August 14, 2009

Every Light Has Its Shadow

And so do I have my own desires. Lately I've been thinking about the beauty of old days, and dreaming of the living. The mood and sense from the past are always haunting me... If only I lived couple decades ago. In those places below. They're so beautiful and magical, render me helpless when I realize those photos were taken long before I even was born at 1989. Maybe there are several similar places like them nowadays, but it's hard to find near my residence. I'll build one with my own hands if its necessary someday - I know I'd love to live in such peaceful, quiet, eloquent surrounding.
Images taken from here.

And, well, speaking of beauty, there are two beautiful ladies that had given me such wonderful awards - it's been several days before, and I just couldn't find any perfect time to post about it. So, the first award is from my dear spanish friend Iris of Kirei Girl Da Madrid. She gave me a Lemonade Stand Awards, a special award for newly discovered blog. Thanks a lot!


Since I'm also quite new myself, I'd love to pass this award along to my favorite bloggers that I discovered just while ago :
And besides that, I also get another award from my lovely friend Natalie of Chamomile Tea and Feather Quills! I can't say much about this because it was too wonderful - I found her blog even before I have my own blog, and I always enjoy the time I read her writings. So to received this award from her is an honor - I can't be more flattered. Thank you so much, Natalie! She's an amazing lady, a true wanderer who inspiring us with her story and pictures on her other (travelling) blog titled The Wandering Writer. Go and check both of her blog soon to prove my words!


I wish I could send back this award to her! Otherwise, I will pass this award to these gorgeous ladies who have beautiful blogs and made me fell in love with since the first time :
  • Anna of Much Love, a beautiful Indonesian girl who lives in Aussie right now - she has such a loving heart and sweet personality, I always find myself feeling comfortable everytime I interact with her.
  • Rhianne of For The Easily Distracted, a wonderful female from UK who loves many things beautiful and always have inspiring posts. She's really sweet and kind, I love her Holga shots and we're about to work together for a guest-blogger project. Yeyy!
  • Eunice of Fancy Pants. Well I've been following her since the first time, but I feel like wanna give this award to her - as she's always being so supportive and lovely! I love everything about her and you should get to know her as well - believe me.
  • Diane of Darling Darling. This woman is aaaaaawesome. I like her style - whether its her hair, clothes, shoes - and her post about music (great references, if you haven't known) or art, or photographs. She's so unique and I love her personal taste! Oh, and the fact that she's always so kind to me (because who am I anyway?) and she has an account in Tumblr (Voluumes) special for her music post!
  • Lauren of Blooming Leopold. Ah, what should I say anymore about this known-gorgeous lady? Lauren is such a lovely person and I always think that her creativity is amazing. She has the cutest Etsy Shop ever, with all beautiful clothes and vintage items listed there. Her blog is very inspiring as well. I can't help myself to not giving her this award!
  • Rose of Roses R Red. She's a vegan and also a vintage lover like me. I especially love her blog because she always featuring delicious vegan recipes over her posts, and everyone in my family is addicted with her creation. And she's also a lovely friend too!
Aaaand, I will post about my latest trip to another national park in my city (forest in the mountain's slope!) after this. But before that, I'll share you some pictures of me - close up shoots - as requested by several readers who sent me friendly emails lately! They ask me to post a picture or two when I'm not dressed-up... So this is how do I look this morning, make-up less, undressed, and simply tied my hair below the ear. And stupid faces. LOL, sorry for the mess! Send you all hugs from here. Have a wonderful weekend!
Written by claradevi at 7:07 AM
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51 comments:

  2. How do you manage to look incredible in the morning too?! I always wake up to horrific bed head and a terrible cowlick that seems to make itself right at home atop my head.

    I'd also love to live in an idyllic countryside even though I think I'm a city girl at heart. There's nowhere that's quite so field-like in San Jose (where I live in California) unless you count the local parks.

    Thank you for the award, lovely lady!!! And congratulations to the ones that you have received!!! All well-deserved and I hope you know it.

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  3. You look gorgeous without makeup! Those old pictures are so beautiful, they make me wish I could travel back to the time when they were taken.
    Oh, & congratulations on your awards, your blog is so lovely & you deserve them.

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  4. Those are some beautiful pictures you have there, of yourself and the times past.

