(My) Fashion Trendsetters: GRACE KELLY

I don’t want to dress up a picture with just my face. Grace Kelly (This video has lovely pictures of Grace but i do not like the music so just do like i do: turn the sound off and enjoy the most fabulous photos of her!!) “We all knew from the beginning there was something [...]

How do pics of mine look framed?

Have you ever wondered how your fabulous pics & photos would look like framed? Well, I did and here is the result of a few of them which i did. I have joined a site called RedBubble where one can show and sell one’s stuff since four days ago. Here is my site over there: [...]

HOORAY 4 WOMEN!

They used to give us a day –it was called International Women’s Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into [...]

PICTURE PERFECT: INFINITE

Definitions on INFINITE: “Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance.” Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is over there in the distance. It was there where it was discovered that the Chernobyl accident had happened in 1986, for the Swedes thought that they had a ‘leak’ or whatever at first. I took [...]

PICTURE PERFECT: WATER

“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink…” It’s from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge – when the Ancient Mariner is stuck in the middle of the sea. Planet Earth has a total surface area of close to 197 million square miles. Most of this surface is covered by water. [...]

LIPSTICK …

…a woman’s first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick. Carole Lombard Would you believe that In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.” (Chemical & Engineering News online) Lipstick is known [...]

Boulevard of Plants — ALHAMBRA

Just want to remind us all that there is summer somewhere… Tis for now, Rii xx Photo: Taken by Becki – my daughter. All rights reserved. Link to Alhambra.  The plant in the photo is Oleander. Oleander (Nerium oleander), is a evergreen shrub or small tree in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is the only [...]

SONNET of Chaucer: Legende of Goode Wimmen

For thy trespas, and understond hit here: Thou shalt, whyl that thou livest, yeer by yere, The moste party of thy tyme spende In making of a glorious Legende Of Goode Wimmen, maidenes and wyves, That weren trewe in lovinge al hir lyves; And telle of false men that hem bitrayen, That al hir lyf [...]

Favourite Fairy Tales: The Little Match Girl

“The Little Match Girl” Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne) is a Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young girl who dies selling matches during the cold winter. It was first published in 1848 as part of his fifth volume of Nye Eventyr (New Fairy Tales) as “Den Lille Pige Med Svovlstikkerne” (“The [...]

PICTURE PERFECT: REPETITION

This beautiful manor, Lövstabruk, in Upper Uppland in Sweden was built from the 1600´s to the 1800´s in the likeness to Versailles in Paris. It lies just over 100 km north of Stockholm and 45 km north of Uppsala. Lövstabruk Manor House was plundered and burned in 1719 but was rebuilt building by building during [...]