tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33236693410057324372024-03-17T20:03:54.327-07:00Kiki and the GypsyFlora Crufthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385768002996279526noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323669341005732437.post-15791954647738882232017-06-20T14:48:00.000-07:002017-06-22T07:23:21.546-07:00Into The Blue<br />
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<em>A fine and subtle spirit dwells<br /> In every little flower,<br /> Each one its own sweet feeling breathes<br /> With more or less of power. <br /> There is a silent eloquence<br /> In every wild bluebell<br /> That fills my softened heart with bliss<br /> That words could never tell.<br /><br /> Yet I recall not long ago<br /> A bright and sunny day,<br /> 'Twas when I led a toilsome life<br /> So many leagues away;<br /><br /> That day along a sunny road<br /> All carelessly I strayed,<br /> Between two banks where smiling flowers<br /> Their varied hues displayed.<br /><br /> Before me rose a lofty hill,<br /> Behind me lay the sea,<br /> My heart was not so heavy then<br /> As it was wont to be.<br /><br /> Less harassed than at other times<br /> I saw the scene was fair,<br /> And spoke and laughed to those around,<br /> As if I knew no care.<br /><br /> But when I looked upon the bank<br /> My wandering glances fell<br /> Upon a little trembling flower,<br /> A single sweet bluebell.<br /><br /> Whence came that rising in my throat,<br /> That dimness in my eye?<br /> Why did those burning drops distil —<br />Those bitter feelings rise?<br /><br /> O, that lone flower recalled to me<br /> My happy childhood's hours<br /> When bluebells seemed like fairy gifts<br /> A prize among the flowers,<br /><br /> Those sunny days of merriment<br /> When heart and soul were free,<br /> And when I dwelt with kindred hearts<br /> That loved and cared for me.<br /><br /> I had not then mid heartless crowds<br /> To spend a thankless life<br /> In seeking after others' weal<br /> With anxious toil and strife. <br /><br /> 'Sad wanderer, weep those blissful times<br /> That never may return!'<br /> The lovely floweret seemed to say,<br /> And thus it made me mourn.</em></div>
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<em>The Bluebell by Anne Bronte, read it <a href="https://allpoetry.com/poem/8457985-The-Bluebell-by-Anne-Bronte">here</a></em></div>
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Off the shoulder peasant blouse - Oxfam</div>
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Sibelius - Violin Concerto in D Minor</div>
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<br />Flora Crufthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385768002996279526noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323669341005732437.post-81033742419484161652017-03-04T07:26:00.000-08:002017-03-05T04:04:39.295-08:00Ghostling<br />
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Victorian Silk Satin Ballgown passed down from Granny Kiki</div>
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<strong>The Music</strong></div>
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Arvo Part - My Heart Is In The Highlands</div>
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All photos taken by me, very quickly during naptime on New Year's Day, on my dodgy little camera</div>
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<br />Flora Crufthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385768002996279526noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323669341005732437.post-62405861526208543972016-05-24T14:16:00.003-07:002016-05-24T14:37:51.299-07:00Magnolia<br />
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<em>No one understood the perfume<br /> of the dark magnolia of your womb.<br /> Nobody knew that you tormented<br /> a hummingbird of love between your teeth.<br /><br /> A thousand Persian little horses fell asleep<br /> in the plaza with moon of your forehead,<br /> while through four nights I embraced<br /> your waist, enemy of the snow.<br /><br /> Between plaster and jasmines, your glance<br /> was a pale branch of seeds.<br /> I sought in my heart to give you<br /> the ivory letters that say "siempre",<br /><br /> "siempre", "siempre" : garden of my agony,<br /> your body elusive always,<br /> that blood of your veins in my mouth,<br /> your mouth already lightless for my death.</em></div>
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<em>“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.”</em> </div>
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<br />Flora Crufthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385768002996279526noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323669341005732437.post-375087177022512732014-11-30T03:18:00.000-08:002014-11-30T03:28:34.337-08:00Gauguinesque<br />
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<span id="goog_1887399119"><em>Well here I am updating my blog rather later than planned, all those of you who are parents will have known my plan to blog once a month was laughable! The babies are 6 months old now and I am finally getting the occasional moment of spare time. This photoshoot, totally the wrong season, was taken in August 3 months after the babies were born, when they still took long enough naps for me to take photographs. I shall endeavour to create more posts in the months to come but it'll be a while before I can do so as regularly as I used to. Unfortunately I never get time to comment on your blogs anymore, I rarely have a chance to read them but I so love it when I do.</em></span></div>
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<br />Flora Crufthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385768002996279526noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323669341005732437.post-75098057409568529852014-05-03T04:51:00.002-07:002014-05-03T04:51:13.373-07:00Under The Bower<br />
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<i>How I love this place.</i></div>
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<i>The placid horses in the adjoining </i></div>
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<i>This is my freedom. Great blasts</i></div>
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<i>Inside your body there are flowers.</i></div>
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<i>Vintage Chinese Blue Silk Dressing Gown</i>: from a vintage market in my Manchester days in the 90s</div>