    And you absolutely deserve it. Your readers can tell you put a lot of effort into making such a great blog. Congratulations! :)

    Natalie xx

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  5. @ ellen : thank you! and goodluck with the indonesian unite project! :)

    @ diane : you're always welcome, darling darling! I should've given you the blog since the first time, you know.. (I'm thinking to make my own award now - teehee :P) I grew up in big cities but I also love small villages, never could really pick one - I don't know whats wrong with my mind - it's always inconsistent!

    @ crystal : thank you! I don't really like put some make up on because I can't stand the touch of powder on my skin :D (I know, it is weird for a girl to feel that way...) I'm glad you came to my blog because then I can found yours too! You have wonderful blog :)

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  6. @ Natalie : aaaaw I'm so happy you're here! You know what, I'm planning to make my own award so that I can give it to everyone I adore (and you're my main target! haha). Thank you again for always supporting me since the first time, you're the loveliest ever! :))

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  7. You look as beautiful without makeup !! Congrats to 2 blog awards :) You should totally get it <3

    Awwww,thanks alot for the award girl ! That's so sweet of you ! Thank you <3

    Ohhh by the way, I've started contributing to the site already . My 1st post is called street style faves.
    Do check it out :)

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  8. hey girl, thanks for the award!! it really brightened my day!! :) You're the sweetest and I'm so glad you received these awards because you totally deserve them :)

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  9. congrats! you're unreal - looking so good first thing in the morning. i'm just kidding with you! :P

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  10. sorry for the mess?? you must be kidding me Clara..U look soo pretty, there was no mess at all..hehe..and one thing that make me soo jelous,,you hair still looks great in the morning :(..huhu..I want your hair!! :p

    and congratz for the award :)..U deserved it!!
    U know what? I love your blog from the first time I found it and I think, now you are one of the famous fashion blogger..hehehe..

    Good job Clara!! Keep it up :)

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  11. What do you do to have such a beautiful and spotless skin? The mine is driving me crazy!
    Hugs and kisses

    xxx

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  12. Congrats on the awards! You look adorable without makeup. =) I love your pictures, I love the sweet nostalgic feeling they have!

    xo
    Sophie

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  13. I think a lot of us do wish that we lived in the past, have you noticed?

    & you look darling without makeup! I also don't enjoy wearing it that much... ;-)

    <3

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  14. I love love love this post! I feel the same as you- that I was born in the wrong time. I did a post about victorian photography today so you might want to take a look!

    Amy :)

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  15. Congratulations on both of your awards! Your blog is so lovely and inspiring, you completely deserve them :)
    Those old pictures are so gorgeous! I too wish I had been born a couple decades later than I was!
    Cute pictures of you as well!

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  16. It's good to see you back again! I missed your blog. And thank you for the award! I love awards posts because I always find a new lovely blog or two that I didn't know about before. :)

    I often wish I was living at some time in the past. I know it's easy to romanticise the past and I don't have any illusions that there ever existed a perfectly happy carefree time, but it scares me what this world of ours has become at this point... what we as humans have done to it.

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  18. ugh yes, it's such a beautiful song. it like does somethign to me whenever i hear it.

    thank-you for the compliment of course you can link me. i will also link you =)
    xo

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  19. beautiful post about old looking homes! i loved seeing the photos
    <3, evelyn

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  20. gorgeous photos
    THANK YOU so much for the award, i really appreciate it

    -cma
    check out my blog @
    cosmicaroline.blogspot.com

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  21. thank you so much for the award, and for your very kind words!! you are so sweet ^_^

    and I love those vintage pictures too.

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  22. Thank you so much everyone! I'm glad that some of you also wished to live in the past - that's just wonderful to have such shared hopes :)

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  23. I love everything about the beautiful past era too, sometimes I posted about it in my other blog : http://tigerlilysbook.blogspot.com


    Anyway, I read that you love Blooming Leopold's clothes. What a nice coincidence as I am having a giveaway in my blog right now with one of Blooming Leopold's dress as the prize, maybe you'd like to enter : http://twothousandthings.blogspot.com
    It will end on August 18th.


