Pictures of You…

Posted on July 4th, 2010 in Miscellaneous, Press

By You’re the Rag to My Doll

By Cake in Bed

By Hello Lolla

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By Ruby Press

By The Souvenir Box

By ShopPulse’s “Style Royalty”

I love to see how other bloggers reinterpret my pictures in their own selections and collages. It’s so interesting wondering why each person has their favorites, and how often the ones I never expected are actually the most liked. Please check out these blogger’s sites as well as the rest in my blog roll to discover who inspires me as much as I hope my blog continues to inspire others…

Petit Bateau

Posted on May 26th, 2010 in Miscellaneous, Paris

For my graduation I was so excited when my parents decided to throw me a party! I hate throwing parties in celebration of myself, it always feels a bit narcissistic to me, but when it’s someone else’s idea I say great! My mom had the idea of renting one of the Yachts de Paris for the occasion which turned out to be the perfect way to not only celebrate my graduation but also welcome the incredibly warm weather we have been having.

All of my darling friends were able to make it. I feel so lucky to have them as they are truly the coolest girls in the world! Not to mention stylish!

Blue skies and puffy pink clouds…my favorite!

A cocktail dinner was served so everybody mingled with one another around the boat as we enjoyed lots of delicious little treats.

My favorite boys were able to make it to! Including my good friend and colleague Rija, my petit copin Pierre, and my dear friend Kenji all the way from London!

Kenji is definitely one of the most stylish guys I know. His pink pocket scarf was perfectly coordinated with my jewelry and dress.

My sister Britta was able to get time off from her hectic life in the New York fashion world for a week in Paris. We have really different styles as you can see but appreciate one another’s tastes!

My sister wore an amazing vintage dress while I wore Stella Forest.

My friends got me this beautiful hair clip that is actually two clips joined together. It was so sweet of them and I absolute adore it!

It’s not a party without cupcakes! We stopped by Berko and got these insanely delicious and cute treats for the occasion.

There were plenty of other desserts too…

…and pink flower arrangements to match my dress!

My not so petit bateau was called the Acte III. It was amazing with a deck on the front and back and lots of old school charm. {image via French-Kissed}

{image via French-Kissed}

The whole night was seriously like a dream. I can’t be more thankful to my parents for planning such an unforgettable evening for me and all my friends and family who came and celebrated with me! I wish you all could have been there too! Thank you so much for all you sweet comments congratulating me on my graduation! It always warms my heart to hear from you.

The Graduate

Posted on May 24th, 2010 in Miscellaneous

This has been a very busy weekend! No matter how much I want to I am just finding it hard to get my blog posting back to normal! I hoping that after all my promsises I have made to you about posting more that this will finally get updating more frequently starting this week. This weekend was madness, in a good way. I am now a college graduate with a degree from The American University of Paris! My college journey took me a long way as France is actually the fourth country that I studied in. Greece, Turkey, and the U.S. are the others. I couldn’t have picked a more perfect place for me and I only wish I had realized it two years earlier so I would have spent four years at the university instead of just two. I’m feeling a bit bitter sweet about the whole thing…

The ceremony was held at the world famous Theatre du Chatelet.

The venue was stunningly beautiful.

I wish I had gotten some more (and better) pictures of the whole thing but it was very hectic and I was trying to the enjoy the moment without worrying about documenting it.

My grad outfit was very girlie as usual. You can see some of the details here.

And the decor matched it perfectly!

There were champagne toasts…

Followed by a lovely lunch with my parents and sister at Mariage Frères.

It’s been hot here finally! So we went for our tea iced rather than hot…

And these are literally the biggest glasses of ice tea in the world! They hold a whole pot!

So now that I am grad I will be sticking around Paris to continue working in advertising. The bad news is though that this next three months is going to entail a lot of me traveling back and forth between Paris and New York to get my work papers sorted out as me and my employers have had to bend over backwards to try to figure out the best way to ensure everything will be approved. Unfortunately the most sure fire one is the longest process of them all but I am trying to be patient. I feel so lucky that my company is so nice and doing everything they can to keep me in Paris. They really are great people! Congrats to all you other new graduates out there as I know I have some readers that are celebrating the end of studying as well! I can’t wait to share with you in my next post the pics from my graduation party cruise!

Pardon my French….

Posted on May 15th, 2010 in Miscellaneous

Something terrible has happened. My beloved Macbook Pro, at only nine months old, had a major meltdown the other night. The hard-drive fried somewhere between Gmail and iMovie, and no Apple “genius” at the Paris Carousel du Louvre store can recover my information. Meanwhile they are holding it hostage assessing the damage. All my photos gone…my school work gone…and a major project for work gone forever just thirty minutes after finishing sixty hours of work on it. Putain de merde….yeah I said it, pardon my French but this really sucks. Oh well, c’est la vie? Gotta move on and don’t worry, just bare with me a couple days and I will have plenty more pretty pics for you here. For now I leave you with some old polaroids I found on my old macbook here and direct you to the Inspiration Gallery to see what is new, pretty and exciting in there…

~ Inspiration Gallery ~

Lovin’ Bloglovin’

Posted on May 6th, 2010 in Miscellaneous

For all those of you that have been reading my last couple of posts you know I have been super busy with school papers, exams, and my job lately. It been a bit hard to hold my blogosphere life together and being so occupied I hate missing out on all my favorite blog’s posts. When I started out though I began following all of them on Bloglovin’. They made this cute little video to explain how that works, but even better is that I can track my blog’s progress watching my followers grow. It’s also a great way to find new blogs as it recommends ones you will like based other users who follow similar blogs. Having them all in one easy to read organized placed has made it a breeze for me to catch up on all the reading I have been missing. If you don’t already use Bloglovin’ give it a try and see how easy and useful it is. You can start by signing up to follow Bardot in Blue! Just thought I would pass on some words of wisdom this morning to all of you!