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Dear friends,

• I admire the fact that she feels comfortable with herself wherever she is, whatever she is wearing! As she put it: "It Took Me Ages To Grow Into Being A Woman, Into Being Happy With It" and I dare say she actually managed it nicely! She can stay in whatever position it pleases her, she may speak the way that she wants but she is always top class and you can see how much she has grown from being the frightened girl from A Room With A View to the hardcore Bellatrix from Harry Potter. And just have a look at her style of clothing - it is insane yet very appealing. Not everyone can pull that kind of look and remain alive without critics biting on ones neck! Who else can wear mismatched shoes to the Golden Globe Awards and say something like this: "Why not wear mismatching shoes? Who says we can’t? I was just having fun ... For me, fashion is all about fantasy and putting unlikely things together. That’s what I love. I genuinely love dressing up."
• I feel intrigued over her long-lasting relationship/partnership with the genius Tim Burton - figure this out, they have bought 2 houses, joined in by the wall and set that wall down. The third house they own is on the same street but the kids live there with the nanny. Each of the houses has their own different style and they have daily meetings. HBC is Tims muse and you can see her in almost all his movies - or at least hear her voice... - since they have been together. Marriage is overratted for them and I understand their way of thinking but I must underline this is a thing I do not agree with. If one loves another and they match, they should get wed... but hey, I am oldfashioned!
• I adore her amazing wardrobe and her genius accessories - if you can pull off mismatched shoes, weird boots, strange glasses, bird-nest hairdos and whatever not that you must be doing something right and you are one hell of a woman! And that is what she is: a remarcable woman! Everything you will put her in would look stunning on her and peoples jaws will drop. But guess what? She is her very own stylist and she picks her own goodies. She chooses what to wear with which and to what ocassion and not once has she been spotted with the same clothes, so that is a clear statement that she does fashion and she is not made by fashion. 
• Parenting skills done right - did you know that HBC and Tim actually went for 7 weeks to a childcare guru to make sure they will raise their 2 babies correctly and give them the best. I know that having a nanny  vs. shooting movies/being a producer is not that ok, also living in another house (even if it is on the same street) is not that ok either, but how awesome is Helena for taking her bike out and bringing her 2 lovely sons back home each day?!
• I love the she has ALWAYS put her heart and soul into the movies she has done - I think one of the very first movies I have seen with Helena was the ecranisation of A Room With A View. She was so adorable as Lucy, and so very young. After that it must have been Lady Jane - or so I remember... Just give her a script and a bit of time and she will do from any character in the play something legendary that for sure you will remember :) She is not afraid of strange roles that push her to the limit and she likes both the dark and the positive characters. Come on! She played in The Planet of Apes and she was not afraid of being a monkey! She had her head triple the size for being The Red Queen in the newest Alice in Wonderland - the one with the Polish Alice ;) She played a very crazy (in love with Mr. Todd - Johnny Depp) cook//baker in Sweeney Todd - just have a look at her hair and her deep dark eyes! And the beach scene is just epic! To be underlined that not only does she act remarkably but she also sings rather lovely ;) Take for example Sweeney Todd & Les Miserables.  

Dear friends,

Today I shall present you a part of my collection of books and beloved things. Things I use on a daily/regular basis, things that I like and things that make me feel like home no matter where I am.

Everyone has that... and object - be it a book, a photo, a perfume - that makes one feel like home. In time you invest feelings and you match items with things that happened to you: I read this book when I was sad about something and it made me feel energised, I took that photo when I was with my friend and we were "having the time of our lifes", I bought this perfume becouse it reminds me of my dear friend who wore the same perfume... We are human beings, we are born to live in society and have people around us. We are born to make friends and be broken by the wrong turns in friendships... We rise, we fall and we learn :)


Recently I discovered that besides my regular Elizabeth Arden love (both for the awesome "Sunflower" and for the delicate "Green Tea") I began to be quite interested in the Celine Dion signature perfumes :) Not that I would not be a freak when it comes to perfumes and that I collect everything I like since I was small :))))


I love movie and so does my fiancee :) We believe firmly that if you like a movie than you should support it by any means - that also includes no downloads but rather buying DVDs of the movie. I am a fan of period movies and I own a whole shelve of different adaptations of Jane Austen books ;) plus several other movies :) not to mention that it is much easier just to have a look on the shelve and just pick something and watch it ;)

Sunglasses are an addition to my wardrobe that I always loved to hate - they are a necessary evil and I own 3 pairs but I dearly love the pair in this photo :) It goes with everything! And as you will see in these pictures my LadyBugs are always following me :) They are my constant companions ;)


Small things make me happy... The Venetian masque, the Greek recipient, the Peter Pan pen, the bookmarks... they are all dear to me as they are gifts from my dear friends... things I see daily and they make me think of my friends daily. For an expat it is hard to think of friends left behind, but small things help daily... you see them, you know they are there and you know they think of you...


Books... oh... books are my love ever since I was a child so it is hard to ever be anywhere where there is no book around... When I went to the USA I brought almost a full suitcase of music/movies/books with me... when I came to Poland I had with me only 2 or 3 books... Now I have 2 shelves :) Yes! I am addicted to good books/movies/music and I admit it!


And who would not be in love with books? They help you grow, they help you develop your personality and your thinking and they get to affect the decisions and even the paths you will take in life :) Always read a book before the movie. I proudly can say I did that. Even with "Lord Of The Rings" - and it is one of the few movies that I was not utterly dissapointed ;) even though the relationship between Aragorn and Arwen was not THAT extensive in the books ;)

And yes! That is another LadyBug - made out of paper and a dear gift from a very dear friend :)


You cannot be a true fan of LOTR if you do not own the books and some of Tolkiens works... well... I think I can proudly say that I have most of it: Silmarillion (my personal fav, and I truly believe that everyone should read it in order to understand more LOTR), The Hobbit (including the comics version in Polish language), Roverandom (which is more like a child story but it is really nice), Unfinished Stories (his son helped in ordering them and finishing the works of the father - quite nicely, I may add!) and the awesome Children Of Hurin :)


Et voila! Cest my fav shelve of period books and a part of the history ones - focus on Second World War ;) Well... what can I say... everyone has a weakness... most of the boys have it for sports and for computer games (Mortal Kombat and such) and most of the girls have it for make up and clothes... my blog is not a fashion blog. My blog is about a girl who loves to learn and to experience new things, a girl who loves to be in love and be loved :*

Yours truly,
The LadyBug :)