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Fill Power…

06 Wednesday Jan 2021

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America's Top Model, Down, Fill power, Khrystyana Kazakova, Positivity


Fill power is a measure of the loft or “fluffiness” of a down product that is loosely related to the insulating value of the down. The higher the fill power, the more air a certain weight of the down can trap, and thus the more insulating ability the down will have. Fill power ranges from about 300 (in³/oz) for feathers to around 900 (in³/oz) for the highest quality goose down. from Wikipedia

I received a wonderful, dare I say sensual, down comforter for Christmas this year. It has a 950 fill power and weighs less than two pounds. It is meant for fall and spring camping but since my house is quite cold at night, I couldn’t resist using it for sleeping in my bed as well.

Unlike my old comforter that was heavy, rough and prickly from duck feather barbs protruding through the cotton covering, this quilt is light, soft and smooth. I love being enveloped by the luxury of its airiness and warmth.

I began to compare this feeling of the new comforter to being around certain types of people: Some individuals are light, optimistic and well, happy – I might want to hug them, to envelop myself in their positivity, to be in their orb, while others are dark, pessimistic and irritable – like the prickly duck feathers, I want to give them distance. In the New Year, I seek to spend my time with the lighter and more positive fowls.

Photograph: © Samantha Wolov

Resolutions…

29 Saturday Dec 2012

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Fashion, Khrystyna Kazakova, Neil Gaiman, Photography

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© Khrystyna Kazakova with Inna Mathews and Kristina Varaksina.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. 
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
Neil Gaiman

Taking some time to figure out my new year’s action list…

Model: Khystyna Kazakova

Possibilities abound…

04 Sunday Nov 2012

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America's Top Model, Hatching, Khrystyana Kazakova, Maria Robinson, Photography

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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

Hatching a more creative life!

Model: Khrystyna Kazakova

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Oral gratification…

05 Friday Oct 2012

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America's Top Model, beautiful, Diane Ackerman, Exotic cuisine, Khrystyna Kazakova, Photography

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Oysters on the half shell, arranged on a large platter of shaved ice, one by one polish the woman’s tongue with silken saltiness. – from A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman

Preparing for a weekend of sampling delicious exotic cuisine…

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Radiance…

22 Saturday Sep 2012

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America's Top Model, Ellie Goulding, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Lights, Music, Photography

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You show the lights that stop me turn to stone
You shine it when I’m alone
And so I tell myself that I’ll be strong
And dreaming when they’re gone.
lyrics from Lights by Ellie Goulding

I trust my inner light to lead me out of the darkness…

Model: Khrystyana Kazakova

Sucker punch…

26 Sunday Aug 2012

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America's Top Model, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Khrystyna Kazakova, Love, Nicholas Sparks, Photography, Relationships, Safe Haven, sucker punch

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She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.
from Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

Is the love that takes your breath away too painful to bear?

Being a contender…

30 Monday Jul 2012

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America's Top Model, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Photography, Poetry

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…that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
from Ulysses by Lord Tennyson

Embrace your inner Olympian.

Fortifying my heart…

17 Tuesday Jul 2012

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America's Top Model, Fashion, Khrystyna Kazakova, Love, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, Photography, Poetry, Relationships, William Wordsworth

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What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind…
from Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth

Still searching for strength in the ruins of what was a beautiful life – rest in peace.

212 degrees Fahrenheit…

04 Wednesday Jul 2012

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America's Top Model, Charles Swinburne, Fashion, Khrystyna Kazakova, Photography, Poetry

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And her lips opened amorously, and said-
I wist not what, saving one word – Delight.
And all her face was honey to my mouth,
And all her body pasture to mine eyes;
from Love and Sleep by Charles Swinburne

Turning up the heat on this 4th of July…

Mulligans…

21 Thursday Jun 2012

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America's Top Model, Khrystyna Kazakova, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Resolutions, Summer Solstice, The Scholar Gipsy

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For whom each year we see
Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new;

Who hesitate and falter life away,
And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day-
from The Scholar Gipsy by Matthew Arnold 

Summer Solstice – a time to begin anew with the New Year’s resolutions that have fallen short.

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