1909ventilo's Blog

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them

Marilyn Monroe

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Out of the bosom of the Air.
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent and soft and slow
Descends the snow.

Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels

This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882

I spent the transformation into the New Year at a wonderful tranquil, heavenly place in Oregon , a place my best friend just happens to live.  We got up at dawn and walked 4 miles in this beautiful wonderland she calls home!

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My husband gave me this wonderful Automaton for Christmas!  He is very romantic!  I just love it!!

The period 1860 to 1910 is known as “The Golden Age of Automata”. During this period many small family based companies of Automata makers thrived in Paris. From their workshops they exported thousands of clockwork automata and mechanical singing birds around the world. It is these French automata that are collected today, although now rare and expensive they attract collectors worldwide. The main French makers were Vichy, Roullet & Decamps, Lambert, Phalibois, Renou and Bontems.

The word Automaton is the latinization of the Greek αὐτόματον,… automaton, (neuter) “acting of one’s own will”. It is more often used to describe non-electronic moving machines, especially those that have been made to resemble human or animal actions, such as the jacks on old public striking clocks, or the cuckoo and any other animated figures on a cuckoo clock.

I just love this ad!  Too cute!

I just bought an awesome  Hermes scarf on OnlineAuction.com!  I am always on the look-out for new treasures!

Give a subscription to Victoria Magazine!  buy one at the supermarket, put a lovely velvet ribbon with card saying you have sent your wonderful friend a subscription to the magazine!  Put your check in the mail!  They will love you!  I have almost every issue only missing a couple! 

photo from http://acottageindustry.typepad.com

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I found this at the thrift store!  Many  prayers I am sure it did see, as it looked down from the church walls where  it hung for so many years.

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.  ~Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’ Dog’s collar sells for $11,500!

A dog collar that once belonged to Charles Dickens was sold at Bonhams New York’s 28th dog art sale last month and went for well above its pre-auction estimates of $4,000-$6,000. The collar, made of leather and brass and inscribed with Dickens’ name (and address?), sold for $11,590. Although the final price was more than twice what was expected it’s not completely without precedent: last year an ivory and gold toothpick that once belonged to Dickens went for $9,150. Dickens was known for being fond of dogs and this collar certainly looks well-worn.

excerpt taken from…. http://www.luxist.com/tag/pets/

thank you!

The Night Before Christmas (1946

I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Who am I?   Christabel LaMotte:

quote above ….http://rogerebert.suntimes.com

Stuart Weitzman’s Rita Hayworth Heels

Price tag: $3,000,000

Specs: Stuart Weitzman designed the satin open toe stilettos around a pair of earrings owned by movie legend Rita Hayworth.The earrings are laden with rubies, sapphires and diamonds.

#1′s Claim to Shoe Fame: For the 2006 Academy Awards, musician and Oscar-nominee Kathleen “Bird” York was tapped to wear Stuart Weitzman’s latest over-the-top creations.

The shoes “centerpieces” were diamond and precious gemstone earrings from the estate of late 40′s movie siren Rita Hayworth, and now belong to Hayworth’s daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.