{"id":1451,"date":"2013-03-27T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeimprovementblogs.com\/hg-blog\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2013-03-27T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:15:12","slug":"childhood-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeimprovementblogs.com\/hg-blog\/childhood-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a little girl I always wanted to be a show girl, a dancer, a singer, a performer, an artist. My only inspiration for this was repeated exposure to the beautiful \u00a0 works of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; the celebrated Impressionist painter whose images of singers and cancan dancers still make my face light up to this day.<\/p>\n

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And what did I dream of when I imagined my time as a proper grown up in my imagined career? I dreamt of fame and fortune yes, certainly. I dreamt of the roar of the crowd and the clapping of hands as I finished my ninth encore. I dreamt of living in gay Paris and hobnobbing with all of the society folk as only such an enchanting performer can do. But more than that what did I dream of?<\/p>\n

My own dressing room, my own personal space that no one else was allowed access to without my say so. In that room I painted on my brave face for the big bad world, dressed in sharp clothes like armour against the onslaught I knew awaited outside. I received flowers, jewels and diamonds from admirers and displayed them proudly on my dresser.<\/p>\n

And the crowning glory in this space wasn\u2019t the wardrobe or the velvet embroidered stool. It wasn\u2019t even the luxurious fruit bowl filled with exotic fruits. The crowning glory sat a-top my dressing table and shone out over the whole room casting it in a bright starlight glow; a huge arched mirror surrounded by light bulbs on each side save the bottom.<\/p>\n

Sat at this dresser looking into my mirror I spoke to people at my door, catching their eye as I applied my thick black eyeliner. I cried a tear as another dashing celebrity broke my heart and I threw a bashful glance up at the fans who crowded outside.<\/p>\n

And now I am a proper grown up and whilst I am an artist it is more the starving, paint splattered type than the glamorous with admirers type. But never one to let go of a dream, in my new house I have recently installed an illuminated mirror from the collection of bathroom mirrors with lights at Illuminated Mirrors.<\/a> And thus I can sit in front of it on my velvet embroidered stool and dream the dreams of childhood once more.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a little girl I always wanted to be a show girl, a dancer, a singer, a performer, an artist. My only inspiration for this was repeated exposure to the beautiful \u00a0 works of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; the celebrated Impressionist painter whose images of singers and cancan dancers still make my face light up to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,4],"tags":[432,438,427,437,436],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedrooms","category-decorating","tag-black-eyeliner","tag-de-toulouse-lautrec","tag-henri-de-toulouse","tag-henri-de-toulouse-lautrec","tag-illuminated-mirrors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeimprovementblogs.com\/hg-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeimprovementblogs.com\/hg-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeimprovementblogs.com\/hg-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeimprovementblogs.com\/hg-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeimprovementblogs.com\/hg-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homeimprovementblogs.com\/hg-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeimprovementblogs.com\/hg-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeimprovementblogs.com\/hg-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeimprovementblogs.com\/hg-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}