Winchelsea Beach, East Sussex, England

The Art Of Skimming

Wow, you really have the knack for it!

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London, England

Hi, last week I revisited London, and I took this photo with toemailer in my mind. What you see is my little grandson’s cute, small feet. Small Latvian boy, British citizen, maybe he will be the next globetrotter. Inquisitive as he is, who knows the soil of what lands these feet will touch some day.

Sounds like he is a natural born traveler! And we hope you had a great day today, Grandma!

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Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

It’s been a national holiday here in the UK, and for once the sun has shone!!  It’s been very warm, and warm enough for feet and toes to finally come out of those winter shoes and socks.  And long may it continue – bare toes are best!

We got invited to a very impromptu barbeque here in Gloucestershire – nothing special, just a few friends, a few sausages and a few beers.  It was wonderful to be in the sun…. and the shoes and socks came off   Toes were bared…. : -)

Sounds like a good time!

London, England

These are the tiny feet of our little Londoner Zoe who was born 12 days ago. I think we took this picture when she was only a few hours old (hence why it’s so blurry as I was so spaced out!).

We are smitten with her.

Awwwwww, she must be quite the little cutie!

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London, England

This is another addition to my Beach Babe collection. A beautiful blonde, lying on the beach, cocktail at the ready. How I would love to be her right now! I can actually imagine the hot sun on my skin and hear the sound of the ocean. What cocktail would I chose?? Such a huge decision.
Tell me what cocktail would you chose?

Cute!

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London, England

Vintage Fashion Shot 1971

A groovy chic takes a phone call back in 71. ‘Hi, just bought a new mini skirt. Are they still in fashion?’

She’s lucky, if it had been the 50′s, she would also have been simultaneously doing the laundry and the vacuuming – in heels! lol

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Retford, United Kingdom

Toe Mirror

I guess this is so you can check your footwear before leaving the front garden. Probably wise – who among us hasn’t found themselves walking down the street in their fluffy slippers?

Yea, we just hate it when we realize we have gone to work in our slippers lol

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Brighton, England

Greetings from overcast Paris!

i love the idea of your site, but i hadn’t really considered sending my own pictures in.  you see, my baby boy died four and a half months ago of meningitis, and his other mother and i have been laid low with grief ever since.

And then last month, i decided to face the world again, and i took a trip Brighton, England to visit old friends.  while i was there on the seafront, a place that holds many fond memories for me, i thought about your blog, and i took the attached picture.

The structure in the background is the Old Pier which burned down a long time ago (I’m too lazy to go google details right now) and which is now considered historic.  they aren’t trying to preserve it, but they are letting it slowly fall apart and taken by the tides.  those are my feet in the foreground….just a few minutes before i went to soak my feet in the cold water of the English Channel, a few minutes before a strong wave had me soaking my bum and legs as well.  i was laughing the whole time, and laughter is something i desperately need these days.

so thank you for the idea and for coming by to read my posts.

much warmth

le petit soleil, little sun’s mama

We are so , so sorry for the loss of your boy. Please accept our most heartfelt condolences. What can be worse than losing a child? We wish you well during this horrible time of grief. And it is good to notice that you are looking for positives, that you still see beauty in the world, can even enjoy a moment of laughter, and that is something you are teaching the rest of us!

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London, England

Please let me introduce someone I’ve known for almost my whole life, and is basically another family member…Lauren Drozynski.

Home University: St. Lawrence University (class of 2011)

Study Abroad Destination: London, England

When traveled: January-May 2010, junior year spring semester

Program Traveled with: SLU London Programme

University Attended: The St. Lawrence University London Programme 

Claire: When did you go to London? How Long where you there?

Lauren: Junior year spring semester. This was the best time to go because the end of winter was mild and the spring was BEAUTIFUL.

C: What was your favorite part about London?

L:The culture difference and freedom I felt there. There was always something different to do because London is such a big and diverse city. Each part of it is completely different and I never got tired of exploring. There are parts of London that I didn’t even get to that I still want to check out.

