♥♥♥ Happy 1^st Year Anniversary to Fantastique Mémoires ♥♥♥

Collecting have always been a huge part of my life. As a tiny person I would store in my bedroom all sorts of things, from dolls and ballet slippers to gemstones and porcelain dogs. Each had their special place both in my heart and between the pink walls at my parent's apartment. However, nothing would compare to the excitement of collecting photographs. Photographs of everything and everyone. No matter how inconvenient I had to be. Clicking my days away did not only turn me into a hazard for the ones around me back then, but also made me realize that such hobby enabled me to put into matter a pictorial archive of my family's collective memory.

As I have been spending quite a while with my family back in Brazil, where I was born, I had the chance to revisit the past a few weeks ago. I sat on my grandmother's bed and opened a box, probably heavier than me. It was filled with honeymooners in itty-bitty bathing suits, babies in the swimming pool, family trips to the farm and awkward moments some would rather forget. I was instantly back to the 90's, running around the house with my sister Isis. And to go back to one's childhood... feels as if Proust and I were sharing a sweet-and-sour caramel madeleine!

This is why photography occupies such an important place in my life. And that is the reason why I created Fantastique Mémoires a year ago, so that I could remember my steps and you could see what I have seen, as magically as I can capture.

I hope the images here displayed have touched your hearts and, perhaps, transported you to where I have been. Even if just for a moment.

Thank you all so much for the amazing support! And thank you also for your lovely comments (it may take a little while, but I always reply to every one of them!) and for sparing a few minutes each week to peep around Fantastique Mémoires!

And as if my heart and spirit weren't filled with love already, through the blog I also have met Thea, Hannah, Krissy and so many other beautiful girls who have so much to offer to the world. It's been a fantastic journey and without each and every one of you, it would have never been as blissful.

May the wind take you where all dreams come true!

Remember: There is always something magical to look forward to right around the corner...

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