Arts & Crafts

Dreaming of a beautiful 2010: larger than life, taking on the world (big cities, small towns), writing our own fairytales, resting our feet on cushions made of peonies and cotton candy. Happy New Year!

Hello, Brooklyn

November is:

1. This photograph
2. Satin ballet slippers
3. Co-ed reading parties
4. Baking cupcakes with ten year-olds
5. Au Revoir Simone
6. Homemade chicken noodle soup
7. Dreaming of New York
8. Living happily in California
9. Bright coral red lipstick
10. Icy cold nights filled with shooting stars

And you are starry, starry, starry...

Follow me to the land of lovely...

What can I say about Garance Dore (garancedore.fr) except that to a girl like me this blog is a dream come true. A friend of mine told me about the site several months ago, and since then I've checked in daily to see what's new in the land of lovely. The whimsical french illustrator travels the world over with a camera and sketch pad, capturing the sweetest things in life: beautiful photographs of fashionable passersby, miniature interviews with her adored (and coincidentally also fashionable) friends, and her fantastic illustrations (which I have found quite inspiring). When I look at things through her eyes I'm lead to believe that there really is a world where we all live enchanted, sunday afternoon cafe lifestyles. The photos, the art work and the translated text (which is quirky, upbeat, and delightful) take me to another place entirely. Yes, in this place we all move breezily through the city streets of Paris and New York on Holland bikes and beach cruisers while wearing pouty skirts and high-high heels. We always have a bundle of tulips in our bicycle baskets and we're forever be on our way to meet a friend, or a lover, or to a gorgeous outdoor market. Needless to say this site provides me with my morning dose of charm, and then some. Oh, delicious charm.

We'll stop here along the way...

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