Light Witch

Three of a Kind

dreamboatcourtney — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:56:00 -0500

The rule of threes, the triple godess, three primary hues, the three dimensions, the triangle.

Faint February Peach

dreamboatcourtney — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:46:00 -0500

This crazy weather, it has been so warm here and after the huge snow storms we had last year and the blizzard back in October. I am trying to embrace it, to set aside my natural urge to wear three pairs of tights and layer after layer of clothing. To be honest there is a HUGE part of me that loves bundling up(and I sort of miss it). It was so nice out today that I even had the front door open for a bit to let the fresh air in.

I am not sure why, but I really enjoy dressing to match the landscape recently. This morning the view from my window was a warm winter sun in this muted peach tone and the bare trees looked like black little scratches along the crest of the mountain. I wonder what inspires other people.

Floral Head Band is vintage from Morning Glorious

Top was thifted

Skirt is Victorian and I found at Brimfield

Socks are vintage from Donnaland

Shoes are from F21

A Corner Of Primp and Prim

dreamboatcourtney — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:48:00 -0500

Sharing my house with the one I love, who happens to be a man, often means that I can not just deck out my whole place with flowers, lace and all things girly all the time. Granted quit a bit of our home is just that.

I few years back I visited my lovely friend Tracy when she first moved to pasadena. She had her vanity set up in such a lovely array.Tracy referred to it as “girl corner” and the term just stuck with me, it was perfect. She inspired me to keep my little makeup table growing and let it just teem over with all things feminine.

The town I live in is short on more modern stores and 21st century amenities but it is rich with antiques. That combined with all my family heir looms collected over the years, make for a pretty overwhelming selection of things in the little corner of mine. I try to keep it tidy and things tucked into their proper places. I love using old cold cream and make up tins to store my newer makeup up. I have a growing collection of depression glass top hats that make great holders for eye pencils and brushes. You might notice the ladies heads I have around my corner too, they started as makeup brush holders but end up being makeup inspiration most days.

I have so much hiding out in drawers but I keep the essentials up top and ready to go. Some of my daily favorites include: Bare Minerals, the perfect light weight base. Benefit HighBeam for a little extra pop. My vintage Revlon Blue Tone Pink Blush, it’s the prettiest of pinks and I mix it with a little bit of MAC Rust for just the right tone of coral on my skin. Bobbi Brown’s Gel liner in Black ink for the most perfect cat eyes. A swoop of Clinique mascara, and then a dab of violet lip gloss does the trick.

It’s easy to spend hours sitting in my girl corner trying new makeup tricks, playing with my hair and finding just the right jewelry combination. I always love to see what other ladies have in their “corners”.

Periwinkle & Straw

dreamboatcourtney — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:15:00 -0500

A while back I said I was going to try to do more outfit posts… well I meant it. Although I have not done so in the last month I actually got around to it today. My outfit today is inspired by the view from my window. The winter here has been milid to say the least, with no real snow and some days being warm enough to wear short sleeves. The ground behind our house on the hill is lovely shades of dead grass and straw that hums a gentle song in the wind. The sky seems to stay the slate grey and periwinkle blue shade most days. It’s so muted and calm, that even on the colder days I find myself out side just sitting in the lawn admiring it.

My outfit today

Dress- a lovely blue cotton 50’s dress from Emily

A little black tie I found at goodwill a few years ago

Polka Dot tights from Target

Vintage yellow cotton sox from Donna Land

Shoes are from UO

Jacket is thrifted faux fur that reminded me of Margot Tenenbaum

Wildling

dreamboatcourtney — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:05:23 -0500

Cold and darkness come for us all, but underneath and beside it life still flows.

Flowers of Evil

dreamboatcourtney — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:55:00 -0500

Le Revenant

Comme les anges à l’oeil fauve,
Je reviendrai dans ton alcôve
Et vers toi glisserai sans bruit
Avec les ombres de la nuit;

Et je te donnerai, ma brune,
Des baisers froids comme la lune
Et des caresses de serpent
Autour d’une fosse rampant.

Quand viendra le matin livide,
Tu trouveras ma place vide,
Où jusqu’au soir il fera froid.

Comme d’autres par la tendresse,
Sur ta vie et sur ta jeunesse,
Moi, je veux régner par l’effroi.

