H ere goes {deep breathe...}: this will be my last post here at Nothing Elegant . I know this might seem as though it is coming out of nowh...

M y dear, long-lost readers!! I'm certain by now you imagine I have been buried alive under a tumbling mountain of books. In fact, I ju...

I 'd love to take up residence in a cheeky trompe l'oeil house decorated by artist Charlotte Mann . Mann specializes in life-size d...

W hat's the one thing yours-truly likes more than high-heeled shoes, vintage dresses, AND red lipstick? Yep, perfume! One of my first j...

{A Claude Glass, or Black Mirror} M y love for antique optical devices started with my discovery of the Stanhope , and it has snow-balled in...

I have a new book crush {do you get book crushes?}. Persephone Press is a London-based press that specializes in neglected and relatively u...

E veryone seems to have a solution for fending off nightmares. When I posed the dilemma to a group of friends, I recieved so many varied res...

{by Iris Schwarz } O ne of Frida Kahlo's most striking features was -- without a doubt -- her full and fearless eyebrows. It always bot...

My name is Ana . Tara has asked for my manifesto . There are so many ideas and things I'm obsessed with; so many declarations I could ha...

{image by Zhou Fan } F olks, I'm in a hardcore rut {otherwise known as a funk} right now. I think this dilemma is fairly normal for peo...