Sunday morning

Baking cakes, will I have time for a cheese and pineapple hedgehog before our tea party?

Sunny day off

The rive droite from the Ile St Louis

Tour St Jacques from the opposite side of Rue de Rivoli

Fabulous forties-style eighties (?) dress found in Killiwatch at Etienne Marcel. To be worn to Hotel du Nord next weekend.

Easter weekend

...was a boozy dinner with an old friend and Saturday morning making videos with imovie. It was Cambodian caramelised porc in Le Cambodge after a wet wait in the drizzle, and a warm walk home along the Canal St Martin with full bellies.


It was coriander roast chicken à la Alison for Easter dinner and finding out we'd been featured on Laughing Lantern's blog with pink milk's Mary Poppins necklace. To return the favour, we love her Carnival notelets, for the acid pinks and greens.


It was painting the bathroom and putting up a shower door and feeling quite pleased that we didn't break anything. It was also pink milk Sarah leaving for two weeks in Japan, and me looking forward to her photos.

I like London in the rain...

Maybe strange on a sunny Sunday morning in Paris, but Variety Lab's London in the Rain is stuck in my head, inspiring today's treasury.

Tall grasses

I'm looking for a pair of curtains with a natural motif, to waft though the open lounge window in the summer and give the impression I'm surrounded by tall grasses, or mask the building opposite with a winter skyline of spindly trees.

I found these while looking on etsy. They don't fit my bill, but might fit yours.

Tall grass pillow, by pillowhappy

Reaching for the light, by C'estMoiCitizenMedia

Bird in tall grasses decal, by FreckledHound

As far as the eye can see, by Schugirl

A sunny day and a vintage salon in the Marais later on...