Photography: Get Back In Your Book

This is probably the coolest Flickr set I've seen in awhile. It's by Lissy Elle, who is super talented, so you should check out their other stuff. This set is entitled Get Back In Your Book and as you can see from the pictures below it shows people from books literally coming out of the book.  Of course my favorite is the Harry Potter one, but they're all awesome.  And it incorporates reading, so I'm always a fan.

Harry Potter

Sleeping Beauty

Alice in Wonderland

Peter Pan

Enjoy. :) And happy Wednesday!

Inspirational Photo Friday: Easter

I'm up in Northern California for Easter, so here are some pictures to get in the spirit!

I've always loved eggs that look like this! From weheartit.

My silver nest necklace!

Cutest coats ever!  From weheartit

Adorabley decorated eggs!  Picture from weheartit.

Cute little hand puppets!  Picture from weheartit, originally an etsy thing that I can't find on etsy anymore!

Dying eggs!  from weheartit

These Handblown Nest Bell Jars from William Sonoma

Paris, Je T'Aime

I'm off to spend 4 glorious days with 3 other lovely ladies who I haven't seen since we parted ways at our apartment at 22 Rue Lomblardi, Paris.
Ahh, Je manque cette appartement and ca ville. Et aussi, je mangue l'abilite de parle francais, parce que je suis tres mauvais maintenant.

Photos of a Drive

I mentioned awhile ago that I would upload my pictures from when I drove up I-5 to attend jury duty. The drive was absolutely beautiful, it had rained the day before so the air was super clear, and it seriously looked like Middle Earth in parts of it. At one point there was a herd of cows meandering over to this pasture, I later saw sheep and even donkeys on the drive back! (I obviously passed horses in Gilroy area but by then it was too dark to see.) Either way it reminded me a bit of Scotland but with less sheep and an automatic vehicle. So nice. Unfortunately I didn't charge my camera battery for the drive down and it couldn't take any pictures. Although if you ever do the drive I recommend stopping at the Starbucks at Kettleman City, definitely the most "coffee-shop" feeling Starbucks I've ever been to {ie. big plush chairs, a wall of different, ornately framed mirrors}. So the pics are a bit blurry because I was, you know... driving about 70mph while taking them, my apologies.

Inspirational Photo Friday : Balloons of Color

Today's inspirations photo friday post is all about bright colors with a little bit of whimsy.  Sorry the formatting is all weird, Blogger was going CRAZY with the photos, I'm lucky to have them all on here!  I love the image of the couple with their tandem bike, how completely adorable is that? I wish I could master the bike-riding while wearing a skirt thing, so classy!  Anyways, enjoy the pictures, I have a house to clean for our soiree this evening!

All the pictures are from weheartit

Have an amazing weekend!

Wedding: Eunice & Daniel

Sorry I've been MIA for the past week.  I went up to beautiful Northern California for jury duty, and for some reason could not get on the wireless at my parents house.  But I'm back, and in action!
Once I get the pics on my computer I'll post them, but the 6 hour/383 mile drive was absolutely beautiful.  Because of all the rain there was grass where everything is usually dead.  I saw sheep, and cows, and donkeys.  It looked a lot like Scotland meets Middle Earth in some of the really hilly areas.  Needless to say I was bummed I had to drive the whole time and couldn't capture my surroundings in all their glory.  (And as you'll see from the pics when I finally get them up, I attempted to capture, but they're all a bit blurry. C'est domage.) The one time I stopped for gas on the drive up I actually tried to go on this dirt road I'd seen from the highway to get some cool mountain shots, but there were all these scary signs about it being a private road so I left.

I really want to share this amazingly beautiful and FUN looking wedding with you. It's the wedding of Eunice & Daniel and it's got this awesome circus vibe to it, without seeming cheesy.  Like more carnavale than circus I guess.  I've seen posts of it on multiple blogs, but I recommend reading the entry on 100layercake to get the whole story and more pictures.  It's absolutely gorgeous!  (ps: All my pics are from 100layercake.)  The whole wedding paraded over to the wedding site with those awesome cut up animals on sticks, there were parasols provided to help keep the sun off, and at the reception after there were crowns and a cool drink called "marital bliss".  All in all it just seems like a SUPER fun time, which is what a wedding should be: a fun celebration of the joy that is the love two people have for each other, as well as the love of their family and friends.

 That's all the photos I'll post, but there are more on 100layercake, and TONS on marthastewart, I recommend checking both out, this wedding is just fantastic.
Have a good Sunday night. :)

Inspirational Photo Saturday : Gypies

I've always been intrigued by gypsies.  I've always thought a nomadic lifestyle was very romantic (how naive of me, I know...), but the myths and legends that surround gypsies have captivated me as well.  Tales of fortune telling,  magical powers, their oneness with nature and deep family ties: it all pulls my heartstrings. They gypsies that surround Notre Dame in Paris begging for money have tarnished my magical persona of gypsies, but only a bit. 

These pictures are an ode to gypsies and the nomadic lifestyle: living in caravans, riding horses, and of course catching lightening bugs for light at night.  (I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but I really want to see a lightening bug sometime in my life!)

I have to make a long drive tomorrow so maybe this was what brought this on... either way I think the pictures are beautiful.

(all photos are from weheartit)

I hope everyone is having a great weekend! I'll be a slave to the I-5 tomorrow, trying deperately to not get pulled over.
Have a good day. :)

Inspirational Photo Friday : Butterflies & Flowers & Beauty, oh my!

Today's inspirational photos all come from the lovely pages of "L'archives d'une couple amoreux" (sidebar: didn't know what tumblr was til now! I'd heard of it but I think I always associated it with flickr. oops!) It's a bit like weheartit because I've seen pics on the site that I recognize from The Cherry Blossom Girl and other sites. But they have a lovely collection. I actually found the site because I saw this illustration to the right on weheartit, and wanted to know where it was from.

So here are the beautiful photos I handpicked off their site.

All the butterfly ones remind me of "Bright Star", which I just watched the other day. So lovely! Oh to live in the English countryside and catch beautiful butterflies all day long.

These are poesy's right? They're absolutely beautiful.

Je manque Paris beaucoup.

So that's it for now, have an enchanting weekend!