Fast Freight Beauty

As I wrap the final presents this evening & place them beneath the tree, I am overwhelmed with memories of holidays past. My dad & I laying train tracks carefully around the tree while adding our own homemade tunnels & bridges of brightly wrapped gifts, holiday cards, stuffed animals & such. It was a yearly ritual which became just as much a part of Christmas as mom's decorated snowmen cookies & my overly ambitious handmade snowflakes (no they were horrible). But, My train?? Oooo it was amazing!! An Electric Southern Fast Freight beauty! A steam locomotive engine LOADED with coal cars & an array of brightly colored boxcars, gondola cars, flatbeds & a fabulous green caboose with a fancy black filigre porch (so plastic figurines of santa could watch the scenery of miniature reindeer & shiny tiny presents as they whizzed by). Oh yes, it went forward AND backward & the smooth sound of that locomotion!! OH Hours upon HOURS were spent watching that train....I especially loved the "swish" sound of the caboose as it slung around each curve, defying gravity, defying NATURE!! Ok, so it was actually Defying the corner of my mom's newly wrapped houseslippers yet again....but it was AWE INSPIRING!
Isn't it amazing the magic to be found in the simplest of moments?

And still to this day, whenever I see a freight train?
I am reminded of that toy...& the brighter the boxcars??

The more vivid the memory...

I am wishing you a beautiful holiday filled with vivid moments

Peace Love and

Lots & Lots of "Swish"

And the Crush Goes On.....


xoxoxo

Parachute Girl

Almost Christmas Crush....

The holidays are among us & I'm full of Almost Christmas Crushes!! And you? What's your Santa List composed of? Amongst all of the following fabu items which I've listed today, I must tell you that the greatest of these are moments which cannot be written. Moments whose depth & beauty cannot be confined within mere typed black & white letters. These moments I shall keep to myself & share with you someday when we meet over cups of EarlGray
(where we can discuss our crushathons in 3D format)

oooooooo and
P.S.
Dear Santa, I am dreaming of a certain Darling, vintage black bicycle & a snappy red jumpsuit (or something gloriously Sophia Loren-ish for milling around in Rome )

Completely addicted to the produce section. Isn't it magical? Always best before 9am .
Often on a free day I will walk to the nearest market & saunter through the produce section (before it's been picked, mismatched & disarrayed by shopping hands)
The colors, the smell!! So divine.

DECADES Haute Couture Vintage Resale Melrose Ave Los Angeles, CA
Visit now! A museum in which to shop for classics of days gone by.
I would live here (if only long enough to actually Try ON everything inside)
Where else can you find almost affordable vintage Halston circa '75 ?? ;)


GUYS & DOLLS because yes, Musicals are my anecdote to Reality.
Not a huge fan of all things realistic...Ooh maybe I've mentioned this before?? ;)

SNL hottie alert Will Forte. Gorgeous AND Funny?? win win.

Photography to SWOON over. The amazing Michal Stachowski is brilliance indeed.

So many lovely things made of velvet in this world, but the greatest of these is surely the VOICE of John Legend. More More More please... Simply loving his albums more everyday.

The Mumbai you should see.

What's not to love about a gorgeous Neurosurgeon who just happens to be a leading CNN television personality with panache? Yes I love Dr. San jay Gupta. I'll admit it.
And yes, I'm a wee bit addicted to CNN. Seems I'm not alone, as there is a complete website dedicated to Gupta ran by "The Gupta Girls".
yes, Yes there it.

Sound Crush. Needle static. The sound a record player makes when the record is through. It ranks up there with my favorite "awe" time sounds.

Chic times of Yesteryear TODAY.
The Hotel Boulderado. Concierge with class.

& dinner served here is equal to Titanic style Glamour
(minus the catastrophic ending)

the LOVE Teapot by Mariage Freres Paris.... CRUSH it.

Billie Holiday Remixes. It's Classic Billie only current fresh style.
I hope she would approve. I CANNOT get enough of Billie Remix.

Ridiculously overdone Glass Sculptures & Mimosas (Please do NOT forget the mimosas)

My Rockefeller Center
(yes..it's true, I OWN New York)

Fabulously handpainted Mannequins from nostalgiccorner.com

Because Annie has the E Y E

Leslie Caron . ESPECIALLY in GiGi.
GiGi Midnight Movie Marathon Madness

Shu Uemura Holiday Sets are Dreamy

All things Miss CoCo.

And The Minetta Tavern Restaurant. Greenwich West Village NYC.
Good Enough for Ernest Hemingway roughdrafts &
Still Around for a Birdee or 2 like me for a tiny bit of
lyric scribble scribble ;)

And the Crush Goes On...

xoxo
Parachute Girl