Category Archive: LIFE
I Like You
Image courtesy of the second funniest, creepiest hospitality book of all time - The Weber Cookbook.
(by Amy Sedaris) Indubitably the creepiest, funniest book on hospitality ever written.
Continue Reading →Purple Wednesday
Welcome to the third edition of my blog, Annabel Lee. What colour is Wednesday? You may be surprised to learn that it is purple. Quite obviously that means evening bags. So, in honour of Wednesday, here are a couple which I prepared earlier…. Many of the beads in this first little one are Swarovski crystal, one of my favourite things. The medium dark filling in the lace sections in the lower part are comprised of precisely 1,267,098 French knots. This second bag is a lovely soft bouncy embossed velvet netted beaded beribboned thingie. The Tarot card which I have chosen for today…
Continue Reading →Annabel Lee, Miranda & Stevie
Annabel Lee, Miranda, Stevie, and Lesley (image by Stephen Reid)
Greetings and a warm welcome to Lesley’s blog, the part of The Varnished Culture which is girly, crafty and sort of ethereal. Our muses are Stevie Nicks, Joyce Carol Oates and Lily Cole. Our poem is “Annabel Lee” – a poem by Edgar Allen Poe – Stevie does an otherwordly,
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