Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts

Friday, March 30, 2012

Lewis Carroll Quotes & Alice in Wonderland on Etsy


Lewis Carroll Quotes & "Alice in Wonderland" on Etsy

"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. "

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. "

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

"But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again. "

"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. "

"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
"His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve."

"I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then."

"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read! "
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."


"No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise. "

"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round."

"One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."



"Sentence first, verdict afterwards."

"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). "



"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."

"That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day."

"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."

"The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings."


"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. "

"There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. "


"Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. "
"We called him Tortoise because he taught us. "

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

"Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?"


"While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. "

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. "

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Giveaway: Jane Austen Journal by Istria Design on Etsy

Giveaway, Jane Austen Journal by Istria Designs
 w/ bonus Choice of Handmade Card ($28 value)

Hi everyone!  I have got an AWESOME giveaway for you today! This winner will get this beautiful Jane Austen Journal by Istria Design along with their choice of a card from Istria Design on Etsy.  There is only 1 mandatory entry and that is that you go to Istria Design on Etsy and comment at the bottom of this post telling me what your favorite item is.  There are also many opportunities for extra entries.  You can tweet/blog/facebook about this giveaway.  You can also follow Istria on twitter and blogspot!  Here are all the your links!  Good Luck!

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Description:
This beautiful Jane Austen art journal was inspired by fashion from the regency era. The journal consists of 14 thick pages. Each page was designed by me, put together from high quality card stock, hand cut, and individually inked for that special vintage look.

Each page of the Jane Austen journal features a beautiful regency lady from Austen's era, as well as pieces from Jane Austen's old book covers. This Jane Austen inspired spring journal comes in beautiful pastel colors - orange, light brown, beige, pale pink, light blue, and green. At the very end there is a pocket filled with matching journaling cards, so that you can embellish the journal with your favorite quotes, or simply your memories and thoughts.




*Some of my favorite Jane Austen Quotes*

“An artist cannot do anything slovenly.”

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it..”

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
 
“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.



Besides the journal, you also get your choice of 1 handmade card!
















Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Etsy


A few of my personal favorite Poe quotes....

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.


I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.


“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.”


“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.


The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”



“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.


And on Etsy....









  “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door —
Only this and nothing more” – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe


 
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Happy Art For Happy Walls, Art Prints By: UUPP

Happy Friday!  I came across this shop last week and it just made me smile.  UUPP's shop tagline reads "Happy Art For Happy Walls" and it couldn't be more perfect!  What do you think?

To see all of UUPP's prints for yourself:








Tuesday, March 6, 2012

I need sleep....any advice?

Arghhhh from being sick so much this year my sleep schedual is backwards and I cant seem to get back on track.  I'm up most the night and so I walk through my day in zombie mode.  It is reallly starting to take a toll on my brain.   Anyone have an advice for me?  That doesn't involve sleeping pills? Tylenol PM just makes me feel sort of drunk or something and it doesnt put me to sleep. 

But on the bright side I was browsing through Etsy tonight and I found this bag by Move Fast, Stay Still.  The quote  printed on the tote is from the poem "This is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams and it is one
of my favorite poems. I can't even explain to you why I like this poem so much but I just do.  I know it is quite famous but as far as famous poems goes, this is as quirky as it gets.

I am pretty sure that I even posted this poem on my blog here several months ago....hmmm if I didn't actually post it, at least I know I thought about it!  :)


Friday, March 2, 2012

ALL Beatles Necklaces 25% OFF Now-March 9th

-Special *LUCKY YOU* MARCH SALE!-

~lowest prices of the year~

For one week only I will be running a sale for 25% off ALL of  my Beatles necklaces over at Jesse Anne Designs on Etsy.  Use coupon code "RINGO" at checkout to get 25% off your entire order when you buy one Beatles necklace! 










Wednesday, February 29, 2012

I Love Michigan (with all my heart)



"Come back to me"
 -Elise McKenna in "Somewhere in Time"

Hello and good morning!  Anyone who knows me knows how much I love the beautiful state of Michigan.  How on earth did my family end up here?  Well to make a long story as short as possible...it goes like this- after WWII my grandpa (born in Missouri) went from being in The Navy to The Coast Guard and was stationed in the city of Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.  While stationed in Sault Ste. Marie he was asked to stand up as the best man in a wedding for one of his shipmates and he ended up falling for the bride's maid of honor...my beautiful grandma.  He swears that he knew the moment he met her that he would marry her someday. However it wasn't easy for him to get a date with her. She was a spunky and independent women who refused to go out with a "sailor".  After much persistence she agreed to go out just one time with my grandpa under a single condition- that he leave her alone for the rest of his life.  That date lasted over 50 years.  His career as an officer in The Coast Guard would take them all over the world.  Before my mom was even 5 years old she had traveled through 47 of the 50 states.  When the time came to put down some roots for the family my grandparents choose to come back to Michigan.  With my grandpa's military career they were well traveled and had actually spent more time as a married couple living in Hawaii than anywhere else. What is most beautiful to me about all of this is the fact that they could have lived anywhere but they choose Michigan.  They could have taken their 3 little children anywhere and though I have not been all the places they were...I still get it.  I live in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan as I have for most of my life and I'm happy to be here.


"I have a question for you, sir. Is time travel possible?"
 -Richard Collier in "Somewhere in Time"




Grand Hotel Mackinac Island 1947 As Photographed by William Massengill, USCG

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Not For My Little Artists Under 21...

Great Hemingway quote, although please take this with a grain or a shaker of salt as I must note that Mr. Hemingway was a bit of a drunk who left this earth via suicide.  His tragic ending doesn't diminish his talent as a writer but should make you more cautious in taking any advice from him involving the juice.  Still I love this quote.




(Seriously though, don't write drunk, it never makes sense.)

Monday, February 6, 2012

LOL Art

I love laughing and I love art, combine the two and I'm over the moon.  Check these out :)

Bunny Balance


T Rex Fossil Walks Dog by Dapper Dodo

Clones Are People Two

Oscar Wilde Quote Print

Aren't You A Little Short For A Storm Trooper?

Royal birds made of clay.

"I Think You Think Too Much" Print