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November 24, 2011 · 11:13 am

♥ Happy Thanksgiving

I would just like to wish American readers a very happy Thanksgiving. I am afraid my knowledge about Thanksgiving is slightly sketchy; it extends only to knowing that it’s always celebrated on the third Thursday of November and that it involves families gathering around tables replete with turkey and tons of trimmings and I believe pumpkin pie. Wherever you are in the world if you are celebrating Thanksgiving today enjoy your feast and I hope you have a wonderful time with family and friends.

love from
B at Just Add Attitude

I just popped in to put up this short post. I will be back *on air* properly tomorrow. Talk to you then.

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November 22, 2011 · 10:42 pm

♥ Snow

Do you know the feeling when you see certain items and you know within a nano-second that you like them, well not just like them but absolutely and truly like them? I had that exact feeling when I first saw Snow’s Christmas collection. Snow produces a diverse range of stylish design led pieces which retail at affordable price points. Snow’s product list includes: cards, lights, lanterns, gift-boxes, decorations and stationery.

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November 20, 2011 · 10:39 pm

♥ This week

This week, as autumn continues its inexorable march towards the chillier landscapes of winter, the weather in these parts has been mild. True, some days have had a dark and misty feel as rain sheeted down but on sunny afternoons it was possible, just, to walk about coatless or jacketless without feeling chilled to the marrow.

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November 18, 2011 · 4:13 pm

♥ Baking: Almond Cake (Cézanne Style)

I went to see ‘Cézanne et Paris’ an exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg (running until 26th February 2012) when I was in Paris last week. Cézanne urged by his old school friend Émile Zola to come to Paris, to further his artistic career, arrived in the capital aged twenty-one in 1861. From then on Cézanne travelled back and forth between Paris and his native Province, he did however return permanently to the landscapes of his childhood for the last fifteen years of his life. The exhibition is of Cézanne’s Parisian works and includes a picture of Zola; sadly the two friends fell out possibly because of Zola’s portrayal of an artist, loosely based on Cézanne, in his novel The Masterpiece.

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November 16, 2011 · 11:59 pm

♥ Little Luxuries

I saw this quote, ‘Le luxe n’est pas un plaisr mais le plaisir est un luxe’ (‘Luxury isn’t a pleasure but pleasure is a luxury’), emblazoned in neon on a wall at Merci in Paris. I had to check on the net to discover that it was French painter and writer Francis Picabia who first uttered these words. They would seem to be wise and appropriate words for the austere times we live in.

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November 13, 2011 · 9:55 pm

♥ Paris: Lunch at Merci

Merci is a whimsical wonderland of a concept store that is large, bright, airy and chock full of eclectic and interesting stock. Merci seems to sell almost everything: clothes, furniture, perfume, household items, books, stationery, haberdashery…

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November 11, 2011 · 10:01 pm

♥ Lost in Paris

I am not at the moment lost in Paris, nor was I lost when I was staying there. What I did lose in Paris was my Cannon SLR camera, which has been my constant travelling companion since I started blogging earlier this year.

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November 8, 2011 · 11:06 pm

♥ Bonjour de Paris

I cannot think of another building or structure that is more symbolic of Paris than the Eiffel Tower: it’s named after its creator the engineer Gustave Eiffel. Built as an entrance archway to the 1889 World Trade Fair and to celebrate the centenary of the 1789 revolution, the original plan was that the tower would be a temporary structure to be demolished when its twenty year building permit expired. Still standing proud in the twenty-first century it’s a magnificent sight especially at night when every hour on the hour the 20,000 light bulbs, attached to it to celebrate the millennium, twinkle magnificently.

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♥ Favourite Things//Four

Pink Cardigan: Although I do have a few pink items in my wardrobe I am not a natural-born worshiper of all things pink. It wasn’t therefore the colour that drew me to this Dries Van Noten cardigan but rather the embroidery and I also liked that it is possible to button it in various ways (there are buttons on the inside as well as the outside) for an ever so slightly different look. I have had it for a long time (I am guessing since 2003 as I know I had it before I moved in 2004) and have worn it lots so on cost per basis it was a very good buy.

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November 4, 2011 · 10:58 pm

♥ Magical Thinking

I have lived by the sea in two different locations for almost twenty years. In my current place I can see the sea from two of my windows, smell it sometimes when I go out my front door and it takes me less than a minute to reach the shoreline.

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