lowana

an archive of the archives. one day, we will be free

[belovedapollo]

I was gifted a handmade leather cover for a journal and made some notebook binding with green paper; hope to see my dear friend again soon 📮

reblog is ok, don’t repost / use

[maudelynn]

The Rose and Butterfly ~ by Jacques Leclerc for La Vie Parisienne c.1929 

[fordarkmornings]

Gerda Wegener (Danish, 1885-1940)

The Wasp, 1923

[enchantedbook]

'Vampire Hunter D' by Yoshitaka Amano

[clawmarks]

Study for Scribner’s Poster - Maxfield Parrish - 1897 - via Christie’s

[classicalcanvas]

Cliffs of Varengeville, Gust of Wind (1882) by Claude Monet

[lowana-kin]

The rich colours of my writing desk and diary in the afternoon sun — a small moment from the weekend

[belovedapollo]

recent pages 🌹 reblog is ok, don’t repost / use

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Poohsticks

a game in which each player throws a stick over the upstream side of a bridge into a stream or river, the winner being the person whose stick emerges first from under the bridge.

Frontis illustration from The House at Pooh Corner 

First Edition 1928

[monstermonger]

He's worried about stepping on flowers. He loves nature.

[imanbenerrabeh]

sweet spring journals

[chevaliermesfait]

Solvej Balle on rereading

[alwaysbeenjessica]

lets move!

[metamorphesque]

musings on april

Sylvia Plath (Leon Dabo), Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Naguib Mahfouz (Edgar Degas), E. E. Cummings (Édouard Manet), Rabindranath Tagore, T. S. Eliot (Edgar Degas), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Alphonse Osbert)

[theoptia]

Anaïs Nin, from The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1927-1931

Text ID: I must build up a strong world within myself, so rich and so full that it will be enough. I must find all things in myself, create them. I must reach my own climaxes of strength and creation with my work.

[alwaysbeenjessica]

as winter turns into spring

[marypickfords]

A Dream Longer Than the Night (Niki de Saint Phalle, 1976)