Pink Mailboxes

One of us is gonna be here and

One of us is gonna be running

Off alone into the great unknown

You're not me, you're a model of freedom

All you need are your kicks when you need 'em

Come and go, caught that slow alright

With one hand off the side

We get farther away in the blink of an eye

And it's the time we waste

Swallowed into space

It's the time it takes to blow away

To blow away

To blow away

Hey, hey you, yeah you gotta be leaving,

Say what you want, what you say, say anything

No one knows just how deep it goes

We are old in your teenaged tyranny

And all you need is a hunger to feed

I've got my own secrets though, say what?

With a heart full of mess and lore

We are doomed but we wanted more

It's the ride we take

The many winged escape

It's the bough we break to blow away

To blow away

And we blow away

One of us is now retreating

You knocked me down so hard I'm seeing a thousand stars

Come out where you are'

Cause I won't ever be caught crying

And I will not be taken lying down

It blows into smoke

The time we waste

Swallowed into space

It's the time it takes to blow

It's the ride we take

The many winged escape

It's the bough we break to blow away

To blow away

It's the times we say that no one's gonna take your place

It's a mistake to blow away

To blow away

We blow away

A Fine Frenzy's new song "Blow Away"

I just love this song, its beautifully written. Actually, I love all of A Fine Frenzy's music, its so poetic and dreamlike. Another thing I love is pink mailboxes with letters wrapped with blue ribbon. This isn't my mailbox, as much as I wish it were, but someday I shall have a grand old house with a long driveway and at the end of it shall be a Cotton candy pink mailbox. I love getting mail, especially letters (and magazines!), but sadly no one writes them anymore. For the longest time I was pen pals with my friend Allie, we would write to each other weekly, telling each other our hopes, our dreams, and everything else in between. The funniest thing was that we only live about five minutes away from each other, not a world away! For us though letter writing aloud us the opportunity to say things that we might not be able to face to face. I think I want to get back into letter writing, it may be considered a dying art with all this facebook, and twitter stuff but I'm going to keep it alive for as long as I can. I mean, who doesn't love getting something in a pink mailbox?

Jem

Dreamweavers and Makers

I <3>

dress is so beautiful looking, and I think

her style is crazy unique. This reminds me, I

want to see her film 500 days of summer!

The colours in this photograph are just stunning. I like

the idea of putting images/things on a string, its almost like

an inspiration board. I might have to try this.

This is where I would love to be right now, lying by

the poolside instead of lying in bed trying to get over a

stomach bug!

Dream catchers are always beautiful, I always

have had at least one in my bedroom

ever since I was a little girl. That might have

to do something with the fact that my mom loves

the Native American culture and how in touch they are

with nature.

I don't know why I love this exactly but I do. It might have to do with the

old fashioned cameras in each of the pictures, they look so neat.

So this is another list of things which I love right now. I am so board being home sick from school, that I found my self perusing FFFFound.com, yet again for inspiration.

Jem

A Life Lived

Life is too short to wake up with regrets.Love the people who treat you right.Forget about the ones who don't.Believe everything happens for a reason.If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy.They just promised it would be worth it.

Jem

Seeking Inspiration

The words of this quote are so simple, yet

hold a lot of power and truth to them.

I love maps, and I love this Photograph.

I love looking at a map, picking a point and

going somewhere. It turns it into a grand adventure!

The colours of these little pastry's are enchanting,

they are the perfect colour pallet for all the clothes I dream

of wearing. I always say that when I get back to Paris I am

going to find the Laduree shop and order a box of the beautiful

macaroons. Though they almost look to pretty to eat!

Its all about maps today isn't it? On one hand

I do love maps but I believe once you get to the point

you picked out you need to give the good ol' map a rest.

Some of my favourite adventures have been the one where

I didn't have a clue where I was going.

This is this weeks inspiration for me, I want to live up to the quote, eat a macaroon (even if it isn't Laduree's), create an outfit out of some of the Laduree macaroon colours, look at maps finding new places to travel to, and just get wonderfully lost once in awhile!

Jem

The Call

Now we're back to the beginning
It's just a feeling and no one knows yet
But just because they can't feel it too
Doesn't mean that you have to forget
Let your memories grow stronger and stronger
'Til they're before your eyes
You'll come back
When they call you
No need to say goodbye
The Call-Regina Spector

These song lyrics totally sum up how I feel about this school year. Its only the beginning of when school is in session but for me I am already becoming sentimental about it. I think it might be because it is my final year and afterwords when its ended everything changes. At least I can remember everything that's happened, I plan on taking lots of photographs of every event. That way I wont forget! I love this song so much, the lyrics are so beautiful, they make me want to cry every time. Plus Regina Spector is just an amazing singer, I want to see her performance Live, that would be the coolest!

Jem

School Daze

The week has just flown by, so much so that I didn't even have time to blog! I think the first week of school is always hectic and crazy, getting use to new teachers, new classes, the dumb no backpack rule ( we are not aloud to carry a backpack to class anymore, how stupid is that?), homework, ect. Its been a good first week of the last year of school for me. I just love my Public Speaking teacher, I had her for AP prep a few years ago, and she is still amazing, as always. Don't you love it when you get a teacher that you simply adore? My creative writing class is interesting, we do unique writing activities. Like today we had to get a Dictionary and randomly pick out a word which was our title and then another random word which was the first word of our short story. It really made everyone stretch their minds in creative ways, for instance mine was about jam (as in the food) and a errant knight. It was a weird combo but I made it work. This weekend seems like it is shaping up to be a busy one with my sisters birthday tomorrow, and Mel's bonfire to attend, and lots of Amnesty International Club planning to do! Happy Weekend to everyone!
Jem

California Dreaming

Different world newspapers printed in English posted

outside the Berkley College library. I just thought this was

so cool.

Yummy Japanese chocolate. I just love that it has

a fencing panda printed on it more then the chocolate itself.

So cute!

The lake where we had a picnic in Yosemite. It was so serene

and peaceful. Their was snow on some of the mountains, I have

never seen snow in the summertime, it was so neat!

Yosemite in all of its beautiful glory.

My sister and I just loved this sign. It is featured

all throughout Yosemite National park. In fact

I loved the sign so much that I bought a key chain

with the saying on it (it reminds me when I'm driving!haha).

Windmill's on the way to Yosemite. I honestly think this

might be one the best photographs I've ever taken, and whats

even more remarkable about it is that this was taken from

a moving car going about 65 on the highway (don't

worry I wasn't the one driving when this was taken!)

Such a beautiful quote. What I love about this picture is

that half of it is in a shadow and the other half is in the light,

it fits the quote perfectly.

Chinatown in San Fransisco. We didn't spend a lot of time

their since most of it is cheepo shops which all sell

the same things but I do that a lot of the buildings are

very ornate.

Golden Gate Bridge which was taken on the first day

we arrived in San Fransisco. It is quite a sight to behold.

I've seen it so many times in books an on postcards but

nothing is better then seeing it in person!

This was taken on our way to California a few minutes after

take off. Don't the clouds look so incredibly pillowy soft?

These are just a handful of the hundreds of snapshots from our mother-daughters holiday in California.

Jem