    XoXO,
    YURI
    TwoThousandThings

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  24. What a wonderful suprise it was to read my comments and find out you had given me an award! Thankyou so much :) you certainly cheered up my day! I shall include it in my next post.
    I adore the pictures in this post. My bf and I were just talking today about how we will live on a quiet farm one day in a little cottage with our own vegatable patch and chickens. It seems we are not the only ones who have this type of dream.
    I just realised i dont follow your blog! whoops, i will be tagging along from now on :)

    Rose

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  25. you are such a sweetheart for sending me an award!! thank you so much, beautiful blogger!

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  26. i really like this post.. :) lovely photos and great award.. :) congrats though..

    xx

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  27. (Second time already that I have most of my comment written and then I accidentally click somewhere and blogger logs me out and the comment is lost! I shall be ultra-careful from now on.)

    I'd love it if you were to visit me some day! If it's summer, we could find a quiet spot to sit by the sea; if it's winter, we could have a friendly snowfight and build lots of funny snowmen :)
    I'd also love to visit Indonesia, and learn more about its history. I've been looking up some basic info on Wikipedia, but that's just facts - you also need stories to get a better picture. :)

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  28. Hi Clara!! Thank you so much for giving me a blog award, made my day!! I will be putting this up on my blog real soon! Lovely post as always! xx
    much love from Ireland
    magpie-girl.blogspot.com

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  29. Thanks for your lovely comment on my blog. Yours is one of my biggest admirations, so it means a lot that you like my mutterings :)

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  30. this is such a beautiful post. i can absolutely relate to what you said, and i will keep most of the photos because they are just so beautiful. to me, as well, everything that happened in the past was so much more full of sparkle and poetry, i don't know why. i have such a nostalgic feeling everytime i see an old photograph, and i wish i could jump in it. many congratulations for your awards, you deserve them, for your blog is beautiful, dear!

    <3

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  31. Eeeee, thank you so much! That's made my weekend :) Those photos are lovely and you look amazing without any makeup - I wish I could say the same about me hehe! Hope you are having a wonderful weekend! Eeeeee!

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  32. congrats on the awards! i looove all the photos you posted, so beautiful and inspiring.

    also, thanks for your lovely comment on my blog. I need to know your address so I can send you something special... :)
    starrcrow@live.com

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  33. its not fair that you look very beautiful in your 'stupid' faces.

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  36. Hi Claradevi!! I think about that a lot too!!! Whenever I see old photos, I wish i could go back in time just for one day to see what it was like to live during that time period. I guess that's why we have movies...but it's not the same :( Thanks for the award!!!! That is my first Lemonade stand award :D And you look SO pretty even without any makeup on....jealous!!!
    clothedmuch.blogspot.com

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  37. These photos are so beautiful!!!! Just lovely! :)

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  38. hey! urs is a nicer blog! ur picture in the header is soo gorgeous. wanna exchange links? : )

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  39. Thank you very much!! I will post it on my wednesday post, ok? ;)

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  40. first of all let me thank you for your sweet comment and for all the words you sent my way :) you made my day! i will certainly keep in touch, please do it too! :)

    it's true, i discovered recently that i'm such a past-living person. not that i don't enjoy the present, but i surround myself in the nostalgy of old times. i think i find part of me there. that's amazing, truly it is! :)

    hugs, ♥

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  41. Times were so much simpler then, but I wouldn't give up today with my fam for anything! You look beautiful btw!

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  42. I also long for those days. Those pictures are amazing.
    You have a lovely blog.

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  43. hey you! thank you so much for that sweet comment you left on my blog! it made me smile so big when i read it! what a sweetheart you are and i cant wait to follow this adorable blog of yours :)

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  45. Gorgeous photos!

    Congrats on your awards!

    xoxox,
    CC

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  46. oh my goodness! these pictures are beautiful!!!!! I love the taped corners.

    Love,
    Paulina

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  47. Fabulous photos and collage! I loved the color and texture in the pictures of the old homes.

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  48. Nice photos, these place are wonderful !!

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  49. Clara!:) How are you dear? I love the pics here and you look fantastic in the morning too. :)
    Hope you're having a nice week!
    :***

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  50. oh kamu kuliah di jogja?
    waw, sounds like fun :)
    nice photo creation, and you looks beautiful even when it's in the early morning :)

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