Shonagonisms - 100 Things In This World That I Love - listography: Samantha Holloway

listography: Samantha Holloway:

1. tea
2. chocolate
3. sunshine in spring, when it's warm but not enough to make me burst into flame
4. the light through green trees that wave in the wind
5. daffodylls
6. roses
7. Emily Bronte's poems
8. Robin McKinley's books
9. Anything written by Neil Gaiman
10. The Dresden Files
11. home made cake
12. 50s pyrex glassware
13. t-strap vintage shoes
14. shimmery nail polish
15. icecream in unusual flavors
16. washi tape
17. instagram
18. Doctor Who (especially Ten, but really all)
19. unabashed gleeful geekiness, like Nerdist
20. metafiction
21. tree-ripe peaches in the early summer, when they taste their best
22. lychees straight from the can
23. guava paste
24. the smell of fresh-baked bread
25. actually making the bread--it's so primal and soothing
26. making ceramic pots on the wheel
27. embroidery
28. origami
29. the breeze off the ocean on a chilly, rainy day when it brings fog
30. the smell of the wind over a heather field in the hilly Scottish countryside
31. petting soft kittens (or, really, any cat with fur)
32. the smell of old books
33. the smell of new books
34. the look of books as decoration
35. walls covered in mismatched pictures
36. wallpaper with weird and vintage designs
37. velvet victorian-revival chairs
38. napping in the grass under a tree
39. making love under a tree
40. swimming when there's no one else in the pool
41. watching seeds I've planted come up with their first little leaves
42. watching babies figuring things out for the first time
43. office supplies
44. collecting quotes
45. making collages
46. comic books, even if I'm not impressed with the story in them
47. interesting-shaped glass bottles
48. dollhouse miniatures with more detail than the actuals
49. foods that are the wrong color or the wrong size--purple potatoes, red bananas, sliders, tomatoes the size of your head, tiny taco salads
50. flan
51. meditating outside on a nice day
52. moving through airports when I'm not in a hurry
53. takeoff and landing on airplanes
54. silk skirts
55. men who smell like sweet spices and sandalwood
56. pinstripes on a suit
57. corsets
58. sleeping in
59. sleeping at the wrong time of the day
60. writing when everyone else is asleep
61. having the house to myself
62. cooking whatever I want for dinner
63. unexpected days off
64. standing and walking in snow
65. wraps instead of hoodies
66. hoodies instead of jackets
67. vintage-style jackets instead of modern ones
68. feathers and flowers in my hair
69. cat-eye eyeliner
70. silver bangles
71. emeralds
72. black pearls
73. black opals
74. amber
75. labrodorite
76. going thrifting and finding the perfect item I didn't know I needed
77. losing weight without trying (rare)
78. smoothies
79. having breakfast outside in the shade while the world wakes up
80. pannetone at christmas
81. cannollis
82. tiramisu
83. paintbrushes, even when I'm not using them
84. wardrobes instead of closets, or while using the closets for something else
85. scrapbooking notions, especially the paper and the journal cards
86. noisamajigs
87. traditional embroidery and woodblock prints on fabric
88. new notebooks
89. hand-binding books
90. getting letters in the mail
91. enjambment and internal rhyme in poetry
92. bootleg videos of things I haven't seen since I was a kid
93. making up new literary genres
94. learning words that don't exist in english
95. le pen pens
96. iphone apps that do just what I wanted an app to do
97. the idea of living in outer space
98. geeky teeshirts
99. blazers with skirts
100. knee socks

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