adore: pantone magnets

adorable do-it-yourself magnets made with chips from a pantone deck! find out how to make them here.

[images via how about orange]

adore: the duchess of cambridge

 
i'm a sucker for a fairy tale

[image via bippity boppity boo]

smile: beatrice and boris

Marni’s World:

Beatrice the squirrel surveyed her kingdom with pride.

“Oh Boris,” she said to the porcelain dog, “look at all of this! And it’s all mine! When Papa made that land deal with the elks, everyone thought he was a fool. But now we have all the acorns in the forest! Who’s the fool now? Huh?”

Boris was made out of porcelain so he couldn’t respond. If he could have, he would have said “Well, madam, I might guess the fool was the one giving speeches to porcelain animals.”

Boris would have had a dry sense of humor if only he were real.

[image and text via marni's world]

adore: mrs. peacock was a man?

It's like the Mounties - "we always get our man."
Mrs. Peacock was a man?

[poster via kevin wada]

savor: squirrel cookies + milk

earl grey shortbread cookies in the shape of squirrels with a side of almond milk...yes please!

this is one of my go-to sweet treats...the bergamot in the earl grey and the creaminess of the butter make for one heavenly cookie. and i happen to have a thing for squirrels, so getting to use a squirrel cookie cutter just makes things that much more fun!

earl grey shortbread cookies

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons loose Earl Grey tea leaves

1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup confectioners' sugar

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, room temperature

In a food processor, pulse together the flour, tea, and salt, until the tea is just spotted throughout the flour. Add the confectioners' sugar, vanilla, and butter. Pulse together just until a dough is formed. Place dough on a sheet of plastic wrap, and roll into a log, about 2 1/2-inches in diameter. Tightly twist each end of wrap, and chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Slice the log into 1/3-inch thick disks. Place on parchment or silpat lined baking sheets, 2 inches apart (2 probably needed depending on size of sheets). Bake until the edges are just brown, about 12 minutes. Let cool on sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire racks and cool to room temperature.

Makes 2 dozen

[recipe via food network]

capture: ranunculus

peruse: your inner french girl, part deux

After posting this excerpt, I spent this perfect Sunday in a park quickly devouring Debra Ollivier's Entre Nous: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl.

“The French girl luxuriates in her free time and fills it intelligently. The TV is hardly on and house-cleaning is rarely high on her nonexistent to-do list. She has museums to tour, galleries to visit, books to read, films to see, antiques to hunt, parks to stroll, gardens to grow, friends to meet and great, sumptuous meals to eat.”

“Find your center and live there. Resist the pressure to be someone you’re not; instead, focus on fully developing who you are. Don’t get thrown off course by the prevailing winds of trend. Engage in real, in-the-moment pleasure, not mindless entertainment. Feed your mind. Cultivate impressions and opinions. Know what you think.”

I'm hoping that some of this wonderful wisdom will soak into my being so that I can exude an ounce of the qualities that give the French woman that je ne sais quoi.

Ollivier also references a laundry list of films and books that I will be adding to my Netflix queue (those that I haven’t seen…) and my Amazon wishlist:

Films:

La Double Vie de Veronique (The Double Life of Veronique)

Trop Belle Pour Toi (Too Beautiful for You)

8 Femmes (8 Women)

La Femme Nikita

Amelie

Venus Beaute Institut

Happenstance

Contes de Quatre Saisons (Tales of the Four Seasons)

Entre Nous

Un Dimanche a la Campagne (A Sunday in the Country)

Jules et Jim

Le Bonheur

Milou e Mai (May Fools)

Babette’s Feast

Chocolat

Ridicule

Cousin/Cousine

Ma Saison Preferee (My Favorite Season)

Red

White

Blue

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)

Un Homme et une Femme (A Man and a Woman)

Books:

French Ways and Their Meaning – Edith Wharton

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Le Divorce – Diae Johnson

Marie Antoinette: the Journey – Antonia Fraser

Passion Simple – Annie Eranux

Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris – AJ Liebling

The Food Lover’s Guide to Paris – Patricia Wells

Mastering the Art of French Cooking – Julia Child

The Wine Bible – Karen MacNeil

The Cheese Plate – Max McCalman

At Home in France: Eating and Entertaining with the French – Christopher Petkanas

The Faneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris – Edmund White

Elle Décor: The Grand Book of French Style – Francois Baudot

The Fragrant Year – Claire Louise Hunt

A Well Kept Home: Household Traditions and Simple Secrets from a French Grandmother – Laura Fronly

Practicalities – Marguerite Duras

The Castle of Pictures and Other Stories: A Grandmother’s Tales – George Sand

Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan

[image found here]

adore: pink lips and polka dots

i love the layers of polka dots she pairs with shorts and strappy wedges

[via atlantic-pacific]

smile: jumping on the bed

[via lesliee]

adore: coping

this was a much needed find to make me smile amid all the craziness that's been going on as of late... :)

[via miss moss]