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Secret Garden Bracelet

This Victorian inspired piece features a vintage violet rhinestone heart in its centre. The bracelet is adorned with verdigris leaves accented with Swarovski crystal droplets in amethyst.  Antique brass pansy charms with a purple enamel finish, with tiny crystal stones nestled in the centres. Finishes with an antique gold bird.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/123057336/secret-garden-charm-bracelet-victorian

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Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

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CLAUDIA & LOUIS + THE THING LAY STILL

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90s glamour 

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always follow the four g rule .... is it gaudy is it gauche is it grotesque is it godly

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A horseshoe crab being a home to other sea creatures!

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The Harkonnens think to trick me by making me distrust your mother. They don't know that I'd sooner distrust myself.

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Interview with the Vampire (2022) episode posters: [ep.5 insp], [ep.6 insp], [ep.7 insp]

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Photography from Illustrated People by Thomas Mailaender, 2015

The sunburns on skin were made by using a UV lamp and negatives to ‘print’ vintage photographs onto model’s bodies.

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I turn to Rue's family. “But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim.” My voice is undependable, but I am almost finished. “Thank you for your children.” I raise my chin to address the crowd. “And thank you all for the bread.” — Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins

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the scream i scrumpt

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what im learning is that you cannot avoid your way into a life you enjoy

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"In one of Africa’s last great wildernesses, a remarkable thing has happened—the scimitar-horned oryx, once declared extinct in the wild, is now classified only as endangered.

It’s the first time the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s largest conservation organization, has ever moved a species on its Red List from ‘Extinct in the Wild’ to ‘Endangered.’

The recovery was down to the conservation work of zoos around the world, but also from game breeders in the Texas hill country, who kept the oryx alive while the governments of Abu Dhabi and Chad worked together on a reintroduction program.

Chad... ranks second-lowest on the UN Development Index. Nevertheless, it is within this North African country that can be found the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve, a piece of protected desert and savannah the size of Scotland—around 30,000 square miles, or 10 times the size of Yellowstone.

At a workshop in Chad’s capital of N’Djamena, in 2012, Environment Abu Dhabi, the government of Chad, the Sahara Conservation Fund, and the Zoological Society of London, all secured the support of local landowners and nomadic herders for the reintroduction of the scimitar-horned oryx to the reserve.

Environment Abu Dhabi started the project, assembling captive animals from zoos and private collections the world over to ensure genetic diversity. In March 2016, the first 21 animals from this “world herd” were released over time into a fenced-off part of the reserve where they could acclimatize. Ranging over 30 miles, one female gave birth—the first oryx born into its once-native habitat in over three decades.

In late January 2017, 14 more animals were flown to the reserve in Chad from Abu Dhabi.

In 2022, the rewilded species was officially assessed by the IUCN’s Red List, and determined them to be just ‘Endangered,’ and not ‘Critically Endangered,’ with a population of between 140 and 160 individuals that was increasing, not decreasing.

It’s a tremendous achievement of international scientific and governmental collaboration and a sign that zoological efforts to breed endangered and even extinct animals in captivity can truly work if suitable habitat remains for them to return to."

-via Good News Network, December 13, 2023

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― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951