Post Paris

Have you guys seen the blog, Le Portillon? It's an online diary of a Swedish girl living in Paris and it is b.e.a.utiful. Both in print and in pictures, and it's just the journey I need to get me out of my head. Check out her most recent post:

Lately we’ve been spending most of our time discovering the area closest to us, where we live. Morning walks to Père-Lachaise, saying hello to Marcel and Edith. Admiring thick heavy doors leading into death, spotting stray cats asleep between the tombs. Then we stroll up and down the hills of Belleville, becoming tired, quite dizzy by all the places one wants to remember. Small thrift stores with shelves full of dreams, boxes with buttons meant for tailored coats. In a diary somewhere, I hide my thoughts.

Stunning. Stunning I say.

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City of Lights

Maybe I'm mourning the end of summer travel, or maybe I'm just craving a crusty baguette and fromage (two beloved items I've recently given up. Sigh), but I'm feeling very French today. And truly, how fabulous is this mirrored dresser??

(bedroom photo via Absolutely Beautiful Things, bicycle photograph by Lupen Grainne, Anthropologie white bed, calligraphy script tray by Heather Bullard, earrings via Snippet and Ink, philipe starck louis ghost armchair on Design Within Reach, arrowhead sheet set by Anthropologie, silver fleur de lis votives by Heather Bullard)

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