Tea and Fantasy: The Dreamy Bloggers

I'm doing it again - getting an unexplainable fascination with a certain type of blog.  This time it's the "Dreamy Bloggers" or that's what I call them at least.  The most simple explanation would be an American version of Mori Girls. Their obsessions seem to be lost girlhood or is it recaptured girlhood? and a litany of things that read like the lyrics to My Favorite Things from Sound of Music:

• Tattered lace, velvet ribbons, bows and pearls
• Unicorns, horses, fawns, bunny rabbits, kittens and baby chicks
• Woods and forests and mountains and lakes and misty moors
• Mermaids and fairies
• Obtuse and pretty poetry
• Tea time and rose china and macarons
• Glitter, tulle, satin, sequins, ruffles and pintucks
• Colored tights and flower printed dresses
• Bare feet or ballet slippers
• Dickinson and Austen and Nabokov, not to mention Narnia, Wonderland and Hogwarts
• Dawn, twilight and full moons
• Deserted beaches, tree houses and cabins built for hermits
• Disheveled homes (see The Selby)
• Disheveled hair, worn long in waves or braids 
• Vintage anything
• Carousels and Christmas lights and picnics and camp-outs and bonfires and fireflies

Some express their predilections with images and others with words, but similar themes emerge. There is an immense femininity to this genre, but a childish brand of it.  Innocence, but also darknesss.  A bit Victorian and gothic, but a sort of reverse image, sweet and light. Both bittersweet and magical.  Which is probably why I'm drawn to it.

It's odd that this trend finds expression online in blogs and tumblrs, because it seems to be a thinly veiled longing for an earlier time, a world without internets and laptops and cell phones.

A few for you to explore:
Kite
Elsewhere in wilderness
We are dreamers
Daydream Lily
With love from Angelica
Glitter Deers



And to top it all off... a dreamy playlist I made just for this occasion.  Dream on!