Marie Antoinette

A good friend of mine lent me this film recently and, as they say, OMG!!! It is quite a sad story of the misunderstood Queen of France and the pressures and responsibilities that fell on the young royal.

But oh me oh my! - Such beauty and decadence. The film won an Oscar for Best Costume Design and you can see why. The whole film is just one big feast for the eyes - the cakes (yum!), the clothes, the interiors, the shoes...it goes on.

I particularly loved the colours in the film, there was a lot of creams and duck egg blue and powder pink which look great together and has a very soft and romantic feel to it. I love these colours and if you look at some of my jewellery in mymiyel, you can definitely see this. Like my Noemie earrings:

Anyway, enough talk. Here are some piccies for your enjoyment:




Definitely worth a watch if you've not seen it yet.

picking strawberries

It's one of my favouritest summer activities. Although we've not had much of a summer this year I'm not letting that stop me so on Sunday, in the height of the British summer and in between the rain showers, me and Nick took my cousin and her three gorgeous daughters to pick strawbs and rasps.

The kids had a great time, it was their first time strawberry picking and they approached it as one big competition, which was fine by us as it meant a bigger and better haul...mostly.



and then we left for home as the rainclouds began to loom

Waitress

It's one of my favouritest movies ever. I remember the first time I saw it was while me and Nick were on our road trip and we stumbled upon a teeny little cinema in Key West that was showing it. It was a lovely evening and we were wandering the streets after the Sunset Celebration when we decided to go in and watch it.

Maybe it's all the food (I heart food) or Nathan Fillion or just the whole being on an amazing holiday in an amazing place like the Florida Keys but the film always makes me so happy and warm inside and brings back very fond memories.

The film is all about a waitress (funnily enough) who invents and makes pies and uses them as an escape from the unhappy life she is trapped in. Some pies that feature in the movie:

"I don't want Earl's baby pie" - Quiche of egg and brie cheese with a smoked ham centre.

"I hate my husband pie" - You make it with bittersweet chocolate and don’t sweeten it. You make it into a pudding and drown it in caramel.

"Baby screaming its head off in the middle of the night and ruining my life pie" - New York-style cheesecake, brandy brushed and topped with pecans and nutmeg.

"Pregnant miserable self-pitying loser pie" - Lumpy oatmeal with fruitcake mashed in. Flambéed of course.

The director, Adrienne Shelly, who also played Dawn in the film, was tragically murdered 3 months before the film's debut at Sundance but what a beautiful legacy she has left. After her death, the Adrienne Shelly Foundation was set up to help women fulfil their own dreams in filmmaking. Go have a look.

Petit Plat

Don't you just love those little miniature things you can get for dollhouses? Some of them are so freakin' cute. Maybe it's the whole mini thing, always makes things seem that little bit more adorable. I don't have a dollhouse now, which saddens me greatly, but I still absolutely LOVE these gorgeous polymer clay jobbies you can get from Petit Plat on Etsy. Fortunately, she also makes the lil things into jewellery which means I can still buy my miniature cake and eat it too!

This lady is just incredible - I am amazed at just how detailed and intricate she is able to make these little mini foodstuffs. They look so good and if I browse for too long I feel the tummy starting to rumble.

Take a look at her shop or her blog, full of delicious teeny fake food for all your miniature needs!

Yummy.

Huset

Huset is a beautiful online shop which brings together a consortium of designers and focuses on Scandinavian design and style. They have some really lovely stuff and sell clothes, shoes, accessories and jewellery, things for the home and kitchen, and a really adorable section for kids.

I love the Scandinavian style, in particular their interiors. I think it's got a real clean and fresh feeling but also very homey and welcoming. There are some lovely things on Huset to help you on your way to a beautiful pseudo-Scandinavian life!

It took a long time to narrow down my favourites this time! There are so many, you really have to go check out the shop, there's so much to see and not enough room here I'm afraid!

Hau Hauz Bag


Rabens Saloner Japanese bracelets


Camilla Halvorsen Candlebranch


Pias Thilde rag


Dagmar Sandy dress