
www.thestorytellersdiary.blogspot.com
Good luck with Everest, I too trek upward.
Oh, I always reckoned time capsules weren't for the people putting stuff into them as they were for promising excitement and anticipation to the ones opening it!
I have such a yearning for macaroons, but I'm pretty certain the humid, Floridian climate isn't suited to making them. Boo!
ive been meaning to make a time capsule, but no need. I have short memory loss, so everything is new to me. daily.
I found your blog two months ago. I'm glad to see a more recent post. I look forward to more.
I agree with your friend Pru. I think they are meant to let you forget. Maybe you won't feel as guilty for forgetting if you know you can dig up your capsule and remember again. Or maybe it is just so you can move on to another phase without to many worries. They sure are fun to open again, though. If you can remember where you buried them. Maybe you should leave yourself a path of breadcrumbs so you can find the way back. Just in case.
I absolutely concur. For some reason, it has never occurred to me to be concerned about how I should be remembered. I'm perfectly happy to be forgotten.
ps - Oddly, these pastel-hued sandwich cookies keep popping up in my collective consciousness lately. Curiouser and curiouser.
beautiful photos! i found my time capsule a little while ago, i made it when i was 12 or so, i had forgotten what was inside too. but to rediscover memories that were once precious to me, shed a different light on the life i live today. if that makes sense. x
welcome back. looking forward to your posts... they are all so lovely and sweet.
oh, i really really like your blog. it's like a fairytale book!
THRILLED that you are posting again!!! Happy Valentine's Day sweet lady!
lovely.as always
isabella
Macarons!!1 I have yet to try one, but I am going to Paris in May and stumbled across an article on the Parisian boutiques for these sugar treasures. I am now determined to find the best macarons in Paris! :p
It is good to see you back posting - I've missed your gorgeous whimsy.
--xo.
It is a dream of mine to visit Ladurée some time, what flavour Macaron is do you like best?
this post makes me so happy. <3
happy valentine's day!!
xox
Kara
dietaeglicherevolution.blogspot.com
Laduree, my favorite! Salty caramel and liqourice. I wish I was in London town.
x
I love how you wrote of your mound of homework. Its such a perfect, creative way to write a sentence.
omg! your blog is so vintage! i love little princess. I've wathced it when i was small. My mom bought it just for me and my brother. It was an interesting movie and we cried and cried and rerewind the crying part and cried again!
What an exquisite place Laduree is!
lovely. i can understand the need of letting go to forget but it's so hard to do, isn't it?
...If I could make a time capsule, I'd buy a moleskine journal, and fill it with pretty thoughts and pictures and cutouts and my dreams and little stories and magic...then put in in the box, bury it up,
and pray someone like you'd find it.
I cannot wait for your next post. I hope you have a great time in London.
xx Rosebud
I adore your blog!
What lovely and fitting pictures...those macarons look delectable...
joanna, it's bee
can i have your address again
i lost it
and i miss you so much xxx
Hello sweetheart,
What a wonderful post again.
The photographs and your words are just breathtaking. I don't know what it is exactly, but it always touches me so.
Thank you.
From the bottom (and top) from my heart.
<3
Mila.
You are so darling; I have to save your blog somewhere. (:
I love your blog because your words and pictures are so beautiful!
^__^
It is a shame that what we wanted to remember the most in our time capsule is what is always forgotten
please post more!! show us your drawings or your lovely photos!! :) isabella
write!
tin cases
i love the 3d pop up ones
the ones you can run your fingers delicately across them and feel like edges seep into you
i love the 3d things you can put into them too
different to photographs and letters and diaries
somethings different
remembering the different edges of your memorie
......oh i'll love to see your treasure chest memory box :) even if it's the time you write again
which i always hope you'll write
with all your heart
and all my heart
i'll love you too write
maybe a book one day
when i read i capture the castle your voice here
voices through the yellow glow of the pages
like castle walls
and wooden bridges
you have a gold heart
Ver pretty pictures!
There's a Laduree in London? I just spent two months in Paris and one of my best memories is having lunch there with a friend. I didn't get to snap the photos I wanted, it didn't seem right. Now I have yours to refer to, albeit from London! So gorgeous, I would have been thrilled to capture their beautiful boxes and macarons as you have.
lovely. i can understand the need of letting go to forget but it's so hard to do, isn't it?
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