Sorry for the late start today. I had some issues with my post for Little Pink Book, so you better visit and see the results! I did the first post for my Lazy Girl’s Guide to Looking Fab. Moving on… here is a totally unrelated video. Well, come to think of it, it isn’t totally unrelated. He speed paints a girl. I speed paint my face. Close enough. Enjoy!
And what a cute picture he painted 🙂
Isn’t this every guy’s fantasy? Yes, my friends and I lounge around half-naked like this. Yup, you figured us out boys. And, one of us is always in a big ball gown, too. Just for shits and giggles.
{via} dripbook
Oh Hello Friend is hosting a package exchange. Now, you know that I’m a huge advocate of random acts of kindness and surprises. I think this idea is genius and incredibly sweet. Who isn’t excited to get a package in the mail?
Sign-up by Monday July 27th. Partners will be assigned on July 28th, and packages should be sent by August 14th. You’ll have about 2 and half weeks to put together a package for about $20-30 bucks {the suggested spending range.}
Sign-up and more details here. So what are you waiting for? Go sign up!
I’m happy to welcome Nicola of Concrete & Honey for this weeks {EBL}. If you haven’t visited it, you’ll want to by the end of this post. She really does have a talent for seeing beauty in everything. I’m absolutely terrified of spiders, but she can even make me appreciate a spider! {I tell you, that is no small task.} I also believe, as you likely will after reading below, that Nicola has mastered the art of beautiful manner and writing.
Photos by Nicola of Concrete & Honey
Disney forced YouTube to pull the leaked trailer {which is quite stupid of them, really.} However, I found this msn one still works {for now.}
I’ve seen this a few times, but never really paid attention. Shame on me, because it is gorgeous. Hope you enjoy it!
{via} Secrets of a Butterfly
I watched the recent film adaptation of The Brideshead Revisited and was not fully impressed. I have yet to read the book, but I’ve heard good things. The film was wholly uninspiring. However, I must say that I loved the costumes.
Just lovely. Hope you are having a wonderful day, too. Don’t forget to visit the links below.
{notables from the blogosphere}
+ decorating with black
+ just too ridiculous not to mention
+ great advice: stop becoming and just be!
+ paris apartment makes me drool
+ really pretty cupcakes
Art by Sandra Suy
Holy Crap, yay! Barnes and Nobles just launched their e-book store! Currently, the e-reader is free and is available for iphone/ipod, blackberry, mac, and windows. B&N e-books will also be compatible with Plastic Logics e-reader when it is released, however there are no plans to make the books compatible with Sony’s reader or the Amazon Kindle.
When you download the e-reader, you also will get a free Merriam Webster dictionary and some free classics to start you off. You can browse samples of books before you buy them and every purchase is backed up, so you can re-download without charge. {That is really important for me, because I’m disaster prone with all forms of technology.} There’s also that partnership with Google Books that will allow you to download any of the 500,000 public domain books for free. {Read the FAQ here.}
{I’m looking forward to reading this}
Now, don’t get me wrong. I love having real books, especially pretty ones. However, I have thousands at my home at the moment and that pile grows all the time. It will be nice to read e-books (and by the physical copy if I really like it.) Speaking of which, some recommendations…
This book was inspired by the book in the picture below {which is from the lovely boudoir of Alison from Frou Frou Fashionista.} Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro was the first chick-lit type book I ever read. {I had always been against the genre before Elegance.} I found the book so fun and interesting that I tracked down a vintage copy of A Guide to Elegance by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux, who was the directrice at Nina Ricci for quite some time. {I believe the book may have been put into print again.}
While some of the advice in the book may be a tad dated, most of it is still applicable. Above all, Madame Dariaux prizes elegance and chic over being fashionable. Certainly a woman after my own heart. I highly recommend the book. {Besides, it’s pretty!}
Images {via} Harper Collins & Frou Frou Fashionista
