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Howl's Moving Castle, Winter Light, Noi Albinoi, Leon the Professional, Eraserhead, Europa Europa, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Castle in the Sky, Pi, Lola Rennt, Audition, Hiroshima mon amour, Last year in Marinbad, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Waking Ned Devine, Bothers Quay Collection, Stalker, The Idiots, The Kingdom Series, Institute Benjamenta, The Grandmother, Waking Life, Suicide Club, Do the Right Thing, City of Lost Children, Naked Lunch, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Delicatessen, Babet's Feast, Twin Peaks series, Lady Vengeance, Sacrifice, Trailer Park Boys series, Palindromes, Manderlay, Ghost Dog, Tetsuo, 8 Femmes, Solaris, Le Cercle Rouge, Eat Drink Man Woman, woman Under the Influence, The Piano Teacher, The Mirror, Blood Tea and Red String, La Dolce Vita, Picnic at Hanging Rock

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An Acceptable Time, The Ballad of Sad Cafe, Madame Bovary, God of Small Things, twilight of the idols, White Noise, Ray Bradbury's short stories, A Wind in the Door, Many Waters, Lolita, The house of incest, Little Birds, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Wuthering Heights, *The Prophet, Mrs. Dalloway, Ariel, Ficciones, The Three Incestuous Sisters, A Separate Peace, The Little Prince, A Wrinkle in Time, Wonderful Wonderful Times, St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves, House of Leaves, The Essential Tao, Found magazine

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24 February 2008 @ 03:10 pm

Icicles are falling from the gutters and
snow banks are turning into tiny rivers, carrying ants and moss pieces away with it.
Outside smells like Spring and with it brings memories of when I was little,
climbing the big tree beside the cemetery.
There was a house with millions of hammocks and millions of tree lanterns,
little tea lights flickering always. and a big tree with even bigger
exposed roots. I think there was a large rope and tire hanging from it. At night,
when the fireflies used to actually come out, I would be pushed so high my feet would
touch the middle branches. I was always a little scared of being flung far off
into the night sky and never coming down again.
The girls with long hair and freckles who lived there were all
sisters and they were my spring time friends. I'm not sure if they're even real.
this smell makes them seem oh so vivid in my mind.

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21 February 2008 @ 03:28 pm

I am making a stop motion animation movie with some installation pieces I've built
lately. I'm very excited about collaborating with Will on this project and having
him make some music for it. I hope to have eight short films finished in the next
few months!
xxx

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19 February 2008 @ 04:46 pm

( doll heart )

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18 February 2008 @ 11:25 am

( xxx )

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13 February 2008 @ 02:58 pm

I made a lace canary.

Feeling poorly for this long is making it hard to stay cheerful.
I'm ready for warmth and sunlight. turquoise, gold, lavender, and peach. And
days filled with beautiful trees.

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11 February 2008 @ 04:48 pm

I sewed little presents for people I love.

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Valentines day is coming. I think it will probably be terribly cold but Will and I
want to go for a long night time walk under the snow. I got some warm
furry hats in the mail. They're very very old and some of them are silly. Will
and I danced around the house in a few and laughed until our sides hurt.
I would like to sew lace veils to some of them so i feel like I'm looking through
a snow globe.

xx

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04 February 2008 @ 05:42 pm

( paper feathers )

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31 January 2008 @ 03:36 pm

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29 January 2008 @ 07:27 pm

i feel like there are hundreds of dusty moths fluttering around inside my head and
I think there may be a frog in my voice box too.
I hope neither of them stay for long. They make me feel sleepy and lethargic.

Tonight is a sweet and quiet night. Dear friends, all hibernating
inside themselves. Soft voices and no one is in a hurry.
We're warming the coconut milk and wearing our furry hats inside the house.

( &hearts &hearts )

xx

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26 January 2008 @ 11:28 pm

Pop-up paper house

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21 January 2008 @ 04:06 pm

hello

Today is dreadful and cold at -21 degrees. I've found all the quilts in the house
and wear them like queens' robes, sliding around the house in three layers of woolly socks.
I'm sure I look quite silly today.

I've found lots of lovely aprons from long long ago that I wear over dresses when
I go out. I've sewn buttons and pockets on all my mittens and snow hats because
I feel you can never have too many of either of these things.
This past week was wonderful, even with frozen limbs and chapped lips.
I baked a pie for the Treehouse boys. I found some pears and apples
and baked a pear-apple pie with lemon zest and a Gruyère and Gouda crust with
a brown sugar glaze. I want to make some tiny lemon tarts next, or maybe
rose petal scones with boysenberries.
This weather makes me want to cozy inside with friends and eat scrumptious food and
tell ghostly stories.

