Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

Tonight I watched The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. It is so lovely, so beautiful and so heartbreaking. Now I'm off to practice my French at Live Mocha, that is if I can stop crying!

UPPERCASE

via orangebeautiful
Today I was really missing Domino and then, lo and behold, I came home and found this post about the new Uppercase magazine, that looks charming and fabulous ... I can't wait to get my hands on a copy!

pretty packaging

greenandspring.com
I am really into pretty packaging. I think these are fantastic, although my friend Kelly is afraid of birds, so she probably wouldn't agree.

hopeless

I love this illustration by Caitlin for Aussie lingerie co. Hopeless

... and speaking of hopeless, I went to my ballet class tonight only to find out that it is on Tuesday.

rosy posy

Such pretty corsages from ban.do!

i will swim to you

paperbinder on etsy via decor8
This is so darling. The balloon says "I will swim to you."

london calling

via decor8 by famille summerbelle
This is the most charming map. Ever.
(London or Paris)

ooooh

via i love love
I am sort of obsessed with this outfit. And by sort of, I mean completely.

raining/pouring

via two little indians
I love these photos and I love rainy days, which is good since it has rained just about every day this month with no end in sight! Perhaps today I will buy a new umbrella, but only if I can find a pretty one that makes me feel somewhat glamorous, even if slightly damp.

the little ballerina

via presentpast's photostream on flickr
I might be crazy, but on Wednesday I am starting ballet classes! I am really excited about it, but slightly cringing at the idea of hopping around in front of a wall sized mirror. I am trying to remember as much as possible from my last ballet class, which took place in 1993. But all I can recall is how much I liked my blue chiffon skirt!

cuppa

Sarah Walsh for Mallard Tearooms via Creature Comforts
How much do I want to stroll through town with one of these in my hand? Totally enamored.

a stitch in time

via stitched cards
How darling are these cards? I LOVE sewing on paper, this valentines day i made cards that I sewed with little hearts and paper birds. Of course, being totally lame, I failed to photograph them, but one happens to be on a darling co-dc dweller's shelf and I will have to remember to post it sometime!

100

via absolutely beautiful things via wide open spaces
My 100th post! I don't have anything special planned for it, but I thought this Tiffany's ad was lovely, and so true. Click on it if it's hard to read!

Love, Bethany

i <3 ny

image from hsteckba on flickr

I really miss new york. I miss the sense that everything is possible, the energy and the vastness of possibilities. I miss discovering unusual foods (like orange blossom water) and watching street vendors making jewelry. I miss sample sales and window shopping and watching girls taking knitting classes at purl soho next door. I miss dashing out in the snow to get organic coffee or chocolate pear tarts. I miss wash and fold laundry. How can I feel homesick for a city I swore I would hate forever? I think that is part of the magic of the New York. It wins you over and pulls you in slowly, its charms lie in the space between crowded subway cars and thimble sized apartments. They're in the hidden treasures that take a bit of extra effort to find, the amazing vintage boutique, the street singers with huge talent, the perfect pizza and charming restauranteur, the small acts of kindness that are so much more valued because they are so unexpected.

DC is great, and I really like it, it's beautiful and green and historic, and it has loads of culture and interesting people, but it is so much more serious and restrained and it just feels different. But, I'm new here and I haven't learned any of the city's secrets yet, over time I will gradually find more and more gems and learn to love this place too, but I will keep reading the blogs of darling city girls and I will always ♥ NY.

click your heels together three times ...

image by Corrie Bond via Absolutely Beautiful Things

Tomorrow (bright and early) I am going home (yay!) for the long weekend. I will be imagining that I will be travelling as stylishly as this girl, but in reality, I will be a far cry from getting whisked off in chauffered pink luxury, or even via sparkly red ruby slippers ... at 6 a.m. I am more the ponytail and track pants sort, with a book on tape, trying not to spill coffee all over my car.

I hope you have a fabulous weekend!

sam & ashley

Meet the Brockintons from ashley brockinton on Vimeo.

via rockstar diaries

love post

via creature comforts
Once in a while, the post office totally redeems itself!

affirmative!

via designcrush
Today was a great day. At work we have a client, a stylist starting her own business, whose main instruction to us was "be creative and take risks!" I designed one out of three web site concepts that we presented her today, and being given free reign, my design was one that I personally LOVED. The client did too! She even had tears in her eyes! She and her partners will select the design they want later this week, and my co-worker's work is great so they can't go wrong, but I really really hope she picks my design! Once it is finalized (or rejected) I will post a link! But right now I am just so happy to have made someone else so happy!

charmant

by studio violet via thepaperplanes
This is so charming and creative! In real life I hate the circus (fear of clowns / the elephants make me sad) but in non real life I think they are super. You should also check out the Calder circus ... I saw it on exhibit at the Whitney ... amazing and so clever!

A whale of a ... belt

$175 from A+R
It's Friday! I may have found a place to live AND I get to go to Chapel Hill and see my family this weekend because my sister is graduating! oh, and I thought this belt was cool.