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Ill Seen, Ill Said
www.seenandsaid.blogspot.com
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A Toronto-based writer who is passionate about everything style-related (fashion, interiors, beauty, design), I blog daily about what and who is inspiring me. I also love to shake up my blog with a healthy dose of reflection, photography, art and literature. In that way, my blog has become a true reflection of my life and passion.
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Sunday best: Dreamlike

The first weekend of June has broken the summer spell a little. Time has been spent under blankets, in favourite sweaters with mugs and movies. And yet Im swept up in the imagery of summer. In ideas ...

6 h ago

Friday!

The first day of my birthday month! But Im typing this on the last day of what might be my new favourite month in Toronto. I feel something new is happening between me and this city... a new level of...

2 days ago 1 person likes this

Thomsen Paris

After yesterdays waterlogged post, I stumbled across this images on the Thomsen Paris website. Irresistible. Shop | Twitter | Facebook Ill Seen, Ill Said by Jane Flanagan is licensed under Creative C...

3 days ago

The sea, the sea

When its hot out, I stand at the bus stop and close my eyes and imagine diving down deep, seaweed tickling the back of my knees, salt water all around me. Later this summer, Im bailing on Torontos so...

4 days ago 1 person likes this

A (kind of) poem for Tuesday

On my table are two books: Wittgensteins Tractatus and Maggie Nelsons Bluets. I have moments when I think they might be the two most important books I own. But then I remember Beckett and how its all...

5 days ago

Ideal summer

Just a collection of summer-perfect images to cheer your Monday morning after a much-too-short weekend! Image credits: Popbar ice lollies | Bobbin bikes | Rennes purse | Ben Fiess jar from Leif | Eri...

6 days ago

Sunday best: Gallery day

Ive got a tonne of work to do today, so its not likely Ill get to do anything fun. But if the day were truly mine, Id head to the AGO to see the Picasso exhibit. Yesterday, I did a lot of practical c...

27 may 12 1 person likes this

Friday!

Good thing I didnt write this last night, cause I was in a foul mood after a foul week. But the prospect of the weekend is a little balm and, even though Ill be working, it can really only get better...

25 may 12

Green all over

This weather, the city around me has definitely whet my appetite for green things. I started thinking about the movie Green Card. To be honest, its yonks since I saw that movie, but (like Great Expec...

24 may 12

Flowers on Skona Hem

Right now, I have a huge vase of blue delphiniums on my coffee table. Its such a startling hue, every time I turn around I catch my breath. Im in a "go big or go home" mood with flower arrang...

23 may 12

Weekend

Yesterday, I set out from home, grabbed a coffee and cookie and sat in the park reading Pessoa. Then I took myself down into the ravine. It was blissfully cool down there, the shade, the smells, butt...

22 may 12

Sunday best: Decadent reader / book report

I do feel like a decadent reader today, blanket and basket, bound for the park! Ive been reading Pessoa this week and feel like I need to juggle him with something else. Im not able to keep my distan...

20 may 12 3 people like this

Friday!

My weeks usually fly, but this one dragged and I thought at every point I was a day farther ahead than I was—a small but pinprick agony all week. But bonus rewards: Its a long weekend here in Canada!...

18 may 12

Kingfisher Folly

I seem to be at a loss about what to do for holidays this year. Its definitely the area that Id like decisions and plans made for me (lovely plans of course). Ive run out of steam for all the plannin...

17 may 12

Twenty-five boxes and nine years

Over the weekend, I made a list of things I want to buy. Ive long made these kinds of lists... what I need to complete my wardrobe, my apartment, my sorry life. When I moved to Canada, and was starti...

16 may 12

13th Street Winery

"an aroma redolent of fruit blossom, lemon/lime, granny smith apple and wet stone" Could there be a more beautiful description? When it comes to wine, I dont know a lot. My family are huge wi...

15 may 12

My beauty essentials

I buy many different lotions, potions and pigments. Its such a sweet, easy pleasure... a new lipstick or nail polish, a cream that soothes, a mask that softens. But if I had to choose my everyday ess...

14 may 12 1 person likes this

Sunday best: Feeling like summer

It feels like the season has turned over. After a week of rain, the sun came out with a vengeance. The trees that flank the entrance to my apartment building finally burst with leaves - theyre always...

13 may 12

Friday!

I cant believe its Friday already. This week has been such a whirligig and Ive been excited about Saturday since last Monday. Last weekend, I found a new favourite coffee shop and Im dying to hang ou...

11 may 12

Coral

This shade is becoming a familiar one around here... I love these coral tones that have a bit of terracotta depth to them... a murkiness rather than that more plastic coral sheen. I seem to keep circ...

09 may 12

A poem for Tuesday

Ive been reading Rilke at bedtime. Though this poem is at odds with the season outside, there are moments when I am too. And the days feel autumnal when Im tired and look up from my desk too late to ...

08 may 12

Friday!

One of those strange weeks that simultaneously dragged and flew. But Im happy its Friday, as always! I spotted these botanical portraits in my reader this morning and was instantly smitten. This week...

08 may 12

Around home

I spent some lovely time at home over the weekend. I did yoga there. I arranged flowers. I made cups of tea and read books. I tidied. I wrote, sitting in front of my window, light streaming in. It al...

07 may 12

Sunday best: Netsuke and other small things

Yesterday was a good day. I didnt work at all... found myself in some new places in the city, happily deciding to walk another block, go for a second coffee, stop to smell the lilacs at every house w...

06 may 12

Lovely things, navy and cream

A little collection from my desktop. Blue and cream is always a classic combo... but I also love sparks of vivid ultramarine in the midst of all that navy and cream; the feather of that one hummingbi...

03 may 12

Birdsong

Quite by accident, I started watching Birdsong on PBS... for some reason it wasnt on my radar at all. The lovely Clémence Poésy is in it (yes, she of the biscuity complexion) and so I found myself dr...

02 may 12 1 person likes this

April on Instagram

A look back on my April Instagram reminds me of happy moments in a busy month. See bigger here. Past months: February and March. Shop | Twitter | Facebook Ill Seen, Ill Said by Jane Flanagan is licen...

01 may 12

The look in their eyes

Theres a certain kind of pensive sadness that Im drawn to in portraits and portrayals of women. I like that vaguely troubled, introspective look. But theres also an underlying strength to these portr...

30 apr 12 1 person likes this

Sunday best: Simple and good

Yesterday, I set out to stroll to the hairdressers and felt that something had ticked over in my brain. Maybe it was just the idea of a new hair colour and an afternoon freed up from work, but the we...

29 apr 12

Friday!

This one rolled around quickly, but Im glad for it as always. My week was short on sleep, high on feeling and busy with work. I didnt drink enough water. I forgot to take my iron supplements. I dodge...

27 apr 12 1 person likes this

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