a little place to call my own (art and fashion blog)

 Happy 2024! I was thinking about New Year wishes for the last few days. I must admit that this year I didn't felt that sense of freshness followed by a surge of optimism that I usually feel on the first day of the New Year. However, I still enjoyed sending the New Year greetings and just the general spirit of the holiday. It's always nice to feel that holiday spirit in the air. Everyone wishing good things upon others. Some say it's not that deep, that it is something people do automatically, but I say that it can't really hurt. I mean, it's entirely up to you what you choose to do this time of year and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Celebrate the way you want to, or don't celebrate at all. So, let me wish you (one again) all the best! To quote the legendary Dolly Parton (and let's not forget Whitney's interpretation) I wish you joy and happiness! But above I wish you love! Love is that hard to define thing that really makes a difference in ou...

Hello! Did you know my blog came to life on 22nd of November 2012 ? My first post was about baseball caps, so it was fashion oriented and contained what could be now called 'outfit post'.  I opened my blog planning to write about fashion, but with time it grow to include my other interests such as art, literature and sustainable travel. So, I have been blogging for eleven years and a month! That's quite a long career for a personal (i.e. non profitable) blog, I would say. I even googled the average life span of a blog and the result indicated an average of only one hundred days. I'm glad I'm still blogging.  I've considered retirement once or twice, took a break or two, but I always came back to blogging. Why not?  Blogging can be such an educating and enriching experience. Both blogging and reading blogs is something I still love, so I plan on continuing doing it. There's much talk about whether blogs are dead or not, but if you're not doing it for a pr...

 Hello! In this post, I shall write about The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wild. I already reviewed this novel on my blog, so this is obviously a reread. I never understood why rereading confuses some people. When I get asked how I can read a book multiple times, I'm tempted to ask how you can listen to the same song twice. Some people can rewatch their favourite films countless times. So, why shouldn't we reread books? Rereading strengthens our language skills and makes us better readers (and potentially also writers). Rereading deepens our understanding our literature and makes us appreciate the writer's skill more.  I reread this novel only a few days ago, while I was in a hospital. My husband brought some books for me to choose and I opted for this one and Il Piacere by D'Annuzio . Normally, I don't read while hospitalized because it's hard to concentrate as I'm usually in pain and/or distracted by the screaming people and stuff. However, this time ...