Parisian Exploration

Shakespeare and Company

37 Rue de la Bûcherie, 5th Arr.

This bookstore was the mecca for Anglo-American writers in Paris during the 1920's. Writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce and later Henry Miller spent a fair amount of their time here. Shakespeare and Company is mentioned in a lot of their publishings due to the boutique's stature in the literary world at the time. 

Needing a swank (english) read while in Paris, I decided to take a gander at this famed bookstore situated just a few feet from the Seine. Cramped, constricted, and narrow, my roommate Emma and I shuffled our way through the entrance and started searching for books. Daniel told me Tropics of Cancer by Henry Miller was a novel worth checking out. The book is almost in journal-jotting form. Miller, a struggling writer from New York living in 1940's Paris describes all his sexual ventures with hookers and hardships as he wonders the City of Light. It goes without saying, I was down. As I went to the cashier to pay, the American woman at the counter branded the inside of my book with the legendary Shakespeare and Company stamp and bid me ourvoir. Tropics of Cancer is now one of my favorite tokens of Paris. 

Octobers Wish List

Giuseppe Zanotti

Stingray-Effect Leather T-Bar Sandals

Christian Louboutin

No. 299 150 Suede and Python Pumps

Gucci

Ombre Leather Brogues

Stella McCartney

Faux Patent-Leather Pumps

Takes The Cake

After spending an afternoon whipping up a delicious pie, cake, tarte, bunt or roulade, do your baked good a favor and not disrespect it by putting it on a less than exceptional stand. 

In fact, spoil your baked goods rotten by placing 'em on one of Clara French's four fetching cake stands!

 

Song Bird

Pearly Whites

Miriam Haskell

My new obsession

Patty Cake Patty Cake

Ladies, dolls, & damsels, behold the new dwelling of your future paychecks: Layer Cake Shop

At last!

A site that is devoted to domestic dames who wish to fritter their hours away whisking up lip-smacking goodies, baking them in little liners, and embellishing them in lustrous little sprinkles!

They carry anything from vintage cake toppers and cupcake decorations to adorable candy molds and pastry bags.

Cruisin' in my six-fo

Want to roll down the street with this bike smoking indo and sipping on gin and juice?

Well for a teensy-weensy price of $9,500 you can!

Fendi sure does know how to accommodate those living the "Thug Life" such as myself.

They have the case in the front to nest all my drug dealing and smoking paraphernalia.

And the thermos is perfect to conceal my sizzurp.

But what about my gat?! How do I stay strapped while I stay pedaling?!

Not to worry.

Fendi has got me covered!

I just pack that heat in the fur satchel located on the back of the bike!

Because I always keeps one in the chamber, in case you ponderin'

New Favorites

Love my new Laundress

Whites Detergent, Darks Detergent, Denim Wash, Delicate Wash and Dryer Sheets (especially the dryer sheets!)

Mmm, smells like Blair Waldorf.

"Wake up prettier. Rest easier."

Huh? What a stupid tag line. But what ever. I'm in! This is the creme de la creme of eye masks. Not only because its made with silk embedded with 18 amino acids but because eye mask is spelled with a -QUE.

Does the Brache Belle De Nuit Eye Masque keep me from looking like a strung out Courtney Love in the morning? No. But it does keep me looking like the horse-faced Sara Jessica Parker. (So, it's a keeper)

Finally! A nudish-pinkish color compatible with my fair Irish skin! Jade Rose is my new shade! Thank you, Chanel. You’ve made an extremely pale girl happy.

Impulse buy when I purchased the nail polish. But thank the stars I did because its my new soft & sultry eye shadow! Again, my damn milkiness limits the hues I can rock. But NARS' duo cream eyeshadow in Madagascar make for a perfect smokey eye.

So what if it is a cologne? I'm in love with this scent! I wear it all the time- except when I'm with my man. I think he'd rather me stick to my Chance. Nonetheless, this earthy fragrance is so comforting. It has traces of musky fire wood, sandalwood, nutmeg, and smokey cedar. Even though it is a wintery scent, I'll be wearing Wonderwood well into mid-spring.

My last little favorite is one that I use every night- my hot water bottle with its cashmere coat. My grandma knit it for me! How adorable is that!? I really never realized just how useful grandmas are. The cashmere cover pictured is not mine but very similar. Though mine is made with a more dark and sophisticated grey. Not some pansy grey like this.

Homemade

Soap foodies!

Get em here while they are still hot!