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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Keeping Busy No. 1

Hi! Today's post is about the things I've been loving lately and things that inspire me.



My "fashion goals" are to have a pin-up style. Everything about it fascinates me, there's the sexiness of the tight pencil dresses and the classic the past-the-knee petticoat dresses. The perfect wing of eyeliner, the iconic red lip, the carefully sculpted wavy hair. 
Everything about vintage clothing is just so beautiful and it makes me wish I lived in those times.
In this photo Julianne Moore isn't really dressing like a pin-up but her clothes are just beautiful, that full skirt is just adorable, and her hair is so chic. 
Also, Julianne is a great inspiration, such a beautiful woman. And she just won her first Oscar!!!
And, of course, the beautiful Dita Von Teese, another major inspiration of mine.



Spring is the season when all flowers bloom, it's one of my favourite seasons (together with Fall/Autumn).
Spring and Fall are complete opposites, Spring's bright and colorful, Fall's more on the dead and dark side.
A new season is about to begin and the days are starting to get warmer and full of new scents in the air.
Now peonies are a flower that you won't find easily in Portugal but they are my absolute favourite flowers, they're so beautiful. In fact, the blog's logo has a peony in it because it's my favourite flower.



I've always had an enormous love for stained glass windows. They're so intriguing and complex and they give such a rich feel to room. It's my favourite part about churches and cathedrals, I swear I could stay there looking at them forever. 
And the reason why this is here is because I've found a way to produce a stained glass kind of effect that you can do at home with very cheap materials, so I'm excited to try it out some time!



Being the cat lady that I am, I've been trying to teach my cat how to walk on a harness and leash. He doesn't seem to love it so much, so far, but I still have hope. The warmer longer days are here and me and my family always take a walk at night after dinner on these Spring/Summer days and I'd honestly love to take the cat with me. I'm aware that I would have a lot of people staring at me thinking I'm absolutely stupid but do I care?



Minerals have always been a huge passion of mine. Their colors, their shapes, their energies, everything about them mesmerizes me.
I'd say these are a constant source of inspiration to be honest, everyday I keep finding out new things about all sorts of different minerals and it's like there's as many different minerals as there is numbers. If you can connect with them, they're an extraordinary way of reaching inner peace, they could help you understand yourself even!



Astrology is something I've never been too much into to be completely honest, but recently I've found myself searching about it, learning new things about it. I've been really interested in the zodiac signs, the meanings, the ascendance of the signs, the planets. There's so much to discover in astrology!



As you may know if you saw my Christmas Haul post, I got two turtles for christmas. Sadly, Phoebe died shortly after due to soft shell disease, there was nothing I could do to help.
Some time after she died, I bought another turtle because you could see how bored Joey was alone in a huge tank. Phoebe junior is the new inhabitant of my 16 gallon tank.
I've been loving playing with them so much! They're such cuties! I've managed to teach them to climb my hand while inside water and Joey specially loves to swim around my fingers and bite them sometimes.
I'm excited about teaching them some tricks, they're super fast outside water! It's a shame that they usually part different direction, one usually starts walking when the other moves. They're so fun to watch and such interactive animals! It took Phoebe a bit to get used to being handles but now she loves to run around my bedroom carpet!


So this is it! These are the things I've been into lately, I hope that was interesting for you and it probably helps in understanding the kind of person I am outside the makeup world.

All photos taken from Pinterest.

I hope you have enjoyed I'll be back on saturday with a spring look.

Love,
Anna

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