This Day Last Year (6/10/06)

I was in VERSAILLES - MARIE ANTOINETTE'S GRAND HOUSE!

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Painting of her I believe / hall of mirrors

the infamous bedroom!

Official Paris Je T'aime Domestic Trailer

Paris is on the brain! But this movie does look really artsy and cool. It's only playing in select cities, so I'll probally have to Netflix it...Feist sounds like she's singing the song in the trailer - so you know it will be a good soundtrack!

This Day Last Year (6/9/06)

Was My LAST day in PARIS :(

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Arc de Triumph

The Bastille

Modern Museum = interesting - my mom wanted to go

The Eiffel Tower @ night... so beautiful. I loved it when they put the blue glittering lights on (last picture) Oh La La!

Such a Dream

Just like those amazing songs that are too short, so is Priscilla Ahn's EP (available on itunes). I saw the cover and it looked cute so I checked it out (that's how I find cool indie music). I bought it and now I'm in LOVE LOVE LOVE. The only downside is that it has just 5 songs on it. My favorite is "Dream" but only because it sounds just like me when I was a little girl. Actually the whole tiny album makes me feel 7 again, running around in my glittery clear jellies, looking for faeries.... which is a very good feeling. Buy this album now!!! and fervently await for more of her music to come out. Oh to feel young again!

This Day Last Year (6/8/06)

Was My 3rd day in PARIS!

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The view from the top of the Eiffel Tower and the bottom.

Sun shining through the magnificent tower/Little kids playing @ recess - they have to wear little cloaks - very Harry Potter

Musee d Orsay had paintings from the impressionists, etc like Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh

Paintings in Musee d Orsay - Vincent is a little scetch looking!

Notre Dame - didn't see any hunchbacks

And here is a French themed top 10 songs of the week list:

1. I Love Paris - Frank Sinatra
2. Scenic World - Beirut
3. Ta Douleur - Camille
4. Paris 2004 - Peter Bjorn and John
5. Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Stars
6. Belle - Jack Johnson
7. Complainte De La Butte - Rufus Wainwright
8. If You Rescue Me - The Science of Sleep Soundtrack
9. La Javanaise - Madeleine Peyroux
10. Not Going Anywhere - Keren Ann

This Day Last Year (6/7/06)

Was my 2nd day in PARIS:
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Jardin de Tuleries


Au Printemps was another one of their fabulous malls/Love her dress made out of Tupperware


The Louvre - that pyramid thingy was sooooo hot inside/A famous sculpture - don't remember the name and too lazy to look it up!


Montmarte - this is that "forbidden" place in the movie Moulin Rouge /Sacre Cour (spelling?) - that picture came out really good!


MOULIN ROUGE!!!! We didn't go to a show though:(.... it might have been awkward to go to a topless show with my parents. I don't know, just a thought. But that movie is one of my favorites! / Eiffel Tower from Montmarte

This Day Last Year (6/6/06)

WAS MY FIRST DAY IN PARIS!

Each day this week I'll post pictures of my wonderful trip to Paris which was this time last year

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I was just taking a picture of the airport and this saw me and decided to smile. I think its pretty funny.

I think I cried the first time I saw the Eiffel Tower. I made it a point to take a picture of it every day I was there.

How summery - little french kids running around in the sprinkler under the Eiffel Tower! No biggie for them - probably an everyday occurrence.

Pictures from the fresh markets - how gorgeous!?!

La Fayette Galleries - their "mall", but its not even worthy of that name. No words can sum - it was my heaven/The Champagne bar in La Fayette Galleries - only the French! They would....they would.

The view out our hotel room

Mirrored Brooches

I study each issue if Teen Vogue. And while that little (what appears to be) mirrored pin in the June/July issue would have usually been over looked - I took full notice and decided to make some of my own.

I just bought square and circle mirrors @ the craftstore in various sizes and hot glued them in different arrangements onto a flatbacked pin.

on the strap of my tank top

A Frolicking Frock

This Sunday, my friends and I have decided to go to a meadow, have a picnic, and frolic about in our breezy sundresses. I wanted the perfect dress. I know, its only a picnic and I know that that sounds soooo OCD, but anyways... It reminded me of that part in Marie Antoinette where she said that she wanted a "light dress, something she can run around in". I would have been content with some of my other sundresses. However, while browsing the sale @ Anthropolgie, I came across this:Its easy, breezy, BEAUTIFUL (cover girl) and only $50. It looks plain, but when you try it on, there's something so "country French" and special about it. Marie would love it.

Fiesta Friday

I'm feeling festive - literally. I feel like going to a fiesta. don't know why I just do.... maybe its because I have the SAT tomorrow and right now I just feel like having fun. Anyways If I were going to a fiesta this is the dress I'd wear (jcrew.com)

This is the music I'd bring:

1. Que' Onda Guero - Beck
2. LDN - Lily Allen
3. Needle and Thread - Psapp
4. Bratislava - Beirut
5. First Push - Little Miss Sunshine Soundtrack
6. Ever Fallen in Love - Nouvelle Vague
7. Sexy - Black Eyed Peas
8. El Tango De Roxanne - Moulin Rouge Soundtrack
9. Rodeo Clowns - Jack Johnson
10. The Way I Am - Ingrid Michaelson

and I'd make these cookies (Eleni's bakery)

Think I got carried away?