london, and paris

hello

and thank you for dropping me a line,

my beautiful friends!

i finally sent my manuscript (for a book i translated) to my editor over the net a few days ago, i decided to do nothing for a while. i was shattered. in the mean time, i started thinking about fashion as this year’s catwalk season kicked off. i’m not really a fashion enthusiast, though. i just look forward to checking reports on fashion weeks. then, i found alexander mcqueen’s sad news yesterday. what a tragedy.

there were young and talented british designers who worked in paris, and then they moved back to london just like mcqueen. when i think of london and paris, i miss something that eventually almost disappeared from the both cities over the last two decades. it’s milliner. millinery is the most romantic item for fashion design, i believe. no matter how unpractical, millinery is lovely to look at. especially in catwalks, it plays the most fantastical role. mcqueen did excellent shows with it.

pic 1, 4 a milliner on the left bank, paris.
pic 2, 3 the hat shop in neal street, london.
all pics from films taken in the 90’s.


have a romatic weekend, girls (and boys)!!

suddenly and briefly

we had a couple of spring days last week. but now, it’s turned cold and wintery days are back. i am loving my new item (a poster) on the sideboard and enjoying the scent of my white hyacinth that came into bloom when spring was here.


my humble life, and painstaking work, seem to go on in this depth of winter.


have a great weekend, my friends!
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toties quoties

on new year’s day, i had the same feast with my old mother as last year. certainly,

that was when i felt happy about the new year.

these are the dishes we ate

(you might remember my 2009’s pics and find these boring, though) :

the feasting time is over now.

still, my memory of the 2010 new year feast stays ;)

have a great week, everyone!!

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year of the tiger 2010

wishing you all

a happy, happy new year!

thank you so much
for all the ispirations you gave me,

your time for visiting my blog
and

making encouraging comments

in the last year.

carry on enjoying a wonderful holidays,
my friends!!

love + peace

ktxx

finally, christmas eve

my dear friends!

i hope that you are having

a wonderful, wonderful christmas holidays

with your loved ones.