— Charles Baudelaire

Ladies of the Wild

dreamboatcourtney — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:38:44 -0500

Winter Gardens

dreamboatcourtney — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:49:37 -0500

“There’s a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons —
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes —

Heavenly Hurt, it gives us —
We can find no scar,
But internal difference,
Where the Meanings, are —

None may teach it — Any —
’Tis the Seal Despair —
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the Air —

When it comes, the Landscape listens —
Shadows — hold their breath —
When it goes, ’tis like the Distance
On the look of Death ” - Emily Dickinson

Golden Rules

dreamboatcourtney — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:47:37 -0500

Tuscan, that wanderest through the realms of gloom,
With thoughtful pace, and sad, majestic eyes,
Stern thoughts and awful from thy soul arise,
Like Farinata from his fiery tomb.
Thy sacred song is like the trump of doom;
Yet in thy heart what human sympathies,
What soft compassion glows, as in the skies
The tender stars their clouded lamps relume!
Methinks I see thee stand, with pallid cheeks,
By Fra Hilario in his diocese,
As up the convent-walls, in golden streaks,
The ascending sunbeams mark the day’s decrease;
And, as he asks what there the stranger seeks,
Thy voice along the cloister whispers, “Peace!” -H.W.Longfellow

Mystic

dreamboatcourtney — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:42:21 -0500

Absolute Zero

dreamboatcourtney — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:13:00 -0500

Creature of the Night

dreamboatcourtney — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:30:36 -0500

Sometimes at night the light will play tricks with you.

Wood Wives

dreamboatcourtney — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:20:00 -0500

The winter woods, with out a snow flake fallen, ice and moss wrap around pines and stone. The trees speak softly of wild hunts and woodwose in the valley. Toil briskly for the day light fades and Holda’s fiery fog rushes dusk. Soon a blanket of feathery dust will mark your trails. Underneath the oak sits your king waiting for your breast and body.

Dreamland

dreamboatcourtney — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:44:00 -0500

“When midnight mists are creeping,
And all the land is sleeping,
Around me tread the mighty dead,
And slowly pass away.
Lo, warriors, saints, and sages,
From out the vanished ages,
With solemn pace and reverend face
Appear and pass away.
The blaze of noonday splendour,
The twilight soft and tender,
May charm the eye: yet they shall die,
Shall die and pass away.
But here, in Dreamland’s centre,
No spoiler’s hand may enter,
These visions fair, this radiance rare,
Shall never pass away.
I see the shadows falling,
The forms of old recalling;
Around me tread the mighty dead,
And slowly pass away.”

- Lewis Carroll

The Sands Of Time MMXI

dreamboatcourtney — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:44:29 -0500

2011 is almost over, just hours minute and seconds remain, no longer to have days or evenings left. 2012 is pushing through, crowning,if you will, into being. Perhaps it’s a new dawn, or a setting sun, I am not sure what this new year will hold, and just like the last I will not make a prediction for what so many month could possibly hold. The one thing I am will wager is that it will in fact be a change, it will be different.

Netting

dreamboatcourtney — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:41:00 -0500

I was playing around with a vintage hat that I picked up at last fall’s Brimfield show. The hat is a hard hat to wear because it’s so old and the viel is so large and white.. but I love it none the less. The hat is a fine straw with velvety flowers upon top. I will be sure to share more photos of it once I find just the right outfit to wear it with.

Mohair Loops

dreamboatcourtney — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:57:39 -0500

Back when the sun was still out past five, and the leaves gently swayed in the summer breeze, is when me and this lovely sweater crossed paths. I couldn’t resist it. Although wearing it some how makes me feel someplace between a snowman and Marilyn Monroe. It’s certainly sweater weather now, and although I didn’t leave the house today, which is reason enough fo me to not wear pants, I still felt the need to snuggle up in some warm winter white.

Sweater is Vintage Saks Fifth Avenue, Hat was Thrifted, Sunglasses found at the local antique market.

Cold Dark White Magic of Winter

dreamboatcourtney — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:06:00 -0500

Winter a time for the north to freeze and sleep. To dream and to praise the warmth of the fire. The world seems trapped in a magical spell, a time when gloom and glitter unite. The world seems to be laying out a fresh sheet paper over the earth so you may etch into it the things your dreams are made of. Crisp, pure, freezing magic, winter.

There is an end of the year sale over at Light Witch. 20% off...

dreamboatcourtney — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:54:28 -0500

There is an end of the year sale over at Light Witch. 20% off until 1-2-12!!!!!

Apple Flavored Birthday Cake

dreamboatcourtney — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:53:46 -0500

A brief photo summary of the lovely Emily Rose’s Birthday weekend in NYC!!! I don’t actually have words for the love I have for that woman or to even explain how much fun I had!

we even ran into some more hometown boys from Palmer celebrating birthdays in the big apple.

Headed home for some late night dark & stormy’s and fried chicken in our nighties.