My favourite things

Lavande

I especially love how on each flower there are a dozen baby flowers - the kind of flowers that little fairies sleep in

Bonne journee xx

NYFW SS11

While I have to admit I haven't looked through all the collections from NYFW, I have looked through a few and here are a couple that I am lusting after and seeing as it is Spring in Sydney - it's perfect timing for some inspiration!

Carolina Herrera for chic city sleek at the office





Marc Jacobs for a holiday in my home away from home on the Cote d'Azur

And Oscar de la Renta for that all necessary touch of luxury

And of course I can't forget about my frenchie - these are my picks for his summer wardrobe - from Perry Ellis

from Tommy Hilfiger

All images from Style.com

Ok now back to the study - bonne journee xx

Nanna's night out!

Somehow my lovely frenchman stumbled across this sublimely adorable singer and suggested going to her concert that weekend. Being on a Sunday night - this nanna was a little hestitant - but SO glad we ended up going because it was just so fabulous! All the quirky stories she told between songs made her even more endearing and reminded me of one of my own darling friends. Mais peu importe - have a look  at the video for Sunday Best - such a great song and so beautifully stylised I can just watch it over and over again - Bonne journee xx

Changing seasons

Today is the first Saturday since Autumn that we haven't packed up and trundled off to an oval to support our Frenchman and his rugby team.

While I love going to watch and support and yell encouragement from the sidelines* now I get to spend my Saturday afternoons doing fun summery stuff...like studying...actually we may need to get him a summer sport so I have an excuse to procrastinate from my studies all summer too!

I love how he always wears his socks down (must to the disgust of most of rugby followers) because I can always tell which one he is when they are all in a big tangle on the field!

*Often to the embarassment of anyone within 10 feet of me

Premiere!

It's the first day of spring! The air has changed and the heavy winter coats are at the drycleaners ready for storage for the summer!

Having just moved into our apartment we have been experiencing a whole lot of new firsts.

First bottle of Moet

First box of chocolates

New home for my little man

First housewarming present

and our first party!

Bonne journee xx

New York! New York!

New York seems to be the place to be at the moment - everyone is moving there! Well, 'everyone' may be a slight exaggeration - but certainly one of my closest friends Nikki and my favourite blogger Garance Dore have done so recently!

New York has always been on the top of my lists of places to visit, unfortunately I haven't yet gotten there. It just seems so enchanted and all the photos being sent back and posted about first encounters in NY does everything to support this.

For Nikki's farewell, and in tribute to what is now her new home I made some USA themed cupcakes :) 

Bonne journee xx

Always read the label!!

Recently sorting through the drawers and drawers of cosmetics and potions and found a bucket load of samples that had been accumulating and I told myself that instead of buying more products I should just go through what is there!

So after my daily moisturiser ran out, the stash of samples is steadily being depleted. Whoo! So proud of myself for doing my little bit for reducing mass commercial gaspiage! While I was giving myself mental high fives for my good work I grabbed the next one off the pile, ripped open the sachet and started liberally applying the cream to my face. (Now I must add here that while I do check the names on the packets, because I picked up most of these in Europe, and it's early and dark when I'm getting ready for work I really just scan for words like 'day' 'night' 'eye cream')

The only thing that made me curious was the sachet was about 4 times the size of the others* so I read the fine print on the back and there was one word that translates in any language, CELLULITE! I had been gloriously basking my face in cellulite cream** ahh I can say though that my face is wondrously soft now...

* more mental high fives for scoring the mother load
** initial reaction: Crap there are so many other places that need this!