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New year, new challenge. I am pleased to announce that My Black Book has moved and can now be found here. I hope you’ll come on over and don’t forget to change your RSS feed and links over while you’re there. This old version will remain online but will not be updated with any new content. Happy to see you again at My Black Book Paris for some new adventures !!! Happy New Year and all the best for an inspiring 2012 !!!
déc
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In a few hours it’s 2012. I would like to end the year with some pictures of a sparkling and very Christmassy Copenhagen. Have a wonderful New Year’s Eve and see you in 2012 !
P.S. If you would like to see more of Copenhagen, have a look at the city guide section of my blog where I posted some lovely stores and cafés in Copenhagen.
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I am back from my Christmas getaway to Copenhagen, a great city with such a magical Christmas spirit glowing with warm light in the dull weather. I had wonderful coffee moments in some of the cities most coziest cafés and discovered a lot of great design stores. I will add them soon to my ‘city guide’ section at the left side of my blog. In the meantime I would like to share these three cute coffee places where I spent some hygge moments. ‘Sweet Treat’ and ‘Fisk’ are quite local while ‘The Royal Café’ is a very touristy spot on Europe’s longest pedestrian area ‘Strøget’ but nevertheless a lovely place. Enjoy a little insight of this wonderful city !
{ Sweet Treat }
{ Fisk }
{ The Royal Café }
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Hey, can you believe it is only one week until Christmas Eve, where does the time go ? How will you spend this weekend, will you be out fighting the crowds for the last Christmas gifts or enjoying this magical and cozy time at home with a hot mulled wine ? As for me, I will bake again some Christmas cookies, hang up some more Christmas decorations and get cozy. Enjoy whatever you are doing !
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I love these pure white porcelain Christmas ornaments !
Photos via Jo Heckett, Victoria Hutchinson Ceramics, hodgepodgearts
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… and embracing the new, this is the device of the wonderful creative works of interior stylist Sania Pell. Love it !
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Did you open your first window, bag, cone or even bucket (like on the photo) of your advent calendar ? Hope you found a nice surprise !
Photo via Aspen & Brown
nov
27
It’s time for Christmas decorating ! I always start decorating for this magical period during the weekend after Thanksgiving. A few days ago I were in my resourceful phase and created two Christmas trees with old wood lathes, one painted in shabby white, that I sticked together and added with some nails. After that I trimmed the trees with little Christmas ornaments: the white tree in fancy colors, the raw one in a pure white and silver style. And that’s what my little trees look like! Are you already in the mood for Christmas ? What are your Christmas decorations and creations ?
nov
21
I just discovered the 91 magazine a new online magazine for the vintage style and craft lover launched by Patchwork Harmony. Have a look at some of these so inspiring pages.
nov
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Yesterday, I went to the fair Creations & Savoir-Faire of the magazine Marie Claire Idées. There were so many stands with wonderful supplies to realize your craziest creative ideas. If you are in Paris, the fair runs until tomorrow. Get inspired !
nov
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I never saw such beautiful cookies. I discovered those on flickr, they are from nice icing who created these little arty rubber stamped cookies by using food colouring and hand finishing them with edible ink pens. How creative !
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Her camera is part of her body. Swedish photographer Petra Bindel always fascinates me with her wonderful captures. I love her gray series.
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We transformed the stairway of our home-sweet-home in a spooky cavern with some halloweeny goodies that we bought during our roadtrip at the East Coast. We had a lot of fun with decorating. Happy Halloween !
oct
30
A pumpkin patch covered in snow seen in Portsmouth, NH, a day before Halloween.
Photos via dailymail
oct
29
Here are some more Jack-o-Lantern ideas. Do you celebrate Halloween ? Are you decorating your house ? Enjoy your halloweeny weekend.
Photos via Martha Stewart
oct
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These beautiful fabric pumpkins come from photographer Danielle Thompson of the Thompson Family blog where you will also find the tutorial of this vintage inspired fall craft project.
oct
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I am looking for Scandinavian interior magazines and are wondering if there may be someone living in a Scandinavia country who would like to do a magazine swap. I can send you every French magazine you would like (Elle Decoration, Marie Claire Maison, Ideat, Côté Paris, etc…). I would be interested in Bolig Pluss and Rom 123 (Norway), Lantliv and Allt i Hemmet (Sweden), Bolig Plus and Rum (Denmark) or Maalais Unelma (Finland), especially the actual Christmas editions. Please leave a comment if you are interested !
oct
24
Can you believe it ? It’s Halloween time again and I will dedicate this week to some great Halloween ideas, wonderful finds that I would like to share with you. Ready ? Have fun !
Photos via Rainman Blog, Better Homes and Gardens, Martha Stewart
oct
23
It was a chilly and sunny fall day, perfect for a long walk at the beach, so we decided to spend the day at the ocean. It was misty when we left early in the morning, there was even signs of freeze but a wonderful autumn sun welcomed us in the Normandy. After a long walk at the beach and a yummy picknick with some cider, baguette and cheese we collected lots of cockles in the tideland for our Sunday lunch. We also gathered big red apples in the Norman countryside for apple pie, what a joy. It was a perfect relaxing fall day!
oct
21
I really don’t need an umbrella today, quite the contrary, it’s a lovely fall day here in France, the wonderful softness of the autumnal sunlight warms my soul. Hope the sun also shines for you. Have a great start in the weekend!
found via wo & we
oct
16
I have recently been contacted by the Taiwanese interior magazine « My Home » who came across my blog and asked me if they could publish my apartment in their September issue dedicated to Nordic style. I was really surprised to be contacted from so far away for a home story, how exciting. So I sent lots of photos about my home and lovely Acme who was charged to make the home tour, interviewed me by email. It was such a pleasure to work with her and she did a great job: 6 full pages about my home, wow ! My apartment isn’t perfect at all and there are still so many things that have to be done like wall decorations, but I am so excited about the result of this home story that I would like to share it with you, hope you will like it !!! Thank you Acme !
oct
9
During my roadtrip to New England, I went to a lot of general and country stores, amongst others to Gray’s in Adamsville, Rhode Island. Built in 1788 by Samuel Church, Gray’s is purportedly the oldest continuously operating general store in the country and is home to the town’s first post office, founded in 1804.
oct
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It was so special to celebrate the beginning of fall with a pumpkin spice latte in such a beautiful region that is New England. Have a look…
