Graceful inspiration..

Haven't been around for a while, simply getting used to our new schedule with the hubby ... but we finally booked our summer trip tickets and cannot wait to go to London and see the big Grace Kelly exhibition at the V&A Museum, somehow from the Vanity Fair article to this ( obviously High Society influenced) dress she just seems to be in the air at the moment.

That dress alone makes me wis i could pull off a re-do wedding , this time in something floaty and ephemereal.. that is if I could pull that look off.

images , google, stylemepretty.com

The weekend in food photos...

We had a truly glorious weekend , it was uor little good by party to spending time together .Hubby is now back to working 14 hour days and i will only see him one evening a week. So we did a lot of our favourite things, we went out for a divine souffle dinner at Le Recamier complete with french bourgois 'diner theatre'complete with grumpy french waiter vs grumpy old french men standoff and some truly drunk older laidies almost falling off their heels and caressing young waiter's face. (as you can see i went all out on the souffle front, starter fois gras souffle, then Henry IV followed bypistachio with burnt almond ice cream) . I got to bake too, made some chocolate cupcakes and even managed to get the frosting just so. Hubby made a huge roast lamb dinner on Sunday , oh yeah and in between that we managed to go to church , have brunch with friends and an afternoon birthday picknick at champ de marswith others. The second cupcakes are from the picknick and not made by me i just liked the color.So yeah there you have it we aren't food centered at all , then again at least with W. gone most nights I can revert back to single grazing behaviour and loose some weight. Here's to hoping ...

Presenting guido Taroni : Sogni Sospesi

Great nephew of Luchino Visconti, model, photographer with a great grandmother who was one of the leading beauties of Milanese society. He one day finds all her couture dresses from the turn of the century, in a big trunk in the attick.He takes them out starts photographing them on house walls around Italy and that's how this video, and now an exhibition in Italy came to be .

Have a pretty weekend !

Some inpiration after a long-short week. My humble homage to the genious of beauty Sir Cecil Beaton. Whenever I see his images in Vanity Fair or Vogue they charm me, so perfectly composed and beautiful. I wish there was a proper exhibition/ retrospective sometime in Paris . The good news is though that you can buy proper framed prints from the Conde Nast online store, once we have that proper final apartment/ house, that will come in useful.

http://www.condenaststore.com/

Dreaming of Suburbia...

I guess we are pretty lucky living in and enjoying Paris.Seeing that our plans are to move to an even more sprawling city in the future and hubby definitely detests any idea of suburbs, nothing too quaint is in the cards.

But some days I still dream of life in a pretty Easter egg coloured house with a lawn and a dog and space enough for decorating it properly. So here; my dream house, living room, and bed.
Oh yeah I found this bed in an old Domino magazine and house or apartment its amazing, now only if I'd figure out a way to ship it from the states.

House from Desperate Housewives set by way of oprah.com,living room from domino.com, bed designed by Martha Stewart for Turkey Hill from marthastewart.com

Easter Weekend aka Contemplating Sculptures and Ducks at the Rodin Museum

The title really says it all.

Every first Sunday of the month all Paris museums have free entrance and we used that and a long Easter weekend to finally go to the Rodin museum, I've never visited it before despite having lived in Paris for the last 5 years. Honestly it was worth going,am usually more of a B&W photography and turn of the century painters person, but the marble sculptures, the set-up, the bronze character studies all pretty amazing. Not to mention the museum garden with its two forlorn ducks on the lawn.