candy colours.....x

today i'm loving these candy colour pictures, so perfect for a sunny day like today...

carousel {via flickr} birds {via dunnowhattotype} umbrella {via socliche}
roses {via colddesert}

looking for a gardener at the moment....i'm finding it so hard to be away from home so often & keep on top of the garden, but at the same time, it's quite strange, i feel like i should be able to cope, and don't feel like the kind of person that hires people? having said that, if they can make the garden look really really pretty, i can probably get over that.....

half way through the week tomorrow....not long till another long weekend

xx

ticket x

inspire me thursday.....ticket x

enjoy all the fun of the fairtickets by aliciabock

xx

bright week *fairground attraction* x

hello monday and a new week, a week of summertime.....well, the nights are lighter, now we just need a little more sun, pretty please?

this week is *bright week* hosted by the gorgeous blog concrete and honey. now my blog isn't the brightest on the block, especially over the last week or so, the tones have been a little muted and soft, so i thought this would be a good opportuntity to try something different. a couple of weeks ago my saturday shopping list was going to have a fairground theme, and i had lots of lovely photos saved as favourites on etsy, so this seems as good a time as any to share these with you all.......

all photos by bomobob on etsy

music *fairground* by holly taymar

take a look on concrete and honey & see lots more blogs taking part xx

the ten things I love most about Paris are.....x

in no particular order......x

1. the eiffel tower

......I don't think I have ever been to Paris & not clamoured for a glimpse of "la tour eiffel"

(autumn and the eiffel tower, toshio)

2. musee d'orsay

......I vividly remember my first visit here as a first year art student, thinking it was one of the most wonderful places on earth, and being mesmerised by the Degas pastels of the ballet students

3. the vintage markets at Porte de Clignancourt

......absolute heaven!

4. angelina's on the rue de rivoli

......their hot chocolate is the most decadent you will ever taste, and as you queue for a table you can gawp at the wonderful selection of cakes & pastries

5. galeries lafayette

......possibly one of the most glamorous department stores I've ever been to

6. the beautiful vintage carousels

......seen in so many of the parks and around the tourist attractions

7. Chanel, 31 rue Cambon

......the look of this building sums up all that is synomous with Chanel; classic, understated, simply elegant & unmistakably expensive

8. montmartre & the Moulin rouge

......I love the whole feel of this area, the views it gives you of the rest of Paris, wondering around the square watching the artists at work, and then seeing the moulin rouge, and feeling strangely surreal, as if in some ways this shouldn't actually exist, except in the fabulous imagination of film makers?

(moulin rouge, MoMaBi)

9. paris opera

......inspired Gaston Laroux's Phantom of the Opera
(place de l'Opera, brooklyn museum)

and finally 10. parisians

......so chic, so unapologetic, just so......

bon nuit x