Inspiration: Doors

By Marie-Hélène Cingal

the selby

seacottage

unknown

House of Turquoise

this is glamorous

chataigne

starbluesky

smoke and sassafrass

miss louise 

thecoloursoflife

Nabokovvvvvvvvvvvv!!!!!! by Alex Snider

Today, I embark on a journey that will culminate with me becoming the preeminent Nabokovian scholar. That being, I begin my course on my long-dead (*come on Zombie-apocalypse*) boyfriend. Oh, can you even imagine having Vladimir for a boyfriend? He'd be the one that you'd try and impress by being all serious and smart and never fart in front of.

Been there, bought the nerdiest t-shirt ever. A side-note, this picture was ridiculously hard to take with my computer without making my breasts look like watermelons hence the terrible, half-shimmy, "who's your daddy" pose/face.

But, I digress... As you can see I am a little enamoured with the greatest writer of all time; his prose has actually brought me to tears; he is the kind of author in who's novels you would write in the margins, underlining ferociously because while you had never perceived the world that way but now that image, that thought is branded in your mind and you will never be the same. John Updike described his writing as such: "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, ecstatically", which incidentally also describes how I feel reading his prose; for reals, I get goose-bumps.

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An early Christmas Present!

We had an unexpected, whirlwind visit from one of our best friends in the whole wide world this week!  When our friends Derek and Kevin left for Edinburgh just over a year ago, we weren't sure if we could ever get along without them (although we were incredibly proud of them for making such a brave and bold move, and excited for our boys on their new adventure)  With plans to come and visit Scotland within the next year, we didn't think our first reunion would be back in Toronto, or so soon, but life had other plans, and so we had one awesome night of pints and laughter at our old after-work watering hole to catch up on all that we'd missed, and reminisce about old times.  We also played a bit of our new favourite game, Vanity Fair Portraits.  Unfortunately, we forgot to write down the scenarios we came up with.  Oh well, the pictures alone are worth a thousand words!

(edited to clarify: only Derek could make it for this particular reunion, but we can't wait to see Kevin when we come to visit!)

Lady Writers

In light of the recent hubbub over Jonathan Franzen's Time cover and the unanimous excellent reviews for his new book, Freedom and the well-placed but misrepresented anger on behalf of female writers I have come up with a list of ten contemporary female written novels. These are authors that men, women, everyone should read because they're really fucking good.

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It Was a Graveyard Smash

I really, really, really, like for reals want a Ouija Board. I would try and contact someone really crazy and scary like Judge Holden or Vlad the Impaler or Ronald Reagan; ok, Reagan's too scary. 

I wonder if I contacted Dotty Parker while I was sitting at a bar, would that count as having a drink together? 'Cause I would love to have a drink with Dottie; oh, the banter we would have! 

leopard print

At the very start of their friendship, one of the many things that Alex and Rebekah found they had in common was their mutual love of the print that is leopard.  It is the one pattern that we can think of that strikes the perfect balance between classy and trashy- and, it's timeless.  We've loved it for longer than we can remember, and it seems like every season it is declared "the new black".  There is something seductive about leopard print; it's overtly sexy and undeniably powerful, and that's why we love it.

Tom Polumbo

karla's closet

le Fashion

The coolest women always wear leopard

Romy Schneider

Found in Mom's Basement

Rebekah's grandmother

10 things that make me happy

Greetings everyone, this is Rebekah, (but you can call me G.B.) the other half of Once Again To Zelda.  I'm not as gifted a writer as our dear friend Alex, so for my inaugural post on this blog, I thought I'd share a few things that have inspired Alex and I in the past.  Enjoy!

1. Ceramic deer, little birds, and wallpaper

2.  Blurring the lines between storage and display 

3.  Jazz on vinyl

4.  Henry Darger

5.  Vintage slips

6.  Organizing books by colour

7.  Kitschy art

8.  Pretty much everything about this picture

9.  Peacocks

10. Found Photographs

Ceramic Deer

So far I only have a couple of ceramic deer in my ceramic deer collection but, hot damn, are they adorable or what? The only thing that I’d love more than to add to my collection would be to have a real fawn to call my own. I’d name her My Darling Deerest and feed her sugar cubes and hydrangea petals. I would also like a pair of pet foxes named Foxley O’Tchotke and Gareth Cutestory.