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polaroids make me happy. always have and always will. so far, it’s all old news. but this project I’m working on at the moment makes me fall in love with polaroid pictures all over again.

I can’t say more for the moment; but it involves: a polaroid camera, the sky, a notebook and a stamp. one hundred days. and lots of love.
I so can’t wait for it to come together.

secondly, I’ve just received Jen’s beautiful For the love of light book. every page of it is gorgeous and reflects how I feel about polaroids.

have a lovely week end.

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longest week end of the year. lazily spent at my grand-parent’s house. endless bike rides across the fields and along the beach coast. clafoutis making. book reading. and olympic games watching.
I’m glad to be back, but wish it could have lasted just a little longer.

I tried to tweak my pictures to give them a slight film look and feel. not sure I got it right, but I happen to like it.

headbands and I have that special relationship. I love them. especially the weird and colourful ones that no one dares to wear unless they’re under influence.
I don’t mind. I think that, as human beings, we’re ought to have fun and experiment.

I’ve always dreamnt of making my own special headbands, with flowers, lace, tulle and pretty beads. but somehow forgot about this project.

however, in the span of twenty-four hours, I got a picture of me - monkeying around with my headband - taken by a friend, and came across this beautiful shop. this made me remember that quick list I had written down… somewhere.

a list about two headbands I thought about months ago. a lotus flower one. and another one with a white satin flower, bead-embroided lace and tulle.
now, I need to make those soon. and share them with you.

flickr is my favourite place ever. well, along with tumblr and your bed.

no actual beauty here; however, I can’t help but feel lucky about what I see from my window.

I took those around ninish pm; just before making something really exciting that I can’t share with you right now because of the no-light conditions that won’t allow me to take decent pictures of the said exciting-thing.

more tomorrow.

other than that I’ve been talking with P. about the polyphasic sleep schedules he’s been experimenting for the past couple of days. I’m super inspired and can’t wait to do this myself. many nights and days of fun ahead.

my eyes can’t get enough of Alessandra Mortola’s beautiful props. every single picture from her portfolio feels like a firework.
ps. merci Anne-So for the find.

by the way, I can only advise you guys to check Anne-So’s tumble blog. she’s *very* active; and collects some of the most beautiful pictures I’ve ever seen.

those are a couple of pieces I bought a fortnight ago at a terrific vide-greniers. I’m in love with anything enamel at the moment.
and that beautiful cake tin stole my heart.

I’ve decided on using my 50mm lens more often; because it’s been a little left on its own when I got the 100mm.

oh and because I broke the mirror on my old sx70, I had to buy a new one through the german ebay (they have some cheap ones over there). in the end, I got the white and brown one, which I find absolutely pretty. and for just 49 euros.
I managed to make today be a great day despite the polaroid accident :( and just love this feeling.

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one two three four
tell me
that you love me more

it always strikes me to see how people manage to replace one addiction with another. you see, I was quite the cookbook addict. and then, all of a sudden it stopped. oh yes, I do buy the occasional book, but my standards are very high (ie. I haven’t come across a terrific cookbook for a while now).

the fact that I had control over my cookbook craze made me proud, and left me with a couple of extra euros; which came quite handy to subscribe to lines and shapes, and purchase for the love of light. both in less than an hour.

and then, I spotted this sneak peek of Janine’s upcoming book: a collection of pieces artists made around the theme oldschool.
I think I might surrender and get this one as well.

today was probably the best day ever. I got my morning off to pay my doctor a little visit (nothing serious though); and this gave me plenty of time to relax.

this, plus the couple of things I received from the postman totally made my day a perfect one.

first, one of the people I care the most about reminded me that all that really matters is to be true to yourself. which clearly means I can wear those adorable acorn earrings my best friend made for me (isn’t she the sweetest?).

then, I got this fil invisible, so I’m finally going to be able to try my hands at this. so exciting.

I also picked fifty beautiful welcome perroquet cards from the cirque savant series. the illustrations are printed onto thick recycled (and acid-free) paper, which makes for gorgeous little cards that can be used as notecards, postcards or even possibly as wall art (can’t wait to frame the ten illustrations from this series).

soon in the shoppe!

and the extra little surprise: two rolls of polaroid 600 film. I have no idea of who sent them, but I’m eternaly grateful to whoever she/he is.

as a side note, I really want to thank lucie and chris for being so awesome. love you guys.

it got really dark pretty soon in the afternoon today. and as soon as I hit my flat, rain started pouring heavily.

so I put those hours - I had planned to spend outdoors, running - to use by making the wooden cubes I’ll use as bases for the grow your apple tree stamp collection I’ve been thinking about of a lot.

thinking was all I did lately. I’ve had that terrible sensation. you know, those times when you don’t create anything new because you feel like all you make isn’t so lovely. I hate this and will try to overcome it by keeping creating and waiting to see how things turn out.

so far I’m really happy with those little wooden pieces. aren’t they’re cute?
I’m now thinking of creating my very own wooden cube alphabet (*edit* take a sneak peek!)