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Archive for July 2010

Half-awake

Every night, my head swims with a million thoughts before drifting off. What I’ll be doing tomorrow… What I should be doing tomorrow… It’s a mind-consuming, almost never-ending hodgepodge of ideas and images and moods and deadlines, which I try so hard to capture in one last snapshot before sleep takes over. I really should [...]

Vintage paper dolls

Whilst nosing around the internet for some inspiration and launching a search for “vintage paper,” I came across these lovelies… This one looks as though it came right out of the pages of a ’60s sewing manual… …she even has a male counterpart, how cute! I kind of wonder how it must have been like [...]