Hello. I'm a nineteen-year-old daydreamer, living in England, in love with stories. I thrive on blue skies, books, castles, photography, spiral staircases, old fashioned things, gardens, cats, sunsets, secret doors, making, baking, fairy tales, lights, birds, elegance, stepping stones, fountain pens, hills, picnics, patchwork, trees, nostalgia, cobbled streets, notebooks, stained glass windows, tea, and pretty much anything pretty that adds a touch of romance to the world. Here is where I post anything that I find which fits with this perspective. :) I also have a deviantArt, elena-flutterby.deviantart.com , where I keep my own photography, which I will sometimes throw into the mix here also. Ask me anything you like :)

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kiyoaki:

(vía Sandy Bay home gallery 8 of 13 - Homelife)

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It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. Mark Twain (via languagemagic)

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books-forever:

The Bodleian at Oxford, oh to get into that collection.

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☽☆ other names given to the full moon ☆☾

January: Wolf Moon, Moon After Yule or Old Moon

February: Ice Moon, Snow Moon or Hunger Moon

March: Storm Moon, Sap Moon, Crow Moon or Lenten Moon

April: Growing Moon, Grass Moon or Egg Moon

May: Hare Moon, Milk Moon or Planting Moon

June: Mead Moon, Rose Moon, Flower Moon or Strawberry Moon

July: Thunder Moon or Hay Moon

August: Grain Moon, Green Corn Moon, or simply Corn Moon

September: Fruit Moon or Harvest Moon

October: Harvest Moon, Blood Moon or Hunter’s Moon

November: Hunter’s Moon, Frosty Moon, Snow Moon

December: Cold Moon, Moon Before Yule or Long Night Moon 

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an-old-fashionedgirl:

Medieval Times

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Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by the experiment of private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington […]
The story of my birth might be untrue. I might be the long-lost heir of the Holy Roman Empire, or an infant left by ruffians from Lime-house on a door-step in Kensington, to develop in later life a hideous criminal heredity. Some of the sceptical methods applied to the world’s origin might be applied to my origin, and a grave and earnest enquirer come to the conclusion that I was never born at all. But I prefer to believe that common sense is something that my readers and I have in common and that they will have patience with a dull summary of facts. Autobiography, G. K. Chesterton

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hipstermicrowaves:

umbrellaed:

debilitating:

okay this is probably my favorite thing I’ve made.
I got the idea from tumblr. love me. 
this is the first page in my new watercolor moleskine 

you’re my favorite

marry me

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battez-vous:

Branches with Almond Blossoms (1890) by Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas

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