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The pregnancy is going well, although inevitably rather exhausting. Believe it or not I have until the start of June before I give birth (I know! How big will I be by then?!), and in the meantime I'm enjoying embracing the fullness and vitality of my ever growing, moving bump.</div>
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<em>Vintage 1970s Liberty Print Pregnancy Maxi Dress</em>: made by late granny Kiki for my Mother</div>
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Thanks for your thoughts on nursing dresses. I may need to opt for separates much of the time when breastfeeding, but refuse to give up my dress addiction entirely. Some of you were asking for an example of what I'm looking for, it's this sort of thing, with a wrap tie front and hidden panels for nursing beneath, only below knee length and ideally a little more interesting:</div>
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I'm well aware I may be asking the impossible! Have already succumbed and bought one high street nursing dress. And if need be there's always dresses like these on Ebay......</div>
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There are many wonderful things about being pregnant, and growing a bump twice as large as the usual; but finding maternity and nursing (breastfeeding) clothes is nigh on impossible without resorting to the High Street brands, which I hate to do. </div>
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I don't want to have to dress like a dull as dishwater mummy in striped nursing top and leggings just because I'm pregnant, it shouldn't have to be that way! With potentially a few years of breastfeeding ahead of me though, I need all the help I can get from you gorgeous vintage shopping goddesses, to find beautiful second hand nursing clothes, particularly dresses, that don't cost a bomb and help hide the tum...</div>
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So if any of you eagle eyed UK based lovelies ever see any size 10 - 12 maxi/nursing dresses (with buttons down the chest, pull down tops or covered slits for the nipples) when you're perusing your local charity shop haunts, please do pick them up for me and I will repay you the money with interest, and many many thanks!</div>
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I've been working on a particularly happy, important and taxing project: that of growing two babies inside me!</div>
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Photos taken a few weeks ago when I was 18 weeks pregnant with twins.</div>
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I am delighted to be a part of Visible Monday, hosted by Patti from <a href="http://www.notdeadyetstyle.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: red;">Not Dead Yet Style</span></a>, click on the website link to see her outfit and those of many others. </div>
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Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!</div>
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<em>Sitting under the mistletoe<br /> (Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),<br /> One last candle burning low,<br /> All the sleepy dancers gone,<br /> Just one candle burning on,<br /> Shadows lurking everywhere:<br /> Some one came, and kissed me there.<br /><br /> Tired I was; my head would go<br /> Nodding under the mistletoe<br /> (Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),<br /> No footsteps came, no voice, but only,<br /> Just as I sat there, sleepy, lonely,<br /> Stooped in the still and shadowy air<br /> Lips unseen—and kissed me there.</em></div>
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The vintage framed patchwork and vintage patchwork bedspread were both made by late Granny Kiki out of scraps of her dressmaking fabrics.</div>
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<em>The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner. In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.”</em> </div>
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<em>Vintage 1970s Pink Wide Leg Silk & Cotton Catsuit:</em> made by Granny Kiki for my Mother</div>
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Another season, but our dreams can be in any season and every colour!</div>
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I am delighted to be a part of the next Visible Monday, hosted by Patti from <a href="http://www.notdeadyetstyle.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: red;">Not Dead Yet Style</span></a>, click on the website link to see her outfit and those of many others. </div>
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<em>Tweed Cape</em>: from a charity shop</div>
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<em>White Cable Knit Wool Jumper</em>: from a charity shop</div>
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<em>Trapper Faux Fur Knit Hat:</em> a gift from my Mum</div>
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<em>Black Gardening Gloves</em>: from Mr Eve</div>
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This outfit is what Mr Eve calls my 'mad trapper' look, often worn while pottering around the autumn garden. All photos taken by me using the self timer on my little camera.<br />
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I'm pleased to be a part of Hat Attack, a link party held by the wonderful Judith of <a href="http://www.stylecrone.com/"><span style="color: red;">Style Crone</span></a>, do click on her website link to see her amazing feathered hat, and do join in! </div>
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I'm chasing my tail with so much work at the moment, hence little time for blogging or blog visiting. Life should calm down in the next few weeks so I can't wait to visit you soon!<br />
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<em>Vintage Silver Donna Karan Dress</em>: bought in a charity shop years ago</div>
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All photographs taken by Mr Eve or myself during a weekend holiday on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. Details of The Geopod, available for holiday let, can be found at the glamping website <a href="http://www.canopyandstars.co.uk/britain/england/dorset/the-old-forge/sam-the-shepherd-s-hut?state="><span style="color: red;">Canopy & Stars</span></a>.</div>
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Flora Crufthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385768002996279526noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323669341005732437.post-74061216316438658212013-10-26T03:05:00.003-07:002013-10-26T12:24:04.344-07:00All Hallow's Eve<br />
