The Nanny

So the other night I was watching The Nanny dubbed into French(!), and was heartbroken to hear no Nanny Fine twang! They made a big mistake in casting their French speakers.

However, I would like to take this opportunity to publicly worship those responsible for costume design. What goddesses! All the characters are perfectly sculpted by their wardrobes. Pure genius.

As an homage, I created my first ever polyvore set last night around 2am. This one's for you, Nanny Fine!

Internet times

I've been playing around a little on Looklet.com but am disappointed by the range of shoes available.

Watch this space!

Daily Outfit: With the man who walks through walls

See what I mean about outfit repetition?

On Tuesday I adventured through Paris, contrasting the metal and glass skyscraper-filled La Défense with the old world charm of Montmartre.

And the sun came out!

J'adore la France!

I'm taking lots of pictures!

Daily Outfit: Monday along the Marne

You may have started to notice a little repetition going on in my outfits. Unfortunately with only two skirts in my possession, and me loathe to wear pants, this is somewhat hard to avoid. But I promise that I'm trying to mix-it-up!

I walked along the beautiful Marne river taking photographs of old houses. This shot was taken in the middle of cooking dinner: and I didn't let it burn!

The cutest book

In the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (listen to me namedrop...), amongst the many bookshops I found this sweet picture book, Around the World with Mouk.




The "story" revolves around Mouk, a cute bear who sets off around the world in search of adventure. Each page is a hypercolour utopia, Richard Scarry style. The conversations between some of the resident animals are genuinely hilarious, and just obscure enough to tickle my fancy.

Mouk ambles through Africa!

Mouk brings joy to Japan!

Not only are the illustrations ridiculously cute, the humour quirky and the pages bursting with colour, but the pages themselves are highly tactile as they are very thick, and very glossy.


The cherry on top? The book comes with 40 re-usable stickers!

IMDB

Apparently, I am "Up 366% in popularity this week"

Daily Outfit: To market, to market

Why hello there! I woke myself relatively early for a Sunday and headed down the road to explore my town's markets. We bought cheese, ham, radish, tomatoes, asparagus, aubergine, strawberries, and of course, fresh baguettes. It's a lovely sunny day and I'm finding it hard to keep myself from smiling.

Except for the fact that I may be developing a blister on my wrist from excessive computer usage; this is what happens when you jobsearch online, upload all your photos, keep in touch with friends, plan the next holiday, write your CV and "lettre de motivation"....

Oh hi! Seems I'm a cheeky little squirrel

Baguettes every day, cheese after your meal, wine at lunch... I could get very used to this.


And I just had the most delicious strawberry.

What the doctor ordered

Go through your pictures on facebook. Hilarious, ridiculous, good times with friends.

Oh!

Today I had a key cut to my Frenchy abode, got a French mobile, looked at the bathtub from hell, made my CV Frenchified so I can apply somewhere very special, smiled in the rain, ate an undercooked curry loaf and treated myself to strawberries bathed in the wine of Tuscan saints.

La vie est belle, chers amis!

Belated Bruges

We had a very nice daytrip tothe medieval town Bruges while staying in Ypres/Ieper

Spring has sprung in Europe and it is GLORIOUS!

And visited the chip museum...

Fascinating stuff

The cave where we sampled some Belgian fries with mayonnaise

There was a visit to the chocolate museum as well....

Live demonstration (with taste tests!)

And a cat, offering cheese, made entirely of chocolate