Dame Edith Sitwell – a jeweled poet

Edith Sitwell, you are a captivating beauty!

“I am not eccentric. It is just that I am more alive than most people are. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish”.
(Edith Sitwell, quoted in Life magazine, 4 January 1963)

The first time I saw her image was when I was rifling though a jewelry publication.
There she was, large as life, wearing enormous rings. Two on one finger, and with large (more…)

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Kandyan Lady

I love old photos! People and places revealing ‘the activity of the day’ of days long gone. Food for my imagination! The past looks like another world entirely.

The image of this beautiful girl is called ‘Kandyan Lady’ from well over a hundred years ago. That’s all I know of her and she will remain a mystery for now. I bought this photograph while (more…)

Tags : bejeweled, jewelry, Kandyan Lady, Sri Lanka, vintage photograph