Month: May 2009

La tropezienne bag is mine

Yesterday in cultural differences, I mentioned the ‘petits changements’ (small changes) I’m making to be a ‘good’ partner rather than a total geek the head down on my laptop…Sometimes I feel like an ex-addict and I should really set up a support group for ALA (Anonymous Laptop Addicted or is it Laptop Addicted Anonymous??) which I would attend religiously each week to get over my blogging/twittering/facebook impulses but yesterday I didn’t attend the ALA meeting and I happily twittered away which took me on the most amazing journey of discovery…So I went from here, to here and then here and then I totally forgot what happened next but somehow I ended up here and hello mama!!!….I fell in love with….. La Tropezienne bag (soon to be on my getting there tanned arm) designed by Clare Guerrerro Vivier, a great girl I spoke to last night who lives in LA and he is married to a French guy. Clare designs some very sexy foldover clutches but after doing a trunk show at Taylor De Cordoba, she …

Rosie Hardy’s photography

Rosie Hardy is 18 years-old student who has just been accepted at the Glasgow School of Art. She is beautiful, and hugely talented. She is in love with Aaron Nace, a photographer and digital artist based out of Chapel Hill, NC who I believe she met on Flickr and now they work on the 365 Days project taking a photo a day for a year… My favourite photo is this one…..I love the feeling of freedom & lightness that come out of it…Via Ms Muse http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/UxVs

Our French house in Junior magazine…

Excitement is running high this morning in the B&F office! We’ve just received the June issue of Junior magazine and here it was… three pages on our house in France with lovely pictures of Mila Sienna and Lily. A big thank you to everybody at Junior magazine, the wonderful Ruth Corbett for writing just a lovely article about us and being so generous and Alun Callender for his beautiful pictures. As it happens, we just came back from our annual get-together in the house which this year was very special because we are now all living around Europe: Elodie & Christophe are in Barcelona, Alexia & Nicolas in Bruxelles, Val & Chris in Paris and us in London so it was really cool to spend a few days together. This time, there was 22 of us, 3 children, 2 babies and a dog. I thought I would impress everyone with my vodka jelly, a recipe I got from my friend Verity in New-Zealand but Christophe beat me to it with his mojitos but once again …