Defining Elegance.

•  Graceful middle age
• Loving acceptance
• Forgiveness without resentment
• Pearls, especially gray ones
• Absorbing art
• Pegacorns
• A stack of journals with striking spines
• Painting
• Argyle sweaters and socks
• Sparkling water
• Sparkling juice
• Lilac candles
• Mermaids wearing gowns
• Warm Vanilla Sugar hand soap on a pedestal sink
• Peacoats
• Antiques
• Design books
• Scarlett O'Hara
• Architecture
• Opera glasses
• Capes
• Somerset magazines
• Jane Austen novels
• Chandeliers
• The Majestic Theatre
• Seahorses
• Reclining heated seats at movie theaters
• Emma Thompson
• Judy Dench
• Leslie Caron
• Fountain pens
• Couches with large scroll arms
• Sparkling hair
• Black gel ink
• The film The Fountain
• Slipper chairs
• Anne Shirley grown up
• Anything embroidered
• Light blue sequins
• Fairy queens and elfin queens
• A silver butterfly letter holder
• Mucha art/art nouveau
• Art Deco (though in a different way)
• New York City's skyline
• Heels that sparkle
• Dolls with trunk sets
• Glinda
• Pan au chocolat
• A cloche hat
• Wisteria
• High tea
• Chocolate eyeliner
• Star gazing
• All shades of green
• A consistent sleep schedule
• Alexandra Stoddard
• Drinking water
• Julia Cameron
• Madeleine L'Engle
• Upholstered bar chairs
• A well-read person
• White wood
• Cinderella
• A library
• Working at a white table
• Gray curtains with pink stars
• Anniversary cards
• Script
• "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"
• White roses
• Pink roses with baby's breath
• Any of ALW's music
• The book Wintering
• Dodie Smith
• A chilly breeze on the first day of spring
• Willow trees