whatever makes me happy sets me free

art, beauty, fauna, flora, self-care pretty things, soft things, sparkly things

[ancientsstudies]

Hôtel de la Païva by michaelthecanadian.

[frostedmagnolias]

Two-piece dress

1750-1775

Amsterdam Museum

[frostedmagnolias]

Silk Chiffon Evening Gown

c. 1930

Augusta Auctions

[70sgroovy]

jane seymour photographed by terry o’neill, 1973

[oldpaintings]

In Spring, 1873 by Albrecht de Vriendt (Belgian, 1843–1900)

[padureni-deactivated20240913]

Jean Paul Gaultier Spr/Sum 2007

[myfashionburden]

dior cruise 2025 jewelry

[purplemistyrain]

Currently painting grapes with gouache

[fuckyeahkitschy2]

[mixedinterior]

Mid-Century Clamshell Bed

[simena]

André DAVID (detail)

[garden-of-hesperides]

“Secret and beautiful and peaceful,”

— Mary Oliver, from Winter Hours: Prose, Prose-Poems, And Poems; “The Bright Eyes of Eleonora: Poe’s Dream of Recapturing the Impossible,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[the-w0nder-beards]

[thatbitchsimone]

[spellia-deactivated20260409]

Chanel 1992

[roccio2]

[shakespearesdaughters]

Fire Dance 1889 by Joseph Tomanek

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Le Villi 1906 by Giuliano Bartolomeo