lisa maria helen

is all about: cats, cats, cats, design, old times, the beatles, playful colors, vintage dresses, awesome nature, the mighty boosh, tove jansson's moominvalley. and some more cats.

[catsss9]

[100artistsbook]

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

[wehadfacesthen]

Or write or sing or dance or….

[design-is-fine]

[wehadfacesthen]

Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman in Spellbound  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945)

[corporation-cats]

[mostlycatsmostly]

(via Viktoriya Bilan)

[corporation-cats]

[yehyehgrace]

Barbara Laage photographed by Nina Leen, 1946.

[babybacalling]

[corporation-cats]

[wehadfacesthen]

Dovima and Betsy Pickering wearing dresses by Lanvin-Castillo in a photo by Richard Avedon for Vogue, August 1958

[thesongsbirdskeepsinging]

Rita Hayworth, 1944.

[birdsong217]

[wehadfacesthen]

Passants dans la pluie (Passers-by in the rain), 1935, photo by  Brassaï

via birdsong217

[homedesigning]

(via Creative and Inspirational Workspaces)

[homedesigning]

(via Tainaron Blue Retreat by Kostas Zouvelos + Kassiani Theodorakakou )

[forties-fifties-sixties-love]

Cadillac in Washington, D.C., 1950s

[nitratediva]

Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940).