I hope you are warm and well!
♥ ♥ ♥

( treasure chest )

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11 January 2008 @ 01:14 pm

my little tea truffle cakes.

( and hippo treats )

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09 January 2008 @ 01:16 pm

( flutter )

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03 January 2008 @ 02:12 pm

I'm so sleepy. sleepy. I've been staying up late far too much this week and my bones
feel tired and angry. Last night, Will, Jason, his sisters, and I went to the Food Not Bombs Movement
in downtown and made some yummy food for everyone. One of the things we made was a beet and carrot
salad with ginger and oranges and a lime dressing. I liked how the beets stained
my hands a pretty shade of fuchsia. I rubbed some on my lips and turned them pink too.
I ate a squash and cranberry pie and some curry potatoes and tiny little oranges.
I was happy to be a part of something sweet and to be around such nice, friendly people - but
my eyes keep telling me to close them for 70 years and sleep like Rip Van Winkle, waiting for his
Carob tree to grow.

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02 January 2008 @ 01:13 pm

For the New Year, I learned to play a pan flute and watched Jason and his sisters and Will
sing and stomp their feet and dance while playing old waltzes, folk songs, and murder ballads.
Alisa and Rachel wore old time dresses they made and promised to make one for me
If i play the tambourine with them In Ireland this summer.

There were about twenty five of us together on New Year's eve and we all clapped and sang the words to the
songs we knew, drinking Totty and watching everyone's cheeks get rosy as the music got
faster and faster.

we played a game of hat charades and I got to pretend to be Robert Oppenheimer and
Virginia Woolf.
When 2008 arrived everyone laughed and cheered and held their glasses high in the air, shouting declarations
and promises to keep in the new year. Some people just
sang and danced along side Jason's banjo and Brian's Trumpet, dancing the Charleston in their socks and stockings.
I kissed Will and he kissed me back.

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31 December 2007 @ 01:47 pm

( shimmer )

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30 December 2007 @ 09:48 pm

Tonight, Will and I arrived home, welcomed by new snow and weather much colder than our
noses and ears expected. I miss my family so much already and have decided that I must see them before next Christmas. I cannot let another year go by no matter how far away I am.

a few of my most special memories include:

The White Elephant and reading old letter postcards
Old Cloverdale memories
Brie pasteries and grand's potato soup
revisiting childhood places and saying goodbye one last time.
my tiny attic room hidden in the wall
long drives and coffee to hold up heavy eye lids
looking through old letters and photos
penny poker and hot totty

I think my family enjoyed their presents. I got so many lovely things
and many surprises. I feel so thankful for all the sweet gifts.
1. a Victorian carousel
2. Venetian Masquerade mask
3. 1st edition Mary Poppins books
4. quill pen set
5. original Diana camera
6. lots of vintage tea party dresses and faery princess night gowns
7. tea sets and blossom teas
8. crank music box like Tuck Everlasting
9. money for a singing bird in a cage
10. woolly deer jumper
11. slippers with cream bows
12. darling little trinkets and sand dollar night light

Will got a beautiful accordion which I'm so excited about hearing him play this week.

I hope you all had a special Christmas too. ♥ ♥

( family )

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14 December 2007 @ 04:57 pm

I'd like to make a Gingerbread cottage this year, but I don't think I'll have time.
Maybe I'll make a springtime Gingerbread house when it gets warm, with
candy tulips and honeycomb bushes and marzipan bubblebees.
I'd very much like to see your Gingerbread creations if you have any.

Here are some pictures of my paper doll's house that looks like our house because I don't have
a real doll's house of my own.
One day I'd like to have a garden filled with poppies, yellow goat's beard,
bay laurel, and foxgloves.
what would you have in your garden?

( paper rooms )

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13 December 2007 @ 08:15 pm

meeting with the photographer went very well. i think he'll have a lot of work for me once
the new year starts.
Thank you all for sending your positive thoughts!

I'm very excited about seeing my family. it's been a year now, and my momma always
decorates so lavishly and beautiful for the holidays. I'll be sure to take lots of photos while I'm visiting.

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11 December 2007 @ 04:14 pm

my second book kingdom. This one is a gift for Will's momma.

I got a call back from the photographer and meet with him on
Thursday. Fingers are still crossed tight!

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