This year for Christmas presents I am knitting a few scarves for special gift giving. My Grandmother taught me to knit when I was 5 and I have continued to knit on and off over the years. I love going into yarn shops and feasting my eyes on all the colors and textures available. On my last trip to the yarn shop I was captivated by this most exquisite shade of teal blue. It is a blend of wool mohair and silk, and knits up as soft and light as a spider's web. I love working with bamboo needles. This scarf is super easy. Cast on as many stitches as you need to make the scarf the width you want and then just knit every row until it is long enough. For this season extra long and very narrow scarves seem to be all the trend.
Happy Knitting If you have any knitting projects on the go please leave a comment [here]. PS I am going on a plane trip...does any one know if knitting needles are allowed through security??
Books are such a wonderful way of personalizing your space. Who doesn't love to be surrounded with all this wonderful inspiration. I think rooms with bookshelves are some of my most memorable spaces. Everyone feels comfortable in these rooms and they are rooms where you want to linger. I have a girlfriend who has a monumental bookshelf in her dining room. I always love to sit at the table across from the bookshelf so I can peruse the shelves between the dinner conversation.
"Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read." — John Wooden
I have categorized the following pictures of bookshelves into 7 sections:
1. Bookshelves in Living Rooms
Bookshelves in Living Rooms - Dominio
Bookshelves in Living Rooms - Poliform
Bookshelves in Living Rooms - Homes and Gardens
Bookshelves in Living Rooms - Domino Magazine Bookshelves in Living Rooms -BHG
2. Bookshelves with Library Ladders
Bookshelves with Library Ladders - Interior Design Alberto Pinto
Bookshelves with Library Ladders - Interior Design Tom Scheerer
Bookshelves with Library Ladders - Diane von Furstenberg source unknown
These bookshelves line the stairs up the third floor of the Fallingwater house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Bookshelves in Stairs - picture via Flickr
What is your favourite room to display books in? Please let me know by leaving a comment.
The interior layout of historical buildings in Paris often mismatches today's standards. Small rooms, long dark corridors and other features of old constructions complicate the transformation in modern and comfortable apartments. Young French designer Vincent Parreira took the challenge of reorganizing this beautiful space situated in a XVIII century building. Low wooden ceilings are restored and painted in white color. The dominance of white makes a perfect neutral background for the colored furniture. The elegant dining room features a table with an oval marble table, classic wood chairs, black and white artwork and smoky glass partitions. To remind the glorious past of the apartment, a magnificent ancient crystal lustre. In the bathroom, grey color is combined with smooth and shining surfaces. "I wanted to create a sensual intimate atmosphere, but at the same time open to light », —tells the designer.
COCO Before Chanel is a new movie by Warner Bros just released in Vancouver. Coco Before Chanel stars Audrey Tautou, the French actress, who I love best in the movie Amelie. It was shot in Paris and Normandy. Many decades ago André Malraux predicted “From this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Coco Chanel.” Not even the mythomaniac Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel could have anticipated how her legacy would persist triumphantly into the next millennium. I, for one, am going to be first in line at the box office for Coco Before Chanel. I will take my classic Coco Chanel handbag (which I bought in Paris when I was studying Interior Design) with me to the show.
In character as Coco Chanel, Audrey Tautou reclines in the designer’s private apartment on her famous voluptuous suede sofa, above her Paris couture salon. Karl Lagerfeld made her classic Chanel suit specially for the film Coco Before Chanel. Vanity Fair February 2009 Photo by Brigitte Lacombe Coco Before Chanel - Movie Review
The Chanel logo is an overlapping double 'C' - one facing forward and the other facing backward, and comes from the name Coco Chanel. "Coco" is the nickname frequently used for Chanel founder, Gabrielle Chanel. Coco Before Chanel - Movie Review
Audrey Tautou stars as Coco Chanel in "Coco Before Chanel." Warner Bros. Photo Coco Before Chanel - Movie Review Classic Coco Chanel Handbag Coco Before Chanel - Movie Review
Please let me know if you have seen the movie and what you think about it by leaving a comment.