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Come help yourself to special Halloween cakes at my baking blog <a href="http://www.idlebakes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/halloween.html"><span style="color: red;">here.</span></a></div>
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Halloween Parties kindly hosted by Vanessa Valencia of <a href="http://www.afancifultwist.com/"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: blue;">A Fanciful Twist</span></span></a>, click on the website link to see her own party in full swing!</div>
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As part of receiving this award I have to reveal seven facts about myself. This blog owes just as much to the memory of the women in my family, and the clothes they have passed down to me, as it does to my own style and character, so I think it only right that I include some photos and facts about them too. </div>
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1. I'm in my late thirties, and the older I get the more I feel I want to play like a child and read (and write) fables and fairy tales.</div>
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2. Kiki lived into her early nineties, and her kindness and grace shone through her, just as her inimitable sense of style continued until the end. I took this portrait of her about a year before she died. In old age, with her couturier years behind her, she had a particular fondness for raw silk Chinese jackets in jewel colours.</div>
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3. I'm not interested in marriage, finding the practice archaic and unnecessary, nor am I a religious person, so wearing the exquisite dress Kiki made for her own wedding in my Bluebell Fairy post was a close as I'll ever get to donning a matrimonial white dress in a church. </div>
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4. Penny had a great sense of fun, a caring heart, and always looked beautifully groomed into her old age. A fan of the classic cuts of Jean Muir, she continued to turn heads and had many admirers throughout her life. She passed away in her late eighties. Here she is in her late seventies/early eighties, with me in my mid twenties.</div>
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5. As my dear Mother is still alive and well, thank goodness, and I want to respect her privacy, I won't show a picture of her nowadays, although I wish I could as she is gorgeous. But she'd kill me! Instead, here's an image of her on holiday in her early twenties, showing off those incredible pins of hers. </div>
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6. Like most Brits, I'm of a mixed heritage: being a quarter Irish, quarter Scottish, quarter Jewish and quarter English. I love the sunshine in summer, but can't cope in the heat, so you'll always find me in the shade of the garden hiding under a big hat or parasol and slathering on more factor 35.</div>
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7. I'm distantly related to the Pre-Raphaelite painter William and his wife and Rossetti's muse Jane Morris, via Kiki's side of the family. Planning to do a blog post photo shoot in tribute to Jane in the coming months.</div>
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1. Mary Lou of <a href="http://www.maryloucinnamon.com/p/about.html"><span style="color: red;">Mary Lou Cinnamon</span></a> </div>
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5. Rosalind of <a href="http://clothescamerasandcoffee.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: red;">Clothes, Cameras & Coffee</span></a></div>
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<em>Relationship has true significance only when it is a process of self-revelation, when it is revealing oneself in the very action of relationship. But most of us do not want to be revealed in relationship. On the contrary, we use relationship as a means of covering up our own insufficiency, our own troubles, our own uncertainty. So relationship becomes mere movement, mere activity. I do not know if you have noticed that relationship is very painful, and that as long as it is not a revealing process, in which you are discovering yourself, relationship is merely a means of escape from yourself.</em></div>
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Flora Crufthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385768002996279526noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323669341005732437.post-28242736849321630032013-09-25T06:32:00.000-07:002013-09-25T06:37:16.767-07:00Deer Serenade<br />
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<pre><em><strong>as crows fly
in the dawn light
on the cold hill
the deer are running
the thud of their hooves
on the bed of the stream
is the drum that rocks
the roots of the birch
and the wind that shakes
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rain is their tribe song
rain is their robe
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deep silence of things
where you dream yourself
human, alive
watching the red deer running
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<em>Pink Silk Patterned Skirt</em>: made by granny Kiki in the 1950s/60s</div>
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<strong>The Soundtrack:</strong></div>
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Sergei Rachmaninov: <em>Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in A minor</em></div>
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All photos taken by me in our garden, using the self timer during the final gasp of our hot summer.</div>
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I am delighted to be a part of the next Visible Monday, hosted by Patti from <a href="http://www.notdeadyetstyle.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: red;">Not Dead Yet Style</span></a>, click on the website link to see her outfit and those of many others. </div>
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P.S. Not that any of us need any help with dressing and living well, but I found this recent documentary about inspiring octogenarian beauties absolutely brilliant and think you would too. Click on the link here to watch it:</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmoH2zEHGPY"><span style="color: red;">Fabulous Fashionistas: Channel 4 Documentary</span></a></div>
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