♥ loveletter to myself at 15 ♥

V & I wrote letters to ourselves when we were 15 years old.





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♥ loveletter to myself at 15 ♥

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Favorite things past week:

♥ Polka dot dress
♥ My new granny-ish watch
♥ A little doll i made with Isa a long time ago, her name is Rose.
♥ Greek lukumi (delicious rose gummies)
♥ Vintage orange blossom lady plate
♥ Embroidered white daisies
♥ Where the wild things are book from the school's library

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♥ favorite things from past weeks ♥

♥ Camille Claudel's La Valse postcard
(The way I cried when I first saw it with you)

♥ Red Roses postcard
("but everytime that you see a Velveteen rose,
think of how you once called me your Velveteen rose")

♥ Twiggy, darling 60's muse.

♥ My dearest Miss Monroe.
("I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful!")

♥ Anne Taintor post card from Isa.
(Indeed is Frugal an ugly word!)

♥ Unicorn and Lips erasers
(STEAL FROM YOUR WORKPLACE NOW!)

♥ Revlon's Super Lustrous Lipstick in Twinkled Pink.

♥ "I am going to marry you in butterfly red"

♥ Hello Kitty rose sachet from Isa.

♥ Hello darling, show me your heart! ♥

Mathyld is a wonderful crafter, blogger and friend of ours.
She lives in Paris & has this special gift to transform every little thing she touches into something ethereal and terribly romantic. She has a divine fascination with pre-raphaelite art, tea and violets too!
Her creations are little wonders you could only dream of finding in fairytales and secret gardens.

Today she shares her favorite things with us:

☂ 1900s lace & black silk blouse, a gift from my dear friend Barbara
☂ Antique sterling silver locket, from Alice, my mother's mother
☂ 1903 edition of "Spencer's poems" illustrated by my favourite artist : Jessie Marion King, a gift from my mother
☂ Squirrel embroidered brooch, by my friend Lisa (Lou Lou & Oscar)
☂ Light-pink crocheted stone, by my friend Margie (Resurrection Fern)
☂ A bobin of antique lace trims, a gift from one of my mother's best friends

Links :
http://blog.loulouandoscar.com/
http://resurrectionfern.typepad.com/

please visit Mathyld at:

Encore Petite

Etsy Store

My favorite things from last week:

♥ ruffled cotton panty

♥ Sylvia's poetry
♥ rose quartz necklace
♥ rose petal lipgloss by L'occitane
♥ rose soap by Yardley
♥ flower press kit you gave me (I've been pressing jasmines)
♥ kokeshi doll

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♥ favorite things from last week ♥

r-o-m-a-n-t-i-q-ue!
(always and forevermore)

♥ notebook filled with photographs of nymphs and women I love
(I started keeping this after a visit I made to Empress Sissi's castle where I saw
a book she kept with photographs of all the women she thought to be beautiful and fair!).

♥ the opulent high drama of Kate Bush's Hounds of Love.
(a record I want to be buried with).

♥ a photo of Brigitte Bardot that Pola sent to me.

♥ Blush Délicieux in Rose Guimauve by L'Oreal.

♥ Lancôme's Juicy Tubes Tunes in Marshmallow Electro.

♥ Antique lace that Pola once sent to me.

♥ a Heavenly Creatures photo still you gave to me.
(you & I, you & I).

♥ a heartshaped Marie Antoinette pill box that belongs to my mama.

♥ a ticket to Musée Rodin from my last summer in Paris.

♥ dried roses a man I adore gave to me.
(sometimes you bring me flowers).

♥ tiny candles that my dearest F. brought to me.

show me yours, babycakes!