C: What was your least favorite part about it?

L: Going home and not being able to travel anymore!

Places to go and see:

Alexandra Palace- In the very back behind the building, there’s an open park area with a big hill and you can see all of London. Go with friends, take some beer/wine/snacks and lay out all day.

Hyde Park – has the Peter Pan statue and Princess Di memorial

Wimbledon

Buckingham Palace

Tower Bridge/ The tower of London

Westminster Abbey

Parliament and Big Ben

C: Did you do/see anything that you thought wasn’t worth your time?

L: Never! Even when I got lost, it was an adventure, something new and exciting, even if I didn’t mean for it.

C: Name some other places that you traveled to outside of London.

L: The other places I traveled to and loved were Brussels, Naples, Pompeii, Rome, Florence and Venice. I was always excited to come back home to London.

Great interview, and who wouldn’t want to visit London?

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Hedingham Castle, Essex, England

What better way to start my new series on fashion than performing a curtsey for my King – Alexander McQueen, the British designer whose talent and innovations turned this staunch egalitarian into a trembling worshiper of fashion monarchy. With his deep historical and literary allusions, this king of the outrageous epitomises the very London and the very British in the world of fashion. Refusing to discuss his future plans and always taking one day at a time, he believed that the world in its current embodiment is doomed to fail. Over the years, he earned the reputation of a bad boy, constantly shocking the glitterati with his references to the deep issues of poverty, gore, and disease.

One of my favourite David LaChapelle photographs is Burning Down the House, with McQueen and his muse, Isabella Blow.

David LaChapelle

Wow, he really knows to go for the surreal!

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Brighton, England, UK

When only toes will do

Pass the parcel

One wet afternoon, a rabble of soggy hippies gathered in a lounge in Brighton and started to play pass the parcel. We had no wrapped gifts to hand and so improvised with a lighter; the winners prize being the honour (challenge!) of lighting peoples cigarettes.

Friends together, high fives being proudly made in the air; when the music stopped, the buck stopped with me.

After some limbering up, my toes stepped up to the plate (the crowd roaring).
I scooped the lighter to the left toe team and shakily sparked the lighter with the right toe team.

Fire!
The crowds went wild!

The final picture is the right and left toe team with their trainer, flame still burning bright.

Looks like a wild and crazy game, hope no one got burned

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Manchester, England

I called in to the Manchester City Art Gallery yesterday to have a look at the latest temporary exhibitions.

But, in the main, they didn’t appeal to me.

There was also a small exhibition  – Radical Figures: Post-war British Figurative Painting – which

explores the pioneering role that painters such as Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud and David Hockney played in the reinvention of figurative art in the second half of the 20th century.

that I found more interesting.

My favourite painting from the small selection on display was a nude by  Euan Uglow, the curiously titled The Quarry Pignano (1979)

Beautiful picture!

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London, England

The wedding was somewhere outside London, close from Heathrow airport, but I do not remember exactly the place!

Great shot!

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Wales, United Kingdom

Oily Scribbling

I went out of my comfort zone again tonight at life drawing and used my new yellow ochre oil bar to lay a scribbled base on top of an A3 card I’d prepared with two coats of acrylic gesso. I’d normally work with very fine pens, doing lots of linear detail. I prefer oil bars to liquid paint because I can draw with them but there’s no chance of doing fine work.  I worked over the ochre ground with a black carbon bar and some chalky pastels in red, green and blue. The oily ochre base made the pastels glide over the surface beautifully giving loads of texture. Finally, I scribbled some highlights with a white oilbar.

Nice job!

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Edinburgh, Scotland

This is a photo from my old MySpace page(!). It was taken when I had recently lost a bet, which resulted in my having these initials tattooed onto the sole of my foot.

They stand for:

What would John Mcclaine do?

Now the tattoo still exists, but it is blurred and green, like old bronze.

Yikes, that must have hurt!

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